Funny thing, back in 2006 when 80 mph was first introduced on I-10/I-20, a concerned fellow said "What's next? 85? They'll keep going!" And look what happened...
I just got around to finally watching this. Pretty cool to see an 85 MPH limit in the United States, if it it's only for some 41 miles. I rarely get political on TH-cam, but do you honestly think this roadway is going to be a success? Several other toll road facilities around the US have had to declare bankruptcy, due to low usage. From watching this video, traffic looks almost non-existent at times?
I've heard recently the road has been facing some financial trouble, despite the speed limit and thinner traffic. Heck, make it a tourist attraction.. do away with the speed limit and make it the only experimental open speed zone in the country. It worked for Montana for a while, before the insurance lobby got ahold of it.
Texas has the coolest freeways/tollways in America. They have the best freeway designs.I love the freeway/frontage road concept. Besides that stretch of SR 130 seems to be very brand new having been opened in 2012(or late 2011)
I had the pleasure of driving on this highway last week. It was a great experience and i plan to do it again the next time I am traveling back to San Antonio. It's well worth the tools.
Definitely a great stretch of road for 85 MPH! Obviously with time-lapsed video, it isn't too obvious that you're going 85, but the experience itself would probably say so. Definitely something I will check out in the future!
@@cubby091398 Yeah, but insurance companies (with politician hands in their pockets) and people screaming about "tHe ChILdReN!!" wouldn't appreciate that.
Great video and this puts NJ, DE, and PA turnpikes along with the NY thruway, JFK memorial highway (I-95, 76, 276, 476, DE-1, I-90, 87 & I-287) and the Garden state parkway because these toll roads have 65mph maximum speed limits. For the toll method txtag might be replaced by EZ-Pass because Texas will join the EZ-Pass group by mid-2013 this will allow drivers in NJ, NY, PA, MA, NH, RI, DE, and MD to try TX-130 for the 80-85 mph speed limit.
Have traveled this route countless times....it's a rush. SLOWER DRIVERS PLEASE STICK TO THE RIGHT LANE! and caution with Deer and Hogs at night, God forbid you smack on, hold on tight and brace yourself. No complaints, just a part of life given that we built a road in the middle of their home.
Yeah I like the freeway frontage roads in texas... they all have a dedicated left turn lane that spits you right back onto the freeway if you need to get back on or do a uturn. Makes you feel like you wont miss your exit and have to drive 5 miles to turn around
Wow. That road is really empty. It’s way too expensive to take 130 so no one uses it and I-35 continues to take on all the traffic. 130 is a much prettier drive, but the toll cost is outrageous and you save no time at all. Great video, though. Thanks
Look at the interchanges in Houston, Texas. They are even higher than the one in this video. Truly a rollercoaster. I went on one on Beltway 8 (Houston's outer toll loop) and I could see downtown Houston from there.
Great footage and song choice. I've driven the entire 83-mile stretch and doing 85 mph is totally worth the toll, the reduced mpg and wear and tear to my car. Note: Once you reach the junction of Hwy 45 and 130, the speed limit drops to 80mph and remains that way until you reach I-35 in Georgetown. It is 85mph for the first 50 miles (from the south end of TX130) then is lowered to 80mph for the remaining 43 miles. I absolutely love driving on TX 130, and I can't describe the freedom I feel when I drive on the "Texas Autobahn."
+Kansan Gho5t I have yet to see a police car checking radar, and I've driven on SH130 over 10 times. I would say as long as you keep it under 100, you will be fine.
The toll road had another purpose, and that was to reduce truck traffic in downtown Austin. This failed because most truckers are poor and companies won't pay for toll roads that can be avoided. Great video as always.
haha cool video, sometimes I go out here and do 120-130 the whole way, it’s privately maintained and in the middle of farmland so police don’t really seem to be out there or care
In November, it will be my first time driving on SH-130. (Visiting Texas from Kansas) Can anyone tell me how strictly the 85 MPH limit is enforced? Where I live, drivers can go up to 10 MPH over the limit and not get pulled over on major highways. This highway looks absolutely beautiful, especially with the massive interchange at SH-45.
