Poteet-Jourdanton "Freeway" (Alto: house, neighborhoods, live)

[ChrisSA_wxatUIW]

Has anyone here been on that road?? That road sucks! Traffic (it seems) is terrible no matter what time of day it is! And the light's aren't cordinated at all!

What I don't understand is that this road was even built with access roads so that one day it could be easily converted into a freeway... Why haven't they done it?? It's like 40 years old and all they have to do is put up a few bridges and move the lights over to the (hardly used) access roads. Everything else is done for them.

I know that there's probably some kind of "issue" on funding, but compared to all the other projects going on in the city, it seems like this would be fairly cheap. I would be happy if just the less-than-2-mile segment between 35 and 410 were a freeway.

Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? (Does anyone even know which road I'm talking about??)

[jules07]

Are you talking about the one that runs right thru "scenic" downtown Poteet () and heads south towards Jourdanton. Hits Jourdanton's "downtown" area near the courthouse?

If so, yeah, that road sux. Drove it way too many times when we lived north of Poteet and needed to go "shopping".

[ryneone]

Originally Posted by jules07

Are you talking about the one that runs right thru "scenic" downtown Poteet () and heads south towards Jourdanton. Hits Jourdanton's "downtown" area near the courthouse?

If so, yeah, that road sux. Drove it way too many times when we lived north of Poteet and needed to go "shopping".

Yes i think he is but the traffic is the biggest problem is from I35 to 5 miles south of 410.

[SanAntoQT]

It's Poteet-Jourdanton Highway or Highway 16. I don't see what the problem is. I lived out in that area off and on from 1976 until a few years ago. My parents live behind Palo Alto Elementary and use Hwy 16 to get from their house to SW Military Dr. I know the traffic gets heavier when the Strawberry Festival is going on because everybody and their mother uses that road, but other than that...

[ChrisSA_wxatUIW]

Originally Posted by jules07

Are you talking about the one that runs right thru "scenic" downtown Poteet () and heads south towards Jourdanton. Hits Jourdanton's "downtown" area near the courthouse?

If so, yeah, that road sux. Drove it way too many times when we lived north of Poteet and needed to go "shopping".

Well, yes this is the same road, but I'm specifically talking about the part that ryneone specifies, where all the traffic problems are.

And the thing is, if you see that road, it litterally has main roads AND access roads, but the lights are on the MAIN ROADS, and the access roads don't really have a purpose- they're just there for when the road was supposed to get upgraded to a freeway. It's not like they really have to expand anything or build a new road, all you'd have to do is move the lights over to the access roads, and build, maybe, 3 bridges over those intersections.

So why don't they do it??

[jules07]

Originally Posted by ryneone

Yes i think he is but the traffic is the biggest problem is from I35 to 5 miles south of 410.

Ah, duh! <slaps self upside head!> I was thinking "Poteet to Jourdanton", not Poteet-Jourdanton as the name of it. duh.

[ryneone]

Originally Posted by jules07

Ah, duh! <slaps self upside head!> I was thinking "Poteet to Jourdanton", not Poteet-Jourdanton as the name of it. duh.

Lmao like i need to even say where the trsffic is a pain.

The joys of progress without planning.

[SanAntoQT]

Originally Posted by ChrisSA_wxatUIW

Well, yes this is the same road, but I'm specifically talking about the part that ryneone specifies, where all the traffic problems are.

And the thing is, if you see that road, it litterally has main roads AND access roads, but the lights are on the MAIN ROADS, and the access roads don't really have a purpose- they're just there for when the road was supposed to get upgraded to a freeway. It's not like they really have to expand anything or build a new road, all you'd have to do is move the lights over to the access roads, and build, maybe, 3 bridges over those intersections.

So why don't they do it??

The lights are on the main road because, when you're trying to cross the highway, it's next to impossible. Hwy 16 traffic is heaviest in the morning and late afternoon from people coming and going to work. If you don't have lights and try to cross the highway, you'll never make it.

[ryneone]

Originally Posted by SanAntoQT

The lights are on the main road because, when you're trying to cross the highway, it's next to impossible. Hwy 16 traffic is heaviest in the morning and late afternoon from people coming and going to work. If you don't have lights and try to cross the highway, you'll never make it.

But as Palo Alto grows and the Toyota traffic (many shifts) it is crazy now.

[SanAntoQT]

Originally Posted by ryneone

But as Palo Alto grows and the Toyota traffic (many shifts) it is crazy now.

All the more reason for the lights for the residents coming from neighborhoods in that area. If you're coming from Fountain Park on the west side of Hwy 16 and trying to cross to head north, you will never make it out of there without the lights. Back in '76, when we moved into the area, there was no light at Hwy 16 and Hunter and there were a number of accidents there. The traffic light was installed in '77-'78, I think.

When I've gone home for visits, I do notice the traffic is a little heavier, but not unmanageable. My parents haven't complained.