Project Connect recommends car-free option along The Drag

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Project Connect officials announced Tuesday the public transit program will move ahead with a new design proposal to remove car traffic from The Drag, the stretch of Guadalupe Street that runs adjacent to the University of Texas at Austin. The latest design iteration is a hybrid of two initial options floated by project heads last year, which proposed designs with and without car traffic.The Orange Line is a 20-mile light rail system running along Lamar Boulevard and Congre