My question is this will the toll that I pay pay for round trip or is it just one way? I haven't used a toll road yet. I am thinking about it though. I wish they'd build a toll road from Laredo to Brownsville & South Padre Island. I've been down that way before more than once & your always having to go through a bunch of traffic lights before finally getting to the freeway in Mission. Very slow indeed!
85 allows me to do 90, right?? 😂😎 Edit: Does it let me do 100mph without getting pulled over 😂😂 (just asking) I started driving lately... The fastest I've done is 110mph
People are complaining about the tolls but not the $20 you'll spend on gas driving the whole thing at 85 mph. At those speeds you'll get like 20 mpg in a sedan or 15 mpg in an SUV. And on top of that you'll spend more maintaining/fixing your car cause of the increased wear. Do enjoy your 85 mph highways, but the tolls will be the least of your expenses, so don't blow them out of proportion.
Cars are happier while cruising at 85 constantly vs stop and go traffic. For most cars, the difference between 70 and 85 is around 500 rpm, nothing that modern cars cannot handle.
You'll spend 20 dollars on gas to go the entire length of the SH130? You just said an SUV going 85 would get about 15 MPG. To drive on it, it would take about 10 dollars.....
There should be more roads like this. But back East, the thought of a privately owned road with 85 MPH would be abhorrent, even in more rural areas. Because obviously roads must be run by the government charging huge tolls and having 65MPH speed limits so that they can get more revenue through traffic tickets. Privately run roads are better, cheaply and more efficiently run than if all that toll $ goes to gov't beauracrats.
Road is failing its financial targets. Love the 1950’s speed limit signs. Totally worthless as the road seems to be. The thrill might be for one time experience. 50 miles at that speed saves little time plus gas expense plus toll expense.
My gauge reads up to 85mph, so it will be pegged out the whole way from Seguin to Austin. If I wanna go past 85, I will not know how fast I'm going...wait, thanks GPS speedometer. Also riding my motorcycle at that speed the lane stripe will be a solid stripe...
They are building that one in segments. A good chunk of it should be open to traffic this year. It runs from I-10 to U.S 290 and is probably the most important segment because it will relieve the abhorrent traffic on U.S 290. The next three segments (F1,F2 are the only ones I can remember) will start construction sometime this summer-fall and be open to traffic by 2015. So most of the loop should be finished by 2016.
reread what I wrote. Your question makes no sense. The only thing I don't like about this kind of toll road is that it's privately owned. Almost anything can happen on it and no one would be held accountable. What I am talking about is the same thing as the Pennsylvania turnpike, Indiana one too. Brings in a ton of money.....where do taxes- MORE taxes come into play????? Re-read both my comments fully before commenting again. Thank You.
They are nice, yes. France, Spain, Italy and Sweden do also have pretty nice roads. However, you should check out roads in Norway, where I come from. That's in the other end of the scale, to put it that way :P
Toll roads suck! Nowhere in this video does it say how much it costs to drive from point A to point B. There is not much traffic on this road because over-taxed Texans do not want to pay a toll.
I don't think this road has proven to be a success. It was built with the stated purpose of relieving traffic on I-35, but the expected traffic flow on this road just never came, eventually resulting in the private operator defaulting on their debt. And somehow out of that bankruptcy the company got to keep operating the road and Texas tax payers ended up having to foot the bill, which was exactly what the public-private ownership of the road was supposed to avoid. And this isn't the only case of a toll road operator in Texas going bankruptcy having their debt wiped out, and tax payers have been forced to foot the bill.
It's true they should have built this on top .. of I-35 at an elevated level from s.a to Austin ..... .. with maybe a few exits for gas ⛽ that are owned by the investors lol .. and manned check point turn around on both ends of the highway our vice versa entrances.. to make sure people have gas ect and the number of exits they will be approaching ..
Why does Texas refer to highways as IH or SH? While it's not confusing it's not intuitive. You can just say I-35 or TX-130 the way the rest of America does it. Not sure the point they are trying to make. It's never gonna catch on fellas. Also I'm pretty sure there isn't a 1568 mile segment of I-35 in Texas. Wasteful to have a separate line on signs just for the arrow, but hey y'all should feel patriotic paying them tolls!
