I-75 How is this possible?
Posted Jul 6, 2016, 2:44 PM UTC
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How is it possible? It's possible because they made the ultra-awful decision to separate the HOV lane by those stupid fucking sticks, and when a few were out, the person in the HOV lane made a split second decision and tried to bail out of it without looking.
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Those stupid fucking sticks. Dallas DFW is the only city metro area I've ever personally seen do this with its HOV lanes. Needs to be a concrete barrier or nothing. That's what happens when road/highway planning and construction goes to the lowest bidder.
Edited because I dun goofed
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A concrete barrier wouldn't necessarily be better. If there was an accident, all the cars behind them would be completely trapped until they were able to get a crane out there to move the concrete barrier.
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Concrete barriers with two HOV lanes. Combine the lanes going either direction into one two lane HOV lane that switches direction mid day.
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I believe this is part of the plan for 35E, but who know if that will be completed in our lifetime
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Or maybe you're stuck on a broke down DART bus in that HOV lane and everyone is fucked.
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I don't really mind the stupid sticks. People need to plan better. I think the driver of the SUV is just as likely to merge into a car sticks or no sticks.
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I've seen them all over the country, and specifically remember them in Atlanta back when they first introduced HOV.
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They just added some plastic fun sticks to one of the roads in Austin - maybe the Mo-Pac toll lanes?
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That's correct, they were just put up for the new express/toll lane on Mopac.
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I'm not sure if I hate those stupid fucking sticks, or those stupid fucking grapefruit sized lane separators (like on spring valley) more. No idea why DFW decided that they needed to put things that will actively destroy your car if you hit them going more than 10mph on roads where people travel 5-10x that speed.
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People go 100 on Spring Valley?
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I've always called them city titties.
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Street turtles and the little ones are street nipples. :)
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fuck those grapefruit things!
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Is it Dallas? I thought they didn't start til Richardson/Plano.
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You're right. Should have said DFW. Either way, point stands. Dallas does have the concrete barriers going up towards 635 and for the TXpress lanes (don't even get me started on that shit - oh we're gonna improve the 35 interchange, but no we're actually just gonna build new lanes and make you pay to use them and leave the rest of it to be complete shit as it was... So glad I almost never have to go through that area anymore), so they have that going for them at least.
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I don't know - right now, 635 is kind of great thanks to the Texpress lanes...
I expect that to continue for another 10 months and it'll be back to being its normal terrible overcrowded self.
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You must not have been here when the news about armed, masked dudes picketing mosques went up some months back. Feel free to try and prove how those sticks aren't completely idiotic though. If you're wondering why so many are missing/broken, it's because of shit like this video.
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Yes, the classic Dallas "I'm ready to do this now and I'm not going to bother checking to see if it's a good idea."
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I prefer the "Oh shit! That's my exit right there 3 full lanes over!"
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Accompanied by the "I was just changing lanes, so I'll blink this little light to let you know I finished doing that!"
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It's funny, in Plano southbound right now the HOV lane is closed/gone. Traffic has been so much smoother the past couple days during rush hour in that area.
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The person from the hov lane should have their head forcibly removed from their ass and their license revoked.
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The guy in the Cadillac is really going to want this for his insurance.
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Yup clearly the Hyundai is at fault and may be paying out his bodily injury max as well.
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How is this possible? Have you ever been on 75?
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Right? I'm poor as fuck but still take the tollway regularly bc 75 is never a pleasant drive. Ever.
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How is it possible that traffic was actually moving that fast?
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That's why traffic doesn't move that fast for long....
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It's pretty obvious... the SUV tried to quickly exit the HOV lane early because there was a gap of missing barrier sticks right there. Probably too rash and quick to check his blind spot.
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Probably
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Wow. Hopefully nobody died. Some people are just really stupid. Kill yourself at home, don't try to kill innocent people on the road because of your ignorance.
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while I feel bad for the caddy driver and sincerely hope everyone is okay, i find it amusing that one of the tires rolled across the highway and noped it out of there
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When was this?
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July 5th, if you actually click on the link and go to youtube.
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Upload date doesn't equal date of occurrence.
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Gosh, then I wonder why they typed "Accident that happened on July 5, 2016." in the description? Is it some kind of conspiracy?
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And thus we find out that u/TwoWeekCritic is a dick.
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Good thing he waited for a gap in those sticks he could've ruined his bumper.
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I bet his insurance deductible is higher than the ticket for being in the HOV lane without passengers.
