SH-45 Toll Road

Toll road. Nuff said

85 mph from San Antonio in to Austin!!! We decided to jump on coming back from South Padre. I wasn’t thrilled about the price, but I sure wish we had more roads with that speed limit.

As much as I travel this expensive short-​cut, I think I should own a good part of it. I drive this thing every day, to and from work. It does save a heck of a lot of time, from driving on the side streets, so I shouldn’t complain too much. Never a whole lot of traffic either. I still think they should name an exit after me or something.

A good way to travel with little to no traffic

Yeah but Incandescence lights cost 50 cents the LED cost $ 5000, cost to replace same!
Anyway, you can now go 80mph when you whip around sh-​45 to sh-​130.
I hate to see the first accident when the speed is 80!
I zip up to 75 but not 80, 80 gives permission to go 85 to 90, yep, it will be like a squashed bug!

It’s always sad having to downgrade a business, but I recently noticed that the traffic lights on the frontage roads, at least the ones in the section by La Frontera and I-​35, are incandescent rather than LEDs. One of the red lights has already burned out. I’m quite surprised any road builder is still using incandescent traffic lights, LEDs have long proven to be more cost effective when you factor in the labor (and traffic) cost of replacing a bulb.
Incandescence — good for desire, wit, stars, not so much for traffic lights.