Welcome to the Roadscapes Wednesday segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Roadscapes Wednesday will feature roads and infrastructure related topics. Geek Alabama Editor / Publisher Nathan Young is often called the “road geek” for a good reason, Nathan loves roads and loves talking about roads!
In America, the mission with everything road related is to alleviate congestion and create connections between the destinations americans want to travel to. It was easy at first, creating an extensive system of highways around the map between everything important, but as cities have grown and the population has centralized, things have become alot more difficult. In cities, especially located in the sun belt, traffic has gotten bad, meaning they need to continue to upgrade their roads or create more to alleviate that, thats always the mission.
This has created alot of fascinating projects around the country and in these struggling places. One of these projects is State Route 130 in Texas, which is an extreme when it comes to these new freeways. It isn’t any normal freeway, and even boasts the highest speed limit in the entire country, at 85 miles per hour.
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