Posted on 06/04/2012 2:43:43 PM PDT by bgill
the accident happened when the 18-wheeler rolled over and lost its trailer near Riverside Drive on the northbound side of the highway just before noon. The truck was carrying a load of soft drink cans, which spilled all over the road.
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Bloomberg’s fault
Foam, foam on the range...
For those of you who don’t know where Riverside Drive is on I-35 (there’s only 487 miles of it with which to keep up), this is in Austin.
"He hates these cans!"
No problem there, but I-10 ?
As I recall, when you leave Louisiana on I-10, the first mile marker is 888.
Almost 900 miles to the other side of Texas.
Thanks for the Austin locale. For those that don’t know, here around the DFW metroplex we are used to problems on either I-35W or I-35E. “I-35” is a bit north or south of this area.
I made the sojourn from San Antonio back to DFW over Memorial Day Weekend....people on I-35 have no concept as to what a passing lane is for.
No kidding. Some of them are left-lane vigilantes too.
I suspect the problem is that I-35 is so dang narrow that no one would get anywere on time if people stayed in the right lane except to pass though.
I hate that drive, especially the DFW-Austin section.
It’s exit 233 on I-35.
The engineers who originally designed I-35 through Austin had no clue what they were doing. The right of way should have been at least twice as wide as it is. It was originally 2 lanes each direction with no space to add another lane each direction at ground level. Then they compounded the mistake by building additional elevated lanes that only have 2 lanes each direction.
As you approach the river headed north you go down a steep hill that curves one way then the other. Lots of truckers’ butts get tight making that run.
Minneapolis has I-35W and Saint Paul has the corresponding I-35E.
Thanks, I was not aware of that. It seems no matter what the age you learn something every day. :)
I'm convinced that there isn't a competent traffic engineer in Texas. Not only do they not know their trade, they are completely devoid of common sense.
They design highways without a crown so that the water doesn't run off. They ignore design standards and put in lanes that are too narrow. They dump the off ramps onto wide frontage roads way too close to the intersection, making it impossible to turn right at the intersection that you exited for if there is even moderate traffic. They dump on ramps on top of the next exit ramp, or right before an 'exit only' so you have to cross a lane of traffic to get to a through lane. Or instead of an exit only, they continue a lane until just past an exit, and then end it with little warning.
All university programs in traffic engineering in the state should be stripped of their accreditation, and engineers responsible for fatal car wrecks should be indicted for murder.
rant off.
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