And 5 minutes away from the highest elevation you can drive in dfw, with a flyover ramp that let's you see the ft worth skyline Arlington stadium Irving downtown and a bit of dallas downtown
Good video dude. There's definitely an element of awesomeness when looking at the stacks. I live right by the 183/Toll45 stack in Austin and am still amazed at the pure size of it.
@CosmoPhotography Thanks, it was a fun video to make! Keep in mind the cost to build in Texas is cheaper , no unions. The High Five was $261 Million, the Springfield Interchange near DC was around $700 Million.
@FreewayBrent Thanks, yeah, we went through Austin and San Antonio on the way to Corpus Christi. I was inspired but Friday's trip to NC, good to be back on the road even if it was a boring ride.
@Billabongs122988 I don't have exact counts but I believe Texas has more stack interchanges, Texas definitely has more 5-Level interchanges. Considering I have never been to California I can't answer which has wider roads,
Man I guess it's true when they say that everything is bigger in Texas lol. Those stacks are huge!!! It makes me want to take a road trip to Texas so bad!!! Thanks for the videos!
@MyMultimedia The 5th Level in Texas is for the frontage roads, look closely at the high five (first interchange in this video) the frontage roads is the 2nd level (US-75 being the 1st), I-635 the 3rd then the flyover ramps at 4th and 5th. In Los Angeles there is one 5 Level at I-105/I-110 with the 5th level being an HOV ramp.
Very nice editing! Didn't catch your edited Texas outline at 0:20 until I watched it a second time. Creative! The fonts and transitions were also very well chosen. I can't even begin to imagine how much all of that infrastructure costs to maintain and replace when it eventually ages. It seems as if Texas allocates a lot of money to their roadways. Wonder how the rest of the state is doing? :P Great job, Jim!
Wow, this one was very unexpected, and not only because I thought you were taking a break through the remainder of 2010. I like the font you chose for your annotations in this one. Hey wait a minute, I didn't realize you went to Austin, too, lol.
As usual, good stuff! You're gonna need to come back to Dallas soon though - there's gonna be some even NICER stacks on 75/121 and Dallas North Tollway/121 in the next year or so.
If you are on the top stack of the High 5 you get a kick ass view of the Dallas skyline in the distance. New stacks: I-30 and SH-161 Between Dallas and Ft. Worth. And I-30 and Hwy 360 (under construction) in Arlington
This was an impressive collaboration of highway stacks, even though it is a bit dated, do you recall how many days it took to drive and collect all of this video footage in order to compress and make this video? So far I believe Texas has the most phenomenal highway stacks that I have ever seen! I honestly must say (Great Video Jim=GVJ)!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, it was a collection of clips from different trips from 2007 to 2010, I had no intention of making this video at the time we got the footage. Don't sleep on California's stacks :)
Agreed on that point. Public transportation improvements should be made in conjunction with road building and not in place of it. And if there's not money for both - put it towards the roads exclusively.
@713dank I did not film every 5-level stack in Houston, I can realistically only use what I film, you know? I am from New England but have lived in Atlanta most of my life and I greatly prefer the way things are done in the south with regards to transportation.
May I ask what you do for a living Freewayjim? Considering you drive alot, but will often document multiple approaches for the stacks, I wouldn't think you're a truck driver (as that would be expensive and untimely for such an occupation).
love your joy rides....but how many takes does it take(no pun) i never see you in backed up in traffic is there a favorite time of day or is this all editing...keep on truckin whoo hoo
@10251991JRH I did not film those interchanges. This video is not EVERY stack in Texas, heck I could do a video of just Houston stacks alone, and I did not film every one of them. Lets be realistic here.
@WShowduh "Instead of showing East 290 at IH 35, you could've shown something more Austin like 183 at Mopac or 183 at Toll 45." I can only use the footage I have.
