[weegee]

In Houston, there is a feeder road that runs parallel to our loop toll road system (I think there are only a few places with no feeder).

The traffic lights on the feeder are deliberately out of phase to cause congestion so that even with toll gate stack ups, the toll road will always get you down the road faster than using the feeder. Congestion by design. The civil engineers intentionally cause road rage and aggravation.

If you get over to some of the roads parallel to the feeder roads, you can travel much quicker.

Our government doesn't work to solve the traffic problem, it works to control the traffic and keep revenue coming in (tolls, speeding tickets, red light tickets...).

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

What’s the speed limit on the toll road loop?

[basil]

I should have mentioned that I am not a daily commuter, as most people with jobs have to be. I guess there's not much way a commuter can avoid the toll roads.

I was referring to the times that I am on the highways going from city to city to visit our kids or whatever.

[af_vet_rr]

The traffic lights on the feeder are deliberately out of phase to cause congestion so that even with toll gate stack ups, the toll road will always get you down the road faster than using the feeder. Congestion by design. The civil engineers intentionally cause road rage and aggravation.

It's not the engineers, it's TxDOT. TxDOT and Perry's office, plus CAMPO and the other regional groups made it very clear when they were pushing for out-of-phase lights on the feeders to try and force people onto the tollways. I can dig them up, but I've seen a few interviews where they were very clear that they were going to do everything possible to get people on the tollways.