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It’s dumb and unnecessary. At the end of the day there is still going to be just as much traffic. Just leave it be
Agree - more roads do not typically alleviate congestion
I don’t know how many times we have to look at I-10 to learn more lanes doesn’t automatically alleviate traffic.
It’s not easy (most great things aren’t) but we’ve gotta reduce car dependence. I use the bus everyday to and from work but that’s because I’m fortunate to live in the loop. Once you leave the loop commuting is either too long or not as viable. Houston is big enough to where public transit has to become more viable
Obligatory comment on the city of Houston's giant waste of "improvement" projects (road dieting, bicycle lanes, etc) that don't improve mass transit and don't/won't get used by a significant enough segment of the citizens to justify the cost. Queue someone talking about the enhanced safety for bikers or pedestrians followed by "the Houston will never be a biking or walking city for the masses because it's hot and humid as hell the majority of the year" arguing.
45 is one of the most dangerous freeways in the country….let’s expand that? Let’s call this what it is a land grab and push for gentrification. ATM for whoever oversees the construction contracts. Push the POC out of downtown.
I love the meme
Nightmare for years during construction.
The number of businesses that won’t move to Houston because they see that ongoing, number that’ll leave downtown/eado at a time when occupancy is low and future uncertainty due to Covid/wfh, crime, the lower tax base through that area, decreased Astros attendance and impacts on what they’ll do with payroll because of it… all just construction period impacts that will outweigh any projected economic gain on the back end.
What’s the upside on the other end? You jam more traffic into a smaller space with little to no ability to expand from there.
And it costs insane money to do it.
There’s absolutely no logic to it whatsoever. It will do more harm than good. It’s just the bright idea of someone who didn’t study economics and got this far because of lobbyists.
It’d be dumb to build commuter rail too, and that makes more sense than the 45 catastrophe.
The 45 north is an need of remodel is to narrow and had a lot of holes
Remember the time when someone had a license plate ‘290sks’ ?
Someone gonna get the i45sks license plate soon
Have any of you looked at the proposed path and design? They plan to have a hard right turn at downtown where 45 and 59n run parallel before 45 takes a hard left turn back to its path. I can see from just that and knowing fluid dynamics it will always be a bottleneck even after ripping out minority housing and making our lives suck for a decade.
People here mentioned I-10 expansion as one that shows adding lanes won’t alleviate traffic - I agree to a point. I-10 goes down to two lanes downtown so anything traveling west to east through downtown will always encounter traffic during a rush hour - it’s a funnel. Same going outbound - you have the feeder roads packed with those trying to get off and on the freeway which congests the freeway itself. It too gets back to two lanes thus creating another funnel west of town.
I10 is a breeze compared to 45 coming from the north. Only worse part of I10 coming from the west is i45 congestion is so bad it backs up traffic on to i10.
The reconstruction of i610, 290 and the i10 interchange is very good coming from any direction vs most other interchanges.
Eliminating the stupid elevated part of 45 and routing it all under and on top of the 59 route doesn't seem terrible if the a using the same traffic models they used for the 610, 290 and i10 interchange. Except during floods... they will need impassable gates that popup when the water level rises.