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Driving the length of Mopac (620 to Ben White) after 3:00pm has not improved for us from what it was prior to the start of the project.
Of course it is moving better now than it was when the years of FUBAR reconstruction was going on.
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For example, southbound travel times in the MoPac Expressway general purpose lanes between Parmer Lane and Cesar Chavez Street during the morning peak hours have dropped by more than half. Between 7 and 9 a.m., that trip used to take more than 30 minutes. Now, a typical run takes just over 13 minutes.
However, during the afternoon rush, the typical travel time peaks higher at 35 minutes, five minutes longer than what a driver would typically expect before the express lanes opened. Drivers heading north on MoPac’s non-tolled lanes, particularly in the evening, also still face significant delays.
Part of that is due to the 28,000 extra vehicles each day that are filling the roadway between Enfield Road and RM 2222 since the express lanes opened.
New lanes will rarely reduce congestion, but they will allow more throughput.
Part of the problem with MoPac is that they only have two entrances to the northbound Express Lanes south of 183 so it forces all downtown people to enter at Cesar Chavez. This means that someone that may normally enter at 6th would enter at CC and that extra traffic is now on MoPac. There really should be another entrance somewhere to the Express Lanes and it would solve some of the problem.
New lanes will rarely reduce congestion, but they will allow more throughput.
The 3rd lane expansion of I-35 reduced congestion for a few years. Made my commuting a lot easier in the 1980s.
And from personal experience the Mopac project has not facilitated travel for my family. More lanes can work, fewer lanes certainly do not.
The 3rd lane expansion of I-35 reduced congestion for a few years. Made my commuting a lot easier in the 1980s.
And from personal experience the Mopac project has not facilitated travel for my family. More lanes can work, fewer lanes certainly do not.
Well MoPac went from 6 lanes to 8 lanes so it was additional lanes, but the two added lanes are tolled. They still are lanes, if you're willing to pay.
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