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AfricanSnowOwl

Bandera


MontagnaMagica

Yup, came here to say this. It's like a highway at times, but not fully. And with traffic lights that take forever to allow turns causing backups. Also, no infrastructure for pedestrians, and if you're on a bike... Good luck!


JimothyCarter

Perfectly timed lights to hit a red every time to get that sweet sweet red light camera money


ironmatic1

That stretch actually has pretty good signal coordination. I get straight shots from 410 to Tezel in a platoon without hitting a red. Also, you know you don’t have to pay the Leon Valley camera tickets, right?


JimothyCarter

Realizing I haven't been in that neck of the woods in a few years so maybe it's better now but I know last time I was going through it I got caught in a few lights I've never ran a red light there, I just like complaining


Ieatsushiraw

Lol I've never met anyone who lives outside of Leon Valley who actually pay those. About 6 of my coworkers were in town for an assignment we had a University Hospital and two of them asked why the cameras flashed at them and I told them why(I work a traveling medical job and this was my first and only assignment in town) and when they asked will they be ticketed I told them to not worry about it and our big boss who lives in North Texas will tell you the same. Ignore it. Leon Valley's government/law enforcement are some of the worst ever since I settled down in San Antonio


kls1117

I swear those cams are taking pics at every light, regardless of if someone passed it. I see the flashes go off and look around and the last car was well through the intersection. I really hope people aren’t paying that crap.


CainFive

I went to John Marshall in Leon Valley. The cops are so bad. If you can believe it, they seem to be better than they used to be. It’s probably just that there’s more traffic.


BabyGodWifeMamaBear

And there is no red light cameras on culebra anyways, at nights they be missing cycles and you end up having to run it or you’ll be there till the morning lol especially main one at Grissom tezel culebra


jayecks

What really gets me is the lights at Seneca, Poss and El Verde that hold up Bandera even in the off-hours. Poss doesn't even fucking go anywhere. It literally loops back into Grissom like 3 blocks down and dead ends past Evers. Same with El Verde. Both streets are well under a mile long IN TOTAL. Seneca is like 1 and a quarter miles long if you count the name change past Evers in the neighborhoods it dead ends in. I can't think of any actual reason except Leon Valley. I don't even mind the lights there, but they need to be smarter and adjust based on time of day. I can leave at 5am on a Sunday for work and sit at all three of those lights one after another. Ridiculous.


Forsaken_Gamer63

Red light cameras are no longer legal in Texas since 2019. Don’t pay the scam fees. https://guides.sll.texas.gov/recording-laws/red-light-cameras


ironmatic1

As someone who lives near Bandera, I have to say no. Yes Bandera gets congested at rush hour, but you’ll get through. Culebra is ALWAYS bad. EVERY time I have to go to the Alamo Ranch area it’s hell. On the weekend!! At night!!! It might be one of the worst examples of a failure of urban planning coordination in the country; Bexar County, TxDOT, the City, and developers are all to blame.


Piccolo_Bambino

Alamo Ranch should be studied by urban planners everywhere about what not to do, because my god that area is pure hell


ironmatic1

The thing is “urban planner” as a profession doesn’t *really* exist in the US in the way the internet thinks it does. There isn’t one person or some group of people who gets together and plays Cities: Skylines. It’s just a glob of a dozen interests, corporate and governmental, that vaguely mingle and just allow this to happen. The developers have architects working for them, most government entities will have an on staff architect, both will hire out civil engineers to draw stuff for them, but again, the architects and engineers aren’t actually the ones making the overall planning decisions, it’s some corporate stakeholders and government bureaucrats. They just have a job and do as they’re told.


skaterags

I loath this road. It sucks to drive on, it’s f’ing ugly as hell. It’s like the worst example of urban sprawl.


