Are they ever going to expand the rest of I-10??

[ChrisSA_wxatUIW]

Originally Posted by oldmanshirt

What makes that area of I-10 W particularly bad is that its a situation where two major streets (one carrying traffic from the city's largest employer, the other carrying shoppers and UTSA traffic) run only about a mile apart from each other. To top it off, the DeZavala exit is poorly signed and its relation to the Woodstone exit (which is also poorly signed) can be confusing. The result is that the Huebner traffic has to immediately cut over before their lane disappears, while weaving amongst the DeZavala traffic that's realizing at the last minute that they have to get over. Meanwhile, everyone is driving 80 mph and is ticked off.

Even after driving in SA for 3+ years, I've never gotten comfortable with getting off at DeZavala. . .

^^^Oh, sorry ChrisSA_wxatUIW, I just now realized that i said the exact same thing you said But it does kind of make me wonder why they didn't put the braided ramps at the DeZavala exit like they do around Wurzbach and the I-10/1604 Frontage Rd. exit just past UTSA Blvd. Would there be some logistical or environmental hindrance to that, or just money??

EXACTLY. braided ramps sound good. just have the 4th lane up to 1604.
and it's cool that you repeated, that just means you obviously agree w/ me

[jerryg]

I just wanted to chime in on my experiences with traffic here, now that I've been here for a few months:

Compared to DC and Maryland, this is a breeze (I won't say it's nothing, because 1604 does get stupid at times). I had a 21 mi commute from Owings Mills MD to Johns Hopkins Hospital that, on average, took me an hour to do (even without traffic it was a solid 30-35 minute drive due to lights on surface streets).
My commute here is ~17 miles, and on a bad day it takes me 45 minutes. No traffic? I'm doing it in 20-25. I know of folks down in DC where a 20 mile commute == 60-90 minutes, simply because of the volume of traffic on the major surface streets + the stoplights. Absolute insanity.

I remember my wife and I heading out to a concert at the Patriot Center - normally a 90 minute drive from where we lived outside of Baltimore. Between 2 accidents in I-495 (DC Beltway) and I-66, it ended up being a 4 hour drive, and we missed the opening act.

Absolute stupidity. I'll take San Antonio's traffic stupidity over that mess -every- day of the week.

[traficdogn]

Originally Posted by ChrisSA_wxatUIW

I've been thinking, it's nice that they finally have I-10 expanded to 10+ lanes inside the loop, but now what about further north?? I've always wondered why the freeway is down to 3 lanes on each side by the DeZavala exit, I mean, doesn't that seem pretty rediculous since the amout of traffic doesn't really change?
Alot of people don't get off at DeZavala- they keep on going to get to 1604 or further, and it creates an insane, unnessisary bottleneck that is hell during rush hour. Why didn't they at least leave a 4th lane instead of making DeZavala an "Exit Only"?? and will they ever correct this/ expand the freeway??

I don't think the city/county politicians that have influence on the matter really want to fix those type of issues in a hurry.

Since it is a major road leaving the county, they would be subsidizing Kendall County. Bexar county officals would rather use money on highways closer to the center of the city to increase the property values of homes inside the county.

I think it similar to Reno Nevada. Where the roads are smooth coming in from Tahoe, yet bumpy while leaving.

[Chakapu]

This is why I live INSIDE the Loop.

[Bo]

TXDOT has toll road fever. Since they've been told by the Feds that they can't toll the interstates, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that any new lane-adding projects on San Antonio's interstates have been moved to the back burner.

[case44]

Originally Posted by crazedchef

Hello,

Sorry for the offthread.

How is the traffic and how far along are they on the Dominion/IH-10 Overpass Project?

Just Curious, have not been home in a couple of years.

carzedchef

At last check, it's about 53 percent completed.

[Chakapu]

Originally Posted by jerryg

I just wanted to chime in on my experiences with traffic here, now that I've been here for a few months:

Compared to DC and Maryland, this is a breeze

Absolute stupidity. I'll take San Antonio's traffic stupidity over that mess -every- day of the week.

See, having grown up in LA, knowing the area with only a little bit of traffic in the 70s to the mess it is now, and having lived in other big cities and small cities, I think there's no point in comparing.

Sure, compared to elsewhere it's not hell. Does that make it better? Does that make it ok?

Can't we plan and build and expand cities using a design which requires preventing suburban sprawl? Can't we be innovative and progressive and build in such a way that we don't create another version of L.A., DC, Chicago? We're in a position to *stop* it before it gets there.

When I first came to SA (12+ years after leaving Los Angeles), my first thought was "This is like LA, only 20 years ago, and it's going to be the same." And that's NOT A GOOD THING when it comes to traffic.

So all you that say "it's nothing" simply because it's not the WORST there is, that doesn't make it better, or even OK, IMNSHO.

[crazedchef]

Originally Posted by case44

At last check, it's about 53 percent completed.

Thanks,

Maybe it will be done by the time I am home. I believe that I have missed the worst part of the Ih-10--- 410 mess

I'll be home someday and actually get to drive faster than 10 kph.

crazedchef

[Living Near Shamu]

I actually would like to know when they're going to start building some bridges on 1604 between Culebra Rd and Bandera Rd. The traffic there going East/West is sometimes brutal.

[ChrisSA_wxatUIW]

Originally Posted by Living Near Shamu

I actually would like to know when they're going to start building some bridges on 1604 between Culebra Rd and Bandera Rd. The traffic there going East/West is sometimes brutal.

1604 expansion project- begins next year
-and the road runs north to south
-and this isn't about I-10 at all
-but I know what you mean. I grew up close to that area (Guilbeu and Bandera), and I know that traffic there is so bad [because of the lights] that sometimes during rush, traffic is backed up all the way to the over pass over Bandera- all waiting at the light at Braun. But like I said, construction on the Loop 1604 Expansion is scheduled to begin in 09, starting with "our side of town" (Military to Bandera, including 151 interchange, Culebra, Guilbeu, Braun, etc)