Where 59 passes under Loop 610 is the site of one of Houston's most infamous accidents: in 1976, a truck driver drove an 18-wheeler whose tank was full of liquid ammonia off one of the overpasses. The driver and at least one other person were killed and nearly 100 were injured by the resultant ammonia spill and the fumes.
I remember that! I was in fourth grade, and our school had to evacuate. It was a small private grade school in Bellaire, and all us kids got piled quickly into the teachers' and principal's cars. You can put a bunch of kids in a '75 Pontiac Grand Ville( that thing is bigger than a Suburban!). We spent the day in a city park outside the evacuation boundaries.
I love how Houston just randomly throws really tall towers out in the middle of nowhere like the amazing Williams tower.(among some others) "Um yea, we're just gonna put it here I guess". I dont know any other city that does that. Haha!! So cool. Houston, my 2nd hometown. Much love from Dallas.
+JMMT7022801 Wells Fargo is 422ft. :) Surprised SLC hasn't put up anything taller but you do have buildings under construction. 111 Main will be 387ft so that will add to the skyline. SLC has a pretty skyline just not that tall. Keep up with your city's development with this link: www.skyscrapercity.com/tags.php?tag=salt+lake+city. This video of Houston is old. They have a couple of 40 stories U/C in uptown. Its insane. Dallas not too far behind though on a smaller scale. One 33 story U/C and 2 more 30+ planned soon. And a crapload of 23 story and under U/C or planned. Too many to list. www.skyscrapercity.com/tags.php?tag=dallas
Cities in the south are built different from cities in the north. Cities like Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and Denver have other skylines built outside of their downtown area
US-59 in Houston is now I-69. It's part of the extension of that highway from the Rio Grande Valley along the Gulf Coast into East Texas and up to Texarkana. Eventually it should be part of the larger I-69 extension from Indiana.
@ScrewdUPClickV2 That's right. Katy fwy has some sections where it just obliterates any other freeway known to man in terms of lane count, but the thing about US-59 is that it's consistently HUGE for an obscenely long extension. And since it's not divided into HOV and nonHOV lanes it looks and feels wider than Katy fwy.
Man, talk about hitting close to home - I live in the immediate vicinity of the end of this video, in Sugar Land. As this video shows, most of the drivers around here have no idea what a turn signal or side-view is used for - notice all the skid marks along this freeway? 59 really clogs up at every major intersection (I-610, I-10, TX 288, Beltway 8), so even though this is the most direct route for me to the "big" airport (IAH), I'd rather take the tollway around town - less nerve wracking!
@FreewayTitan awesome...i'd like to make some video but i dunno how to fix ma camera... also dunno how to convert video from VOb into avi...and cut it....
Jesus Christ, the number of ramps to count in this video aren't just in the tens, but literally the hundreds. I stopped trying to keep track after the 3rd minute or so. I drove this freeway a few times this summer; definitely something you would see in Orange County!
