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The lack of good highways between cities and rural areas in Texas is truly despicable. People die, lots of people, on a regular basis due to congestion, poor signage, inadequate capacity, no over/under passes etc etc etc.

One has to pass through 8 (probably 9 by now as I haven’t been down in a week or so) stop lights traveling down 281 to get into San Antonio. As well as wide spots in the road with a filling station or two every ten miles or so where they drop the speed limit to 55 and there are many side roads.

Its obscenely dangerous. More and more people are using 281 as a N/S corridor so as to avoid I-35 ... which is simply a death road.

Texas highways are horrendous. Being the second largest state population wise and the first in population growth ... you’d think they could float a highway bond to get things done. But nooooooooo. No highway bonds in this state. Can’t do that. Better that the highways should ever be 10 years behind the curve and that innocent men women and children die miserable deaths in bloody car crashes.

Where on 281 are you referring to? It's congested west of the airport due to construction, and south into the city when it changes into San Pedro, but heading north towards Loop 1604 it is wide enough. People do 75-80 MPH on that section of the road.

I see our main problem being poorly designed interchanges on the main arteries. A perfect example is the one between I-10 and Loop 1604.

Why would anyone want to use 281 as an alternate to I-35? 281 is approximateely 20 miles further west. It doesn't make sense unless you live between Blanco and New Braunfels.

People just need to slow down.

I think you’re grossly over exaggerating the issue. Texas is a fabulous State, and does manage their road systems equal to, or better than, any State I frequent.

Witness, if you will, the network of highways with higher than 55 mph speed limits compared to any other State.

Per capita, Texas is far below the average in highway deaths. In fact FARS reports Texas shows a 2-7% decrease in highway deaths since 02. Texas is well above the average for alcohol related traffic arrests, the number two cause of highway fatalities at 41% of all traffic deaths.

For being such a large and diverse State, with an exploding population, Texas does do a very good job.

Nothing personal, but you need to take a deep breath and calm down a tad. LOL

Ummm, we just passed an amendment for $5 billion in 2007. (use the term *we8 loosely. I voted against) The real deal is TXDOT is either lying or is severely mismanaged or both. They want to build toll roads through PPPs for the upfront monies so they can mismanage that too.