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If it's the stretch I think it is, it's really easy to end up in that HOV lane accidentally and be stuck in it for like 5 miles. One of the worst designed roads I've ever seen.
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Happened to me too at a really inconvenient time. I thought I was going to be in Houston before that damn lane ended.
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Entered it (intentionally) one time from 635 to 75 going north when it first opened. Thought we could exit somewhere in Richardson. Ended up at Spring Creek Blvd before we can turn back. Never used it again. Completely useless.
It's road real estate stolen from Richardson and half of Plano to serve the suburbs further to the north. It would make more sense if at least it allows you to enter/exit near PGBT so that it serves more people.
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Ironically, it was Richardson who fought for an always open, 2-way system (originally TxDOT wanted a movable barrier system like on I-30). However, after winning the fight and TxDOT designing the system Richardson wanted, they determined that safety and traffic flow issues prevented putting in entrance/exit in Richardson.
TxDOT eliminated the proposed access point in Richardson due to safety and operating concerns involving HOV traffic and main lane traffic. The analyses conducted by the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) indicated that the demand for the HOV Lane system would be so great that its performance would significantly degrade and accidents would increase if an additional access point were provided.
https://www.cor.net/index.aspx?page=1358#Why%20is%20there%20no%20HOV%20entrance%20in%20Richardson?
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No, it's not really easy. You would have to be camping in the far left hand lane, oh wait, this is Dallas. Nevermind, carry on.
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Specifically the way it happened to me was I ended up on a texpress lane instead of 635 but what I wanted to do was get on 75 so then there was a sign for 75 northbound and I figured I'd just hop on northbound and do a u-turn at the first exit but it dumped me onto the HOV lane and I was in richardson before I could exit.
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White car was playing pokemon go. Put your phones down people, Gengar isn't worth it.
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Are you the dashcam owner? If so, what kind of dashcam do you have?
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That same thing almost happened to me on Friday. A truck must have realized that he was going to miss his exit, and swerved right out of the HOV lane, all the way over to the exit.
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As always, I blame sorcery.
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I've watched this over and over, trying to figure why the Caddy went into the wall--I would think the bump from the Hyundai would push him into the lane to his right. Did the Caddy driver overcorrect after he was hit, or did the Hyundai hit it at just the right spot to spin it around?
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They touched wheels. Try it some time and note the results.
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Do you stop and go and offer the footage?
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It's disturbing how people don't look when they change a lane
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I saw this on the news today! This shouldn't be so surprising. Just a typical day on 75. Oh, but I did hear that everyone survived.
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So, did they go back and make sure everything was okay or just keep driving and post the video on youtube?
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Uh, how exactly do you "go back" on a limited access 10-lane divided highway? And if they did go back, what are they going to do? Apply CPR if they've had training? Two cars almost flipped and both hit concrete walls at high speed. NO, everything wasn't okay.
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I hope they stopped or at least gave this video to the police so it was used for insurance purposes.
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Highway 75 IS NOT an interstate and therefore should not be referred to as I-75. I-75 goes from Miami - Atlanta - Tennessee - Ohio - Detroit - Canada.
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Ok no need to be pedantic. You know what he was referring to.
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He was, but many other people could've been confused as to why there was an I-75 video in this sub.
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I'm pretty sure most people that drive in DFW know exactly what I-75 means. It means "I'm fucked 75"
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You're right, let's just call stuff whatever we want.
Fucking traffic on Lyndon Johnson Street is always terrible.
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So I'll just call you Fluff Nuts from now on.
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Wait. If it goes to Maimi doesn't that mean Florida? And Detroit, then Canada? What about the rest of Michigan?
Why do you refer to some cities, states, and an entire country? Shouldn't it be it goes from the USA to Canada? Or it goes from Florida to Michigan?
How does it go to Atlanta but not Georgia?
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What you're doing is the Reddit equivalent of flipping the bird at someone who honks at you when you run a stop sign.
You made the mistake: It's US-75, not I-75. Screw up online and people are gonna kick you in the nuts.
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what ever you say Fluff Nuts.
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Defiantly stupid is no way to go through life.
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Stops along the way. Sorry it was less obvious than intended.
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Not that it matters, but it's US-75, not I-75.
This is good knowledge as I-75 runs from Miami, Florida to Sault Ste Marie in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the US / Canadian border.
Apparently, a bunch of poles sticking up inbetween the lanes doesn't matter either. Why do they even bother to paint stripes on the damn road?