Let's Talk... About San Antonio's Highways

San Antonio is the second largest city in Texas, with a population of 1.49 million.  This city has experienced periods of fast growth since the 1920s.  Since 1990, San Antonio's population has grown by 33 percent.  More people means more cars and trucks driving into and out of the city.  Additional highway miles are being added....

A bridge support waits
for its bridge span.

The bridge to...

The designers know

where it's going.

A GPS is essential for
visitors to negotiate
all of this.

Even with our GPS, which was recently updated, Eric missed turns or received a prompt to turn left when there's no road to the left.  I am hoping that our GPS software includes these new roadways when we return to San Antonio.  I love this city!

I can see a stylized version

of this photo in an art

gallery.

Some exits lead beneath
bridge ramps.

Multilayered bridges

are beautiful to

look at.

The drive home gives
me different vantage
points of today's drive
into San Antonio.

This Miller scrapes up

Asphalt as it moves.

Pieces of blacktop move up

the belt, to be deposited in

 a waiting dump truck.

Road construction also includes recycling and reusing road materials.