Better To Create An Additional Freeway Then To Do This


It is much better to build an additional freeway further away then to create this mess. All over America we are widening the pavement on our high capacity roads. Freeways that once had landscaped center and side medians now become a concrete jungle.

Future freeway corridors should be wide, with permanent safe attractive landscaped medians. Not This!

The I-10 freeway which runs from Florida to South California is the widest freeway in the USA in the section running from Katy, TX (a Houston suburb) to downtown Houston, TX, a distance of around 22 miles.

The freeway averages 22 lanes, and in some sections (Intersection of BW8 loop with I-10) it has 26 lanes total including 6 feeder and 4 HOV lanes. In spite of this, during morning commute hours it takes an hour and a half to get from Katy, TX to downtown Houston.



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