What's the worst freeway in Texas (Houston, Dallas: houses, college, live)

[Need4Camaro]

From everything I've seen. I-35 in Austin takes the cake here. Horrible design, no capacity, severely outdated. When it leaves Austin it's a pretty nice freeway however.

I-30 between FortWorth and DFW looks like it needs a facelift. Some parts have been under construction for a very long time.

LBJ is awesome.

[RJ312]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

From everything I've seen. I-35 in Austin takes the cake here. Horrible design, no capacity, severely outdated. When it leaves Austin it's a pretty nice freeway however.

This is how U.S. 75 in Metro Dallas was prior to the 1990s re-construction. From the pictures and video I've seen of U.S. 75 in the 1970s and 1980s, it looked like a miserable experience. I'm glad it got addressed before I arrived. Just a little over 20 years after completion, it still has some nasty stacks at rush hours, but there are worse freeways in Metro Dallas. Unfortunately, I arrived in Dallas right as the 2011-2015 Interstate 635 re-construction began, and that accomplished very little.

I'm not sure what can be done with I-35 in Austin. I think it is a situation where it was never intended or planned for Austin to grow as much as it did. Austin is too big to be a one freeway town. That toll road that bypasses Austin for those traveling between North Texas and San Antonio/South Texas helps, but doesn't do much for those actually living in Austin.

[AcresHomes44]

290 is like a speedway, even where it intersects with 610 in NW Houston. 45, 610 and 10 in Houston; no matter what time of day those freeways are thick. It can be midnight in Houston and there's significant traffic on 45 and 610.

[azin88]

Originally Posted by RJ312

I'm not sure what can be done with I-35 in Austin. I think it is a situation where it was never intended or planned for Austin to grow as much as it did. Austin is too big to be a one freeway town. That toll road that bypasses Austin for those traveling between North Texas and San Antonio/South Texas helps, but doesn't do much for those actually living in Austin.

That's going through almost every Texans' mind. I don't know how they will improve it and Austin doesn't even have a loop! I guess it something to do with the Hill County on the west side of Austin that prevents from building a loop, I guess? I know if Colorado could do it with mountains then we could but I don't know.

[jcp123]

35 in Austin is consistently a poopshow. It’s reliable in the sense that I gotta budget extra time going through Austin in a job where we are paid by the mile. Houston generally is #2, but there’s no route guaranteed to be as clusterflowered as 35 in Austin.

[Dopo]

Anybody that doesn't vote for I-35 going through Austin, has never driven on that highway.

I used to drive from San Antonio to Missouri on I-35, it sucked big time.
Now I drive up I-59/69 and there's absolutely no comparison

[brock2010]

Interstate 35. Even in Temple there are sometimes bottlenecks

[Need4Camaro]

I-35 generally sucks throughout the entire state. I-10 in Houston is my second choice.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by RBhutan

Anybody that doesn't vote for I-610 in Houston, hasn't even rode on West Loop 610, from I-10 to I-69! I've rode on rds across the world! For World Records, the West Loop from, the Katy to Southwest Frwys is the worst than any other rd in the world!

How long did your trip take?

You know what’s worse?
To travel from San Antonio to St. Louis, what should be a 14 hour trip
And when you barely started your trip, you find yourself doing 5MPH on I-35 in Austin.

And yes, that happened to me a few times.

[brock2010]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

I-35 generally sucks throughout the entire state. I-10 in Houston is my second choice.

True. Traffic flow gets better once you cross the Oklahoma State line.