Why Interstate 14 Will NEVER Be Built Outside of Texas 

That leg from temple to college station would be the best way for Killeen and Waco get into Houston... when the Park n' Ride Shinkansen is built.

That’s fine. We in Texas are the home of interstates that aren’t interstate 😂

Another solid video with excellent analysis of the realities of highway construction projects and funding. Thank you.

I-69 will be completed before I-14 even covers the Texas portion. Hell Texas may even have High speed rail before any major section gets completed at this point. I only know one thing If Texas gets hell bent on making a highway it may take 20 years but it will be done come heaven or high water.... It's the only thing Texas does that's consistent and dependable government wise.

Your videos are fascinating! Keep up the phenomenal work!

Ha ha... I remember when they re-designated US 190 to I-14. I had a house in Copperas Cove on the west side of Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood). One day I was driving on the freeway going toward Killeen and noticed the I-14 markers and thought, am I dreaming? Is this an alternate reality? But no, it wasn't. I had had no idea this change was coming and wondered why they changed it.

Macon is already in progress of reconstructing the I75/I16 interchange

Love your series Mike. Somehow you’ve made this Australian (Melbourne) totally interested in the US interstate system!

The idea of I-14 came from me. You can hold the applause.

That part of the MS is southwest region and one of the map misspelled Natchez without the "t". Also, that part isn't the delta.

Excellent job, Congratulations on your sucess. Love from Trailer Park USA

I can’t imagine there are too many topics that are more boring for a RU-vid video channel than roads. That said, I really enjoy your content. Not sure if that means I’m boring or your soothing tone makes something interesting (or both), but kudos to you.

TY for posting. It's esoteric as hell but you made it interesting. 😀 (Maybe you can explain the "interstate" highways around Asheville, NC.)

The highway to Killeen no longer says Ft. Hood. The signs have been changed to Ft. Cavazos.

Its looks like 14 might enable the ports along the southern coast. collecting freight and moving it E-W and then north. Something we really need to take the load off the existing ports.

I made the trek south of the fall line from Columbus to Savannah on my way to Charleston SC. It can be done and it ain't a bad drive. TH with Atlanta!

Living in Odessa TX I can tell you the I27 extension from Midland Odessa to Lubbock is 80%complete, it just needs a few overpasses and a Lamesa bypass. They need to finish what's allready funded and allmost completed first. Before any of this pipe dream starts.

Nice content, very informative…

From Augusta, GA to Fayetteville, NC swinging SW of Columbia, SC would be a nice extension. Guard elements from GA, SC, & NC utilize these path to go to Liberty, Eisenhower and Jackson regularly. Plus various these different installations host various schools for individual development and would ease movement for those going for additional training. There are some long haul, heavy transportation units capable of moving Abrams and other heavy armored elements. Just a road capable of allowing those loads would be a great training opportunity for those transpiration elements. Road time with load would be a win there. I can see a trip from Liberty to Eisenhower. Stopping for some range time for a few days and back to Liberty as a great training event.

This is a great idea on paper. I would push it from TX to Mertle Beach. Augusta has military value but not much else. Adding a sea port termination would great improve the roads value

I believe that desolate road you took in Louisiana is the same one I took back in 2020 when I was doing over the road work. I had to travel from Atlanta, GA to Jacksonville, TX to make a delivery (via cargo vans, no CDL stuff). The next day I was given an assignment to leave TX, make a pickup in Louisiana, and then drive back to TX to make the dropoff. While in LA heading back to TX, I remember taking a long road that felt like the middle of nowhere. I rarely saw any other car and it took awhile before i saw any homes or businesses. I remember hoping and praying I wouldn't break down in that area because it had nothing but me, the road, and trees. Some of those pics you showed of that road are looking pretty familiar.

I’ve driven through Killeen so many times and seen I-14 and wondered why it ends so abruptly. Thanks!

The freeway scene from the opening shot is getting on 75 north from 635 east in Dallas.

