North American Super Highway

[RawLee]

Why not use ro-ro trains instead of trucks on wide motorways?

[mgk920]

Originally Posted by Maxx☢Power

I can see why they think this would be a good idea..




Is this an accurate representation of freight traffic in the US? It looks very centralised, almost like Texas is a heart with arteries spreading out from it.. Or is it a "Texas-centered" view of things?

Looks like a map showing where loads originating/terminating in Texas go.
BTW, the busiest freight/truck/lorry road that I know of is I-80/94 (Borman/Kingery Expressway) between I-65 and IL 394 in Illinois and Indiana.

Mike

[xXFallenXx]

I'm pretty sure you're talking about the North American Union conspiracy crap, right?

[TheCat]

I think Coneslammer is right, and I believe there was a thread here already about this. It is basically a fancy name for the Trans-Texas corridor, and will indeed have both a freeway and a rail corridor. The origin of the name is that I think it will be somehow connected (perhaps to other Interstates) to provide uninterrupted travel from Canada all the way to Mexico, but I don't know anything about this.

[ChrisZwolle]

Originally Posted by mgk920

Looks like a map showing where loads originating/terminating in Texas go.
BTW, the busiest freight/truck/lorry road that I know of is I-80/94 (Borman/Kingery Expressway) between I-65 and IL 394 in Illinois and Indiana.

Mike

I was more thinking of the 710 / 605 in Los Angeles.

[mgk920]

Originally Posted by Chriszwolle

I was more thinking of the 710 / 605 in Los Angeles.

Well, that part of I-80/94 is now eight lanes wide and between a third and half of all of its vehicles are big-rigs. It's the major east-west highway choke-point in the northern USA (yes, it desperately needs bypassing and redundancy).

See:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=...1000&encType=1
for a typical aerial view of this highway at interchange 6 (Burr St) in Gary, IN (that's the TA truck stop in the NW quadrant of this interchange)

Mike

[ChrisZwolle]

Though the AADT is not extremely high on the I-80 south of Chicago in Illinois and Indiana.

[Paddington]

Originally Posted by Maxx☢Power

I can see why they think this would be a good idea..




Is this an accurate representation of freight traffic in the US? It looks very centralised, almost like Texas is a heart with arteries spreading out from it.. Or is it a "Texas-centered" view of things?

Yeah right. That looks like a redneck Texas' boosters wet dream.

[ADCS]

Originally Posted by Paddington

Yeah right. That looks like a redneck Texas' boosters wet dream.

Hmm. So the Port of Houston (the US's largest foreign tonnage port, and second in total tonnage), Port of Beaumont (fourth overall), Port of Corpus Christi (seventh overall), and Port of Texas City (tenth overall) are just a "redneck" Texas booster's wet dream. Looks like a huge economic engine for the nation.

Yes, the map is Texas-centric. However, it does represent a HUGE proportion of American truck traffic. I drive I-35 and I-45 enough to know that. Sure, there are a lot of rednecks in Texas too. Not a huge fan of that. However, for an Ohioan to make that claim... amusing, to say the least.

[KIWIKAAS]

Originally Posted by Mr. Met

I heard some of a North American Super Highway that would start in Mexico extend through America, and go into Canada. Does anyone know anything about this?

Sounds like you mean the CANAMEX corridor



from wiki


The CANAMEX corridor is a corridor linking Canada to Mexico through the United States. The corridor was established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Currently the corridor is defined by a series of highways. However the corridor is also proposed for use by railroads, pipelines and fiber optic telecommunications infrastructure.

Canada
Alberta- Highway 2, Highway 43
United States
Montana - Interstate 15
Idaho - Interstate 15
Utah - Interstate 15
Nevada - Interstate 15, Interstate 515, U.S. Route 93
Arizona - U.S. Route 93, Interstate 10, Interstate 19. To make the highway drivable as a continuous route also requires the inclusion of Interstate 15 and U.S. Route 60, though they are not officially included.
Mexico
Sonora- Mexico Federal Highway 15

[Chicagoago]

Originally Posted by mgk920

Well, that part of I-80/94 is now eight lanes wide and between a third and half of all of its vehicles are big-rigs. It's the major east-west highway choke-point in the northern USA (yes, it desperately needs bypassing and redundancy).

See:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=...1000&encType=1
for a typical aerial view of this highway at interchange 6 (Burr St) in Gary, IN (that's the TA truck stop in the NW quadrant of this interchange)

Mike

Amen to that....they REALLY need to get a southern bypass of the Chicago region. I'm glad they widened 80/94 to 8 lanes - but I'd still never go near that thing. I've seen it total gridlock at midnight on a tuesday before with no accidents or other events except far too many trucks and cars trying to squeeze past Lake Michigan.

[swaugh3]

Is there anything new since the last post?

[gugasounds]

I thought the North American Highway begins in Acapulco port. Interstate highway 95-D takes you from Acapulco tho Mexico City, then you connect to Interstate highway 85 that takes you all the way to Laredo, Then you connect to Interstate 35 That will take you to the end of the North American Highway in Minnesota.

[WeimieLvr]

Originally Posted by tampasteve

The amount of distance and/or lanes. Superhighways I have read about generally have at least 6 lanes on each side. One proposed for Florida has 8 lanes on each side.

Steve

The Downtown Connector, the I-75/I-85 combination that runs several miles through Atlanta, is 8 lanes on each side much of the way. Sometimes traffic moves, sometimes it doesn't.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gt7348b/55607824/

[hoosier]

Originally Posted by Mr. Met

I heard some of a North American Super Highway that would start in Mexico extend through America, and go into Canada. Does anyone know anything about this?

In Texas, it is called the Trans-Texas Corridor. It would essentially parallel I-35.

There is also the NAFTA Superhighway, aka Interstate 69. It would extend south from its current terminus in Indianapolis and pass around Memphis and Houston before ending at the Mexican border in Laredo.

[hoosier]

Originally Posted by Chicagoago

Amen to that....they REALLY need to get a southern bypass of the Chicago region. I'm glad they widened 80/94 to 8 lanes - but I'd still never go near that thing. I've seen it total gridlock at midnight on a tuesday before with no accidents or other events except far too many trucks and cars trying to squeeze past Lake Michigan.

Take I-90 or U.S. 30, which is a four lane divided highway running south and parallel to I-80/I-94.

[ChrisZwolle]

Originally Posted by hoosier

There is also the NAFTA Superhighway, aka Interstate 69. It would extend south from its current terminus in Indianapolis and pass around Memphis and Houston before ending at the Mexican border in Laredo.

A section in Mississippi south of Memphis is already signed/designated I-69 according to several maps. Between I-55 and US 61. Eventually, the new beltway around Memphis might be designated I-69 too in the near future.

[Haljackey]

In regards to the NAFTA superhighway, there have been multiple proposals put forth, but none have been approved yet.

Some planned superhighways:


A breakdown of the highway. Separate lanes are allocated for truck traffic, and a rail line runs parallel to the highway.


A quick quote from Wikipedia about the I-69 extention. This would link Texas to Ontario.

Interstate 69 exists in two parts: a completed highway from Indianapolis, Indiana, northeast to the Canadian border in Port Huron, Michigan, and a mostly-proposed extension southwest to the Mexican border in Texas. Of this extension, nicknamed the NAFTA Superhighway, since it would help trade with Canada and Mexico spurred by the North American Free Trade Agreement, only a short piece in northwestern Mississippi has been built and signed as I-69. Other sections, such as those in Kentucky and Tennessee, exist but are yet to be signed.

The southern terminus of the existing portion is at Interstate 465, the beltway around Indianapolis, on the northeast side of that city. The last bit of I-69 overlaps I-94 to the Blue Water Bridge across the St. Clair River, where traffic continues on Highway 402 in the Canadian province of Ontario.

[Xusein]

There are so much things wrong with that map that I don't know where to begin.

[Verso]

Originally Posted by Haljackey

Why is the Mexican flag in the middle of the US?