![]() ![]() Researchers looked at a larger segment of I-35, from San Marcos to Georgetown, approximately 70 miles across three counties. The Texas A&M Transportation Institute ( TTI) conducted a recent project, Long-Term Central Texas I-35 Improvement Scenarios, to help local stakeholders in the Texas capital identify potential solutions to the looming mobility problem. ![]() The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization ( CAMPO) estimates the city’s population will almost double over the next 20 years.Ĭonsidering that 85 percent of current traffic is local, the prospect of doubling Austin’s population is daunting. all in all,many vehicles on the road are either out of towners/staters,mexican nationals and chill hipsters.ACCORDING to the Texas Department of Transportation ( TxDOT), 180,000 vehicles per day drive I-35 between US 183 and SH 71, the 10-mile central artery for travel and commerce in Austin. these are the rarist of the 3 and we need more of them. and finally 3)these kind of people are the normal kind who are actually pretty cool cause they'll let you merge in front of them in heavy traffic just make sure to wave "thanks". they also love to ride your ass but it's cool so long as you got good insurance,slam on them brakes and make that fucker pay through the nose especially if you fake a neck injury. 2)assholes who cant keep in one lane and are quick to cut you off via the shoulder when they realize that this isn't their exit and demand to be let back in line. 1)the kind that really shouldn't be on the road in the first place being either the elderly or the pussy kind. its like you have 3 types of people out here. words cannot express the anger i feel when i try getting across this city during daytime hours. Wanna know what happens during rush hour? absolutely nothing! people are on the roads doing nothing at all except for occupying vehicles that they are too chicken shit to drive. The only solution, of course, is changing the paradigm to encouraging urban living and public transportation, but good luck convincing the public that they don't need a half acre of land and five bedrooms in order to have "succeeded" at life. That's the history of pretty much all of the huge sprawling cities in Texas. The easier it is to commute from somewhere, the more people move there, eventually causing the heavy traffic again. Quite frankly, I don't think you can fix those as its one of those problems that the solution feeds the problem. But it didn't FIX the problem, as there were still traffic jams during commuting hours. I think they are an incremental solution to the problem San Antonio was having on 281 North, which was the massive, MASSIVE commuting that's done back and forth to all of the bedroom communities north of San Antonio. That can be frustrating, especially if you're late for work. But if you miss your light on a turn around, expect to wait for three minutes. The upside is if you're going straight you hardly hit a light. You still have stop lights because you have to manage the flow of all the people trying to turn around, but they run much longer. I can say it isn't the worst system in the world, but its definitely not a panacea. You had to do a left hand turn U if you wanted to get to a building on your left. There were very few left hand turns for about 6 miles. I use to live in San Antonio, and I worked on 281 past 1604, which recently turned into one of the "super streets" you're talking about. ![]() That's the end of my traffic rant, time to go get into it. How do you properly inform the driver behind you that you are going to back in and need the extra space. Plus, the idiocy of back-in parking itself. The back-in only parking on South Congress that slows the right lane to a crawl anytime someone attempts to park. The intersection at the feeders on Stassney and William Cannon only having a single lane dedicated for going straight through, despite there being two lanes past the light.Ĭongress pinching down to a single lane at points. Not just 35, but the entire city is filled with these design decisions that were made with a lack of foresight. So they've created a convergent point with 4 different sources of traffic all competing for 3 lanes of highway. The left lane is so jammed packed due to the above problems that it literally does not move for minutes at a time while the others are at least inching along.Īt 35 and 71 you have a flyover that joins 71 East's traffic with 71 West's traffic, spills both onto 35, and then 1/4 a mile down the road were you have feeder traffic merging. The hills and slow speeds kill the middle and right lane for 18 wheelers. Multiple onramps that instantly merge into flowing traffic, slowing things down immensely. 35 is so piss-poorly designed it simply can't handle even a fraction of the traffic this city generates. ![]()
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