Why is driving I-35 such a beating?

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Hondo.
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Brutal traffic - all the time.
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My chauffeur hates it too
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It's been under construction since before I was born in '75. Finally reached San Antonio 2 years ago.
hoosier-daddy
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Nonsense. I35 reached San Antonio at least 5 years ago.
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oproot said:


Brutal traffic - all the time.
I would have thought you rather enjoyed them driving their Probes in your front and up your rear.
Swarely
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I don't get 35 around Selma. Now matter what time of day I drive through there- it's always at a crawl.
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You see, once a road has been under construction after a certain number of years, it loses value …
CNN is an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.
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I-70 and I-25 ain't no joke either.
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BenFiasco14 said:

You see, once a road has been under construction after a certain number of years, it loses value …
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BenFiasco14 said:

You see, once a road has been under construction after a certain number of years, it loses value …

Didn't see the dy/dx until this. Thanks
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The men over 35 are often flying Southwest but they really desirable men over 35 are flying in their own jets.
Al Bula
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Look at the dumps along the corridor:
The dumpy places south of San Antonio
San Antonio
Austin
Temple
Waco
Metroplex

The whole I-35 corridor is like the bowels of texas. The crap ends up in Mexico.
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David Happymountain said:

Look at the dumps along the corridor:
The dumpy places south of San Antonio
San Antonio
Austin
Temple
Waco
Metroplex

The whole I-35 corridor is like the bowels of texas. The crap ends up in Mexico.


Is it your contention that I-35 is the large intestine of Canada and Laredo is the "exit point"?
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And Friday of Memorial Day Weekend is the worst day of the year.
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I used to think that 45 was a much better driving experience. Now it's getting F'ed up too. Too many people moving here. GTFO please while I continue to save for my Gulfstream.
c-jags
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I've driven every inch of 35 and 10 in Texas. 35 sucks immensely more.

I'm driving from Temple to Wichita tomorrow. Pray for me.
TyHolden
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I once saw a dude beating his meat in traffic on 35 in Dallas....really makes you think
swc93
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45 is starting to get like 35, but not yet.

35 is the only stretch of highway I have to routinely pass semi-trucks on the right just to get around another stupid ****er squatting in the left lane. It doesn't matter either if I am driving to Austin or Denton, same stupid ****ers.
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There is a solution (or at least there was), but involved the state condemning some very large chunks of land from private landowners and a whole lot of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Texas_Corridor

So instead, expect more of the same.
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I drive from New Braunfels to Austin and back every day. Half the time there are idiots weaving through congestion that cause accidents which will grind everything to a halt. Since most state troopers seem to be at the border, there is almost 0 traffic enforcement outside of san marcos. But the majority of time, you get to the end of traffic, and there's nothing there. Its like people stopped for no reason.
Buford T. Justice
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That is an excellent analogy.
Buford T. Justice
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Whoops. I'll be more discrete next time.
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swc93 said:

45 is starting to get like 35, but not yet.

35 is the only stretch of highway I have to routinely pass semi-trucks on the right just to get around another stupid ****er squatting in the left lane. It doesn't matter either if I am driving to Austin or Denton, same stupid ****ers.


My observation was that most of the trucks you just described have Maine plates and Mexican drivers.

Thank you America, for NAFTA.
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Buford T. Justice said:

Whoops. I'll be more discrete next time.
i'm sorry i ran you off the road when you smiled at me. i didn't think it was funny.
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Swarely said:

I don't get 35 around Selma. Now matter what time of day I drive through there- it's always at a crawl.

35 SB at Retama Park and in Round Rock just north of the 45 overpass are always at a standstill until they suddenly open up at 70 mph.
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This sums up my experiences with I-35 perfectly…
c-jags
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agnerd said:

There is a solution (or at least there was), but involved the state condemning some very large chunks of land from private landowners and a whole lot of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Texas_Corridor

So instead, expect more of the same.


get it was a "corrupt land grab" but everything would be better to today if that had been moved forward.

I made it to Wichita. Pretty dang brutal.

I know I'll catch hell for this but 35 in OK is prettier than 35 for most of Texas.

Also I am incredibly Impressed with OKC's ability to keep their downtown cleaned up. I don't know if I've ever been to a good size metropolitan area that had that clean of a downtown area. We stopped there for lunch just to see bricktown and it was surprising.
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Swarely said:

I don't get 35 around Selma. Now matter what time of day I drive through there- it's always at a crawl.


It flows fine when I go through. Everbody in Selma just hates you. Specifically you. I don't know what you did there, but you should probably apologize.
Hondo.
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Yea, not so bad before 5am in the morning.. or after midnight
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c-jags said:

agnerd said:

There is a solution (or at least there was), but involved the state condemning some very large chunks of land from private landowners and a whole lot of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Texas_Corridor

So instead, expect more of the same.


get it was a "corrupt land grab" but everything would be better to today if that had been moved forward.

I made it to Wichita. Pretty dang brutal.

I know I'll catch hell for this but 35 in OK is prettier than 35 for most of Texas.

Also I am incredibly Impressed with OKC's ability to keep their downtown cleaned up. I don't know if I've ever been to a good size metropolitan area that had that clean of a downtown area. We stopped there for lunch just to see bricktown and it was surprising.


I'm sure giving control of a huge corridor through Texas to foreign investors to build a toll road would make everything better.....


I35 sucks because people can't merge. A lot of yall between Austin and San Antonio would be used as speed bumps around Houston
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Thankfully I never go to Austin or San Antonio!
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c-jags said:

agnerd said:

There is a solution (or at least there was), but involved the state condemning some very large chunks of land from private landowners and a whole lot of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Texas_Corridor

So instead, expect more of the same.


get it was a "corrupt land grab" but everything would be better to today if that had been moved forward.

I made it to Wichita. Pretty dang brutal.

I know I'll catch hell for this but 35 in OK is prettier than 35 for most of Texas.

Also I am incredibly Impressed with OKC's ability to keep their downtown cleaned up. I don't know if I've ever been to a good size metropolitan area that had that clean of a downtown area. We stopped there for lunch just to see bricktown and it was surprising.


Omaha
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JPAg88 said:

This sums up my experiences with I-35 perfectly…


You don't see those signs anywhere on 35 between Austin and San Antonio.
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Yes you do. I've been pulled over in front of the TA Truck Stop on the north end of NB for "driving in the left lane" by a state trooper.

This was 5-6 years ago and I don't know if I got the one "dudley do-right" or what but it was the day after thanksgiving at like 10am. Was heading to the ranch to go hunting. Guy must've been bored because we talked hunting spots for 5 min, he gave me a warning and that was it.
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XXXVII said:

JPAg88 said:

This sums up my experiences with I-35 perfectly…


You don't see those signs anywhere on 35 between Austin and San Antonio.


Wouldn't matter. They have posted "no trucks in the left lane" on some of the hills and that doesn't stop them from jumping in the left lane at the bottom of the hill and clogging both lanes as they struggle to climb.

I drove a small slice of 35 every day for 10 years and I've been driving Austin to Dallas fairly regularly for the last 16. It always amazes me how every car packs the left lane going below the speed limit and you can get in the right lane and go 90 for miles at a time without seeing another car. Right now the construction in Waco is what I dread. It never goes away, it just reincarnates itself in different places. Used to be West and Temple that were the chokepoints.
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