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 UA-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.
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.
@@cubby091398 Yeah, but insurance companies (with politician hands in their pockets) and people screaming about "tHe ChILdReN!!" wouldn't appreciate that.
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.
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)
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.....
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
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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
No, but you can now use the Oklahoma PIKEPASS and the Kansas K-TAG on all toll roads in Texas. Put more specifically, the TxTag, TollTag, EZ TAG, PIKEPASS and K-TAG all work on any toll road where any one of them works, and they all get the same discounted rates for electronic tag use. It is said that more are to come.
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.
Only 3 mph shy of activating the flux capacitor!
Doc: "Great Scott!"
Pretty cool seeing the fastest road in America, loved the partial stack at the end, only in Texas!
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
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.
Great work Brian! That road is very impressive! And thanks for taking us up the TX45 ramp! Awesome!
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 like how you give some info about the highway, makes me understand on why it was built and the end process of it is
Great job on this - thanks!
I'm from Indiana. I drove this road last March and I'm STILL waiting for the bill.
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 UA-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
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.
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.
It Blows my Mind how Rural 2-Lane Roads have a 70mph Speed Limit and even better, 75mph.
those ramps are astounding!
.. that was a great ride - thanks Brian ..
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
Man,I think you videos are real cool.I love videos of Texas...Thanks again!
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
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.
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
as a german this looks so freakin slowly haha but i understand for the us it's still fast
I saw a person vandalizing the speed limit in a residential area where it was 30 was painted to put to 80 XDXD
Nice ride! Was wondering when someone would post a vid of this high-speed highway! VERY NICE!
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.
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.
TX-130/TX-45 tollways must be a short cut to avoid traffic
"I feel the need. The need....for speed." ;D
Cool ride, bet the TXDOT engineers get hard-ons creating those flyovers!
I love this 👍😎
Traffic tickets wern't meant to be a revenue generator they were meant for safety. Unfortunately today's law enforcement abuses the system.
Sweet may have to go check it out sometime!!!!!
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
This ride was great!
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
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
85Mp/h= 136.7km/h. Its a good speed. Nice Video
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.
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.
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?
The tallest one in the U.S. is in Dallas, Tx. It's called the High Five, at 120 ft. at the tallest point.
So what's the actual travel time from the interchange with 45 in SE Austin to Seguin?
Nice video!
the sky's bigger everywhere out west. :)
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!
I take that route every time I go to San Antonio. Also, have you traveled on I-70 through the Rockies?
Judging how people drive around texas, probably was doing 100mph or higher.
I-35 also comes up where I live in Kansas City, Missouri
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 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.
There's another toll road near Houston . It's SH 99 when is that road going to be finished?
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
Hey Screwd, i can't find the exact remix of this song that you are playing. It's not Spencer and Hill remix.
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.....
The sky really is bigger in Texas, even on a cloudy day
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
7:52 Thanks For Watching We're At 80 Mphs
Good Info, But Why Does Each Word Begin With A Capital Letter?
I Literally Have No Idea Why What So Ever. LOL
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.
States haven't been allowed to do it in the past but that's changing.
I wish Arizona would do a toll on their stretch of the I-40. even the 10 wouldn't be a bad idea!
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.
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
2:08 If You Speed Up To 2x Speed That Will Be 90 Mph
2:05 hello speed limit 85
3:21 find the typo and by typo I mean the first road in texas
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...
Meanwhile on the garden state parkway and NJturnpike
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
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...
5:29 90 Mph Per Hour Sign 85 Mphs
Don't Worry 90 Mph Sign In SH130
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...
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
And this vid is played back at real speed :-)
this is my goal of life to drive to SH130 Toll
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,
I want to drive 125 miles an hour legally!
Seth Elledge Go to Germany
Autonbahn my buddy
how much roughly do you pay to use this?
Zac Dw about $12 if you were to drive the whole thing. I only use it if traffic on I35 is really bad, but for a few bucks you can hop on and off
@@contrail33 You mean they'd charge you to get off to go to one of MC Donald's restaurants that I saw during this video?
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.
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
Can you use EZPass on this?
No, but you can now use the Oklahoma PIKEPASS and the Kansas K-TAG on all toll roads in Texas. Put more specifically, the TxTag, TollTag, EZ TAG, PIKEPASS and K-TAG all work on any toll road where any one of them works, and they all get the same discounted rates for electronic tag use. It is said that more are to come.
Nice song for this video,
This is the video that got me into UA-cam.
I can't go 5455miles to that highway
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.
In germany there is no speed limit
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.
Except where I live (Southern California)
1:40 speed limit 75 currently
I found it, Max graham & Proculture remix
The Texas Autobahn!
this looks faster than 85...
Toll roads are likely the future . Not sure it's a good idea to encourage higher and higher speeds.
these days everybody is doing 95mph anyways
apart from that 85 mph is only around the recommended speed in Germany, not the limit ^^
try 85 on ice hahaha reccomended speed haha.
I would never move to a place that has tolls.
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.