🚀 go-pugleaf

Here's irony for you:  The same city that sports the MoPac exchange
(covering from 2 to 20 sq mi, depending on your sense of perspective)
is the SAME ONE that has the I-35 expressway, the only stretch of
highway in Texas that absolutely positively cannot be expanded, no
matter what the engineers may think.  Yes, in the same state as
Houston, the only city in the United States to have highways as big as
those in LA (bigger, actually), we have the only highway anyone ever
won an award for that couldn't be expanded as need arose.

Here's another one to get people riled:  The exit from the lower deck
for 30th street is a couple tenths of a mile away from the street.
Good planning.  Gives you plenty of time to get from the left to the
right-hand-lane of the access road (so you can conveniently turn right
at 30th street and check into St. David's for your road-related
injuries).  The NEXT southbound exit, 26th street, is conveniently
placed about 200 feet before the turnoff.  This arranges it nicely so
you have to battle the drivers from Connecticut (who don't realize
that in TEXAS PEOPLE IN THE ACCESS ROAD SHOULD YIELD TO THOSE EXITING
THE @$%@#$%@% HIGHWAY!!!), slam across three lanes of traffic in those
exciting 200 feet, and bring your car swiftly from 60mph down to 20 so
you don't go flying off the curve onto the unsuspecting traffic on
26th street below you.

Tom