A Border Patrol check in dry Far West Texas: Leaving Rio Grande for Van Horn 2015-05-20

0:01-2:25 Leaving downtown El Paso, Texas 2:34 Entering interstate 10 east in downtown El Paso 1:17:00 Sierra Blanca Border Patrol checking station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S... https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?... 1:41:33 Exiting at Frontage Road, Van Horn, Texas URL to playlist of all videos captured on this trip east from Los Angeles, California to Columbus, Ohio:    • 2015-05-18 Los Angeles-Arizona-New Mexico-...   Why do Texas freeways have frontage roads? Cost cuts led to feeder frenzy MARK BABINECK, Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle | September 30, 2007 http://www.chron.com/news/houston-tex... March 1, 2013 by Scott Burton WHAT’S THE POINT OF FRONTAGE ROADS? http://www.roadcrazed.com/whats-the-p... More on frontage roads: One characteristic of Texas's freeways are its frontage roads (also known as service roads, feeder roads, and access roads). Texas is the only state that widely constructs frontage/access roads along its highways even in the most remote areas.[1] Frontage roads provide access to the freeway from businesses alongside, such as gas stations and retail stores, and vice versa. Alongside most freeways along with the frontage roads are two to four lanes in each direction parallel to the freeway permitting easy access to individual city streets. A TxDOT policy change now limits the frontage road construction for new highways, but the existing frontage will remain. New landscaping projects and a longstanding ban on new billboards are ways Houston has tried to control the potential side effects of convenience. Another common characteristic found near Texas overpasses are the Texas U-turns which is a lane allowing cars traveling on one side of a one-way frontage road to U-turn into the opposite frontage road (typically crossing over or under a freeway or expressway) without being stopped by traffic lights or crossing the highway traffic at-grade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpor... A non-Texan blogger's view on Texan frontage roads: Overall we are loving Texas so far, but I hate frontage roads and the highway system! What is up with the frontage roads here?? They're awful! The signage is horrible - I am excellent at navigation with or without a map and this place has me stumped. Today we tried to go to Babies R Us on north Research Blvd. The address is on research blvd, but if you're coming from north 360 south to the store, you can't get to the dang store without accidentally ending up on Mopac, then 2 other wrong frontage roads, and then finally we traveled way south on 183 and looped back around and tried to hit it northbound. And this was our SECOND time going to this Babies R Us! Yesterday we ended up on I35 south coming back from Elgin's pumpkin patch because there was no sign telling us WHEN the 270 split off and where the 2222 picked up until we were just past it. Good news, it was GAMETIME! We figured that out as we entered dead stop traffic, and added 30 minutes to our ride home. Note to self: never go on I-35 during Longhorn gametime. This has happened nearly every time we've gone on a driveabout (which we do frequently as we like to get to know all about the area we've just moved into). We're learning to just laugh about it and add 5 minutes to our estimated time anywhere to pass our desired location and loop back at it from the other direction! Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/austin...