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F1: Austin Race Day Traffic Could Take 12 Hours
Planners say they need a better idea of what the whole project will look like before issuing approvals...
SPEED Staff  |  Posted September 09, 2010   Austin, TX
A 3-D map of the track in Austin, Texas. (Image: Courtesy of Tavo Hellmund)
Twelve hours. That's how long it would take fans on race days to get into, and then out of, the proposed Formula One track to be built southeast of Austin, according to a quick analysis of the site plan by county planners.

Planners working on the racetrack site plan reached that estimate after a field trip to Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, where it takes about three hours for fans to enter and exit the track, said Joe Gieselman, manager of Travis County's Transportation and Natural Resources Department.

The 12-hour figure emerged during a Travis County Commissioners Court meeting Tuesday, during which Richard Suttle Jr., the attorney for promoter Full Throttle Productions, was peppered with questions from commissioners....Read the full article here

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