Bandera and 1604 intersection accidents

[hschulz3]

The problem with rail is that San Antonio does not have a high density of downtown workers. For rail to really work well, you need to have a large pool of people in a common area moving en masse to another common area. Here, the largest employers aren't located in a single area - USAA, military, Medical Center, Valero, etc. You would need an extensive crisscrossing rail system to make that work, and that would be prohibitively expensive.

[TrapperL]

Just wait until you see the wreck that's about to happen at 1604 and Blanco. They really need to start hiring people with just a hairs worth of common sense at TxDOT either that or take away the liquor. This is just incredible. I hope you like driving on the wrong side of the road. Here's a pdf of it and yes Margret, the traffic crosses from the right side of the road to the left...and then it crosses back.
http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot...schematic1.pdf
https://screenshots.firefox.com/Lmov...ot.state.tx.us

[Bo]

Originally Posted by TrapperL

Just wait until you see the wreck that's about to happen at 1604 and Blanco.

That looks expensive, with all of those overpasses. Plus, I'm not sure that having to sit through 3 traffic light cycles to get through the interchange justifies pouring that much concrete, in an area where the housing and commercial are built out. For that reason, I suspect it will take a long time to be funded and built. Maybe by then, there will be a more conventional plan? Radical solutions like that make more sense on the far West Side, since there's more housing and commercial development to come.

[grjr]

Originally Posted by Bo

That looks expensive, with all of those overpasses. Plus, I'm not sure that having to sit through 3 traffic light cycles to get through the interchange justifies pouring that much concrete, in an area where the housing and commercial are built out. For that reason, I suspect it will take a long time to be funded and built. Maybe by then, there will be a more conventional plan? Radical solutions like that make more sense on the far West Side, since there's more housing and commercial development to come.

Looks to me like there's not all that much work to be done to change to the new system. They would have to fill in the gaps on each side of Blanco where it crosses over 1604 and then build two new turnarounds for the traffic on the 1604 frontage roads. The rest would mostly be changing lane markings and installing new traffic lights.

[resonator]

They did this in the northside of Atlanta when i lived there a few years ago. No problems except it made it difficult for folks leaving the freeway and wanting to visit a nearby business area then get back on the freeway. Not designed for that at all.