Stand by! We have Fm, RM, CR, and more. When you have a land mass this big, you use four digits for highway numbers, and still need multiple prefixes. Hence Farm to Market, Ranch to Market, County Road, and more. Sorry if State Highway and Interstate Highway are not to your taste. Maybe stay in the smaller states so you don’t get confused? There are forty-eight to choose from.
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Only 3 mph shy of activating the flux capacitor!
Doc: "Great Scott!"
With the video sped up it looks like they're going 850 mph.
HyperSpify Faster than a passenger jet? Lol no
Lololol
I’d say he’s going 240mph in Time Lapse Speed
yea the video is already sped up
1700 if you make vid speed play 2X
Funny thing, back in 2006 when 80 mph was first introduced on I-10/I-20, a concerned fellow said "What's next? 85? They'll keep going!" And look what happened...
Yeah dude fr
Pretty cool seeing the fastest road in America, loved the partial stack at the end, only in Texas!
Only 85 mph seems to be barely a difference compared to 75 mph. They should have allowed something like 100 mph to make it really attractive.
while in L.A. everyone drives at 85, speed limit 65 is a joke to them.
The US is so vaaaaaast! Amazing highways, landscape and music!
You should come to Europe and do a few tours here ^^
I just got around to finally watching this. Pretty cool to see an 85 MPH limit in the United States, if it it's only for some 41 miles.
I rarely get political on TH-cam, but do you honestly think this roadway is going to be a success? Several other toll road facilities around the US have had to declare bankruptcy, due to low usage. From watching this video, traffic looks almost non-existent at times?
it’s still here today so it’s chill
There’s a lot more traffic now. It’s not much fun when you’re surrounded by semis and it’s pouring rain... ... but this is oddly soothing and hypnotic
The corporation responsible for SH-130 went bankrupt a few years ago.
Austin is the fastest growing,area the road just needs time. In a decade it'll be bumper to bumper.
@@TheCentralTexasRailfan oh hi lol
as a german this looks so freakin slowly haha but i understand for the us it's still fast
Great work Brian! That road is very impressive! And thanks for taking us up the TX45 ramp! Awesome!
I've heard recently the road has been facing some financial trouble, despite the speed limit and thinner traffic. Heck, make it a tourist attraction.. do away with the speed limit and make it the only experimental open speed zone in the country. It worked for Montana for a while, before the insurance lobby got ahold of it.
I like how you give some info about the highway, makes me understand on why it was built and the end process of it is
I'm from Indiana. I drove this road last March and I'm STILL waiting for the bill.
I saw a person vandalizing the speed limit in a residential area where it was 30 was painted to put to 80 XDXD
Great job on this - thanks!
It Blows my Mind how Rural 2-Lane Roads have a 70mph Speed Limit and even better, 75mph.
Texas has the coolest freeways/tollways in America. They have the best freeway designs.I love the freeway/frontage road concept. Besides that stretch of SR 130 seems to be very brand new having been opened in 2012(or late 2011)
Tollways suck
You have a great taste in music! Nice videos!
I had the pleasure of driving on this highway last week. It was a great experience and i plan to do it again the next time I am traveling back to San Antonio. It's well worth the tools.
How much in total tolls did you pay?
Man this road would be so cool to drive on
Definitely a great stretch of road for 85 MPH! Obviously with time-lapsed video, it isn't too obvious that you're going 85, but the experience itself would probably say so. Definitely something I will check out in the future!
Bring your wallet to pay for the toll.
Cool ride, bet the TXDOT engineers get hard-ons creating those flyovers!
those ramps are astounding!
Traffic tickets wern't meant to be a revenue generator they were meant for safety. Unfortunately today's law enforcement abuses the system.
3:00 85MPH and someone was still passing you! Good grief!
I don’t blame them. The road can handle triple digits just fine.
At least 90-110 mph would be more feasible on this highway.
@@cubby091398
Yeah, but insurance companies (with politician hands in their pockets) and people screaming about "tHe ChILdReN!!" wouldn't appreciate that.
