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Originally Posted by austlar1
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 |
Damn, 387k for the busiest point. Also just had a look and that's one wide highway, especially when you include the frontage roads which bring the total to about 25 lanes.
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.