Yo Mike, thanks for another nice video. As a fan of your content, who grew up in Natchez, I have to help you out with a couple of flubs you made (not counting the misspelling of my former home town that was called out in someone else's comment). First, the area along US-84 in Mississippi is not near the "Delta" region geographically or culturally. Next, you mispronounced Natchez throughout the video. Think "Natchez rhythms with matches". I enjoy your channel Mike, keep it coming. 😎👍

Great video once again. When are you going to do a video on i22 Birmingham, AL to Memphis, TN.

According to the interstate numbering system, I-3 would be in California and the west coast, perhaps converting US 101 if that were to be the case.

Long-time Georgia resident and road geek. US 80 coming into Columbus is not up to interstate highway standards. Some tight turns and narrow shoulders, though GDOT has improved over the years. With GDOT recently completing the Fall Line Freeway (GA 540), I don't think they are in a hurry to upgrade to an interstate. Additional complications around Macon. While I-75/I-16 interchange is being upgraded, Ocmulgee National Historical Park on a short list to become a full National Park soon, which will limit options to build freeways out of Macon on the eastern side of town.

I'd say in the next 10 to 15 years most of i14 in Texas could be almost complete being that a portion of it already exists. Kinda like i69 in some parts of Texas.

I caught that ATL and Georgia shade 🤣🤣🤣😭😭but yea that’s all you hear is ATL and nothing outside of ATL. Excellent video as always, heard about this highway and hopefully it will be fast tracked…I know this is one of 3 or 4 proposed. Now the one highway system I know they need to look at in Indiana and west Michigan is interstate 67. Turning us 31 into I-67 and 196 to Grand Rapids into 167.

The route in Georgia has been around for at least 25 years. Usually referred to as "The Fall Line Freeway", it was the impetus for the US80/GA 540 upgrade from 2 lanes to a 4-lane divided highway om the 90s. The most logical route around Macon is to complete the triangle from Robins AFB to Jeffersonville, but the land is surprisingly swampy and has some significant Native American sites that have to be worked around.

as a person from college station, who had family in columbus GA and outside of Flint MI, with a dad who only drove, i know the pains of getting there.

Most of the Fall Line Freeway across central Georgia is close to interstate grade already. The biggest complications are the few towns that fought for the highway to run straight through town, and the Macon area. Either it would remain a complicated web of shared routes until the east side of the city, or building a route completely bypassing Macon unless you jump on I-75.

Louisiana and Mississippi ALONE are valid reason I-14 will never leave Texas. We're still waiting for Louisiana to figure out I-69, fix the I-49 gap around Shreveport, and push I-49 from Lafayette to New Orleans ... and then for Mississippi to push I-69 south of Tunica County (which i can't see Mississippi being in a rush to do til Louisiana AND Arkansas get I-69 work in gear).

I-22 is a great road I started driving when my wife and I started dating. I lived in Pensacola and she lived in Chicago so we would spend weekends in Memphis.

If only I could like this video twice. Great job. Happy subscriber.

No one I know in Texas uses the term "frontage road" - we always called them "feeder or access roads." I grew up just outside Temple when Temple was larger than Killeen.

The Black Belt, known as the Prairie in Mississippi , arcs from near the northeast of that state south then southeast across Alabama and into Georgia . It is formed by deposits of basic soils of sediment from shallow seas.... an arm or bay of today's Gulf of Mexico .

I think it would be cool if you did a video about Virginia 267.

3:15 although you describe it correctly in your voiceover, part of your red line is along I-35 going up to temple then down along H K Dodgden Loop which isn’t up to interstate standards but has potential. That turns into US-190. I live in that area and can’t see any mention of I-14 continuing on but guides you into I-35 Northbound toward Waco. At 3:55 you show to take I-35 southbound toward Austin you actually have to take an exit and travel on a service road to ramp on. They way they do this feels more to do with future planning of the I-14 route sharing with 35 for a bit into Temple, rather than just “most of the traffic wants to go that way”

I-3 should be an extension of I-81. I-81 would follow I-40 to I-140 in Knoxville's western suburbs, turn south onto I-140, and follow I-3's planned route. They are already building a major reconstruction of the I-75/I-16 interchange.