That's TX for ya. I got cut off going 91 in a 75 fr
Excellent video! I definitely want to drive this one day!
Same! Although I don't drive fast.. Usually 55 MPH. Luckily not much traffic on the road it seems.
Great video and this puts NJ, DE, and PA turnpikes along with the NY thruway, JFK memorial highway (I-95, 76, 276, 476, DE-1, I-90, 87 & I-287) and the Garden state parkway because these toll roads have 65mph maximum speed limits. For the toll method txtag might be replaced by EZ-Pass because Texas will join the EZ-Pass group by mid-2013 this will allow drivers in NJ, NY, PA, MA, NH, RI, DE, and MD to try TX-130 for the 80-85 mph speed limit.
Well, it's now mid-2019, and there are no EZ-Passes in Texas.
Have traveled this route countless times....it's a rush. SLOWER DRIVERS PLEASE STICK TO THE RIGHT LANE! and caution with Deer and Hogs at night, God forbid you smack on, hold on tight and brace yourself. No complaints, just a part of life given that we built a road in the middle of their home.
Yeah I like the freeway frontage roads in texas... they all have a dedicated left turn lane that spits you right back onto the freeway if you need to get back on or do a uturn. Makes you feel like you wont miss your exit and have to drive 5 miles to turn around
.. that was a great ride - thanks Brian ..
85 MPH ?! my brother in law got nailed doing 120 in this area...!a beary large fine with a court date...! tough teddies...!!!
that’s too bad, the road can definitely handle that speed. speed limit could be 100-110.
Man,I think you videos are real cool.I love videos of Texas...Thanks again!
Nice ride! Was wondering when someone would post a vid of this high-speed highway! VERY NICE!
TX-130/TX-45 tollways must be a short cut to avoid traffic
Wow. That road is really empty. It’s way too expensive to take 130 so no one uses it and I-35 continues to take on all the traffic. 130 is a much prettier drive, but the toll cost is outrageous and you save no time at all. Great video, though. Thanks
85Mp/h= 136.7km/h. Its a good speed. Nice Video
"I feel the need. The need....for speed." ;D
Look at the interchanges in Houston, Texas. They are even higher than the one in this video. Truly a rollercoaster.
I went on one on Beltway 8 (Houston's outer toll loop) and I could see downtown Houston from there.
Great footage and song choice.
I've driven the entire 83-mile stretch and doing 85 mph is totally worth the toll, the reduced mpg and wear and tear to my car. Note: Once you reach the junction of Hwy 45 and 130, the speed limit drops to 80mph and remains that way until you reach I-35 in Georgetown. It is 85mph for the first 50 miles (from the south end of TX130) then is lowered to 80mph for the remaining 43 miles. I absolutely love driving on TX 130, and I can't describe the freedom I feel when I drive on the "Texas Autobahn."
+Pete Pyeatt How strict are the cops down there? Would they still let people go 5-10 over the limit?
+Kansan Gho5t I have yet to see a police car checking radar, and I've driven on SH130 over 10 times. I would say as long as you keep it under 100, you will be fine.
+Pete Pyeatt wow 100? I'd love to see if my car can even reach that.
The ironic part is that road has less safety features than most freeways in Victoria Australia yet they are all signed 70mph while this is 85mph
The toll road had another purpose, and that was to reduce truck traffic in downtown Austin. This failed because most truckers are poor and companies won't pay for toll roads that can be avoided. Great video as always.
No one likes toll roads.
haha cool video, sometimes I go out here and do 120-130 the whole way, it’s privately maintained and in the middle of farmland so police don’t really seem to be out there or care
Judging how people drive around texas, probably was doing 100mph or higher.
Sweet may have to go check it out sometime!!!!!
In November, it will be my first time driving on SH-130. (Visiting Texas from Kansas) Can anyone tell me how strictly the 85 MPH limit is enforced? Where I live, drivers can go up to 10 MPH over the limit and not get pulled over on major highways. This highway looks absolutely beautiful, especially with the massive interchange at SH-45.
Love Kansas highways! :)
In Florida is like 20mph over
The tallest one in the U.S. is in Dallas, Tx. It's called the High Five, at 120 ft. at the tallest point.
