[stinkerpot65]

Anyone who travels I-35 knows something has to be done. Its like rush hour all day long, even in the remote countryside.

[Paleo Conservative]

And that's just the portions that are three lanes.

[neb52]

"Anyone who travels I-35 knows something has to be done. Its like rush hour all day long, even in the remote countryside."

On Fridays and Sundays, yes and holidays specifically. That has more to do with College Students and vacationers, then anything else. Probably wouldn't hurt to put a highway in to cut across from College Station to either 35 at Waco or 45, instead of going to Austin and then coming up all the way up 35 to DFW.

[Bogey78O]

The failure of modern transportation engineering is the idea that making 1 super-pathway is better than multiple smaller feeders.

Make several smaller 3 lane highways crisscrossing popular areas rather than trying to shift everyone onto the same vein. A 6-lane highway sucks if all you're doing is going 15 miles out of town and have to wait 10 minutes just to get on because the engineer didn't want too many on-ramps slowing his road down.

[RobbyS]

Back when they were first planning I-35, someone suggested that they route it east of Austin, but that got shot down. Now I avoid Austin when I go from DFW to San Antonio.

[devane617]

I-35 is a nightmare! One of the most poorly maintained interstates in the US.