{"id":138047,"date":"2026-01-26T01:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/138047\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:44:28","slug":"i-35-revs-ahead-into-texas-top-10-most-congested-highways-roadways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/138047\/","title":{"rendered":"I-35 revs ahead into Texas&#8217; Top 10 most congested highways, roadways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pack some patience on your next commute: One of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/traffic\/article\/texas-most-dangerous-roads-21292451.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas&#039; notorious interstates;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Texas&#8217; notorious interstates<\/a> is also one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/traffic\/article\/texas-top-congested-roadways-19950717.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:most congested roadways across the Lone Star State.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">most congested roadways across the Lone Star State.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute, in partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation, unveiled late last year its <a href=\"https:\/\/static.tti.tamu.edu\/tti.tamu.edu\/documents\/umi\/most-congested-in-texas-2025.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:roundup of the 100 busiest roadway\u00a0segments across Texas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">roundup of the 100 busiest roadway\u00a0segments across Texas<\/a> &#8211; and one of Austin&#8217;s worst stretches of traffic crept its way into the Top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Unsurprisingly, the report found Harris County&#8217;s West Loop Freeway and Interstate 610 experienced the worst congestion levels statewide, with a specific emphasis on the segment running from the Katy Freeway, I-10 and U.S. Hwy. 90 to the Southwest Freeway, U.S. Hwy. 59 and I-69. That segment maintained its No. 1 standing from both 2023 and 2024, with the latest estimates anticipating an annual congestion cost of $166.3 million due to the traffic holdups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the greater Houston area dominated the rankings, claiming seven out of the Top 10 spots, Austin&#8217;s I-35 reared its head and revved ahead to stake out a No. 9 ranking. The Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute found I-35&#8217;s nearly eight-mile segment between U.S. Hwy. 290 and\u00a0RM 2222 down to Ben White Boulevard and State Hwy. 71 featured an annual congestion cost encroaching $206.5 million; however, its 2025 ranking represented an improvement from past years&#8217; figures, where the interstate corridor earned No. 3 and No. 4 congestion rankings in 2024 and 2023, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That same corridor correlates with the ongoing I-35 Capital Express Central Project, an approximately $4.5 billion, eight-mile project slated to widen and overhaul the Texas&#8217; capital interstate segment near downtown Austin. Construction on that undertaking began in October 2024 and is expected to run through 2033, based on current project timeline estimates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Austin&#8217;s I-35 portion wasn&#8217;t the only part of the interstate to earn a Top 10 congestion ranking in Texas. Northward in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Tarrant County&#8217;s North Freeway, I-35W and U.S. Hwy. 287 interchange, running from State Hwy. 83 to I-30, nabbed the No. 8 rank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/traffic\/article\/texas-most-congested-roads-21297078.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:I-35 revs ahead into Texas&#039; Top 10 most congested highways, roadways;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">I-35 revs ahead into Texas&#8217; Top 10 most congested highways, roadways<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pack some patience on your next commute: One of Texas&#8217; notorious interstates is also one of the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58460,7209,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-138047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-interstate-highway-35","tag-lone-star-state","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}