I don't think people fully understand just how much of a shit show Austin driving, public transit and downtown parking is these days. Back in the day there was lots of parking choices and even free city parking. The free parking as a bit of a walk but it existed. Now that free parking lot is a paid lot. A lot of the old "cheap" $5 parking lots are just flat gone with buildings in their place now. The parking garages that used to be somewhat reasonable are $15-20 or more. The meters downtown are pretty cheap except that I've personally driving around where I was trying to go for over an hour just trying to find a spot to park. Downtown Austin is a fucking catastrophe these days.

We basically have 2 options for public transit. I don't have personal experience with either of them but I've known others that have. A rail line that will get you into downtown but from there you could be walking quite a ways to get to where you're going. Then there is Capital Metro buses. Typically when I've known people who have used the bus they basically have to tack on an extra like 2 hours to their travel to get where they're going.

Austin has not invested into parking or transit and has instead let corporations basically dictate how things go.