City with Best Freeway System in America (bigger, population, Atlanta)
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Location: Cleveland bound with MPLS in the rear-view
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Originally Posted by knke0204
Minneapolis' is the best. It's so slow and crowded, it's awesome! Even better, MnDot said that there will be no major expansions or additions in the next 30 years! YAY!
That better not be true! I thought they were expanding I-494 in Bloomington, among others, and finishing the Hwy 610 addition to Maple Grove? If they don't expand I-494 soon it will be even more of a nightmare than it is now, and as it stands it gets backed up 7 days a week from 11 till 5 o'clock going both directions to I-35.
DC has 395 (tunnel) and freeway that runs into 295. It's not that big but it is an interstate.
yeah I forgot about 395, but like you said its so small you could barely even call it a freeway.... an not to mention that 295 is even smaller and turns into (BalWash PKW) as you cross into PG County.... Starting from the Ft. Washington exit of 295 and all the way up to the Benning Rd. Exit 295 is only a 2 lane interstate lol.... after you pass Benning Rd. it expands to about a good 4 lanes, but even then its not really anything to talk about because you'll be in Maryland in about 2 minutes ...
Well, I-30 takes you to Little Rock and ends in Fort Worth. I-20 and I-35 are really the only major freeways in DFW (for cross-America travel). I-10 is enough for Houston, and I-45 (US 75 north of Downtown Dallas) is a freeway up to the Oklahoma border. If those Okies get their heads together and build US 75 into a freeway, I-45 will be a freeway up to Kansas City.
Once I-69 is built on the current US 59 land in Houston, then Houston will have more than just one major interstate running through it.
Despite having just one freeway, Houston has more truck traffic than DFW. I would bet that I-10 is more important than a I-20 or I-35.
This isn't interstate system though, so for traveling around the Houston area, Houston's freeway system is far superior.
I've passed through DC on a freeway. And freeways give car drivers passing through, a chance to gleam over the city.
I agree, just as long as the Freeway is on the outerbanks of the City and not going straight thru the Middle of it as they do in some of the sunbelt Cities. Can you imagine how hideous it would look if there was a freeway going straight thru Ust or Georgia Avenue lol smh..... if we had freeways like that we probably wouldn't have the thriving Public Transit System that we have today... after all, it would be pointless...
El Lay. It may be packed but its a very complete system reaching almost every corner of the metro area.
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