I-45 & US 75 South - The Central Expressway - Dallas - Texas - 4K Highway Drive

[@flydragon7256]

It's crazy how different Dallas looks north of I-30 vs south of I-30.

[@KingAsa5]

Fr tho. So undeveloped down there compared to up north. Impoverished. The city and developers never invest in the southern areas unless it’s gentrification

[@thesharinganknight]

Yeah it’s like I-75 North and South in Atlanta. But Dallas it’s JARRING. I think it’s wealth disparity

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Yep in Dallas I-30 appears to be the dividing line of prosperity in the Metro. Similar to I-20 in Atlanta.

[@w-josh]

I just found out that I-20 was intentionally built for segregation inside Atlanta.

[@InanTorres]

I just love your Videos!

[@trulylondon1]

Watched this video from start to finish. What I really love about this freeway is that US-75 has an 70 mph speed limit all the way to Downtown, the amazing High Five Interchange, and its amazing engineering. With that being said, in my opinion, this is easily one of, maybe the most impressive Non-Interstate freeway in the country.

[@ki5aok]

It irritates me that Houston's speed limits are 60 mph (even on that 8 lane each direction freeway known as I-10) when you have four or five lanes in each direction on US-75 in Dallas and it is 70 mph. Houston is adverse to anything going over 65 mph...I guess they think vehicles are like the bus in the movie Speed...except that if the car goes over 65 mph, it'll explode.

[@garyd.7372]

@@ki5aok Houston's traffic engineers may have a point. All too often, I encountered an old beat-up pickup truck going 40mph in the leftmost lane of a Houston freeway, or a big brand-new pickup truck going 80mph in the rightmost lane, or both at the same time. I don't remember Dallas drivers being that bad, or bad to that extreme.

[@ki5aok]

@@garyd.7372 No, in Dallas, you can be in the right lane on I-635 doing 85 mph in a 65 mph speed zone and still get some car passing you, blowing their horn and flipping you off because you're too slow. While Houston has idiot drivers, Dallas has drivers who need to back off their RedBull intake.

[@trulylondon1]

@@ki5aok Honestly, to me, that's because of the surroundings or I don't know. Plus, Houston have been experiencing a population boom to where even the Grand Parkway from I-10 to US-290 went from 70 to 65 miles per hour on the speed limit.

[@ki5aok]

@@trulylondon1 And the rest of it went from 75 to 70. Someone thinks that will slow down the speeders (there are people who do 100+ on that road...I, unfortunately, am guilty of that from time to time, usually during the overnight hours where the traffic volume is nearly non-existent.) I could understand if the issue was that the traffic volume increased and has exceeded road capacity to the point it makes the travel dangerous (which could be the case for Grand Parkway), but I-10 has more lanes (eight in both directions at some points), yet it has a speed limit slower than the four-lane Grand Parkway. To me, it seems that Dallas/Fort Worth is trying to do smart traffic management (whether they are succeeding is a matter of opinion), where Houston is trying to find ways to gather speeding ticket revenue.

[@sunnyflbeach]

When I lived in Dallas, this was my favorite expressway...I loved how urban it felt between I-635 and downtown, yet the speed limit was 70MPH! Otherwise, I miss the convenient frontage roads, TX turnarounds (U-turns) built into the interchanges, and tolled express lanes! Much better than antiquated Atlanta where I live now :(

[@BrandonLongwell-ComingSoonRevi]

Yes! Can you do please Sugar Land Marriott Town Square.

[@donavanjohnson409]

Nice ride along us highway 75 and interstate 45 south

[@JruGordon]

23:02 was that sign really that distracting, or is that a frame rate mis match?

[@flydragon7256]

FPS mismatch most likely.

[@MileageMikeTravels]

I want to say it was actually flickering like that but I filmed this in February and can't remember for sure.

[@iceresistance]

@@MileageMikeTravels 60 FPS confirms the FPS mismatch, LED lights don't show up well on 60 FPS Videos.

[@markmoore8399]

2:10 Of course, US 75 is concurrent with TX 121....

[@bentleyharris-ey4hx]

How does it become i 345 after the i35 sign

[@ki5aok]

First, that road is not I-35E, it is actually Texas Spur 366 (Woodall Rogers Expressway). It's a connector between I-35E and US-75. Between Spur 366 and I-30 is the unsigned I-345, the only interstate spur route for I-45. Also, there are two I-35s in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex: I-35E that runs through Dallas and I-35W that runs through Fort Worth. The signage through this area is really screwy. First, US-75 actually ends at Spur 366 (this is how it is written in TxDOT's highway database, which means that TxDOT decommissioned US-75 too far back in the 80s...should've stopped at I-30, but that's TxDOT for you). Second, the signage shows I-45 and uses I-45 exit numbers on the I-345 part going southbound, while the northbound signage shows US-75, but with I-45 exit numbers. Third, the mile markers in that area don't correspond to the exit numbers (mile marker 0 and 1, which will reset to 285 or something like that on the south side of I-30). And don't get me started about that exit number issue on US-75 south of I-635.