What if - U.S. 290 / TX 290 Toll (Houston, San Antonio: tax, build)

[Need4Camaro]

**From East to West**

Houston TX:
-- I-10 West

Amber Alert Sign:
Austin via I-10 / SR 71 ## Mins / via US 290 Toll ## Mins
San Antonio via I-10 ## / via US 290 & TX 130 Toll ## Mins

Control Sign:
I-10 West - Katy / San Antonio
U.S. 290 West via 290 Toll - Austin / Frederickburg
Exit 2 Miles

Amber Alert Sign
Travel to Junction TX
via I-10 ## Mins
via U.S. 290 & 290 Toll ## Mins

-- I-10 -- Exit 763 -- U.S. 290 West || I-610 North

-- U.S. 290 West departs I-610 and proceeds Northwest (just as currently configured with U.S. 290 - Only thing necessary would be re-signage)

-- U.S. 290 proceeds to Hempstead where the freeway part ends. This section remains free to use.

Hempstead TX:

U.S 290 -- TX 6 interchange
Control Sign:
Last exit before Toll

U.S 290 Exits onto a set of access roads
TX 290 Toll Begins

Brenham TX:

TX 290 Toll / US 290 & Gun & Rod Rd Interchange:
TX 290 Toll Ends
US 290 merges onto the main lanes and proceeds as currently configured as the Brenham bypass.

-- FM 389 overpass
Control Sign:
U.S. 290 / TX 36 North / Main Street - Last Exit Before Toll
TX 290 Toll to Austin

-- Old Mill Creek Overpass
-- TX 290 Toll Begins
-- Westbound Ramp flyover to U.S. 290 West ROW
-- Eastbound Ramp from TX 290 Toll East to US 290 Brenham Bypass -- To Houston

-- US 290 exits to a set of feeder roads -- TX 290 Toll is constructed on the current U.S. 290 alignment west of Brenham.

Giddings TX:

Current FM 138 Intersection
Control Sign
TX 290 Toll: Austin
U.S. 290: Giddings
Exit 2 miles

Current FM 226 Intersection
U.S. 290: Proceeds to Giddings as currently configured.
TX 290 Toll: Overpasses the U.S. 290 eastbound lanes and proceeds Southwest,

TX 290 Toll bypasses Giddings to the South.

TX 290 Toll Rendezvous back with U.S. 290 west of Giddings and continues west, U.S. 290 resumes along the path of its access roads.

Elgin TX:

TX 290 Toll exits the U.S. 290 Alignment at Harris St where U.S. 290 proceeds into Elgin as normal
TX 290 Toll bypasses the town by continueing directly west (U.S. 290 heads Northwest into Elgin)
TX 290 Toll returns to the U.S. 290 Alignment just west of Countyline Rd.
U.S. 290 once again is aligned with TX 290's feeder roads.

Manor TX:

Amber Alert:
Travel Time to San Antonio:
Via SR 130
Via I-35
Travel Time to Waco:
Via SR 130
Via I-35

TX 290 Toll proceeds onto the current alignment of TX 290 Toll.
Full Stack Interchange completed between TX 290 Toll and TX 130 / TX 45 Toll

Austin TX:

Control Sign:
U.S. 183 South / TX 290 West: Lockhart / Fredericksburg
U.S. 290 West: To I-35 / Austin

TX 290 becomes untolled and multiplexes with U.S. 183 South
U.S. 290 proceeds to I-35 as presently aligned.
TX 290 follows U.S. 183 to TX 71 and exits U.S. 183 and follows TX 71 west.
U.S. 290 rejoins TX 290 and multiplexes with TX 71 and TX 290 and follows it along the current alignment of TX 71 between I-35 and MoPac (TX 1)
The above sections will remain untolled.

-- TX 71 and U.S. 290 current intersection
Control Sign:
TX 71 - Bee Cave -- Last Exit Before Toll

U.S. 290 exits the Tollway via access roads for the TX 71 exit.
TX 290 Toll / US 290 proceeds along the current alignment of US 290 until just outside of Cedar Valley
TX 290 Toll departs US 290 and remains just north of Cedar Valley while traveling West.
U.S. 290 proceeds to Cedar Valley, and Dripping Springs
TX 290 Toll proceeds to Johnson City and picks up U.S.290 just west of it
Both proceed to Fredericksburg, U.S. 290 enters it, TX 290 Toll bypasses it to the south and then re-multiplex
Both proceed to I-10 where they both end.

Opinions?

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by Should I care

How about making it simple. No toll road scams.

I wouldn't mind it, but I'd find it highly unlikely that such a road would be built untolled. For the most part the Interstate System is done, they're not looking to build new federally funded corridors as the country can no longer sustain them. Texas doesn't have state tax so most likely any new limited access highway... will be tolled.

[ragnarkar]

Originally Posted by Should I care

How about making it simple. No toll road scams.

If you're footing the bill, I'm all for it not being a toll road scam.