Why Texas Builds a Freeway Next to Every Freeway
Texas has over 6,000 miles of high-speed one-way frontage roads running parallel to its freeways. (You don't see this in other states!) Let's dig into how a experiment outside Houston turned into a statewide system. And look at today's tricks: like flipping the on-ramps and off-ramps to make traffic flow better. And why the state almost scrapped the whole idea in 2001. Buy me tacos 😀🌮► / roadguyrob Ask a road question ► / roadguyrob ------------------------- Sources cited: ------------------------- Texas Department of Transportation. Roadway Design Manual. Austin, TX: Design Division, November 2024. Texas Department of Transportation. Access Management Manual. Austin, TX: Design Division, July 2011. Daniel, K. Frontage Roads to Become Texas Highway Relics. Austin American-Statesman, Aug. 2, 2001, pp. A1, A10. Okada, B. The State Approach to Frontage. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Jan. 14, 2002, p. 3B. Frontage Road Decision Placed On Hold For Continued Study. Tyler Morning Telegraph, June 29, 2002, p. 4 (Sec. 1). [Editorial, unsigned.] ------------------------- Time sections: Intro (0:00) Why Frontage Roads (0:59) DeWitt Greer's idea (2:18) Engineering Perks (3:31) One-Way Problems (5:33) Not a Sponsor (7:32) Almost Stopped in 2001 (8:00) Modern Design Rules (8:54) X Configuration (10:37) Slingshotting (11:50) Texas Turnaround (12:46) Saving Land (14:07) Utah Copies Texas (14:58) Tampa Missed Out (15:36) Chicago Forgot the Bridges (16:24) Captive Neighborhood (17:35) Conclusion (19:04)
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