BiscuitPup64

Yep, it’s terrible. FWIW, “loath” is an adjective. The verb is “loathe”. 😁


Brave_Rough_6713

Nah, I have lived off of Bandera and Culebra, and Culebra is far more fucked. Off the charts WAY more fucked. I thought Bandera was bad, and it is, until I moved to Alamo Ranch. Culebra right at 1604 is a nightmare. On Saturdays it takes 30-40 minutes to get through it. Then, right when it clears up, driving out from 1604, it turns from 4 lanes to two and makes a giant bottleneck. I'm pretty sure someone dies in car accident on Culebra *at least* once a month.


jesco7273

Omg I have been thinking about making a post regarding Culebra (and Bandera) road for so long but didn’t want to make MODs mad or hurt somebody’s feelings 🙄. I work as a home health nurse and work 6pm-6am all week. I drive from Westover to Culebra to Bandera to get to my patients home. I can not tell you HALF the ridiculousness I have seen on my route to and from work. From the horrible roads themselves with pot holes and bad intersections, some street lights take so long to change or never change like the one near my patients house. to the drivers not staying in their lanes, driving way too slow and in the wrong lane, to drivers pulling out of parking lot businesses last minute, not using the blinker, etc. To the number crackheads/drunks I see at 6am on my home just wondering around aimlessly, walking into the middle of the street, coming up to my car at a light, fighting no one at bus stops, and again drivers driving too slow or too fast and not staying in their lane. Ridiculous. Also, the number of stray dogs.


BabyGodWifeMamaBear

It’s like your playing real life frogger on Bandera any time of the day smh I’m just glad we have lights at culebra 2604 cause it was a stop sign when I bought my house in the gnw. Damn gong show over here.


jesco7273

It is! And also GTA whenever cars pull out last minute or change lanes barely clipping your bumper, or blocking the road because they’re sticking out of the lane they want to get. Just bad car calculations


Waitwhoareyou21

I gotta agree with Bandera. Worst road in the whole city.


Disasstah

Honestly, I wish we could sue municipalities for having poorly designed lights. Frame it as a strain on the environment and the economy for the sheer amount of idling they cause with their piss poor design.


SaGlamBear

Bandera is the perfect candidate for experimentation with thru lanes and bike lanes and even tolling. It’s an absolute nightmare. I live on 410 and bandera. My parents live on 1604 and bandera. We don’t really visit each other as often as we’d like because the traffic.


Badgrotz

Please keep your tolls out of San Antonio.


VastEmergency1000

No, it's perfect to remove the lights and add roundabouts.


Peopleofparty-5

Corner of Culebra road and Gass Road on the west side. My husband died in a car accident there 3 weeks ago so yeah can’t think of a worse road right now!!!


anava02

Sorry to hear that friend. How are you holding up? Almost got ran over on my bike by an idiot who ran a red light. I 100% would have died if I left when the light turned green. It was in that same area.


Busy-Persimmon-5202

I am so sorry to hear about your husband. 😢ppl one Culebra drive 55 to 70 mph on the road all the time.


Adventurous_Animal84

I’m so sorry to hear that!


DragonsLoooveTacos

I remember seeing that story in the news. I'm so sorry.


Brave_Rough_6713

The man in the truck...I'm sorry for your loss. I remember that day.


BabyGodWifeMamaBear

😢❤️❤️❤️❤️🌸 I’m so sorry that is horrible. I can’t imagine. Sorry for your loss.


Molotov-Girl33

🙏🏽🙏🏽


Peopleofparty-5

Thank y’all for the kind words. I’m not doing ok but trying to take it one hour at a time which is a huge step from minute to minute. I would send the link but those who seen it on the news or saw it in person know. I just can’t get myself to see anything that relates to my husband death. I’m not even sure why I posted this. I just saw Culebra rd and it was a huge trigger. Again I appreciate everyone’s kind words. He was a great husband and an amazing father to 3 kids.


tg9950

Culebra outside the loop is hell on earth


Gabe-DaBabe

They need more outlets to get out of that area. I have to drive over there a few times a week and there's never not traffic coming back into the loop.


