re: Traffic is so bad in Dallas that ppl are leaving cars & walking to nearby restaurants

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Traffic is so bad in Dallas

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I'm surprised there has yet to be any Houstonians show up in this thread to tell everyone they have no idea what traffic is

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Only the Poors and TH03 take 75.

The rest of us take the Tollways.

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This is a retarded and uninformed view of dallas.

DNT, 35, and 75 all serve completely separate purposes, hence why they all exists as north/south freeways and why another is coming soon to the east of 75 IIRC.

35 to Farmers Branch, Lewisville, Denton through to Oklahoma City
DNT to Addison, West Plano, frisco, now prosper
75 to Richardson, east Plano, McKinney, Allen, through to Oklahoma.

If I took the tollway or 35 to get to Allen, I’d be retarded. Same as if I took 75 to 121 to get to West Plano.

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This is a retarded and uninformed view of dallas.

DNT, 35, and 75 all serve completely separate purposes, hence why they all exists as north/south freeways and why another is coming soon to the east of 75 IIRC.

35 to Farmers Branch, Lewisville, Denton through to Oklahoma City
DNT to Addison, West Plano, frisco, now prosper
75 to Richardson, east Plano, McKinney, Allen, through to Oklahoma.

If I took the tollway or 35 to get to Allen, I’d be retarded. Same as if I took 75 to 121 to get to West Plano

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You can take 12 to the DNT to 121 to W. Exchange if you dont want to go further north.

edit: And I bet I'd beat you home.

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You can take 12 to the DNT to 121 to W. Exchange if you dont want to go further north.

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So you’d get there in no less time and pay tolls. And depending on traffic, spend a lot of time on 12 just to go a few miles.

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My brother (from Houma) managed to get from Mesquite to Addison without paying a toll and under 25 min after 3 o clock.

You just have to know what the hell you are doing.

You apparently dont venture west much outside that little cubby hole of yours.

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Mesquite to Addison is 99% 635, no shite he didn’t pay tolls. And that direction is going completely against traffic at that time of day. I make that drive every other day because I have an account in Rockwall and one in Addison.

If that’s your definition of West, I literally work in that area now.

I know, but you said that in a post talking about Addison.

My wife covers everything west of 35. I’m out there often. In Bedford at least once a week.

And btw I used to live off exchange, no way in hell I’d take DNT to get down unless 75 was horrendous or I was going to AAC because frick the tunnel in rush hour.

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It’s primarily because society has stopped using Emergency Lanes for what they are intended for.

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fricking this - came up on a dent wreck this morning in Indianapolis blocking the major intersection to get from Executive Dr to the Rayburn expressway. Two cars barely dented just sitting there while completely blocking the intersection. I had to hop out of my rig and ask if they were okay. They both said yes, and I yelled for them to get the frick out of the intersection. They moved. fricking morons. Little dent on the passenger side door and they act like they're waiting for a medevac and CSI to show up.

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I swear every morning i wake up and turn on the local news to see some accident on 75 causing a major delay. It must suck to have to drive that everyday.

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I take it every day and almost never have issues.

75 is the WORST!! Even if there isnt a wreck its slow moving. Nothing kills a good buzz post duck hunt than coming back into town on a saturday morning and getting stuck in traffic on 75 and finding out that there isnt even a wreck thats causing traffic. Thank god i moved into a better neighborhood and dont have to deal with that crap anymore.

Having lived in both cities for an extended period of time can easily say traffic in Dallas is just as bad if not worse than Houston.

Probably wasn’t the case prior to mid 2000s but Dallas has been growing like crazy and highway/road infrastructure is probably a good 10 years behind Houston in terms of doing anything to elliviate the congestion

It’s really not that bad unless you commute to and from the suburbs. Local traffic isn’t terrible all the time, but when it is, there’s plenty of roads to substitute. I use Abrams/skillman/Greenville 90% of the time.