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I hate you ih35

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I35 or Ih35 I hate you with a passion, had to drive to san antonio saturday and it was smooth sailing at a constant 75 mph early in the morning, but when I went back every mile or half mile everyone slammed on their brakes, no accidents no road construction, just idiots who think they need to all switch lanes at every exit causing massive congestion, the roads in texas are numbered by exits, with big signs telling you the exit is coming, so if you need exit 235b and you just passed 235a you know you need to take the next exit.

This went on from san antonio until I reached jarrel, from jarrel to belton it was smooth sailing. How can drivers be this bad? How can you not know your exit until a few hundred feet before your exit and have to try and cut multiple lanes and force everyone to slam on their brakes? Why in the heck does I35 have more stop and g traffic than downtown austin?


Oh and yes, feel free to use the thread to gripe about other highways as well as idiot drivers.
 
I feel for you. :( What's wonderful about old(er) cities like Chicago is that public transit -- trains, subways, bus rapid routes -- was built up decades ago.

In Chicago the CTA (intracity) provides roughly 500 million rides each year. The Metra (intercity) provides 80 million rides from the burbs to downtown. We still have lots of congestion, but it'd be a million times worse if half a billion rides were put into cars on Chicago roads.
 
I hear ya. Long Texas roads because Texas is big...the difference when it’s smooth sailing vs stop and go...feels like it doubles the trip. What could be a relaxing drive becomes an hours long fraying of the nerves. The people that go 55 in the passing lane are the ones that usually get me.
 
Mach said:
I hear ya. Long Texas roads because Texas is big...the difference when it’s smooth sailing vs stop and go...feels like it doubles the trip. What could be a relaxing drive becomes an hours long fraying of the nerves. The people that go 55 in the passing lane are the ones that usually get me.
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I saw some doing 35 in the passing lane in a 75 zone, found it faster to stay in the middle or slow lanes, the biggest offenders were guys in bmw's and people with uhaul trailers.
 
Eh, they'll similar and worse around Boston because they're dicks (ie, to save a few seconds by not having to slow down earlier themselves).

When there's a line for an exit, people like to fly along in the next lane over, break hard, then basically play chicken with one of the cars entering the exit ramp that had waited for however long. They didn't miss the exit sign. They just don't want to wait in line.






Peak stupid, however, was in a NJ town I had the misfortune to live for 4 years quite some time ago. Emblematic: a woman is driving slowly, looking left and right. Appears to be trying to find an address. She enters a four-way interection and stops dead. Slowly, she angles her car such that she's at a 45 degree angle to the road nearer to her nose and to her tail. (I'm right behind her). It's a small intersection so there isn't much in the way of room.


She proceeds to root around, then opens up a big map, sitting there blocking traffic in the middle of this intersection. Utterly oblivious, offended and confused when people start honking...
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Have fun - my time (and sanity) are worth the toll.
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I do not drive 35 enough to justify it, once to dallas earlier this year and once to san antonio, the occasional austin or waco trip but for those I avoid i35 altogether, for waco I actually take 317 and the back way through mcgregor, almost no traffic and even when farm tractors hit the road it is still often faster than i35.
 
In S. Florida, the left lane is the slow lane. It's unlike anywhere else. People who come to school here are astounded.
 
beerftw said:
I35 or Ih35 I hate you with a passion, had to drive to san antonio saturday and it was smooth sailing at a constant 75 mph early in the morning, but when I went back every mile or half mile everyone slammed on their brakes, no accidents no road construction, just idiots who think they need to all switch lanes at every exit causing massive congestion, the roads in texas are numbered by exits, with big signs telling you the exit is coming, so if you need exit 235b and you just passed 235a you know you need to take the next exit.

This went on from san antonio until I reached jarrel, from jarrel to belton it was smooth sailing. How can drivers be this bad? How can you not know your exit until a few hundred feet before your exit and have to try and cut multiple lanes and force everyone to slam on their brakes? Why in the heck does I35 have more stop and g traffic than downtown austin?


