14 сағат бұрын
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@CamdenWhicker-cb1ob 3 сағат бұрын
Turnpike is the worst highway I've ever driven on. We get off of a exit and a lady is at the toll booth and had to pay $50.00 because a lady didn't look at the ticket.
@LawsonBowling 4 сағат бұрын
Excellent analysis as we have all been pleased to become accustomed to.
@nicknelson290 7 сағат бұрын
Man, I can't believe you went the whole time without mentioning Nashville! 840 is a half ring road that actually has an unfinished extension on the west end. And Briley Parkway is nearly a ring, but the ring itself changes from a highway to surface streets on the southern side.
@oe542 8 сағат бұрын
How does one afford to take this much time off?
@craiplayz 8 сағат бұрын
Hampton roads beltway is near me
@We_All_Seek_Truth 8 сағат бұрын
Hey, Mileage Mike! At 1:43 you call the early construction of ring roads "errors". Are you saying that the very concept of building ring roads is wrong? It sounds like that. Please elucidate and clarify your opinion, if that's what you were doing. If I'm wrong, or if you misspoke, please explain what you meant. Thank you very much. And thanks for a GREAT VIDEO!!
@We_All_Seek_Truth 9 сағат бұрын
Mileage Mike! I just discovered your channel and i love it, because i love the subjects you cover. I'm especially interested in highways - and streets. You are or have been a civil engineer. I wanted to be a civil engineer when i was younger, but i decided to become a residential designer, something i wanted to do even more. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for doing this video. When i was very young - especially, i used to just study highway maps, (as well as ALL maps), and dream of traveling to see all the places on those maps, and especially the great bridges and other engineering masterpieces. I still do, though now I'm old and not financially able to travel. So many places and I'll never see. Anyway, thanks for explaining about these types of highways. I really enjoyed it!
@thegreenscreengeek 9 сағат бұрын
Alaska and Puerto Rico also have hidden interstates
@quaticstorm 10 сағат бұрын
Missed La Crosse Wisconsin
@cathyd4439 10 сағат бұрын
Texas was not annexed by the US. It came in under a treaty!!!
@djfg1938 13 сағат бұрын
If you are used to driving in Houston and head west and end up on hwy 90 you will encounter cultural shock when you find out the speed limit is the max, not min and you will get a ticket.
@Mocha69A 13 сағат бұрын
Everything ends in dominance at the Tecas State line and we'll proudly tell you that 100% of the time Don't mess with Texas
@thegreenscreengeek 14 сағат бұрын
Visited the DFW, can confirm that I felt Western, Southern, and Plains vibes simultaneously
@NapiRockAndRoll 15 сағат бұрын
The ringroad is where the highways should stop and not entering inside the city. Of course smaller roads can be continued, but not highways which are tearing up the texture of the city and creates impassable barriers for the pedestrians and bikers.
@leroyjabari 16 сағат бұрын
I don't know why I love consolidated city-counties so much...always cool to learn new ones
@EdwardM-t8p 17 сағат бұрын
"...SUVs piloted by good ol' American psycho moms." 😂😂😂😂😂
@jacobthornton1772 18 сағат бұрын
I take 400 daily… what we need to fix is the 285/400 merger. Why does 400 drop 2 lanes as soon as you merge
@aliipalaoa 18 сағат бұрын
This guy is a major Texan. Don't let him fool you. He probably has Texan's tattoo on his neck. :)
@Nobody_important_at_all 21 сағат бұрын
From Memphis to Indianapolis, the route goes through the center of the Madrid fault line. That'd be a pretty devastating place to be on the road if a 7 and above quack hits. As it did a hundred years ago....
@maestromecanico597 Күн бұрын
New York City was, is and will always be expensive. When I lived up county from there (which was also expensive) my younger self didn't mind. It was fun and a great place to enjoy my 20s and 30s. But it was relatively safe then. When you're paying through the nose for everything you expect the people in charge to protect their income by keeping the streets safe. That ended, people leave.
@carlcoetzee5678 Күн бұрын
The division of Jersey into three parts (offshoots of NYC/Philly, and "other/shore areas") is pretty accurate. I would add that a) Jersey is split between the THREE major cities of NYC, Philly, and DC; also, b) the public transport system is built out primarily because it is incentivized to as both commuter rail to/from the cities and also interstate transit BETWEEN the cities. Any discussion about public transport that idolizes NJ is incomplete without acknowledging this (this is as someone who is a veteran of the NJ turnpike as well as fluent in most of the public transportation within the state)
@edwardjones4870 Күн бұрын
Very informative video, thank you! I moved to Northern Virginia almost 60 years ago, shortly after the Capital Beltway was completed. Lanes have been added through the decades, and congestion has only increased. There are now express toll lanes in the Virginia section of I-495 that can be very expensive to use depending on the time of day and traffic volume. It’s all rather a mess with no obvious solution!