I enjoyed this one because I recently was around a lot of these parts of the South just last year. As a Georgian, I can tell you: - US 80 is 90% interstate standard around Columbus. Nothing to really do here. Also the parts toward Warner Robbins is easily upgradable and was built with an eye towards becoming limited access at some point. - They're currently upgrading the I-75/I-16 junction right now. Remember, I -16 carries all that Port of Savannah traffic so anything connecting to it is a big deal. - GDOT probably left that part out of the study-- there's a big need for traffic to get to/from the port and across the South. RIght now options are limited to using I-10 or I-16 to I-75 to I-20 West. Or GA 504/500. (any 500 series state route here is a "Development corridor BTW and was funded solely for exactly the same reason as I-14 got a "yellow light".) - For the above reasons, I-14 in Georgia will likely be Columbus Warner Robbins only at first. It makes the most sense right now.

Hey mileage mike; could you do, or have you already done, a video on why I-74 isn't completed yet from wilmington, nc to the bettendorf, ia/davenport, ia areas 😮😮🤔🤔😔?!?! I've always felt like I-45 should continue from downtown dallas, tx to I-44/the big cabin, ok area too. Great content as usual from you, keep up the good work 👍👍!!

Man, it’s weird seeing a road I’m so used to traveling on be showcased on a video like this. My whole life, I-14 had always been just Highway 190. 2015 was the year the Interstate designation came to be.

It would be a nice addition in Georgia to connect the largest cities outside of Atlanta together...Columbus, Macon and Augusta with the I-16 connection from Macon to Savannah. However, as most Georgians well know, Atlanta rules the roost at the state capitol.

If it joins I-20 in Meridian then it would have NAS Meridian as a military base in Mississippi.

I drive on the “fall line freeway” between Macon and I turn off before you get to Augusta and it’s a nice drive you hardly see anyone on it. I really hate going up to Atlanta I hope all those people stay packed up there and Atlanta and don’t try to spread out all over Georgia

Jasper is not exactly desolate and not desert-like as you depicted.

will you talk about the extension of I-27 towards Laredo & Raton, NM

Bryan/College Station is actually pissed because our rep didn't advocate I-14 through B/CS. B/CS is the largest metropolitan area without an interstate (don't believe me, look it up) and it could have easily shaved off 30min, if not more, when going south to the coastal cities. B/CS is stuck with state highways that are becoming more and more outdated every year.

Can you make a video about the I-27 expansion project?

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will the brazos valley texas centeal highspeed rail station be on i -14

They are already setting up the intersection of Hwys 158 and 137 (Between Midland and Garden City, Texas) to interstate standards by the looks of it. Most of 87 they just have to build overpasses and off ramps, then cut out the cross overs. Looping towns will be costly bit.

Maybe if GA builds it's part; they can reroute I-75 along I-475 (and just do away with the I-475 designation all together.

I don't see why I-14 would be a bad idea in Georgia. Freight coming from like Texas or further west that would be heading for the Northeast could hit I-14 and completely avoid Birmingham in Alabama and Atlanta both. And then still head to the Northeast by eventually connecting to I-95. Assuming they are coming from far enough south that hitting I-40 and I-81 wouldn't make more sense.

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You should make a video on how it is being a civil engineer and what you do. I hope to become one soon

I live right here just east of the I-35 I-14 intersection and I-35 MM 293B,

In the mid 80s on hwy 6282 in a small town, some road workers showed up in town messering the road, and later one of them came In my dad's business, and he was asked what they were doing, he said this is future interstate 14 to tie in Georgia military base with Texas and on to California. I looked at him like he was crazy and later, a letter showed up saying the road was going to be built and signs went up and stayed up for over a yr but work never started and one morning we all woke up to the signs being gone and never heard anything else about it.