I love this 👍😎
the sky's bigger everywhere out west. :)
This ride was great!
haha damn.. I'm from Latvia (Eastern Europe) and we never had such a roads and i guess never will, despite on that my country is in European Union...
Nice video!
My question is this will the toll that I pay pay for round trip or is it just one way? I haven't used a toll road yet. I am thinking about it though. I wish they'd build a toll road from Laredo to Brownsville & South Padre Island. I've been down that way before more than once & your always having to go through a bunch of traffic lights before finally getting to the freeway in Mission. Very slow indeed!
85 allows me to do 90, right?? 😂😎
Edit: Does it let me do 100mph without getting pulled over 😂😂 (just asking)
I started driving lately... The fastest I've done is 110mph
A. Ayush basically
I can do a 100 or 95 here I always drive 10 higher than speed limit
Ayush A. Well if I get ticket for 15 over is not that big deal so it’s I will be going 100 lol
Yes, Of Course
i live in jersey where the speed limits are 65 and everyone drives 85-100 anyway, so
I-35 also comes up where I live in Kansas City, Missouri
People are complaining about the tolls but not the $20 you'll spend on gas driving the whole thing at 85 mph. At those speeds you'll get like 20 mpg in a sedan or 15 mpg in an SUV. And on top of that you'll spend more maintaining/fixing your car cause of the increased wear.
Do enjoy your 85 mph highways, but the tolls will be the least of your expenses, so don't blow them out of proportion.
Cars are happier while cruising at 85 constantly vs stop and go traffic. For most cars, the difference between 70 and 85 is around 500 rpm, nothing that modern cars cannot handle.
You'll spend 20 dollars on gas to go the entire length of the SH130? You just said an SUV going 85 would get about 15 MPG. To drive on it, it would take about 10 dollars.....
I wish Arizona would do a toll on their stretch of the I-40. even the 10 wouldn't be a bad idea!
There should be more roads like this. But back East, the thought of a privately owned road with 85 MPH would be abhorrent, even in more rural areas. Because obviously roads must be run by the government charging huge tolls and having 65MPH speed limits so that they can get more revenue through traffic tickets. Privately run roads are better, cheaply and more efficiently run than if all that toll $ goes to gov't beauracrats.
Texas actually cares about there roads. Is I think will be the first 100mph speed limit road in the us. Probably in 5-10 years though
Road is failing its financial targets. Love the 1950’s speed limit signs. Totally worthless as the road seems to be. The thrill might be for one time experience. 50 miles at that speed saves little time plus gas expense plus toll expense.
It's not so much the high speed limit that saves you the most time as it is avoiding overly congested I 35.
My gauge reads up to 85mph, so it will be pegged out the whole way from Seguin to Austin. If I wanna go past 85, I will not know how fast I'm going...wait, thanks GPS speedometer. Also riding my motorcycle at that speed the lane stripe will be a solid stripe...
I take that route every time I go to San Antonio. Also, have you traveled on I-70 through the Rockies?
Nice road, been on it many times. It is a pity the state and designers did not take it all the way from Sequin to Dallas!
It was not extended because Over-taxed Texans do not like toll roads.
Former Republican Gov. Rick Perry was responsible for the SH-130 toll debacle.
So what's the actual travel time from the interchange with 45 in SE Austin to Seguin?
That interchange looks like a rollercoaster when u come up to it? So how much is it for the whole length of road with a car?
They are building that one in segments. A good chunk of it should be open to traffic this year. It runs from I-10 to U.S 290 and is probably the most important segment because it will relieve the abhorrent traffic on U.S 290.
The next three segments (F1,F2 are the only ones I can remember) will start construction sometime this summer-fall and be open to traffic by 2015.
So most of the loop should be finished by 2016.
CongressBeta That’s a lot of comments...
Very nice video of a great looking highway;BUT Its going to need a lot more traffic to even begin to pay for itself I would think
Good Info, But Why Does Each Word Begin With A Capital Letter?
I Literally Have No Idea Why What So Ever. LOL
I want to drive 125 miles an hour legally!
