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Old 09-28-2013, 11:24 PM
 
Location: Houston
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I noticed no one has mentioned 225. It's both unsightly and smelly.
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Old 09-29-2013, 12:00 AM
 
Location: classified
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I noticed no one has mentioned 225. It's both unsightly and smelly.
Well there is nothing TXDOT or the city of Houston can do about the refineries, petrochemical plants, and tank farms that line the freeway.
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Old 09-29-2013, 12:13 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Well there is nothing TXDOT or the city of Houston can do about the refineries, petrochemical plants, and tank farms that line the freeway.
I don't think TXDOT should do anything about them. I just think it's an ugly drive. Really I don't think any of those freeways mentioned should be beautified. I'd rather they spent more time beautifying roadways like Westheimer, Richmond, and other roads like them instead.
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Old 09-29-2013, 12:37 AM
 
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In my opinion the Beltway 8 section between I-45 and I-59 by George Bush Airport looks like crap
and I'm not talking about the businesses, I'm talking about the actual highway
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Old 09-29-2013, 12:42 AM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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I'll echo Texas7 and say all of them. Once again it comes down to those ugly eyesores I hate called feeders, access, roads, frontage roads. They are there so there's nothing you can do about those unless Texas has a massive change to get rid if them some kind of way. Maybe more trees? Or a giant wall like what Miami did for I95 between the golden glades and 195. I45 north IMO is the worse drive in metro Houston. I69 between downtown Houston and the giant interchange by the galleria is the best,
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Old 09-29-2013, 12:59 AM
 
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I'll echo Texas7 and say all of them. Once again it comes down to those ugly eyesores I hate called feeders, access, roads, frontage roads.
I hate them for a different reason
they create most of the traffic that you see, because everytime the highway goes over a road (instead of being flat) your visibility drops from 2 miles to 100 feet.
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Old 09-29-2013, 06:15 AM
 
Location: Daleville, VA
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288 coming in to the city looks fairly nice - (no feeder roads - duh).
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Old 09-29-2013, 07:49 AM
 
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288 coming in to the city looks fairly nice - (no feeder roads - duh).
Think the plans to expand 288 will add feeder roads?

Even though they don't look very pretty, you'd have to admit that feeders are practical. I've noticed traffic and navigating is much tougher without them in other cities.
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Old 09-29-2013, 05:02 PM
 
Location: Maui County, HI
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You can't polish a turd. Houston is synonymous with strip mall sprawl, there's no way to undo that now unless you demolish them all and encourage good development patterns, which isn't going to happen.

The image Houston has is exactly the one it deserves. Why mislead visitors?
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Old 09-29-2013, 05:37 PM
 
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Next time y'all are in Austin or Dallas, look at the freeways. TxDot will upgrade from vanilla if the cities will pick up the tab.

The problem here is Houston wanted strip mall crap along the freeways to impede traffic flow. Just look at 45 around where all that shopping starts around Fry's and Walmart. Traffic slows down 10 MPH just at those places from shoppers entering the freeway to go 3 blocks.
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