I-10 Toll W Houston Texas Katy Freeway Managed Lanes

[playhouserage]

Wide loads in every lane :D

[XDjojo123]

I thought it was 401 up in toronto but then it was only 18 lanes and the busiest in northern america

[danielnunn]

N.Y L.A. CHI, have nothing on HOUSTON when it comes to this!!

[willubhave2]

ha ha Katy Freeway, this freeway intrigues me too much because I drove thru it when it was a 6 main lane freeway-I trip out everytime-before construction

[CALZOLA]

From France : vive le Texas !

[MaxDaug]

EPIC!



[TVisawesome432]

I wish I was born in Houston, well I still enjoy LA though... haha

[twilightrocks56789]

the freeways in texas are 20 times better than ours in ontario i would come to texas just to see them and them only!!

[StrosB4Hos]

Katy fwy is the best looking freeway in houston, 59 where its dips down with the chrome overpasses is nice, 290 looks pretty good, 45 north & south need makeovers, i10 est needs a makeover too..

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

@StrosB4Hos this is the best freeway on the planet . a better representation of this route is featured in the more suggestion tab .

[StrosB4Hos]

@willubhave Houston is twice the size of Chicago, almost double New York, and larger than Los Angeles we definitely have the space to accommodate millions of more people. so get busy..

[ir10031981]

I-10 east goes to 3 lanes each way beginning east of exit 732(FM-359/ Brookshire )after mile marker 733. About 35 miles west of I-45/downtown Houston

[adriboyindex]

what's the name of the song

[HoltCalifornia]

*Facepalm* at the fact so many people got arrested XD

[adrianroam95]

26-28 lanes my ass. :D but im serious that's probably 20 at most

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

@adrianroam95www inautonews com/list-of-world-record-highw­ays

half way down . plenty of other sites that confirm it too , i have sat on the post oak bridge and counted them my self - its 26

[onorebakasama]

...are you serious.

Katy went through all the trouble to make I-10 the widest road on the planet... and yet traffic is NOT MOVING?!

There better've been an accident at the end of that chaos at 1:46.

[JWReichert]

Epic video...yes that was Sony Wide Lens ownage.

[VaFreeways]

Have you ever seen the music video to this song?

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

@VaFreeways yes ha

[robins82]

I read US 290 Houston will look similar to Katy Frwy. It supposed to built sometime this decade?

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

@robins82 NW FREEWAY OR US-290 NW . is in the process of extensive reconstruction .. it will not look like the katy freeway ,as in lane counts . but us-290 will go from anywere 6-8 lanes . to a new mininum of 10 . in harris county . droping to 8 each way after the nw beltway .. also nw hempstead toll will be conctructed just a mile on the southern edges of us-290 . it will be the new nw transit , as they will remove all hov operations from us-290

[tjohn1986]

i usually fly past all the slow cars on my R1

[giloutoudou]

what was your speed then, 65? i've heard than you won't be pulled over by cops unless you drive above 85 on houston freeways

[giloutoudou]

what is the average speed of the flow of trafic when the fwy is no congested?

i guess 80 mph? more? less?

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

@giloutoudou the highest speed limit in the city are on the toll roads 65mph , most freeways if not all are 60 mph , however most people dont drive that , i would guess it flows at a average speed of about 65 on this freeway during non congested hours

[bbukfan]

Albeit an impressive engineering feat, will the Texas government realise that widening freeways actually solves nothing? The addition of each lane is the addition of latent demand; it's been proven but nobody seems to notice. Solving congestion is more than adding lanes, it's about modal share changes, encouraging car-free development, and good planning habits. Just look at the congestion in the beginning of the video; the Katy Freeway will eventually reach capacityagain.

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

actually i disagree with the fact that widening doesnt solve anything .. in some rare cases it does if its big enough .

[terrelable]

@bbukfan lol, traffic at the beginning was only because of the wreck or wht ever was happening... dont be a hater ;p

[cjcjx1]

FAKE ITS NOT GIRLS MAKIN OUT

[twilightrocks56789]

on the 401 in ontario it is about 14 lanes!

