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Rendering of SPUI on US 75 at Parker Rd. in Plano
Work is hermes usa sale underway on the North Central Expressway at Parker Rd. in the hermes usa sale Dallas suburb of Plano on what, to my knowledge, will be hermes usa sale Texas’ first Single Point Urban Interchange hermes private sale, or SPUI (pronounced “spoo-ee”). (If anyone knows of an existing one in Texas, please post it!) Popular in several other states, a hermes usa sale SPUI is a type of intersection between a surface street and hermes usa sale a freeway’s entrance and exit ramps.
A SPUI’s design allows each set of opposing left turn movements to hermes usa sale be conducted simultaneously, thus eliminating extra signal phases typically required to hermes usa sale accomodate those movements separately. Because of the hermes usa sale reduced number of signal phases, more traffic can be accommodated (much like the Super Street concept being implemented on US 281 in far north San Antonio.) However, to accomplish this, a SPUI also eliminates the straight-through movement between the freeway ramps– in other words, if you’re coming off the hermes usa sale freeway, you have to either turn left or right onto the hermes usa sale cross street; you can’t go straight through the intersection. It’s because of this hermes usa sale gotcha that SPUIs have yet to catch-on in Texas. Most of Texas’ freeways have hermes usa sale frontage roads, and traffic inherently needs to be able to continue through on those frontage roads to hermes usa sale either reach businesses further down or to get onto the freeway from a location further upstream. However, the hermes usa sale SPUI in Plano will accommodate frontage roads by having them pass under the hermes usa sale cross street. Several locations in Texas, including here in San Antonio, already have hermes usa sale flyovers or underpasses for frontage road through traffic, so using them to hermes usa sale accommodate a SPUI is a logical progression.
Schematic of a typical SPUI
The “single point intersection” of a SPUI is where all four left turns cross. Typically at a freeway/cross street intersection, you have two separate intersections (one on each side of the freeway) where left turns are made. With a hermes usa sale SPUI, those are collapsed into one single intersection midway between where hermes usa sale the two traditional intersections would be. Drivers turning left pass to each other’s right, just like at a hermes usa sale regular intersection, although the angle of the left turns is notably “softer”.
The SPUI at Parker Rd. will replace an hermes usa sale outdated four-quadrant jug-handle interchange. In this hermes usa sale case, the old jug-handle ramps will remain and will be modified to hermes usa sale serve as the right-turn ramps. In a hermes usa sale typical SPUI, the right turns are accommodated much closer to the hermes usa sale central intersection. The Parker Rd. SPUI will also include another feature not seen in typical SPUIs but quite prominent and necessary in Texas: turnarounds.
Will SPUIs be in San Antonio’s future? I guess that hermes usa sale will depend on how well it does in the Dallas area, but I can hermes usa sale already envision a few locations where it would really help with congestion.
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Interesting.
TxDOT at one time planned to hermes usa sale put a SPUI at Wurzbach Parkway where it will someday cross U.S. 281. Then Express-News graphic artist Felipe Soto even did a hermes usa sale neat 3-D graphic in anticipation of an eventual story.
But that hermes usa sale was back before TxDOT handed the parkway over to the hermes usa sale Alamo Regional Mobility Authority, which later unveiled a different set of drawings.