Living in the Chicago area for most of my adult life, but visiting Houston frequently, I find myself longing for the long access roads / frontage roads that are

Living in the Chicago area for most of my adult life, but visiting Houston frequently, I find myself longing for the long access roads / frontage roads that are prevalent around the Houston loop. It's a nice buffer between long-haul highways and shorter-haul-but-not-quite-local roads.