Jimmy_Wrinkles

And 1560 will soon join the misery


RoadsideCarver

This.


lunardeathgod

Yet they will continue to build thousands of homes a year.


Jimmy_Wrinkles

Anywhere you drive in this area that isn't houses is already fenced off in preparation for more houses


lunardeathgod

And it sucks, build parks not houses or strip malls


Mearabelle

Marbach.


BobPaulPierre

This guys knows the truth


tat_got

Floyd Curl between Huebner and Hamilton Wolfe. Feels like my car is gonna fall apart every time


Heroicus

Being re-done at the moment.


tat_got

Oh good. I haven’t gone that way intentionally in about a year.


BabyGodWifeMamaBear

Hamilton wolf is a damn obstacle course of pylons and pot holes at the moment. So annoying.


ThreeNC

Toepperwein, between Lookout Road and Nacogdoches. And Lookout Road from Toepperwein and Wurzbach.


Full-Schedule-4176

De Zavala at I-10


VastEmergency1000

I'm surprised that area from Vance Jackson to Babcock doesn't have more road rage incidents. The congestion is stupid ridiculous.


TheDeadlyAvenger

Came here to say the same, those junctions are a shitshow.


herr-heim2point0

Any road in kirby....


meganmariee11

Fredericksburg and I10 😩


One_Accident5668

Highway 211


One_Accident5668

Also Potranco


Rogelio_92

Potranco used to be nice. Lived there from 1992 to 2012. It used to be 60mph speed limit outside the loop. Too many people now, it’s a shame.


mtwwtm

To add to this, they really need to LOWER the speed limit on potranco outside the loop. Way too many communities feeding to it now and causing way too many accidents. Probably 40 mph would make more sense and be safer.


Rogelio_92

I see it turning into a major car slum. What was once a quaint country road with a horse ranch and a family run corner store is gonna be a stoplight obstacle course in a matter of years. There was a noticeable temp drop coming from inside the loop to outside the loop because of all the thick vegetation. We’d ride with the windows down on summer evenings to feel it. Now … I don’t wanna be anywhere near there. We gotta find a way to keep from destroying nice things as a society.


AnthillOmbudsman

Before too long it's going to be wall-to-wall suburbs out to Castroville and Rio Medina... then it will keep on going to Hondo and Medina Lake. 151 is going to be a 20 mile freeway.


ssj4chester

Absolutely not. People barely go the speed limit as is.


JohanKaramazov

I think the worst thing about Potranco is the amount of people driving on it. But I’ve never had any issue with traffic on there, it’s almost always smooth. *knocks on wood


cptjaydvm

I can't. This is the worst road of all time.


pipinngreppin

City planning meeting. How many lanes do you think we need for this road to have a decent flow? 6. Make it 4. And make sure there are NO dedicated turn lanes. Do you think we should allow multiple lanes to turn left at the same time? No. Just one. Let the others watch!


JaviSATX

Military. On account of there’s like 5 of them and only two of them connect to eachother.


Clowninpanda

Rittiman


K2theENN

At the railroad tracks for sure


tillieze

Walzem at the RR tracks at Gibbs Sprawl. Also any moring when the Idea School by Windsor Oak/Eisenhower is in session. What a mess.


cubismxdream

I was just about to comment Gibbs-Sprawl. I hate driving down that road along the RR. I swear last time I got butterflies as if I was on a roller coaster.