[adriboyindex]

There is big money in texas

[CAMINOANDALUZ]

Nice vid!! In general, in (E.E.U.U) bet very much for the investments in road infrastructure and less in railway infrastructure.

[fosho921]

this is truly a superhighway, Houston is expected to be as big as Los Angeles by 2020. I wont be surprised if TXDOT decides to expand this freeway again

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

yes it is .. i have yet to see or hear about a freeway that even matches up to it ..

[xPandaz]

WOW your camera is AMAZING, what camera is that ?

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

sony hdr xr520v 240 gb

[S3rrgiio]

hey great video ! five stars, whats the name of the song?

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

eric prydz - call on me (extended edition)

[coolcat713]

good job ScrewdUPClickV2:) this is definitely HOUSTON!

[Freewayjim]

Loved the ride and loved the wide angle lens, nice editing too.

BUT!!!! I still think the High-Five is a better interchange than the "West Sam Stack".

Plus, how would one interchange rape another? talk about a game of twister?

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

thanks .. well the interchange may not be as high .. but it very well surpasses ramp length .. thats wat i meant by it.. ( raped as in better or no longer as good . )

[Freewayjim]

I've read that some ramps on the high five are roughly a mile long, I think it's a close contest there.

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

yes at minimum 1 mile .. the hov flyover is that easy

[cabasse]

sweet vid, and nice wide angle! one of the selling points on the specific digicam i currently own was the fact it has pretty good wide-angle (28mm) as well as decent video modes. i've recently started filming some of atlanta's main in-town corridors/districts...

[aswchris]

Did the number of toll-free through lanes really improve that much over the old situation?

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

actually the old hov was elemanated from i-610 to tx-6 . after tx-6 there is a section of 4 hov lanes for about 3 miles then it drops to 2 , all the way to katy texas

[eluko79]

Damn impressive!

Anyways... Whats "get raped" mean?

Is Houston trying to rape Dallas again?

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

this stack is houston's response to dallas high 5 interchange in richardson tx

.. get raped as in owned ., or this is better

[eluko79]

Ah I see. So thats what the first caption was for.

By the way awesome editing. I was never really sure the frontage roads in Dallas even counted anyways.

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

This Is Houston .. What did you mean by frontage roads in Dallas

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

if im not wrong the frontage roads actually dive under the interchange at i-610 . there not visable in the video

[eluko79]

There's been some controversy as to weather the high 5 in Dallas is a true 5 stack since the frontage roads aren't part of the interstate. Unless its the same in Houston?

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

no it is a true level5 interchange .

[GeoffJennyOliver]

...excuse my ignorance - I am Australian - but these lanes allow you to travel faster than the other lanes or is there something else going on - thanks and great vid - so clear...

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

these lanes and managed , so in another words you must pay to use them .the speed limit is the same 60mph on the whole freeway , so its not any faster than the i-10 freeway .. but in rush periods it is ..

[CosmoPhotography]

Dude, this is seriously your best video! I watched it three times it was that good. Awesome job!

I drove this stretch this past summer and was amazed by the work TxDOT did on this amazing reconstruction. I wish that they would have put in a concrete barrier separating the HOT & general lanes instead of plastic poles. They did the same in Miami on 95, so that must be the way to go these days.

[DrivingJapan]

Wide road!

[Bryant5493]

I like how Texas does their HOV lanes. They're acutally separated with a physical barrier, not just double white lines, like in Georgia.

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

I Honestly dont see how you can opperate i HOV or as here a managed lane without a barrier ..

[Bryant5493]

Yeah, folks cross left and right out of the lane at will, which really defeats the purpose of the lane. There are only four HOV-dedicated lanes in Atlanta, if memory serves, anyway.

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

True , But Enclosed HOV Lanes do have a major down side , i see it all the time .. on the inner city houston hov , i stalled vehicle can mean 5pm get home or 9 pm get home

[Bryant5493]

That's a good point.