wierd and in san antonio the 2nd largest city in texas there is not that huge impact in all the interstate only when there is construction there would be traffic
wow dallas must mean that there r lots of suburns in dallas and fw
@XDjojo123 I'm sorry i didn't try to vote down, but your right, San Antonio is the larger city. But as far as the metro areas San Antonio only has 2.1 mill while Dallas-Ft Worth has 6.5 mill (well over 3 mill is centered around Dallas), still Dallas is the economic center of the region, also for your comment about the stemmons freeway, project pegasus, which is underway is suppose to take care of that along with a double decker on 635 from i-35E to US-75
@XDjojo123 emmm san antonio population is 1.7mil while the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex at 6.5 mil so thats why there is more traffic in Dallas and by the way san antonio sux compared to dallas dont tell me about the 2nd biggest city maybe by city limits. Dfw is the 4th largest in the country and you cant deny that.
@Kyukanbun a 18 wheeler can drive in anylane at anytime he wishes . even when it it posted no trucks left lane they can still legally drive in that lane to pass.
@ScrewdUPClickV2 - I've been driving trucks for 17 years, 13 with Yrcw. You will get a fine if you get caught for a left lane violation. Each city sets its own fines but I do know the El Paso fine is $500.00 for a big truck. Dallas,Memphis$150.00,Atlanta$275.00 and all of the rest of these cities place these signs up for a reason(Money). They will bust your BUTT if you get caught. A truck got busted passing me Friday in Fort Worth on I-30. Like your vids, keep it up!
So the Dallas rush hour is really that bad? And they're going to be able to handle a Super Bowl next week? Well, all I can say about that is Good Luck.
that is an excellent video of the pre-lbj express (lbj express should link to that video). come back in 5 years and shoot that video along 35E and lbj. an analogy can be made with the 75 in the early 90s, i think.
This video definitely shows some of the worst areas when it comes to Dallas traffic. I've lived in the Dallas area all my life. A month or so ago, I tried to navigate 635 (LBJ) from 35E to Royal Ln/Miller Rd after 6pm on a weeknight, and that was a horrible experience. At least they are starting to work on the LBJ Express. The Dallas Mixmaster also needs work, as it dates to the late 1950s, but even that's years away from being fixed up.
@PurpleGurlx3 it provides easier transport and less travel times for people that choose to ride with another person or more, including buses . it also provides easier and more laid back ride through a town or area, in this case they are not managed so you can enter or exit at the legal time. some are managed meaning you are stuck on them for a long haul. same thing again for the use , but it gets high amounts of people and traffic out of the city alot faster in this case many miles 20 or more.
@PurpleGurlx3 most requirements in my state = 2 or more persons , and a automobile or motorcycles in posted. some corridors are HOV3+ . meaning 3 persons , there are not to many of them . one i know of it us-290 in houston at peak times , and another in los angeles at peak times
@willubhave my cuz helped filming when i went to dallas . lol i was not SOV . i draged him back here after that and showed him around here for a week.
Dallas has the best highways I've ever seen and manages traffic pretty well for a metro of its size. Honestly I-35E, some sections of 75, and the freeway that goes through Arlington are the only ones I've seen with bad congestion when I lived there for a year. Traffic in Dallas is not bad at all, wish the third world infrastructure in Florida was even half as good.
Before I moved to Dallas in Jan 08, I was visiting before i drove back to KS. 35E near downtown by my hotel had too much traffric, im talking bumper to bumper, so i took the side roads to try to avoid it. Now that I live in Dallas, I try to avoid it as much as possible because 35E & 635 gets too much traffic, and when it does I take the back rds.
Awesome editing. I like how your videos all have a theme (here, rush hour). Pogo by Digitalism, great song! Thank god you got to ride in the car pool lane. Loved that HOV ramp. Keep the good work up!!
I-635 construction is now officially underway. For those wondering, the pay lanes will be below grade. 3 lanes each way, while normal lanes will be built on top. The other major project that is near starting will be the really spectacular 183 project. Think Katy Freeway in Houston with bigger interchanges than the High-Five. There's a video on here of it. Crazy project.
BTW, these freeways you traveled in the video certainly get much worse.
If you look at the way DFW has grown, you can see it unevenly grew to the north, but not as much east/west or south thus there are sections with a large lack of capacity and other sections with few if any problems.
That was one of the best videos i've seen in a while, i've been waiting for someone to do vids like this, please PLEASE DO MORE lol thanks again screwd 100000000/10 as always
This doesn't look too bad. Acceptable congestion for a major metropolitan area. There are slow patches but no stationary traffic for long distances or time. I know some freeways in the Netherlands where you are stationary for 2 - 3 minutes, then drive a couple of hundred feet and then stationary again. 30 minute delays for 5 - 6 miles are quite common.
