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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
Austin really needs an i35 bypass for all the truck traffic
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Austin has SH-130, a toll road that runs from Seguin, Texas, 80 miles north through East Austin to Georgetown. The problem is, the trucks choose not to use it. Just short of banning trucks from I-35, there's no way to encourage them to use it. For one thing, it's a toll road and there's nothing motivating them to choose to pay to use it, and it's kind of in the middle of nowhere, though, in true Texas style, it's being developed. I agree, though, the trucks are bad. We drove I-35 last night from north of downtown to our house in South Austin, and with some construction going on, it was down to a crawl. I counted 97 18 wheelers on both sides of I-35 from just south of downtown to our exit in South Austin. That was in the span of maybe 20 minutes.