@Mapmaker1559 Күн бұрын
I moved to Northern Virginia a little over ten years ago, and have studied this region's transportation history thoroughly. Unfortunately the obvious solution is a ship that sailed decades ago: building a thorough freeway grid. Central Maryland on the other side of DC managed to figure this out. And as a result, none of the highways there are wider than 8 lanes nor do any of them have express lanes, and spite of this, congestion is rare and the roads are pretty free-flowing outside of the peak of rush hour. Northern Virginia had numerous freeways proposed back in the '60s and '70s; the Outer Beltway, the Northern Virginia Expressway (both of which would have paralleled the Capital Beltway), the Monticello Freeway, the Potomac Freeway, and more. But they were all ultimately rejected due to nimbyism and lack of foresight. Today, Northern Virginia's freeway grid is very sparse, and the express lanes that are constructed are little more than a band-aid fix, with any real fix being at worst, impossible, at best, not feasible at the time being due to the political and social climate (i.e. US-50 from the Loudoun County Parkway to I-66 and from the Beltway to DC can and should be upgraded to freeway, but neither Fairfax nor Arlington Counties would ever go for this right now).
@edwardjones4870 Күн бұрын
@@Mapmaker1559 I-66 as originally proposed would have had eight lanes and crossed the Potomac at the Three Sisters Islands. From there a freeway (the Potomac Freeway?) would have connected to the Southwest Freeway which was originally I-95. There’s a tunnel near the Kennedy Center that was the only part built. The North Central Freeway would have been the route of I-95 through poor NE neighborhoods (surprise, surprise!) and then connect to I-95 in Maryland. No doubt you already know all this. There was HUGE opposition within the city. “White men’s cars through Black men’s homes!” The freeway would have never been built through rich NW neighborhoods. The only solution for me is to move to the Netherlands, a small country with excellent public transportation. Thanks again for the video and all your research. Keep up the good work!
@Mapmaker1559 Күн бұрын
@@edwardjones4870 Thanks for the compliment! The Potomac Freeway in DC would've been a little different from the Potomac Freeway in Northern Virginia, which basically would've connected Woodbridge to Pentagon City by running through Hybla Valley and Alexandria, acting as a major pressure relief valve for I-95. Yes I-66 was originally supposed to be built as an 8-lane freeway inside the Beltway, but was instead built as a 4-lane interstate/parkway hybrid (albeit still fully grade-separated), all the more reason US-50 inside the Beltway needs to also be upgraded to freeway. I-66 was always intended to cross the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, while the Three Sisters Bridge would've carried the short I-266 across the Potomac River along what is today the Spout Run Parkway and the Whitehurst Freeway. While my research in Montgomery/Prince George's Counties Maryland hasn't been as extensive as my Northern Virginia research, I am familiar with the canceled alignments of I-95 and I-270 inside the Beltway.
@edwardjones4870 18 сағат бұрын
@@Mapmaker1559 I have a few more memories that are a bit sketchy now because the events were so long ago. In The Washington Post there was an article predicting that after DC got home rule, it would become far more difficult for new freeways to be built inside the city. And that certainly proved to be the case. Congress voted for more freeways, but the then DOT secretary (I can’t recall his name. He later headed Amtrak.) was against them and influenced LBJ to return the matter to local authorities. I also remember a powerful House member named Hatcher (I think!) who withheld funds for building Metro for some two years because the city refused to build freeways. The drama over I-66 inside the Beltway went on for at least two decades, and the issue went all the way up to the Supreme Court. If I remember correctly, the decision was made to build it as a four lane highway (Custis Parkway?) under the Nixon administration (DOT secretary Coleman?) but not actually constructed until the Carter administration. Arlington and Fairfax wanted it built because Metro would use part of the median. And speaking of Metro, whenever I see its map I remember the line that was never built in Northern Virginia because of cost. It was a lost opportunity that would have served a lot of passengers between the city and Seven Corners. Thanks for taking me down memory lane. I just hope my memories are correct!
@SavageScientist Күн бұрын
Great video i see Louisiana really does suck
@WilliamBunch-z9s Күн бұрын
Georgia roads all over are a mess. I went to Europe for a good while and I loved it.
@urapnes Күн бұрын
Hell no. All these free loader red states want everything handed to them for free
@floridaflyboy7 Күн бұрын
I split my time between Denver, CO and Orlando, FL. So cool that this video featured both extensively. Really helps to translate my frustration of I-25, that stretch from US 6 to 20th really is an endless jam
@davekrieg1654 Күн бұрын
I live in NE Indiana, I have traveled I - 69 to Indianapolis for almost all my life. Yes I want it complete for both travel and commerce for our state! It is now open in Indy! Go Hoosiers!
@Spillinsanity72 Күн бұрын
People flee the Chicagoland area due to outrageously high taxes and corrupt politicians.
@johngodbey2365 Күн бұрын
Well done! This was well-narrated, organized, edited, and planned out. I was born in Dallas in 1946 and couldn't wait get out of Texas. But I like living here more than New York, Washington, LA, and Japan where I also lived. I find Texas pride to be kind of corny, but I guess I'm humble-proud of my state. It is a very distinct place and hard to compare to any other state. Lone Star fits us.