The time to have discussed I-14 in Georgia was twenty years ago, before the entire corridor was improved as a four-lane divided at-grade facility, including the construction of significant sections on new alignment. In fact, I even suggested it in the late nineties in an op-ed the Macon Telegraph asked me to write. Here's an idea, though: ask Google how to get from Tuskegee to Macon, and one of the alternate routes will be via GA 109 and US 41, cutting across Georgia from LaGrange to Forsyth and entering Macon on I-75. That route is only six miles and eight minutes longer than the obvious route via GA 96 near Columbus. Why is this important? Unbeknownst to most people, the Freight Logistics Plan that GDOT released in 2010 recommended a four-lane corridor from LaGrange to Macon, apparently as an improvement of existing GA 109 and 74. It was expected that it'd also serve truck traffic to and from I-20 in Alabama via the already-widened US 27 corridor. The benefit/cost ratio calculated for the project was 18:1, making it a huge outlier among the projects evaluated. If I-14 was a serious proposition, it'd be a way to get this highly desirable built. As it happens, GDOT did a study of a LaGrange-Macon corridor, though it assumed widening and/or otherwise improving existing GA 109 and GA 74 all the way to I-475, thereby requiring traffic to slog through suburban Macon streets rather than entering the freeway system fifteen miles from downtown Macon. The to-me-obvious alternative of going directly from Woodbury to I-75 between Forsyth and Bolingbroke wasn't considered, surely due to cost and the related infeasibility of incremental implementation.

A large part of south Alabama is incredibly isolated. While the new interstate would help, ideally there would be a spur route down from 14 or 65 to connect to fort Rucker/Novosel and then to i-10. And really, southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia, aka the "wiregrass region" is surprisingly underserved by interstate. I've never understood why.

It is 4 lane from Natchez pretty much to Brookhaven.

Fort Polk has been renamed to FORT JOHNSON🇺🇸 And yes highway system in Louisiana is very troublesome, as are the bridges . But I49 interstate makes quick travels north to south. But I believe the WORST INTERSTATE IS ( I-10 ) with I-20 a close second. 2-16-2024

Consider covering I-95 in Connecticut and the Merritt Parkway

You should make a video about the unbuilt highways: you know proposal freeways that were once plan to be built, but were remained unbuilt.

If you ever drive from Temple to Bryan/College Station you can see why there is a need for I-14. Some of the heaviest traffic in the entire state on two lane roads.

I just think it's crazy that they want a completely new interstate to connect Montgomery, Al to Macon, Ga via Columbus, Ga when they could just extend I-16 west and if they really wanted to, they could extend I-16 to I-20/I-59. Meanwhile, I-14 could still be a new interstate highway but instead of going north east to head towards Montgomery, it could continue heading east along the U.S. HWY 84 corridor going through Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia and eventually ending at the port city of New Brunswick, Ga.

I would like to see I-14, but what I would really like is the I-3 corridor. Driving on I-75 from Atlanta south is a nightmare. Why can't they build roads in Georgia that don't go through that monstrosity?

Thank goodness.

They should just make I-14 go from Meridian to Augusta. Then just upgrade US-190 to interstate standards but just leave it at that. US-290 is in bad need of an upgrade, so I think Texas should start there first

I think I've taken a few of those "Texas Exits" you've mentioned. Might've come close to getting stuck. Anyway. It's too bad I69 and this I14 is clogged up behind other infrastructure priorities. Wasn't there a multi-billion dollar bill s'posed to fund this stuff federally? It would really help here in Mississippi.

Weren,t the "big federal dollars" allready granted in the huge infrastructure allotments!?

No, doubt we will see much of any of it. Our politicians are incapable of doing anything that benefit ordinary Americans.

Seems like it'd be a good project for Georgia.

I lived in killeen during this construction. 190 to I-14, took years I would deploy, come back, and still under construction. However, I doubt I will.ever live in a time when Interstates 35 and 10,.along with 1604 will not be under construction in San Antonio.

There has been talk for years of extending I85 west from Montgomery on the US80 corridor and connecting to the "Bypass to bypass the bypass" outer loop south of Montgomery, so that section will eventually be built, but highway funds are limited, and a Mobile Bay bridge will probably come next now that I22 is finished. One problem that I see around Columbus is the longer the project is delayed, the more built up the areas at either end of the JR Allen expressway become. Routing through Phenix City and Ladonia could be done, but Midland will be difficult. There are also some sharp turns at Midland and at the river that may not be up to interstate standards. As for Macon, I hope that they go south of town and not through it. Following I75 and 16 is somewhat convoluted.

