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Houston's Southwest Freeway can & does rival LA's freeways for volume of traffic.
Average
Highway vehicles daily
Los Angeles I-405 382,000
Atlanta I-75 365,240 Houston US 59 338,510
Chicago I-90 330,067
Seattle I-5 301,061
San Francisco I-80 299,000
New York I-95 295,400
San Diego I-15 290,000
Phoenix I-10 288,101
Miami I-95 288,000
Washington I-395 280,000
Dallas-Fort Worth I-35E 267,250
Riverside-San Bernardino State Road 91 264,000
Providence I-95 263,500
Sacramento I-305 249,000
San Jose U.S. 101 244,000
Denver I-25 243,333
Las Vegas I-15 240,585
Salt Lake City I-15 235,018
Honolulu H1 229,393
Tampa-St. Petersburg I-275 228,000
Baltimore I-695 224,775
Detroit I-696 222,093
Boston I-93 219,598
Minneapolis I-94 211,744
Austin I-35 210,832
Okay, how many Houston freeways top 300K AADT? Los Angeles has 8. The 405, 101, 605, 91, 10, 110, 5 and the 210. The majority of the rest of the freeways in LA top 200K AADT. If Houston has more than that, okay, I'll change my opinion. Till then, no city in the US can match the epic volumes of traffic on a daily basis the way LA's freeways can.
A lot of people on the forum say Phoenix has the most modern and advanced freeways. That is a joke. The answer is Houston and only it. It has the most expensive and expansive freeway systems and it shows in spades all over. The best engineered ones too. Plus the most efficient ones. In addition to that, the city updates and revitalizes the older ones when it is needed. You couldn't ever tell how old the freeway is because of how well taken care of it is. After that Dallas and Toronto, and that would be all. The I-10 corridor by itself in Katy (suburb of Houston) would rape the heck out of any such stretch in Phoenix, probably several stretches in Phoenix put together. Easily.
Phoenix would be a second class option, though, in all honesty. There with Las Vegas and San Antonio.
Next tier would be places like San Diego, Seattle, some of the Florida cities and the like.
If we are talking about the greatness of the freeways I'd say no doubt LA. If we are talking about how great the freeway system works I say Phoenix.
If you want to go the other way and talk about how you can't believe how badly it works for how it seems it should work, I say DC after driving through it during rush hour twice this week.
If we are talking about the greatness of the freeways I'd say no doubt LA. If we are talking about how great the freeway system works I say Phoenix.
If you want to go the other way and talk about how you can't believe how badly it works for how it seems it should work, I say DC after driving through it during rush hour twice this week.
I don't know. There is a city in the Southeastern part of your state that isn't all that great either when it comes to freeways.
LA pioneered the freeway (take a drive on the 110 between Pasadena and DTLA, a road that was engineered for 45 mph speeds) but other cities perfected it (take a look at 110, which still has 20 foot on ramps with stop signs). LA does have a ton of freeways; it also is extremely densely populated, so much so that it has one of the fewest highway lane miles per capita in the US. Hence all that traffic.
I'd say LA can be in the running, but lately has turned much more focus on developing an appropriate transit system than updating its controlled access roadways. Therefore, I think it has been surpassed by your Texas cities.
LA pioneered the freeway (take a drive on the 110 between Pasadena and DTLA, a road that was engineered for 45 mph speeds) but other cities perfected it (take a look at 110, which still has 20 foot on ramps with stop signs). LA does have a ton of freeways; it also is extremely densely populated, so much so that it has one of the fewest highway lane miles per capita in the US. Hence all that traffic.
I'd say LA can be in the running, but lately has turned much more focus on developing an appropriate transit system than updating its controlled access roadways. Therefore, I think it has been surpassed by your Texas cities.
I will say Texas highways are some of the smoothest except Austin.
San Antonio's busiest freeway I-410 Loop at Blanco Ave carries more than 270,000 vehicles a day. Interstate 10 @ DeZavala carries about 226,000 per day. I-35/Thousand Oaks carries 205,000 vehicles per day.
LA pioneered the freeway (take a drive on the 110 between Pasadena and DTLA, a road that was engineered for 45 mph speeds) but other cities perfected it (take a look at 110, which still has 20 foot on ramps with stop signs). LA does have a ton of freeways; it also is extremely densely populated, so much so that it has one of the fewest highway lane miles per capita in the US. Hence all that traffic.
I'd say LA can be in the running, but lately has turned much more focus on developing an appropriate transit system than updating its controlled access roadways. Therefore, I think it has been surpassed by your Texas cities.
I'd say LA freeways are some of the most asthetic. The way they gracefully wind through the canyons and mountains, it's like the grew out of the hills themselves. It amazes me how they must have been built.
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