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With roadways like the Merritt, people would laugh in most of the country: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1633...7i13312!8i6656 The dinky Merritt is considered a highway in NYC metro. But the monster 10 lane Telegraph Rd. isn't considered a highway in Detroit metro. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4979...7i16384!8i8192 Or Hall Rd., with an insane median, is worse. Don't think you can get more autocentric than Hall Rd. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6269...7i16384!8i8192 |
These figures are surely dated, but the highest traffic count for Austin (2016) was IH35 a couple of miles north of downtown just below US290. The daily volume there was 241,000. The second highest count was the US 183 Freeway just east of Mopac Freeway with a daily volume of 197,000. Third place goes to Mopac Freeway downtown just south of LadyBird/Town Lake overpass with daily volume of 182,000. All of these roadways are usually just three lanes in each direction. Mopac recently added two toll lanes north of Town Lake. The sometimes very pricey toll lanes are often more backed up than the regular lanes. Go figure. Austin freeways were designed for a city and region with maybe half the present population. It is a mess.
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Houston has some amazingly high traffic counts on IH10 freeway west of downtown and also on IH 69 (formerly US 59) Freeway. Traffic counts well over 300,000 vehicles per day on portions of both roadways. The IH10/Katy Freeway now has a zillion lanes and must rival that super road up in Toronto for daily volume. Check out the 2016 TxDot maps. Map number 7 has the highest counts. You can click at the top to enlarge. http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot...6/hou-base.pdf
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Highest I could find in Denver is 274,000 per day on I-25 through DTC (as of 2017 - a sharp increase from 252,000 in 2014).
I was expecting I-25 through downtown to be worse since there's a perpetual traffic jam there, but that stretch only comes in at 261,000. Who'da thunk! |
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For Salt Lake City, the highest I can find is along I-15 with 275,000 in 2017.
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The only sections of highway in Toronto that are busier than that are the 427 between the QEW and 401 and the 401 between Dixon and Dufferin, with the absolute busiest section being the 401 between Weston Rd and the 400 at 417k according to the Ontario Ministry of Transportation's 2016 data. Looks like in both cities the busiest areas are in employment heavy suburban areas relatively centrally located within the metro area. |
Just found this... yikes, nitrous oxides are really strongly correlated with highways, I thought they'd still be decently high along urban arterials and across the city as a whole.
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Is 59 the one that goes to *umble and IAH, or is that 45? I could never figure that out. My gf and I drove whatever that was from our hotel near the airport but got sick of it by our last day in Houston and took the Sam Houston tollway around the city to pick up 45 south of Downtown to get to NASA.
And then the access roads. Jesus Christ, the access roads in Houston... ;) |
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belmont -> milwaukee, milwaukee -> des plaines, des plaines -> to roosevelt. 7.1 miles. ~80% of that route has bike lanes. might even be faster than driving if the kennedy behaves as it usually does at "rush" hour. |
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Oh. I don't know why I struggled with that, but then again, I damaged our rental car the second-to-last day my gf and I were there. I have an innate ability to back into parked vehicles.
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I live directly off 59 just north of "*umble*.
59 going north is a breeze. Its on the other side of town going towards the southwest which blows. Taking 45 into the central part of the city stinks, 59 is better. The Hardy Toll Road is even better but currently ends at 610(it is being extended to downtown though) |
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