Oh and yes, feel free to use the thread to gripe about other highways as well as idiot drivers.
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Lived in the DC metro for many years. I-95 and I-66 are insane. Had to deal with the LA and SF/San Jose nightmares many times on work trips. I have a road rage story from a trip to Boston (trying to get to the airport in AM rush hour) that is literally insane. I-95 through NYC is (maybe they fixed it?) a sea of potholes that can swallow pickup trucks.

Okay, I'm done. Next...
 
ecofarm said:
In S. Florida, the left lane is the slow lane. It's unlike anywhere else. People who come to school here are astounded.
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I never saw a sign that said "Hill May Block View Of Traffic" until I moved to FL. We still laugh about that.
 
beerftw said:
I35 or Ih35 I hate you with a passion, had to drive to san antonio saturday and it was smooth sailing at a constant 75 mph early in the morning, but when I went back every mile or half mile everyone slammed on their brakes, no accidents no road construction, just idiots who think they need to all switch lanes at every exit causing massive congestion, the roads in texas are numbered by exits, with big signs telling you the exit is coming, so if you need exit 235b and you just passed 235a you know you need to take the next exit.

This went on from san antonio until I reached jarrel, from jarrel to belton it was smooth sailing. How can drivers be this bad? How can you not know your exit until a few hundred feet before your exit and have to try and cut multiple lanes and force everyone to slam on their brakes? Why in the heck does I35 have more stop and g traffic than downtown austin?


Oh and yes, feel free to use the thread to gripe about other highways as well as idiot drivers.
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To say that I-35 sucks is like saying that water is wet, Austin is a blueberry in a sea of tomato juice, and there is a lot of bull around there.

When I had to take the kid to college because she wasn't allowed to drive, I took I-35 from new Braunfels to San Marcos quite frequently. Sometimes, taking the service road , or an alternate path was more productive. And, the summer was especially hot. When I got home, I appreciated snow like i had never appreciated it before.
 
RAMOSS said:
To say that I-35 sucks is like saying that water is wet, Austin is a blueberry in a sea of tomato juice, and there is a lot of bull around there.

When I had to take the kid to college because she wasn't allowed to drive, I took I-35 from new Braunfels to San Marcos quite frequently. Sometimes, taking the service road , or an alternate path was more productive. And, the summer was especially hot. When I got home, I appreciated snow like i had never appreciated it before.
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New braunfels to san marcos drive is aweful in rush hour traffic, I was tempted to pull onto an exit in new braunfels and find the cabelas and wait until rush hour traffic ended.
 
beerftw said:
I35 or Ih35 I hate you with a passion, had to drive to san antonio saturday and it was smooth sailing at a constant 75 mph early in the morning, but when I went back every mile or half mile everyone slammed on their brakes, no accidents no road construction, just idiots who think they need to all switch lanes at every exit causing massive congestion, the roads in texas are numbered by exits, with big signs telling you the exit is coming, so if you need exit 235b and you just passed 235a you know you need to take the next exit.

This went on from san antonio until I reached jarrel, from jarrel to belton it was smooth sailing. How can drivers be this bad? How can you not know your exit until a few hundred feet before your exit and have to try and cut multiple lanes and force everyone to slam on their brakes? Why in the heck does I35 have more stop and g traffic than downtown austin?


Oh and yes, feel free to use the thread to gripe about other highways as well as idiot drivers.
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Take the 130 turnpike next time. I fly into Austin when airfare into San Antonio is too expensive and just rent a car and drive to and from SA. The speed limit on the turnpike is 85mph, but everyone drives 90 to 95.
 
beerftw said:
New braunfels to san marcos drive is aweful in rush hour traffic, I was tempted to pull onto an exit in new braunfels and find the cabelas and wait until rush hour traffic ended.
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Well , one thing about I-35, there are plenty of cookie cutter plaza's that second rate restaurant chains, clothing and electronic stores ever 15 to 20 miles.
 
Here's ordinary daytime traffic. Rush Hour is significantly worse.

