One of the biggest gripes among San Antonio drivers is that Loop 1604 North, from roughly Bandera Rd. to I-35 on the northeast side, is still just two lanes each way and, as a result, is often congested. It may seem like TxDOT isn’t doing anything about it, but that’s not the case. An expansion of 1604 has been in the works since the last millennium, but has gotten sidetracked for several reasons over the years. Fortunately, there is light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.
Framegrab from dashcam video of work on the SH 151/Loop 410 interchange flyovers
Ask any roadgeek (yes, it’s a thing ) and they’ll tell you that nobody (perhaps with the possible exception of California, blah!) does freeway flyovers like Texas. And in Texas, Houston was once the undisputed King of the Flyover, although Dallas had had a nice collection of big– albeit cookie-cutter– interchanges since the ’70s even before the impressive “High Five” interchange came along in 2005. But while doing a drive through of the abundant road work over in the SH 151 and US 90 areas here in San Ant