{"id":295,"date":"2008-06-17T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sprajan.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/17\/weekend-enlightment\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T20:01:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T01:01:38","slug":"weekend-enlightment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/weekend-enlightment\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Enlightment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Often weekend leaves us enlightened. Houston is a wide-spread city, the suburbs are easily 20+ miles from downtown. We are no suburbia people, we want the city life. Luckily for us, we rarely find a need to drive to suburbs unless it is to visit friends which happens quite often.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Most of our friends lived off- 59 South and it was not bad. We made regular trips on weekends and the 20 minute drives were a breeze. But recently we had to venture to taking the famed I-10 almost every weekend.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">You can enlighten yourself about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interstate_10#Texas\">I-10 here.<\/a> But this is what wiki tells us about I-10 in Houston,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">In <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Houston<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">, from the western suburb of <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Katy<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"> to downtown, I-10 is known as the &#8220;<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Katy Freeway<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">.&#8221; This section is currently being widened to as much as 26 lanes (12 mainlanes, 4 lanes of access roads, and 4-6 mid-freeway <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">HOT<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">\/<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">HOV<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"> lanes, not counting access road turning lanes)<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Yeah we have space around in the cowboy country to expand our roads insanely and the expansion just messes up routine traffic. The construction has been going on since 2000 and is not yet complete. And is anticipated to go on another year atleast. With machines that can crush our no-truck, no-AWD, compact sedan, flying bits of concrete and louder-than-thunder thuds I-10 is the perfect death trap.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">But forced to travel on it on weekends, we geared ourselves for the toughie. The first couple of weekends went on quite smoothly and we should not have celebrated too soon. We spend a good hour last Saturday driving from one detour to another as we headed towards home which should normally take us 20 minutes to reach. Stretching our patience to unimaginable extents&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Arrrrrrrrr&#8230;. if you are ever in Houston please take it as a personal warning.. avoid I-10 &#8211; the world&#8217;s most complex interchange is crazy and crowded and you will end up nursing a bad headache!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often weekend leaves us enlightened. Houston is a wide-spread city, the suburbs are easily 20+ miles from downtown. We are no suburbia people, we want the city life. Luckily for us, we rarely find a need to drive to suburbs unless it is to visit friends which happens quite often. Most of our friends lived off- 59 South and it was not bad. We made regular trips on weekends and the 20 minute drives were a breeze. But recently we had to venture to taking the famed I-10 almost every weekend. You can enlighten yourself about I-10 here. But this is what wiki tells us about I-10 in Houston, In Houston, from the western suburb of Katy to downtown, I-10 is known as the &#8220;Katy Freeway.&#8221; This section is currently being widened to as much as 26 lanes (12 mainlanes, 4 lanes of access roads, and 4-6 mid-freeway HOT\/HOV lanes, not counting access road turning lanes) Yeah we have space around in the cowboy country to expand our roads insanely and the expansion just messes up routine traffic. The construction has been going on since 2000 and is not yet complete. And is anticipated to go on another year atleast. 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