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Houston: Hardy Toll Road extension status
Plutonic Panda:
Well, if it ends up being an at grade boulevard I’ll be disappointed but I’ll still be more likely to use it then I-45. I wonder if they went they went that route if they’d be more open to an expressway/parkway type setup with minimal curb cuts, grade separated interchanges arterial roads, etc.
bwana39:
The people who have received the bid packets so far are an environmental testing and remediation firm, a plans aggregator, a heavy road building contractor / engineering firm who primarily builds freeways, a demolition contractor (who also does environmental remediation work ), and the elephant in the room; the foremost engineering firm for designing neighborhood friendly streets and roadways.
Bobby5280:
If Hardy Toll Road extension to downtown is reduced to a mere at-grade boulevard they might as well not build anything at all. An at-grade boulevard would just be a waste of money. It would do zero to improve the flow of traffic.
Plutonic Panda:
--- Quote from: Bobby5280 on October 02, 2021, 03:28:46 PM ---If Hardy Toll Road extension to downtown is reduced to a mere at-grade boulevard they might as well not build anything at all. An at-grade boulevard would just be a waste of money. It would do zero to improve the flow of traffic.
--- End quote ---
I disagree. As stupid as I think the idea of reducing this to an at grade boulevard is, it would still serve a purpose moving through traffic to downtown Houston rather than that traffic having to use existing routes that are already congested.
Now if this becomes a boulevard with bike lanes, too many traffic lights/roundabouts, and low speed limits then yes it’ll be a waste of money. But an at grade boulevard with maybe two roundabouts at Quitman and Cavalcade streets with the rest of the access being RIRO with a 50 MPH speed limit I’d settle for that.
Of course the freeway option will always be better and I hope they go with that. We’ll see.
Bobby5280:
But that's just it. An at-grade boulevard in that location WILL be pigged-out with traffic signals. There's too many at-grade crossing streets. It's not enough to limit them to RIRO access. The access for most of those secondary streets needs to be cut-off completely. The same goes for driveways and parking lot entrances. Considering the area, even if this route was not made into a full blown freeway they would still need to keep grade separations for some intersections on the table.
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