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I-35 (now called IH-35 for some unknown reason...I'm assuming it is now International Highway 35...fucking political BS) is really hosed in the morning. I only have to go about five miles down the road to get to the exit to the place I've been training, and it takes 25 minutes. Traffic comes to a stop at every entrance ramp (along this stretch, the entrances and exits come off of the parallelling one-way frontage roads) as the traffic attempts to merge into the flow, then it picks up to about 50, until you come to the next ramp, where it stops again. There's about one ramp per mile in the stretch up this way, so you can probably do the math.

I took the frontage road all the way down this morning, but the traffic also comes to a stop on the frontage road as it constricts to one lane before the ramp actually goes to the highway, presumably to discourage last-minute lane changes to get to the ramp. The net result is the same as being on the highway.

The Texas capitol building is gorgeous...