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Originally Posted by feconi
The stretch of freeway you reference in SA has 139,000 vehicles per day on six lanes. The stretch of I-35 in Austin that I'm referencing has 227,000 vehicles per day on six lanes. I'm guessing you're not on I-35 in Austin much.
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Nope, I live here in South Austin in between I-35 and Mopac, I take Mopac about 90% of the time. I avoid it like the plague. My wife works right off I-35 between 290/183 and when I have had to pick her up from work it doesn't seem as bad as I have seen in the past. What I was really saying is that interstate traffic is pretty much bad in the major cities anywhere, San Antonio is not immune or some tremendous oasis of no traffic issues. If someone thinks Austin is the "worst in the world" then they must not have seen much of the world or driven in those places with major traffic issues. Most people think "traffic is bad" when they can't set the cruise 60 mph on an interstate highway.
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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
The problem with I-35 is everyone and their dog uses it. And it's used by many more people than just Austinites. I-35 is the main north/south route in the US for transportation. People like to blame Austin for the traffic on it, but really the problem is much greater than just city traffic. Most of our other major highways are no where near as bad. Mopac can be a pain sometimes, but really I don't think anything comes close to I-35.
Loop 610 in Houston can be pretty bad. We've been stuck there more than a handful of times. And I-35 through Dallas can be bad. San Antonio though has pretty good flow, but there have been times when I-35 has been at a crawl there too.
The thing is, that's just the nature of highways.
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I commuted to Dallas for four months in 2005, leaving at 6:00 am on Monday mornings I would say a good 80% of the traffic on I-35 was semi-truck traffic, bumper to bumper all the way to the I-35 split near Hillsboro. Most of those were probably out of San Antonio or points further south, I was getting on at William Cannon so I was having to head through town every morning.