How can you Texans stand it? No predictablitity when it comes, horrible drivers, poor construction planning. The place I travel most has been a nightmare to navigate and is getting worse. I spent 3 hours parked on 35 two weeks ago in Dallas because they shut down all lanes to hang signs. No alternative route, just shut down and wait.

Same thing today on 290 heading into Houston. Nearly missed my flight and would have if I didn't be an a-hole by driving on a shoulder and taking a ditch to exit.

Never have I been anywhere where the shut down highways with no warning and expect you to wait.

Did a 1000 trip around Texas this week and spent at least 6 hours in gridlock. Would have been much worse if I didn't have traffic reports and a gps.

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1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

Austin is miserably traffic gridlocked.

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67 250S
72 280SE 4.5
74 280C
77 300D
82 240D
85 190E 2.3
86 300E RIP 12/28/09
85 300SD
92 300D 2.5
00 E320 Current
Over 1,000,000 miles in Benzes, Since66

....and a whole passel of BMW 2002 and Tii

You should spend a week in Los Angeles...

Tell me about it.

The #1 most congested freeway in the country is in L.A., and 6 of the top 10 most congested freeways in the country are in So. Cal.

As an interesting factoid, The 2nd most congested freeway in the country is in Honolulu.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Warning people would cost money. Tejas is all about saving tax money, right?

To many people and they don't have the infrastructure to handle it.

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1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

That's how it is here, too. Adding to the infrastructure is always way behind the population trajectory.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

It is much harder to secure land in urbanized areas for siting highway expansion than it was 50-60 years ago. Employing eminent domain, particularly in residential areas, is difficult, expensive and excruciatingly slow.

The biggest hurdle for road works expansion is all the regulatory hoops projects have to jump threw. To many government agencies throwing their two cents in.

Money and ability is not the the problem, its just that getting a permit could take a decade.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I'm in Southern California at least once or twice a year.

Traffic is for the most part predictable and you have lots of options to get cross town. If you time things right, watch traffic reports, and plan your route to avoid the bad spots, things usually go well.

They also announce construction WAY ahead of time "carmageddon" and shut down a road for a 24-48 hour period for very quick repairs.

35 at 635 construction in Dallas has been going on for years. I see at least 2 accident aftermaths each time I pass through. Imagine you are driving through LA late at night specifically to avoid traffic and all of the sudden 405 is a parking lot for 3 hours while they hang signs. That's what they do in Texas.

The drivers are much worse in Texas too.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

Neat part about SoCal is their Sigalalert sight. Gives real time speeds of the freeways. They have radar detectors all over the freeways that give real time feed back. Just move your mouse over the freeway and youcan see how fast traffic is moving.

Sigalert.com Los Angeles Traffic Map

I hate the traffic here and the drivers do suck. Lucky for me I work 3 miles from home.

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2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

We have Sigalert in MA too, and it is really neat. Do they actually have radar detectors on the highways or do they use cell signals to determine how fast cars are moving?

At least out here, they have cameras located along some of the highways, to, which is especially useful when trying to determine whether roads are safe for travel or not (e.g., in a snowstorm).
Tell me about it.

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

I assumed it was radar. They have these white flat square things under the signs on the freeways. Look similar to what they have on toll roads.

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2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

In Texas they are governed by real men, not those wimpy liberals who try to be polite to citizens.

besides anybody important has a helicopter not riding around in a proletariat car.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I don't work regular hours and that makes that I'm hardly ever in traffic. If you know your way around Los Angeles and avoid the West Side it's not so bad as people think.

And I agree, driving in Texas is weird. Dallas was the most confusing city I've ever driven in, took me a week to get used to.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).