I remember the day the signs came out, and to this day nobody calls it I-14 lol. It'll always be 190 to me

Construction on I-14 east of Temple has been under construction for several years.

I thought a few years ago the Interstate project (signed by President Eisenhower) was completed? This must be an addition, not outlined in the original plan? ;-)

It needs to be more than an interstate; it needs to be a high-speed railway.

Interstate 14 will be obscure, because it won't go through any major cities, there was a missed opportunity to have l-14 go through Austin.

Darnit, Georgia DOT! Since I think I-14 would be a good idea, if you ask me to construct into a full expressway. Don't they want to help long distance traffic not have to go through the very congested Atlanta area?

Am I the only one that thinks that Albany, Georgia should be part of the corridor instead of Columbus? Cause Albany is around 70,000 people if I recall correctly and it currently has no direct access to Interstate system. The proposed I-175 from Cordele to Albany was canceled long ago. Having this route go through Albany could combat its deteriorating population.

They found the money to build corridor x in Alabama

Why not have I-18 which connect from I-85 in Tuskegee Alabama to I-20/I-520 in Augusta Georgia instead of fractured or (2) of I-14? I-14 will be only in Texas, but not in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. I-18 is Georgia will fit in the grid pattern between I-16, and I-20 between Macon Georgia and Augusta Georgia for approximately 200 miles.😢. I don’t want to see the (2) of the same interstate numbers anymore, and they are: I-42 between Raleigh and Morehead City North Carolina, and I-42 between I-35 near Perry Oklahoma and I-49 in Springdale Arkansas, I-74 between Davenport Iowa and Cincinnati Ohio, and again in North Carolina, I-76 between Akron Ohio to Camden New Jersey, and again between Denver Colorado and I-80 near Ogallah Nebraska, I-84 between Portland Oregon to northeastern Utah near the Wyoming border, and I-84 which connect from Scranton Pennsylvania to I-90 (Mass Pike) near Boston Massachusetts, I-86 in Idaho, and I-86 in Pennsylvania and New York, I-87 in New York and I-87 between Raleigh North Carolina and Norfolk Virginia, and I-88 in Illinois and I-88 in New York.

I grew up in Killeen. It will always be Ft Hood.

I suspected that we will see the steel interstate project completed before we see this project

Central Louisiana libelz!

"Texas has deep coffers and spends big on infrastructure." Tell that to the power grid

I don’t think the population between Texas and Georgia won’t justify the interstate but 10 could use a reliever away from all the traffic in Houston and the old 20 and 30 mile bridges in Louisiana I believe it would be better served going from Houston to Austin and maybe to Junction, TX or San Angelo a good east west route in Austin.

Ft. Polk is now Ft. Johnson

Outside of Texas, most of those states are quite poor. I wonder if they really have the funding, or motivation, to build it.

I was stationed at Fort Hood in 1991, it is crazy to hear they now are building an interstate to route I used to run. From Fort Hood to Huntsville. I made pit stops in all the towns in between.

I was driving through San Saba, TX a couple of months ago and was thinking about future I14. There is a lot of work just in that town alone, much less the rest of the county. I can't say that I'm surprised.

Does the government even figure out how much in taxes every year they get out of interstate roadway that the truckers bring across the United States they better come up with something

14th amendmend hwy? nice

Quick question for you..... You do know the interstate system is technically a valid military target right? It was built by an order of Congress expressly for military use. Just because civilians utilize military infrastructure doesnt make it safe. Is the interstate system in a state of repair to even be able to handle mobilization?

I14 and I14 could become a EW nypass for Houston San Antonio and Austin gor transcon yraffic.

Personally, I think the current system is fine. I just got done driving from California to Florida. I took the I-8, to the I-10, to the I-20, then the I-59, and back to the I-10. There was nothing wrong with the way the drive went, and while I maybe would have welcomed another route, I think cramming another interstate between the I-10 and the I-20 would be far too chaotic, and on a local level, might damage the already slow business many of the current interstate towns depend on.

I live by the 14 freeway in California in but it’s not a interstate it’s just a highway