@aswchris well i did not show the peak traveling directions, not to mention this is not peak hour or day . but close enough to give people a good perspective.
The Mopac, in particular, DOES experience near-gridlock for miles in Austin. It's probably almost as bad as what the Katy used to be like (which could legitimately be compared to any L.A freeway, pre-recession).
This is a pretty good concept video. I wouldn't mind seeing some more of these from around Texas.
Overall, I would think that the corridors that you traveled, get much worse during peak hours than what you were able to capture on video (for example, a lot of stop-and-go, but no real gridlock, like what's commonplace in many parts of Los Angeles). In my opinion, the worst of the worst in your state is both I-35 and the Mopac (TX 1) in Austin, two freeways that are severely over capacity.
Good route, one thing that i've always wondered about dallas traffic: why does 35E become congested, north of downtown, in the southbound lanes in the afternoon? It ALWAYS gets heavily congested going IN to downtown during the afternoon which doesn't make sense to me. Is the new trinity bridge designed to relieve this??
Also, what do you do for a living? are you a civil engineer? I really love your videos you've done a fantastic job of producing them
@homeworld1031tx the reason why is the concentration of pupulation is actually second highest west of down . there is a mjor suburb arlington in which has nearly 4-500k residents . they work in dallas , and north dallas . thats why its congested southbound 35 instead of 35 northbound . smaller suburbs are located on the 35 corridor
Did I read that correctly at 3:13? They're going to charge you to drive on a piece of road people have been driving free for years? I'd be pissed off about that if I lived in Dallas...
@CptSchmidt technicaly . there will still be interstate 35 free to standard travelers. however they will create a total seperate corridor , not in conjunction with the regular route of i-35e. therefore what you get really 2 freeways that are parallel to another which immediate access to one another . a dual dual freeway if u will , but one is tolled
@CptSchmidt they will expand the freeway but in order to acces the new faciltiy you must pay a small fee .its not what you would call a hot facility becuase you dont need to be a hov to use it. you can use it by being a SOV. . according to txdot to date the corridor will not be a free to hov motorists during hov hours because txdot does not control or manage HOV facilitys in dallas tx. the facility will be build by txdot = a state agency and not ntta which is a private agency for north texas.
@CptSchmidt our state agency = TX dpt of transportation is NOT the only agency building roads for our state . 75% of our tollroads in texas are not built by txdot, but other agencys such as these HCTRA= Houston ,NTTA = DFW,CTRMA = Austin , ECT
@ScrewdUPClickV2 Ahh, makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation. Another thing... how do they enforce keeping people out of the HOV lanes? I was looking for cameras but couldn't spot any. How many people have to be on board in order to use an HOV? Is it 2+? Thanks, man. Really appreciate it and keep up the great work.
@ScrewdUPClickV2 Ahh, makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation. Another thing... how do they enforce keeping people out of the HOV lanes? I was looking for cameras but couldn't spot any. How many people have to be on board in order to use an HOV? Is it 2+? Thanks, man. Really appreciate it and keep up the great work.
@CptSchmidt i dont know about DART hov facility Monitering, but im sure they have them . DART is the agency that contols HOV lanes in Dallas,TX. the system that i am more filmilar with is houstons , which is controled by METRO it has infared technology installed that detects heat signatures of motorist riding in the controled facilitys. Dallas HOV'S are all 2+ . THE ONLY hov3+ in the state of Texas is us-290 in Harris County , or Houston . which is regulated inbetween the hours of 7-8am only.
@CptSchmidt you are more than likely to get a ticket range from 2-500 dollars. and court cost fee's in Houston . im not sure the Dallas Ordinance, but signs say 200 dollar fine for violaters
@ScrewdUPClickV2 First of all; is it the entire road that is being tolled or is it just the HOV lanes?
If it is--
Cintra S.A. Zachry, a PRIVATE developer was helping Texas with the fortunately failed TTC. In 2010 the FHA formally ended the project. So I should say it WAS big business, from overseas. If they have the balls to toll that entire thing, the state of TXDot really has become as stupid as I thought.
