I-35 Northeast Expansion (NEX) Preview

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An in-depth look at the project that is double-decking I-35 on the Northeast Side of San Antonio.
0:00 Intro
0:36 History of the corridor
1:58 Previous plans and background
3:11 Project phases
4:34 Cross sections
5:56 Flyover of Phase 1
15:18 Driver's view from current mainlanes
15:51 Outro
More information and the latest updates on this project are available on my website at www.texashighwayman.com/i35ne...
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Background music from www.FesliyanStudios.com (except on the flyover segment, which came from the original TxDOT video)
Official project page: www.txdot.gov/35nexcentral
The original TxDOT 3D flyover video is here: • I-35 Northeast Expansi...
And the TxDOT video that has the driver's view segment is here: • I35 Expansion Video

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6 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 32

@PlayaPotna1984 8 месяцев назад

The very thought of overhead HOV & express lanes for 20 miles straight is insane in my honest opinion. If only trying to built commuter rail between SA & Austin was not shot down. Sigh, that's Texas for you where one-dimensional transportation options (roads & only roads) seem to be king.

@AMPProf 10 дней назад

Yep That's the car

@madelyncole2328 11 месяцев назад

Best visual guide I’ve seen of this project, thank you!

@jackwebb5917 Год назад

Your video was freaking awesome!! I don’t want to sound negative, but I was initially stationed at RAFB in 1984 and I don’t think I’ve EVER seen IH35 NOT under construction! I hope this works out , but honestly between my time here and 28 years as a police officer in one of the NE suburbs and seeing the “efficiency” of TX DOT, I have my doubts

@edwardgalicia1500 10 месяцев назад

I created the 3d drive through back in 2015, pretty cool to see it being put in place now

@phlatlander Год назад

Love these overview videos. I don't live in Texas and it's just crazy to see the road projects they're working on. I often wonder if maintenance on all these viaducts will be a problem in 50 years.

@chrisgiles8005 Год назад

A good video but can you imagine if San Antonio have a monorail system with this project later for VIA Public transportation and a Commuter rail from San Antonio to Austin

@wrexchicane8259 10 месяцев назад

They would spend more money and get less results to ease traffic and serve less people.

@clayton97330 Месяц назад

@wrexchicane8259 not if done correctly.

@dariusbrock2351 5 месяцев назад

Enjoyed the video, thanks!

@dennisalvarez2518 Год назад

Good job!❤

@jasatx2024 Год назад

Pretty interesting!

@UnitedStatesOfCoffee Год назад

Love these old photos!

@TexasHighwayMan Год назад

Thanks! I always like to show where we've been before I talk about where we're going. :-)

@FastFerrari82 Год назад

Thanks for the information. Currently in AZ but I might need to get back to S.A. to document the building process.

@donavanjohnson409 Год назад

This is a great video

@davidcolby5287 Год назад

Great video! I was curious how it would end up. Thank you!

@madelyncole2328 11 месяцев назад

Would love to see some kind of expansion to include Wurzbach Parkway to help alleviate backups from WP to O’Connor.

@TexasHighwayMan 11 месяцев назад

Provisions were made in the design to accommodate a possible future interchange with WP south of O'Connor.

@marcsaldivar7868 8 месяцев назад

They are going to regret not taking away the cloverleaf interchange. They didn’t learn there lesson from 10/410 interchange and 10/1604 interchange(Which are changing now)

@TexasHighwayMan 8 месяцев назад

I can see where you're coming from, but there are a few differences with this one. First, that existing turbine ramp (EB to NB) helps to prevent the same kind of congestion seen in full cloverleafs. Second, quite a bit of traffic will use the new flyovers, which will take it out of the cloverleaf. Maybe eventually they'll need to replace it, but for the foreseeable future, it should not see the same problems as other cloverleafs.

@nicknabholz5453 Год назад

What I find amazing is that txdot continues to have their budgets for maintenance slashed. Colorado has a great dot budget and so does California! Imagine if we could find a major light rail through San Antonio up to Austin much like RTD in Denver!

@TexasHighwayMan Год назад

Well, TxDOT's budget issue is not as bad as it was a decade or so ago. But in Texas, transportation funding is constitutionally-mandated for highways. TxDOT has just about no funding for public transportation, so that's mainly left to local authorities. As for SAT-ATX rail, light rail would actually not be the best option there-- commuter rail would be, and was making progress not too long ago until it was derailed (pun intended) when the agency working on it could not convince Union Pacific to either share their rail line or relocate to a new line. Locally, voters shot down a VIA light rail system back in 2000, and seemingly vetoed any future rail systems for the foreseeable future with a vote a few years ago that was an indirect referendum on VIA's downtown streetcar project.

@TexasHighwayMan Год назад

This came across my feed the other day... thought you might find it interesting: unofficialnetworks.com/2023/02/15/letter-to-the-editor-interstate-70-is-a-disgrace-to-the-state-of-colorado/

@paulcuellar2680 Год назад

Do you believe that more lanes alleviates traffic or the introduction of more lanes brings more cars on the road thus not alleviating traffic?

@TexasHighwayMan Год назад

Both. In the short term, new lanes do alleviate traffic, but induced demand eventually fills them up again. But this is Texas, and folks want more lanes, so that's what the politicians push for.

@paulcuellar2680 Год назад

I would agree in the short term if construction took a year or less. But, when it takes 3-5years plus delays to finish the project the increased demand over those years eliminate the benefit in a few weeks. IMO. I do like more lanes personally, but the deaths/loss of revenue during construction doesn’t justify. Especially a lofty project like this. Love your content as always.

@TexasHighwayMan Год назад

I appreciate that. To follow-up on your concern, when planning capacity requirements on a project, the typical standard is to build capacity for the 20 year forecasted traffic volume. That 20 year window starts from the expected completion date, but yes, delays in getting work started or finished can eat into that. And, induced demand is really hard to pin down and often is higher than expected, which also cuts into or shortens the relief gained by the expansion. An ROI analysis is always part of the decision process, and some concepts do get nixed as part of that.

@tjawesome8881 Год назад

I believe if they do it like St. Louis did to eliminate traffic by creating a train system around the city you can save money in the long hall and actually create more revenue for the city.

@ddale20 3 месяца назад

The vast majority of the problem are drivers in the passing lane driving too slow and won't move. We need to do like Europe and make it a traffic violation. Bad drivers equal traffic!

@BroadwayLTDProductions Месяц назад

Exactly. Just like in downtown Austin on I-35. The traffic is not caused by there being too many cars, the traffic is caused by idiots going 30 mph in the left lane for no reason. If people would learn how to drive or stay on the frontage roads if they want to drive Miss Daisy, these freeways would flow much better. Adding 20 lanes is not going to fix bad drivers.