Re: Houston-related rants was Re: forced merges/inside lane merges/AASHTO "tapered merges"

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from The Chief Instigator <patrick@xxxxxx>
in message <szk3bmgds1e.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
posted at 2005-11-01T20:36
> "Shawn K. Quinn" <skquinn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Are you sure about the North Loop and I-45? They must be in a
>> direction I never go from there.

> If you go through that half-stack either way on the Loop, you will
> have traffic from 45 entering on your left past the interchange -
> northbounders if you're headed west, southbounders going east. It was
> built that way in the early 1960s.

Ah. I hardly ever go through that interchange on the Loop. I'm usually
exiting either way onto I-45.

>> I have no idea why, but HCTRA is better about posting yield signs at
>> least on the Sam Houston Tollway exits I drive on a regular basis.
>> They even moved the yield sign from the Deerwood exit ramp to the
>> service road, where it should have been to begin with.

> I noticed that last week...they can do that, but TxDOT can't? Go
> figure.

HCTRA seems to have more clue, at least when it comes to their first two
toll roads.

>> And *that* got me thinking... the Westpark Tollway is another story,
>> in particular the westbound exit for Fondren/Gessner. I'm surprised
>> they could find room for that monstrosity and none for entrance
>> ramps for westbound traffic between US 59 and the Sam Houston
>> Tollway/Beltway 8. How could HCTRA put an exit ramp for eastbound
>> traffic to Fondren and no corresponding entrance ramp in the area?
>> Cheaply done is one thing, sloppily done is another.

> At S. Gessner and Fondren, those interchanges have three of the four
> ramps - the westbound entrance from Fondren and exit to S. Gessner
> are missing because of Westpark being separated from the Tollway by a
> jersey wall and nothing else, at that point.

Maybe the fact that they don't have the entire former railroad
right-of-way to work with is a consideration as well; HCTRA has half of
it with the other half remaining Metro's for the future Yellow Line.

> Even with Westpark being stripped of two lanes between Dunvale and
> Tanglewilde, it's still better than it was before they built the
> seven-laner from Tanglewilde all the way into the Loop.

I have to agree.

>> Oh, and the West Houston Center Blvd exit still shows Old Westheimer
>> Rd, apt to confuse someone unless they know the road has been renamed
>> (in fairness, the signage on the approach from Westheimer also shows
>> the old name, so this isn't just an HCTRA problem).

> It sounds like the Westchase District people think they can take
> over everything within miles of Westchase - they've been putting
> their green/black signage on the north side of Westheimer and now
> it's east of S. Gessner, in places that never were Westchase to
> begin with.

The West Houston Center Blvd signage is not Westchase District. It's
standard issue white-on-green. I was there just a couple days ago when
the road formerly known as Old Westheimer was a convenient route to get
where I needed to be.

> I guess "Old Westheimer" just isn't a trendy enough name.

It's more apt to cause confusion, I will admit. I would rather they
rename the whole thing to Gray Falls Drive, though (its name north of
Westheimer).

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