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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!
Texas has over 6,000 miles of high-speed one-way frontage roads running parallel to its freeways. (You don’t see this in other states!)
Let’s dig into how a experiment outside Houston turned into a statewide system. And look at today’s tricks: like flipping the on-ramps and off-ramps to make traffic flow better. And why the state almost scrapped the whole idea in 2001.