@ScrewdUPClickV2 If you were responding to my other ?, I mean Texas roads are in nice shape, however this one, particularly south of Downtown seems nasty. I was referring more to south of downtown, but this doesn't look like the best either.
if the video goes good and people wanna see more. thumbs up this comment if you liked the idea , i will show you the top of them all in the state when it comes to congested routes all in which are located in the city of houston dominates nearly 30 out of the top 50
due to the emense amount of footage shown here , and the overall speed of the video i have slighty changed a few settings in accordance to better suite the viewing capabilitys of this video , please comments on this new system if you like or hate it , or if i should try this on a regular basis in a normal video.
loves the hov lane greatest invention ever lol
louimem901 1 month ago
Wow I checked the new list and a highway in dallas ranked #1
XDjojo123 3 months ago
What recorder are you using??
dogbone3000 3 months ago
Traffic there looks brutal, and I thought Atlanta was bad.
Themadfarter1976 3 months ago
That traffic looks like I-26 and I-20 in Columbia,SC its just like that jammed packed so bad your moving 20mph and below.
growingup15 7 months ago
how many lanes r on stemmons fwy????
because to hurry up trfic they should build double decker in that area of stemmons
but wow that is horrific on loop 635
XDjojo123 8 months ago
wierd and in san antonio the 2nd largest city in texas there is not that huge impact in all the interstate only when there is construction there would be traffic
wow dallas must mean that there r lots of suburns in dallas and fw
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@XDjojo123 I'm sorry i didn't try to vote down, but your right, San Antonio is the larger city. But as far as the metro areas San Antonio only has 2.1 mill while Dallas-Ft Worth has 6.5 mill (well over 3 mill is centered around Dallas), still Dallas is the economic center of the region, also for your comment about the stemmons freeway, project pegasus, which is underway is suppose to take care of that along with a double decker on 635 from i-35E to US-75
SHAQ598 7 months ago
@XDjojo123 emmm san antonio population is 1.7mil while the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex at 6.5 mil so thats why there is more traffic in Dallas and by the way san antonio sux compared to dallas dont tell me about the 2nd biggest city maybe by city limits. Dfw is the 4th largest in the country and you cant deny that.
oreodogdfw 7 months ago
@oreodogdfw true dallas is way better and bigger then san antonio and is way nicer to
XDjojo123 7 months ago
keep making videos, ill keep watching
jayrodbtown78102 10 months ago
I saw many trucks driving in left lane illegally on Texas freeway.
Kyukanbun 11 months ago
@Kyukanbun a 18 wheeler can drive in anylane at anytime he wishes . even when it it posted no trucks left lane they can still legally drive in that lane to pass.
ScrewdUPClickV2 11 months ago
@ScrewdUPClickV2 I see. ^^
Kyukanbun 11 months ago
@ScrewdUPClickV2 - I've been driving trucks for 17 years, 13 with Yrcw. You will get a fine if you get caught for a left lane violation. Each city sets its own fines but I do know the El Paso fine is $500.00 for a big truck. Dallas,Memphis$150.00,Atlanta$275.00 and all of the rest of these cities place these signs up for a reason(Money). They will bust your BUTT if you get caught. A truck got busted passing me Friday in Fort Worth on I-30. Like your vids, keep it up!
Zantray 7 months ago
@ScrewdUPClickV2 ,Fine is a total of 205.00 in Fort Worth including court cost!!!!!!!!!
Zantray 7 months ago
I like the speed of playback in this video... Great vid!!!
Very nice work!! Dallas does have a very nice skyline...
CAMINOANDALUZ 1 year ago
So the Dallas rush hour is really that bad? And they're going to be able to handle a Super Bowl next week? Well, all I can say about that is Good Luck.
writer125 1 year ago
that is an excellent video of the pre-lbj express (lbj express should link to that video). come back in 5 years and shoot that video along 35E and lbj. an analogy can be made with the 75 in the early 90s, i think.
therapy2run 1 year ago
@therapy2run thanks boss . yea i will shoot the LBJ Express. i will do both i-635 ramake , and 635 tollway
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
Thank You!
kjpgt91 1 year ago
Thank You!!!
kjpgt91 1 year ago
5:12 - 5:25 WTF!?
5:23 How do cars keep from colliding into each other?
No offense to Texans, but some of your highways look like something inspired out of a "Dr. Seuss" book.
Bojaxs 1 year ago
@Bojaxs there is a yield sign for the people coming from that right side of that hov collector .
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
@Bojaxs 5:23 they have a yeild sign
ScrewdUPClickV2 11 months ago
Nice, little rush hour tour, Brian.
Bryant5493 1 year ago
What is the name of the song used in this video? By the way, the navigation is perfect considered the rush hour traffic.
kjpgt91 1 year ago
@kjpgt91 digitalism - pogo shinichi owawa remix .