@MC-hx6xn Күн бұрын
26:36 I-64>I-95! I say I’m from Norfolk, b/c whenever I say Virginia, they assume Northern, and when I say Virginia Beach, they ask “Is that in Florida?”
@UHaulShorts Күн бұрын
0:13 *THANXX* 4 da free plug
@suzanneterrey4499 Күн бұрын
You have such a pleasant and soothing voice. Very enjoyable to listen to you.
@BartBieber Күн бұрын
is it because there is so many chicken plants giving them easy access to illegal labor from Mexico and central america
@cortevisblakely2821 Күн бұрын
Dothan Al is called the circle city & the peanut capital of the world. Its ring road is primarily US 231 serve as a route to Chicago il to panama city fl
@smokeyyvevo Күн бұрын
Living in the Tampa Bay Area i feel like we have an interesting ring road as it doesnt cover the city of Tampa just the lower half of the whole Tampa Bay Area. Another reason as to why Tampa traffic is so terrible. I think thats a good example of a bad ring road.
@scotagamelyn Күн бұрын
I39 can be used to bypass Chicago for free if you’re driving up from downstate to Wisconsin
@larryhewitt1639 Күн бұрын
Highway 50 from Fallon to Austin, NV - Nothing, absolutely nothing between.
@BigTulsa Күн бұрын
Trust me, ODOT is not really doing that good of a job. Maybe in highway planning, but overall maintenance of existing infrastructure is awful and has been for some time. And the city itself is awful with maintenance.
@marcusamspaugh1504 Күн бұрын
I-17 should have a concurrency with I-10 ,absorb I-19, & extend it to Boise, Idaho
@markbrummett8488 Күн бұрын
That "Big Box Home Depot" has always been in downtown, as you can tell by the architecture. Not always as a Home Depot though; it started as a Warehouse Market (a local grocery chain which is all but gone now).
@markbrummett8488 Күн бұрын
Not just having QuikTrip, but Tulsa is literally the founding city of QuikTrip.
@marcusamspaugh1504 Күн бұрын
Columbus has been trying to get a 2nd beltway (I-470) since the '70s
@rjmcallister1888 Күн бұрын
The Great State of Misery's 1876 Constitution set a city limit for St. Louis, separating it politically from St. Louis County, and moving the county seat out of downtown. Clayton was developed and became the county seat. Reunification requires a constitutional amendment. STL has one other major problem: the 86 municipalities that make up St. Louis County and the desire of each little fiefdom to hang onto power. Some, like Kirkwood, Wildwood, Chesterfield, Town & Country, Huntleigh, Crystal Lake Park, Frontenac and Ladue, are among the wealthiest in Missouri and the US, and there's a big dropoff in most of the rest. The collar cities around the 1876-established city limits are nearly as bad as the north side of STL itself. Many middle-income people are leaving St. Louis County for St. Charles County (now the state's 4th largest), along with Jefferson, Franklin and Lincoln counties, and also into Illinois, away from East St. Louis. Fixing it will take quite some time and much money. Crime, especially juveniles with guns, remains out of control. New developments are happening in the center city and downtown, but more are needed, and are outpaced by the other counties. As usual, Missouri didn't learn it's lesson; no such provisions were made in Kansas City, which now sprawls across parts of three counties and dwarfs STL in both area and population. Returning St. Louis City into St. Louis County probably won't happen in my lifetime; the toxic politics between the two and their voters will likely prohibit it.
@jaimerosado3896 Күн бұрын
This video should be redone by counting all of NYC as one county. Otherwise, it’s more of a top 7 list than top 10.
@geardo3635 Күн бұрын
Not surprised some NYC counties made the list The order of which was higher than the other is surprising
@JordanPeace Күн бұрын
It seems like we’re still seeing the lingering effects of 2020 where people moved away from cities for remote work or to find places where they weren’t cooped up in apartments during lockdowns (since none of the benefits of city living were available at that point). Will be interesting to see how things stack up by the end of this decade. I get the feeling city populations will recover and likely even surpass 2020 levels with how much young people and even millennial 30-40somethings still want to live in dense urban areas, although costs in NYC, SF, and Boston may still be too high for them to see the full benefits of this
@jeffm9770 Күн бұрын
Surprised Richmond County, NY isn't also on the list. Could make it a clean sweep with all 5 boroughs
@Lexus-Revival-Garage Күн бұрын
I live in far north Forsyth County and it is common for traffic to extend into Dawson County these days. Especially on the weekends. 400 should be upgraded to limited access from where it currently ends at Exit 18 all the way past Lumpkin Campground Rd in Dawson County. A western bypass (let's call it I-275) linking Cartersville to McDonough could also help alleviate traffic on the Downtown Connector.
@agbook2007 Күн бұрын
3:16 AB-ah-leen. As in its counterpart in Kansas. Mike!