the dozen or so 4-tier interchanges that they're building in austin are just plain ugly and destructive. take the one at i-35 and louis henna. who will wanna shop at kinko's or eat at mcduck's?
they will destroy the neighborhoods that they tower over, just like the ones at i-35 and 183. the stretch from 35 to metric on 183 is a high crime, slum.
Have you seen what they are building at 620 and 183? I think I should set up a camera and wait for someone to come flying off that lovely interchange when it is finished. It is bound to happen.
They will kill our neighborhoods and stores.
I'd take thoes direct connector interchanges anyday over some backed-up cloverleaf. Fod example, there's an interchange (in Memphis, if I remember correctly) where I-55 northbound leaves one mainline and enters another via a cloverleaf. Guess how traffic is at this interchange.