Rush "Hour" occurs approximately from 5:30A-9:30A, and 3:15P-7:00P. And amazingly, in some areas there's a killer late-night Saturday Night Rush Hour from 12:30A-4:30A (Sun A.M.) in some areas, particularly in warm weather. This same late night effect can be seen to a slightly less effect on Friday nights.


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If you think you'll hit the bricks, because traffic isn't moving, you might have a bit of competition there too!

(good news is there's plenty of opportunities to make new friends and get dates)

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beerftw said:
I35 or Ih35 I hate you with a passion, had to drive to san antonio saturday and it was smooth sailing at a constant 75 mph early in the morning, but when I went back every mile or half mile everyone slammed on their brakes, no accidents no road construction, just idiots who think they need to all switch lanes at every exit causing massive congestion, the roads in texas are numbered by exits, with big signs telling you the exit is coming, so if you need exit 235b and you just passed 235a you know you need to take the next exit.

This went on from san antonio until I reached jarrel, from jarrel to belton it was smooth sailing. How can drivers be this bad? How can you not know your exit until a few hundred feet before your exit and have to try and cut multiple lanes and force everyone to slam on their brakes? Why in the heck does I35 have more stop and g traffic than downtown austin?


Oh and yes, feel free to use the thread to gripe about other highways as well as idiot drivers.
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At least you were able to actually use the highway! In Delaware, our blue-state politicians order regular road construction and road modifications to roads that were either newly redesigned and laid just a few years earlier, or older roads that, nonetheless don't actually need repair or modification. To make matters worse, they allow the contractors to TAKE THEIR SWEET TIME to do the work! It's not unheard of for a 1/2 to 1 mile long road redesign to take 5-7-10 years to be completed!

To make worse even worse, they will have the contractors completely redesign and re-construct a NEW bridge, offramp/onramp, or road, just a few years after it had been completely redesigned and constructed before!! Just making bridge modifications on RT295 has been ongoing for 2-3 years straight, with MAJOR on/offramps closed for extended periods, still with no sign of final completion!

1. But what about the roads that REALLY need fixing? 2. Or the brand new roads we REALLY need, to make room for the vast increases in residents? The answers are; 1. Nothing, 2. Nothing
 
<alt>doxygen said:
Lived in the DC metro for many years. I-95 and I-66 are insane. Had to deal with the LA and SF/San Jose nightmares many times on work trips. I have a road rage story from a trip to Boston (trying to get to the airport in AM rush hour) that is literally insane. I-95 through NYC is (maybe they fixed it?) a sea of potholes that can swallow pickup trucks.

Okay, I'm done. Next...
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Depending on the time of year.....they are still there ;)
 
ModerationNow! said:
At least you were able to actually use the highway! In Delaware, our blue-state politicians order regular road construction and road modifications to roads that were either newly redesigned and laid just a few years earlier, or older roads that, nonetheless don't actually need repair or modification. To make matters worse, they allow the contractors to TAKE THEIR SWEET TIME to do the work! It's not unheard of for a 1/2 to 1 mile long road redesign to take 5-7-10 years to be completed!

To make worse even worse, they will have the contractors completely redesign and re-construct a NEW bridge, offramp/onramp, or road, just a few years after it had been completely redesigned and constructed before!! Just making bridge modifications on RT295 has been ongoing for 2-3 years straight, with MAJOR on/offramps closed for extended periods, still with no sign of final completion!

1. But what about the roads that REALLY need fixing? 2. Or the brand new roads we REALLY need, to make room for the vast increases in residents? The answers are; 1. Nothing, 2. Nothing
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Ih 35 is constantly revamped, however the traffic does outpace construction. I35 is the main road north to south in texas connectiong major cities from dallas to austin and san antonio, while I10 connects san antonio houston and el paso. So I guess here constant construction has a purpose, however on lesser highways I have seen similar, where it takes construction crews years to do what any private contractor could do in a week, as an obvious move to keep them employed to the gov does not lay them off then go through chaos when needed again trying to rehire.
 
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