Yea, "high-5" is new -- they started building it over 2 years ago before my year back.
http://www.highfivecam.com/index_cam_1.htm Strange that they set up 2 streaming cameras, and neither one of them is looking _at_ the structure -- both of them are looking sort of wistfully off to the side of it. That area near Richardson is in north-dallas (my grandmother lives about 1.5 miles from that interchange). They've needed to build something like high-5 in that area for a long time because of increasing traffic in north dallas where the interchanges between I-635 and I-75 used to be fairly dangerous. The new one is pretty nice actually -- no more urgently crossing 3 lanes to hit a left exit where you have to merge instantaneously with a lane of traffic to your right that you can't see until 50 ft from the merge. And in the other direction no more hair-pin turn before merging with a lane of 70pmh traffic on _both_ sides that you can't see until a split-second before the merge. The mix-master is downtown where Reunion Tower (the ball) and all the high-rise office buildings are, like the building with Mobile(?) corp's red neon pegasus on the top (not sure if it's still there). There are a couple spots in the mix-master that are dangerous, but not as bad as the interchanges high-5 is replacing (with the possible exception of the one I described) -- the problem with the mix-master is mostly that it's confusing. I'd have really liked to see someone do something to improve that one interchange from 75 north to 30 east, but I don't think it's very likely partly due to the congestion of the existing road/buildings and partly because I don't think most people perceive it as a problem. > Nope, that's the High-5 interchange. That's actually a > well designed > interchange. It's amazing because some of the exit ramps > are around 1 > mile long and elevated. Mixmaster is south of there about > 10 miles. > It's old. Seems like it was designed in the time of > buggies..... > On 5/13/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Isaac wrote: >> > There's an area in downtown Dallas known as "the mix >> > master" -- their >> > not-so-cute name for a place where several interstates >> > cross with a >> >> Is that by Richardson sort of? I was just there and took >> a bunch of >> pictures of this massive interchange with 30% of the >> ramps not even >> done yet. The pylons all had huge stars on them and were >> painted red >> and green. It was super cool and the pictures don't do >> it justice. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=4806 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=40 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:157622 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
