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Old 11-29-2018, 10:38 PM
 
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always take the express, even at night. it is .25 and you wont regret it if they are working at night.
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Old 11-30-2018, 08:36 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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On the flip side, I'm amazed at the pace of construction on the new Slaughter interchange.
It's finished right? I haven't been down that way for a month but I saw the community impact newsletter that said it opened on Nov. 11.
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Old 11-30-2018, 08:37 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Tangent question for the old timers here: why does road construction take so darned long here? They dig it up, tamp it down with the rollers, tamp it down with that funky pegged roller, add more filler, tamp it down... and it takes months. Is it the soils on the "wrong" side of the escarpment? Some engineering unique to Texas? Do tell.
That is the right way to prepare a road.
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Old 11-30-2018, 09:05 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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It's finished right? I haven't been down that way for a month but I saw the community impact newsletter that said it opened on Nov. 11.
The 'underpass' part is done at Slaughter; however, I think they are still working on the frontage road portions/connections. I have done been over the La Crosse one in some time, so I am not sure.
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Old 11-30-2018, 09:55 AM
 
Location: South of Cakalaki
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It's finished right? I haven't been down that way for a month but I saw the community impact newsletter that said it opened on Nov. 11.
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The 'underpass' part is done at Slaughter; however, I think they are still working on the frontage road portions/connections. I have done been over the La Crosse one in some time, so I am not sure.
The bridge is done. They are finishing up the sides of the road and the exits. But given the 487 years it took to improve MoPac from downtown, it sure feels like they did this in record time.
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Old 11-30-2018, 10:18 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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always take the express, even at night. it is .25 and you wont regret it if they are working at night.
Kind of hard when you get on mopac after the entrance. I would never drive up to 183 and then get back on the toll to save some time.
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Old 11-30-2018, 02:39 PM
 
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always take the express, even at night. it is .25 and you wont regret it if they are working at night.
It was closed.
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Old 11-30-2018, 05:28 PM
 
Location: Avery Ranch, Austin, TX
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On the flip side, I'm amazed at the pace of construction on the new Slaughter interchange.
Just took them an extra decade to get started
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Old 11-30-2018, 06:23 PM
 
Location: South of Cakalaki
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Just took them an extra decade to get started
As a SC guy, anything is an improvement. They're supposedly actually going to finish I-526 in Charleston, 40 years later.
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