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
This video definitely shows some of the worst areas when it comes to Dallas traffic. I've lived in the Dallas area all my life. A month or so ago, I tried to navigate 635 (LBJ) from 35E to Royal Ln/Miller Rd after 6pm on a weeknight, and that was a horrible experience. At least they are starting to work on the LBJ Express. The Dallas Mixmaster also needs work, as it dates to the late 1950s, but even that's years away from being fixed up.
henryd1981 1 year ago
what is the purpose of an hov lane exactly? is there a certain requirement to be on them?
Nice vid by the way.
PurpleGurlx3 1 year ago
@PurpleGurlx3 it provides easier transport and less travel times for people that choose to ride with another person or more, including buses . it also provides easier and more laid back ride through a town or area, in this case they are not managed so you can enter or exit at the legal time. some are managed meaning you are stuck on them for a long haul. same thing again for the use , but it gets high amounts of people and traffic out of the city alot faster in this case many miles 20 or more.
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
@PurpleGurlx3 most requirements in my state = 2 or more persons , and a automobile or motorcycles in posted. some corridors are HOV3+ . meaning 3 persons , there are not to many of them . one i know of it us-290 in houston at peak times , and another in los angeles at peak times
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
Yay! 8D
My hometown! Dallas was much better in 1996-1997 than it is now.
SouthwesternEagle 1 year ago
@willubhave my cuz helped filming when i went to dallas . lol i was not SOV . i draged him back here after that and showed him around here for a week.
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
Dallas has the best highways I've ever seen and manages traffic pretty well for a metro of its size. Honestly I-35E, some sections of 75, and the freeway that goes through Arlington are the only ones I've seen with bad congestion when I lived there for a year. Traffic in Dallas is not bad at all, wish the third world infrastructure in Florida was even half as good.
I275westflorida 1 year ago
Before I moved to Dallas in Jan 08, I was visiting before i drove back to KS. 35E near downtown by my hotel had too much traffric, im talking bumper to bumper, so i took the side roads to try to avoid it. Now that I live in Dallas, I try to avoid it as much as possible because 35E & 635 gets too much traffic, and when it does I take the back rds.
xcluenic 1 year ago
I-35E really is as bad as I saw it. Worst freeway conditions in TX I've seen yet. Nice video.
FreewayTitan 1 year ago
Awesome work on this. Way to navigate!
eluko79 1 year ago
a lot-of cars
VPovver 1 year ago
magnificent!
bsdpowa 1 year ago
Awesome editing. I like how your videos all have a theme (here, rush hour). Pogo by Digitalism, great song! Thank god you got to ride in the car pool lane. Loved that HOV ramp. Keep the good work up!!
wipandco 1 year ago
Crazy.... :)
Dmitryars 1 year ago
I-635 construction is now officially underway. For those wondering, the pay lanes will be below grade. 3 lanes each way, while normal lanes will be built on top. The other major project that is near starting will be the really spectacular 183 project. Think Katy Freeway in Houston with bigger interchanges than the High-Five. There's a video on here of it. Crazy project.
BTW, these freeways you traveled in the video certainly get much worse.
rantanamo 1 year ago
If you look at the way DFW has grown, you can see it unevenly grew to the north, but not as much east/west or south thus there are sections with a large lack of capacity and other sections with few if any problems.
aswchris 1 year ago
That was one of the best videos i've seen in a while, i've been waiting for someone to do vids like this, please PLEASE DO MORE lol thanks again screwd 100000000/10 as always
2004JETTA 1 year ago
This doesn't look too bad. Acceptable congestion for a major metropolitan area. There are slow patches but no stationary traffic for long distances or time. I know some freeways in the Netherlands where you are stationary for 2 - 3 minutes, then drive a couple of hundred feet and then stationary again. 30 minute delays for 5 - 6 miles are quite common.
aswchris 1 year ago
@aswchris well i did not show the peak traveling directions, not to mention this is not peak hour or day . but close enough to give people a good perspective.
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
The Mopac, in particular, DOES experience near-gridlock for miles in Austin. It's probably almost as bad as what the Katy used to be like (which could legitimately be compared to any L.A freeway, pre-recession).
FreewayBrent 1 year ago
This is a pretty good concept video. I wouldn't mind seeing some more of these from around Texas.
Overall, I would think that the corridors that you traveled, get much worse during peak hours than what you were able to capture on video (for example, a lot of stop-and-go, but no real gridlock, like what's commonplace in many parts of Los Angeles). In my opinion, the worst of the worst in your state is both I-35 and the Mopac (TX 1) in Austin, two freeways that are severely over capacity.
