![]() ![]() and I also with that Sam Houston beltway would be free. So, my opinion is that the Municipality is doing the wrong thing. Here you just cannot survive witout a car. Plus they don't have as big cities by area as Houston. it could be like in Europe - there, they have a very good tranportation across the cities, so people have the option either to drive or to use a mass transit. I understand that if we had other options of transportation, like trail, buses or underground, the municipality could rise the prices and tolls. I just don't understand, why would they want to make I-10 a tollway? High prices of gas, the additional tolls, and plus no chance of living without a car in Houston - all this can put down mentally anybody. The fact is that the situation with cars and roads getting worse. Oh well, Houston placed itself in the situation it is in so I suppose the chickens are coming home to roost so to speak. Those who will hijack the enterest of the city and millions of others because they don't want to be temporarily inconvenienced. Those who cannot see that the city belongs to ALL OF US. One of the things I like least about Houston is a prominent mentality of those who cannot see beyond their own interests. What happens on one freeway can affect them all. When you choose to live in a Metro area closing in on 6 million residents, the "I only want to pay for a highway if I am personally going to use it" mentality can be dangerous. In a city like Houston where a car is more of a necessity than a luxury and mass transit is clearly a "second thought", covering the city in toll roads is the last thing we need, ESPECIALLY now with gas prices. Not only have the toll amounts increased over the years, but the revenue from the toll roads is going to the financing of the building of additional toll roads across the city.Ĭlearly somone's goal is to have the Houston Metro covered in toll roads and the worst part about it all is it seems there is little that can be done about it. Citizens voted for the creation of the tollway with the perception the tolls will one day be removed after it is paid for. I don't have a problem with toll roads themselves as much as the fact the tolls will not eventually be discontinued or reduced. I recently found out the new Highway 6 overpass over the Katy freeway will ALSO be tolled. The facility will be in operation 24 hours a day with financial incentives provided to HOV 3 users during peak travel times.ĭown with Toll roads in Houston. Drivers will have multiple entrances and exit locations from both the eastbound and the westbound mainlanes of I-10 with two right lanes for general EZ Tag users and a left lane at each tolling location specifically for HOV 3+ drivers. There will be electronic fee collection technology at 3 tolling locations, overhead signage that will indicate which lane drivers should be in based on occupancy, and is dynamically priced to ensure an optimal level of service is maintained at all times. This is an EZ-Tag only facility with an option for HOV 3+ drivers to use the facility free during peak times in peak directions. It exists together within the same corridor as the general-purpose lanes of the I-10/Katy Freeway offering motorists the choice of using the Katy Tollway when time is most valuable. ![]() Other social media posts that use the image have claimed that the image depicts the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway in China, which experienced a major traffic jam around one of its toll booths in 2015.Īlthough Lead Stories could not locate the origin of the image, the color correction, season and other elements of the image are visually similar to images of Russian highways.Question: What is the Katy Tollway and where is it located?Īnswer: The Katy Tollway is an approximately 12 mile long tolling facility that begins west of SH 6 and ends at the I-10/I-610 interchange. In an email to Lead Stories on June 22, 2021, Nancy Singer, a spokeswoman for the FHWA, said: According to a fact sheet from the FHWA, the largest section of the Houston portion of Interstate 10 only spans 12 lanes, far fewer than the highway shown in the Facebook post. ![]() Using Google Images, Lead Stories did not find any authentic images of the Katy Freeway that matched this image. The Katy Freeway is in Houston and is a part of Interstate 10, which runs across the Southern and Western U.S. (Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Tue Jun 22 22:19:11 2021 UTC) This is what the post looked like on Facebook on June 22, 2021: The post featured an image of a highway with dozens of lanes, with a caption that read: The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) published on June 22, 2021. Is an image that depicts a highway with some 20 lanes in each direction a photo of the Katy Freeway in Texas? No, that's not true: Although Lead Stories could not locate the origin of the image, it is not the Katy Freeway, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) confirmed. ![]()
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