1)It’s kinda shocking how rural I-35W is north of Ft Worth compared to I-35E northwest of Dallas. 2)Exit 469 right after I-35E and I-35W merge back together in Denton. Traffic always back up there. It was like that in your I-35E video. Can someone explain why there’s a lot of traffic at that exit 469.
Most likely dated or the fact that demand has long finally caught up, not all rural freeways will be free flowing from city to city. Often looking at I-5 here in NorCal, and especially SoCal. it backs up on Cajon Pass and into L.A, and you’d get the trucks north of Grapevine that hogs up the fast lane because of the great amount of trucks going into San Francisco or Stockton. Especially 99 that’s always busy, my dad got to experience the ride on 99 free flowing, but with the ever expanding development and cities expanding, demand is ever clogging the freeways here in Sacramento and Dixon, not to mention 99 travels through some of the busiest metropolitan areas south of Sacramento. Meanwhile with 80, Dixon and the Yolo Causeway is always screwy since it narrows down to 6 lanes per direction, and lastly, Sacramento has some of the most dated freeways since, sure they were built in the 70s as stacks, but the tight configurations of the stands here in Sac, especially the one by the river is tight, combined with the 99 gap, and the fact I-80 was never modernized to Downtown as they were supposed to in the 70s, traffic here in Sacramento, while at times some parts are free flowing, Sacramento believe it or not, is much more busiest in terms of its freeway network than Boston.
@@ToiletsInNorCal2024 I knew CA 99 go through pretty much all of the population centers between Sacramento and Los Angeles. But I didn’t know it was congested like that.
@@ace20016 Either way, some of the interchanges along SR-99 are dated, including a ton of them in Sacramento, including the US-50/I-305/SR-16/SR-51/BIZ-80 interchange are all dated, being built from the 60s to 70s on either end.
Exit 469 is University Blvd/US-380. It's the only East/West artery through Denton, and link to Decatur and McKinney. Over the last 6 years, there's been a major development of shopping and restaurants in this section of town, so the growth has outpaced the roads. Even with improvements of lengthening the left and right turn lanes at the intersection, the service road is still just two lanes wide, and that causes an almost constant backup onto the interstate.
