Here's a map of the concept. The corridor parallel to I-35 is about 50 miles east of San Antonio and goes through Seguin.
Posted on 01/05/2005 3:10:55 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Here's a map of the concept. The corridor parallel to I-35 is about 50 miles east of San Antonio and goes through Seguin.
Houston and Dallas/Fort Worth should be bulldozed for any highway. They are the two butt-ugliest metro areas in the USA.
Loop 610 was designed so that if a 10 megaton bomb exploded in downtown Houston and destroyed the interchanges between US59, I-10, and I-45, it would still be possible for Houston to be connected to the Interstate Highway system via Loop 610.
What an evil thing to say.
Noboy will drive anymore if it costs more than a 1 penny a mile from DFW to New Mexico or from DFW to Houston or DFW to SA.
They're gonna price transportatation right out of the marketplace for travelers unless it's very, very cheap.. IE near free. People just won't travel anymore if costs too much.
It already costs about $0.40 per mile to operate a car.
Add another 20 cents to that.. Asking for a lot of empty roads.
I-35 isn't empty. I could save a couple of hours driving to Dallas or Ft. Worth if I didn't have to go through San Antonio and Austin first.
I'm no expert but I-35 would probably be improved greatly by just adding another lane.
Adding lanes to a freeway does nothing to speed traffic. Shutting off exits would speed it up more.Limited access highways are needed and toll roads fill that need. Houston has greatly improved it's traffic flow in the past 15 years by the tollroads on the beltway.
More money for Herb Kelleher!
I-35 needed another lane 20 years ago. Maybe it will be finished ten years from now. But by then, it will need another lane or two. After the current expansion, there's no room on the existing right of way to add anymore lanes. By 2040 there will be over forty million people living in Texas (double the current populuation). The existing Interstate highway system was designed for a life of 30 years. It has now been almost 50 years since the Interstate Hiway Act was signed. We need to plan for the next 50 years not just incrementally add to the existing infrastructure.
3) The toll road from downtown Dallas had nothing along it but houses, while I-35 had businesses and growth.
Businesses and growth are what slows down traffic. Limited access higways move commerce over long distances faster. If you want buisness and growth on your highways, make them all two lanes
That depends on how entrance/exit ramps are designed. The entrance/exit ramps on I-35 between Austin and Hillsborough are atrocious and very dangerous with very short and abrupt merges from the access roads to the freeway. I-37 has much better ramps
"98% of the Interstate Highway system was built with taxes"
Only 98%? Who paid the other 2%?
LOL, were will you save money going to Dallas with a 20 cent a mile toll?
"Hey they are expanding 610 in Houston now it runs just a little inside the Beltway 8 toll road...."
That would be a feat beyond imagination. Texas traffic engineers are good, but that ain't possible
I suspect the TX corridor will one day be viewed similarly.
I suspect you and Perry are right. No one ever went wrong speeding up commerce
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Well if it fails then those private investors will have some of the longest runways in the world..... Damn what an airport hub.
One of the rules for the interstates was that one of every five miles of road was to be straight. The reason was to be usable as a runway in emergency.
a toll road is never EVER paid for, and the fee never goes away, it might rise but it surely won't go down.
The toll road in Dallas was paid for and the booths came down many years ago
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