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Frontage roads don't generally exist where 3+ highways intersect… Or do they, in Texas? I've lived in several states where frontage roads are common (under var

Frontage roads don't generally exist where 3+ highways intersect… Or do they, in Texas? I've lived in several states where frontage roads are common (under various names), and Texas was the place where they were most plentiful. Older interchanges tended to run the frontage roads below grade to make them cheaper. But more recent ones tend to keep everything above grade due to flooding. Or is it just that Texas has one famous one and people extrapolate that to mean the whole state is absolutely smothered in interchanges Texas has a crazy number of highway interchanges. This is a partial selection of highway interchanges with frontage roads just in Houston. There are probably a hundred more across the state: https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.874104,-95.556634 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.874104,-95.556634 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.726083,-95.459588 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.726083,-95.459588 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.784165,-95.561947 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.784165,-95.561947 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.785693,-95.777690 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.785693,-95.777690 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.771646,-95.154931 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.771646,-95.154931 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.940698,-95.293735 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.940698,-95.293735 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=30.128100,-95.229756 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=30.128100,-95.229756 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=30.050496,-95.614099 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=30.050496,-95.614099 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.799694,-95.451234 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=29.799694,-95.451234

gnatolf 2y ago
Maybe it's just me but I expected these links to open in the recently established apple maps web page. However, on an Android phone, Google Maps opens.
- itishappy 2y ago
  Not just you, I expected the same, and was just as surprised to find it opens Google Maps in Chrome as well.
  - mouselett 2y ago
    Same here, it opens the Maps app on my MacBook.
- jcranmer 2y ago
  On Firefox on desktop, it just opens Google Maps webpage.
  - fuzzfactor 2y ago
    Here's the street view of one of the tall ramps coming in on the Westpark Tollway onto the SW Freeway: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.721469,-95.4944352,3a,75y,11.12h,92.89t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s20I2O9leDCoVcPzIZTRUtQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-2.891143177485503%26panoid%3D20I2O9leDCoVcPzIZTRUtQ%26yaw%3D11.12372194113027!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@29.721469,-95.4944352,3a,75y,11... Up on the ramp you're coming from the tollway that is, you can see quite a lot from up there. But on the street view the Google car is heading SW at grade on the 2-lane frontage road, the main freeway lanes are to the right and become elevated, and the overhead ramp had to fly over everything that was already there. Notice how the frontage roads give a street address and access to properties facing the "limited access" highway.

gnatolf 2y ago

Maybe it's just me but I expected these links to open in the recently established apple maps web page. However, on an Android phone, Google Maps opens.

itishappy 2y ago
Not just you, I expected the same, and was just as surprised to find it opens Google Maps in Chrome as well.
- mouselett 2y ago
  Same here, it opens the Maps app on my MacBook.
jcranmer 2y ago
On Firefox on desktop, it just opens Google Maps webpage.
- fuzzfactor 2y ago
  Here's the street view of one of the tall ramps coming in on the Westpark Tollway onto the SW Freeway: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.721469,-95.4944352,3a,75y,11.12h,92.89t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s20I2O9leDCoVcPzIZTRUtQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-2.891143177485503%26panoid%3D20I2O9leDCoVcPzIZTRUtQ%26yaw%3D11.12372194113027!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@29.721469,-95.4944352,3a,75y,11... Up on the ramp you're coming from the tollway that is, you can see quite a lot from up there. But on the street view the Google car is heading SW at grade on the 2-lane frontage road, the main freeway lanes are to the right and become elevated, and the overhead ramp had to fly over everything that was already there. Notice how the frontage roads give a street address and access to properties facing the "limited access" highway.