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Originally Posted by drummer
Haha, "almost..."
There are always a lot of folks lined up for the exit...to the frontage road...that goes to the light at the I-35 frontage road...where you can turn left (north) and eventually merge onto I-35. Yeah, not sure why they need a flyover from 183S to I-35N at all.
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Ehh now that I think of it, maybe it doesn't. They do dedicate 2 lanes of S/B 183 traffic under the 35 bridge to turn left onto N/B 35, so they aren't ignorant of traffic that wants to go North.
It's still not as arbitrary as having a Northbound 35 to Southbound 183. That's kinda like a u-turn! Same reason they don't have plans for 290E to 183N. I've had a few times that I've wanted to go North from 183 South.
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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Designs like that slow down traffic because of merging hazard.
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Yeah that I understand. It can't be as bad as the 183 ramp to 35 atm.
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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Because, ideally, you should have direct connections in every direction at every freeway interchange because that's the most efficient design?
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Ehh maybe not efficient, but "not worth it". I know you're argument isn't "get rid of all connectors", but we can both agree that some direct connectors are more needed than others, or others as I've said before, are "arbitrary". Imagine if there was no ramp from 290 West to 35 South by Capital Plaza. We don't really need a 290 East to 35 South though, yet that exists.