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Old 11-27-2022, 12:53 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA>Tijuana, BC>San Antonio, TX
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In El Paso, the access roads make it feel like the entire city revolves around the interstate. Most malls, shopping centers, gas stations, restaurants, hotels and various businesses...even churches and UTEP exist around IH10 because they are directly on the frontage road next to the freeway. The access roads have a way of making the interstates "Main Street" in some Texas cities.
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Old 11-27-2022, 12:56 PM
 
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In El Paso, the access roads make it feel like the entire city revolves around the interstate. Most malls, shopping centers, restaurants and various businesses...even churches exist around IH10 because they are directly on the frontage road next to the freeway.
In this aspect, I agree - TX is freeway laden and it something I wish TX could get away from doing.
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Old 11-27-2022, 01:15 PM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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Highways and parking lots are as Texan as rodeos and cowboy hats.
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Old 11-28-2022, 07:14 AM
 
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Highways and parking lots are as Texan as rodeos and cowboy hats.
Thanks to the politicians we have that refuse to give us a different option
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Old 11-28-2022, 07:37 AM
 
Location: Pacific Northwest
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In El Paso, the access roads make it feel like the entire city revolves around the interstate. Most malls, shopping centers, gas stations, restaurants, hotels and various businesses...even churches and UTEP exist around IH10 because they are directly on the frontage road next to the freeway. The access roads have a way of making the interstates "Main Street" in some Texas cities.
Yeah that’s what people mean when they say Texas in freeway laden.
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Old 12-03-2022, 04:17 PM
 
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Are you saying that exits to non-frontage roads never have stop lights? That's simply not the case. Well designed frontage roads don't cause traffic to back up on to the freeway unless there is a much heavier than normal volume of traffic, or there is an accident or other activity disrupting the flow.
In many places, no, they don't. They do the clover leaf thing where you literally just merge onto the road you are exiting on to. No lights, no stopping traffic at all.

Bonus points for all the exits in Texas that require you to cross 3 lanes of frontage road, in a very short distance, to turn right onto the road you exited for. That's really fun when traffic's backed up on the frontage road past the off-ramp.
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Old 12-04-2022, 10:56 AM
 
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Personally I'd be fine with ordinary diamond interchanges, maybe with SPUI's and dedicated right turn only 'Keep Moving' lanes and the extra RoW from the access roads being made for either local/thru configurations, or collector/distributor setups.

Cloverleafs do tend to work better than stop signals but they also tend to take up more real estate too.
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