FreewayBrent 1 year ago
Good route, one thing that i've always wondered about dallas traffic: why does 35E become congested, north of downtown, in the southbound lanes in the afternoon? It ALWAYS gets heavily congested going IN to downtown during the afternoon which doesn't make sense to me. Is the new trinity bridge designed to relieve this??
Also, what do you do for a living? are you a civil engineer? I really love your videos you've done a fantastic job of producing them
homeworld1031tx 1 year ago
@homeworld1031tx the reason why is the concentration of pupulation is actually second highest west of down . there is a mjor suburb arlington in which has nearly 4-500k residents . they work in dallas , and north dallas . thats why its congested southbound 35 instead of 35 northbound . smaller suburbs are located on the 35 corridor
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
Did I read that correctly at 3:13? They're going to charge you to drive on a piece of road people have been driving free for years? I'd be pissed off about that if I lived in Dallas...
CptSchmidt 1 year ago
@CptSchmidt technicaly . there will still be interstate 35 free to standard travelers. however they will create a total seperate corridor , not in conjunction with the regular route of i-35e. therefore what you get really 2 freeways that are parallel to another which immediate access to one another . a dual dual freeway if u will , but one is tolled
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
@CptSchmidt they will expand the freeway but in order to acces the new faciltiy you must pay a small fee .its not what you would call a hot facility becuase you dont need to be a hov to use it. you can use it by being a SOV. . according to txdot to date the corridor will not be a free to hov motorists during hov hours because txdot does not control or manage HOV facilitys in dallas tx. the facility will be build by txdot = a state agency and not ntta which is a private agency for north texas.
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
@CptSchmidt our state agency = TX dpt of transportation is NOT the only agency building roads for our state . 75% of our tollroads in texas are not built by txdot, but other agencys such as these HCTRA= Houston ,NTTA = DFW,CTRMA = Austin , ECT
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
@ScrewdUPClickV2 Ahh, makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation. Another thing... how do they enforce keeping people out of the HOV lanes? I was looking for cameras but couldn't spot any. How many people have to be on board in order to use an HOV? Is it 2+? Thanks, man. Really appreciate it and keep up the great work.
CptSchmidt 1 year ago
@ScrewdUPClickV2 Ahh, makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation. Another thing... how do they enforce keeping people out of the HOV lanes? I was looking for cameras but couldn't spot any. How many people have to be on board in order to use an HOV? Is it 2+? Thanks, man. Really appreciate it and keep up the great work.
CptSchmidt 1 year ago
@CptSchmidt i dont know about DART hov facility Monitering, but im sure they have them . DART is the agency that contols HOV lanes in Dallas,TX. the system that i am more filmilar with is houstons , which is controled by METRO it has infared technology installed that detects heat signatures of motorist riding in the controled facilitys. Dallas HOV'S are all 2+ . THE ONLY hov3+ in the state of Texas is us-290 in Harris County , or Houston . which is regulated inbetween the hours of 7-8am only.
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
@CptSchmidt you are more than likely to get a ticket range from 2-500 dollars. and court cost fee's in Houston . im not sure the Dallas Ordinance, but signs say 200 dollar fine for violaters
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
@CptSchmidt Blame it on Big buisness. Texas style, rich and wasteful. :/
FreewayTitan 1 year ago
@FreewayTitan what is that suppose to mean ?
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
@ScrewdUPClickV2 First of all; is it the entire road that is being tolled or is it just the HOV lanes?
If it is--
Cintra S.A. Zachry, a PRIVATE developer was helping Texas with the fortunately failed TTC. In 2010 the FHA formally ended the project. So I should say it WAS big business, from overseas. If they have the balls to toll that entire thing, the state of TXDot really has become as stupid as I thought.
FreewayTitan 1 year ago
@FreewayTitan google lbj express please. HOV is never mentioned .. a toll road is not a hov lane . big difference
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago
@ScrewdUPClickV2 If you were responding to my other ?, I mean Texas roads are in nice shape, however this one, particularly south of Downtown seems nasty. I was referring more to south of downtown, but this doesn't look like the best either.
FreewayTitan 1 year ago
Fun, fun, fun!!!!!! Love the route.
Freewayjim 1 year ago
if the video goes good and people wanna see more. thumbs up this comment if you liked the idea , i will show you the top of them all in the state when it comes to congested routes all in which are located in the city of houston dominates nearly 30 out of the top 50
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago 15
due to the emense amount of footage shown here , and the overall speed of the video i have slighty changed a few settings in accordance to better suite the viewing capabilitys of this video , please comments on this new system if you like or hate it , or if i should try this on a regular basis in a normal video.
ScrewdUPClickV2 1 year ago