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To: combjelly who wrote (801324)	8/14/2014 11:59:57 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575999

It's nothing a few more lanes and faster cars can't fix In Dallas? Are you nuts? Do you have any idea how many lanes are already there? I635 is already at about a dozen lanes, and they are building more. Faster cars don't help when you are bumper to bumper and crawling. Even the toll roads get stuffed. They are now opening toll roads where the toll varies based on traffic density. They guarantee a minimum speed of 50 mph. Too soon to tell how that works out. I think you could have stopped with your second question.

To: combjelly who wrote (801324)	8/14/2014 12:19:32 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575999

>> In Dallas? Are you nuts? Do you have any idea how many lanes are already there? I635 is already at about a dozen lanes, and they are building more. Faster cars don't help when you are bumper to bumper and crawling. Even the toll roads get stuffed. They are now opening toll roads where the toll varies based on traffic density. They guarantee a minimum speed of 50 mph. Too soon to tell how that works out. The only real bumper-to-bumper on 635 now is from about Forest Lane past Coit to maybe Preston Road for two hours each morning and afternoon. It was that way 40 years ago, too -- when I was making that commute in the late 70s it wasn't unusual to require 30 minutes or more to cover that short distance. It is far better today than it was then, due mostly to the so-called High Five interchange built in the interim, but also the relief of the Bush Freeway. So, I think adding lanes DID make a significant difference there (probably more important was the access to/from Central from 635 which was terrible back then). Much of the rationale for eliminating the old I45 connector is that new freeways routing traffic around downtown now exist. Although getting from South Dallas to North Dallas without this short freeway would still be difficult. The stretch of road in question is not in bad shape, but it is fat and ugly. The REAL problem with it is that on one side of it is downtown and on the other side is a terribly run-down area that sits between downtown and Baylor Hospital. Proponents want to open up the eastern ends of Commerce, Main and Elm to development because they're run down areas and there has been the development in Deep Ellum that they think they can turn into something. The other side of that coin is that it also cuts downtown off from the slum areas of lower Gaston and East Dallas over to Fair Park. I'm not sure they're going to want to remove that dividing line anytime soon.