Seth Elledge Go to Germany
Autonbahn my buddy
The sky really is bigger in Texas, even on a cloudy day
reread what I wrote. Your question makes no sense. The only thing I don't like about this kind of toll road is that it's privately owned. Almost anything can happen on it and no one would be held accountable.
What I am talking about is the same thing as the Pennsylvania turnpike, Indiana one too. Brings in a ton of money.....where do taxes- MORE taxes come into play?????
Re-read both my comments fully before commenting again. Thank You.
Amazing. Practically no cars on the highway.
Easy place for speed traps tho :/ I haven’t been there though so i don’t know if there’s a lot of them,
They are nice, yes. France, Spain, Italy and Sweden do also have pretty nice roads. However, you should check out roads in Norway, where I come from. That's in the other end of the scale, to put it that way :P
this is my goal of life to drive to SH130 Toll
States haven't been allowed to do it in the past but that's changing.
Nice song for this video,
7:52 Thanks For Watching We're At 80 Mphs
2:08 If You Speed Up To 2x Speed That Will Be 90 Mph
Toll roads suck!
Nowhere in this video does it say how much it costs to drive from point A to point B.
There is not much traffic on this road because over-taxed Texans do not want to pay a toll.
See a trend here? 75, 80, 85? They're probably going up to 100 in the future...
+computeruser75 Screw it, it's texas. Residential roads will soon get speed limits of at least 75 mph and highways at 125+ mph.
Hey Screwd, i can't find the exact remix of this song that you are playing. It's not Spencer and Hill remix.
I can't go 5455miles to that highway
There's another toll road near Houston . It's SH 99 when is that road going to be finished?
apart from that 85 mph is only around the recommended speed in Germany, not the limit ^^
try 85 on ice hahaha reccomended speed haha.
2:05 hello speed limit 85
Meanwhile on the garden state parkway and NJturnpike
3:21 find the typo and by typo I mean the first road in texas
I don't think this road has proven to be a success. It was built with the stated purpose of relieving traffic on I-35, but the expected traffic flow on this road just never came, eventually resulting in the private operator defaulting on their debt. And somehow out of that bankruptcy the company got to keep operating the road and Texas tax payers ended up having to foot the bill, which was exactly what the public-private ownership of the road was supposed to avoid.
And this isn't the only case of a toll road operator in Texas going bankruptcy having their debt wiped out, and tax payers have been forced to foot the bill.
It's true they should have built this on top .. of I-35 at an elevated level from s.a to Austin ..... .. with maybe a few exits for gas ⛽ that are owned by the investors lol .. and manned check point turn around on both ends of the highway our vice versa entrances.. to make sure people have gas ect and the number of exits they will be approaching ..
This is the video that got me into TH-cam.
In germany there is no speed limit
And this vid is played back at real speed :-)
Why does Texas refer to highways as IH or SH? While it's not confusing it's not intuitive. You can just say I-35 or TX-130 the way the rest of America does it. Not sure the point they are trying to make. It's never gonna catch on fellas. Also I'm pretty sure there isn't a 1568 mile segment of I-35 in Texas. Wasteful to have a separate line on signs just for the arrow, but hey y'all should feel patriotic paying them tolls!
IH Means Interstate Highway, while SH Means State Highway. I Agree that it is Confusing and Weird
Stand by! We have Fm, RM, CR, and more.
When you have a land mass this big, you use four digits for highway numbers, and still need multiple prefixes.
Hence Farm to Market, Ranch to Market, County Road, and more.
Sorry if State Highway and Interstate Highway are not to your taste. Maybe stay in the smaller states so you don’t get confused? There are forty-eight to choose from.
5:29 90 Mph Per Hour Sign 85 Mphs
Don't Worry 90 Mph Sign In SH130
The Texas Autobahn!
Im sure Germany has better highways. Those autobahns are amazing!
these days everybody is doing 95mph anyways
Anyone else bummed there was no screw music involved here?
I've never seen a "curve" rated at 70 mph. Start at 7:30. But when you're coming off a road with an 85 limit, that does seem slow.
this looks faster than 85...
That's the standard speed limit on European Freeways smh
Toll roads are likely the future . Not sure it's a good idea to encourage higher and higher speeds.