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I35 runs from Mexico to Canada, of which one third is in Texas (just over 500 miles). I35 is unique for being the only interstate road to split into multiple d

I35 runs from Mexico to Canada, of which one third is in Texas (just over 500 miles). I35 is unique for being the only interstate road to split into multiple directions without designation as a loop or spur. This uniqueness occurs not once, but twice: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_35E_(Texas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_35E_(Texas) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_35W_(Texas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_35W_(Texas) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_35E_(Minnesota) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_35E_(Minnesota) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_35W_(Minnesota) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_35W_(Minnesota)

dbcurtis 7y ago
At one point in time or another I have been on the entire length of I-35 from Duluth to Corpus Christi. Not as a mission, just happenstance over the course of years. Probably not on all the side loops, though. I don’t have a point. It is just interesting to think about one’s travels in terms of line coverage.
- dreamcompiler 7y ago
  I-35 doesn't go to Corpus Christi. Perhaps you branched onto I-37 at San Antonio?
zxcvbn4038 7y ago
I35 going through Austin is a pain if you live there. The story has always been that the army built that segment and they didn’t care about stopping anywhere in in Austin so it more or less goes straight through town and has these horrible on ramps where you have about fifty feet to accelerate to freeway speed, merge into traffic, and try not to hit the containment wall or other vehicles. As an alternative they built a bridge over that section that bypasses the downtown altogether (best bet if your traveling through). When I lived there I would go miles out of my way to avoid that area. It was also the home of the Texans can’t drive in snow meme. One day there was snow falling lightly, wasn’t even really getting the ground wet, and somehow it caused a seventy car pile-up. Bizarrely when they have tornados and severe weather in that area of Texas they tend to follow I35 south and you’ll get a lot of damage within a mile or two of the interstate.
- dreamcompiler 7y ago
  It wasn't too horrible when I was going to UT in the 80s. But I-35 in Texas now is basically a 500-mile-long parking lot. (Well not now. Right now it's probably a ghost highway.) There's a major upgrade in the works. All the elevated roadways would be eliminated. https://www.statesman.com/news/20190507/i-35-changes-dramatically-in-txdots-proposed-8-billion-expansion https://www.statesman.com/news/20190507/i-35-changes-dramati...
dreamcompiler 7y ago
Yep. There are two major "twin city" metro areas in the US (Dallas/Ft Worth) and (Minneapolis/St Paul), and I-35 goes through both. Funny I just noticed the "second city" of both is two words and typically written with an abbreviation.
dreamcompiler 7y ago
Another curious factoid about Interstates in Texas, which prides itself on the quality and extensiveness of its road network, is that there's no interstate highway between its capital city (Austin) and its largest city (Houston). How to modernize transportation between the two cities is a subject of endless debate in Texas.

dbcurtis 7y ago

At one point in time or another I have been on the entire length of I-35 from Duluth to Corpus Christi. Not as a mission, just happenstance over the course of years. Probably not on all the side loops, though. I don’t have a point. It is just interesting to think about one’s travels in terms of line coverage.

dreamcompiler 7y ago
I-35 doesn't go to Corpus Christi. Perhaps you branched onto I-37 at San Antonio?

zxcvbn4038 7y ago

I35 going through Austin is a pain if you live there. The story has always been that the army built that segment and they didn’t care about stopping anywhere in in Austin so it more or less goes straight through town and has these horrible on ramps where you have about fifty feet to accelerate to freeway speed, merge into traffic, and try not to hit the containment wall or other vehicles. As an alternative they built a bridge over that section that bypasses the downtown altogether (best bet if your traveling through). When I lived there I would go miles out of my way to avoid that area. It was also the home of the Texans can’t drive in snow meme. One day there was snow falling lightly, wasn’t even really getting the ground wet, and somehow it caused a seventy car pile-up. Bizarrely when they have tornados and severe weather in that area of Texas they tend to follow I35 south and you’ll get a lot of damage within a mile or two of the interstate.

dreamcompiler 7y ago
It wasn't too horrible when I was going to UT in the 80s. But I-35 in Texas now is basically a 500-mile-long parking lot. (Well not now. Right now it's probably a ghost highway.) There's a major upgrade in the works. All the elevated roadways would be eliminated. https://www.statesman.com/news/20190507/i-35-changes-dramatically-in-txdots-proposed-8-billion-expansion https://www.statesman.com/news/20190507/i-35-changes-dramati...

dreamcompiler 7y ago

Yep. There are two major "twin city" metro areas in the US (Dallas/Ft Worth) and (Minneapolis/St Paul), and I-35 goes through both. Funny I just noticed the "second city" of both is two words and typically written with an abbreviation.

dreamcompiler 7y ago

Another curious factoid about Interstates in Texas, which prides itself on the quality and extensiveness of its road network, is that there's no interstate highway between its capital city (Austin) and its largest city (Houston). How to modernize transportation between the two cities is a subject of endless debate in Texas.