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Originally Posted by Texcitement
There's a lot of potential to Ellington, but it's languishing and very difficult to get onto during rush hour.
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It's difficult to get onto at any time. I have the impression that the mostly at-grade terminus at Main St. was built as a "temporary" solution 40+ years ago. I've never seen a more grandiose proposal but it's hard to imagine that how things exist today is exactly what was hoped for back in the 1960s.
If you're familiar with James White Parkway in Knoxville, it's the complete opposite situation. In that case, there is an extravagant downtown connection but a truncated highway feeing it. To this day the big bridge they built over the Tennessee River in the early 90s and the complicated ramp network that was completed around 1999 carries almost zero traffic.