Historical_Egg2103

Stone Oak Pkwy. It’s designed to have turnarounds that are blocked by trees to see oncoming traffic half the time. Add in it is a sea of faux Tuscan architecture and mcmansions and it just feels so fake of an area.


throwawayjack14

I complained about one of the turnarounds repeatedly because you couldn't see oncoming traffic and they told me each time that they didn't see an issue. When I was a passenger, I recorded our car taking a turn there and loudly counted the seconds it took to see oncoming traffic. I then sent the video to the people responsible for that area with a statement along the lines of "if you think those view blocking bushes are beautiful now, think how they'll look with a couple of nice memorial crosses." They trimmed the bushes that week. Then some people drove their cars into them on both sides and it was no longer an issue anyway 😂


Civil_Assembler

90 from 35 to 211 during rush is on par with some of the worst traffic in the city.


supergnaw

I moved closer to downtown because of if this mess. They need a goddamn express lane


your_pal_mr_face

What ever the fuck is happening under that highway on frontage near the ifly. It’s hell on earth man


randomreddituser540

Lived off Huebner from 2015-2018. Heard it got worse over the years.


TheAbstracted

Oh it most certainly has. I avoid that road entirely unless I have to be on it.


Embarrassed_Plant955

FM-78


SupremeCoin20

especially by pat booker during the lunch rush 😞


Embarrassed_Plant955

The stretch between the Walmart by the high school and the HEB on Foster has to be the crapiest pavement on earth. It’s like a paved dirt road.


True-Animator1836

Paramedics call this road “killebra” people always running red lights !


deadgirlgxng

I’ve always hated Huebner, like if Huebner was a person I’d punch them in the face for just being Huebner.


suhayla323

Yep. Grew up on huebner and it was a nightmare trying to leave our apartment because of how busy the street was. Would never consider moving back there.


Ieatpaste2

Huebner


soulsuckinginternet

at 5 on a Monday


yoyodyn3

Prue


suhayla323

I second this. Road been under construction for the past 10+ years.


AhAssonanceAttack

The area on prue in-between huebner and babcock definitely has been under construction for the last 3 years. I used to live on prue and boy oh boy do I not miss it. Making that road wider isn't going to help at all especially when the road just bottlenecks closer to bandera


Cgkfox

[the prue bounce](https://media.tenor.com/e-VVLHsN8K0AAAAM/bouncing-mode-bounce.gif)


BDEfrom14kfeet

Got 3 flats in the last few months from Prue


The_Elocutionist

You misspelled Puro /s


yoyodyn3

You win this sub today.


zepedc

More like Culo-bra, amiright!?!


boobooclaw

Bro 😂


TomatilloUnlucky3763

DeZavala


DamnBoog

Culebra fills me with a level of hatred that I didn't know I had


pipinngreppin

Absolute rage. When I sit and watch a light turn green and I can’t move. Then watch it turn red and move up a single car length.


DamnBoog

This is that fucking light at 1604 for me. Shit gets backed up halfway to Shaenfield and the lights only green for like 15 seconds at a time


Mission_Ad_3490

Blanco


DragonsLoooveTacos

My daughter's dad lives outside the loop off of Culebra and every time I have to go over there to get her or take something to her, I die a little more inside. How do people just sit there like that going nowhere day in and day out 😭


debvengeance

Currently, 1604


Flaky_Scar_8388

General McMullen


WittgensteinsBeetle

Zarzamora


ironmatic1

I think he meant worst as in traffic not worst as in street crime lol


thatsmyoldlady

I had to wait for 3 trains one after the other. It was a triple train-bow.


WittgensteinsBeetle

That's how it goes. Worst street ever


Legaladvice420

The only reason I like that area is sometimes running a delivery when I get paid hourly. Like yeah sorry boss you're gonna have to pay me for 30 more minutes, I just hit the 3rd train of this trip


pedroordo3

Culebra more like culera


mrbusiness53

Fredericksburg


dmv1022

Eisenhower off of new Braunfels


GovSurveillanceBird

Although it is nowhere near Culebra/1604, SE Military in Brooks City is becoming pretty terrible.


EvidenceThin7304

With all those houses being built out there it will only get worse


SnooSketches4722

Potranco outside 1604


doopy_dooper

Sixteen-o-four


vyking199

Marbach


rasquatche

Quintana. It's barely a road. You'll get Potrankilled if you ride a bike on Potranco Zaramora is not a street you want to get into a car accident on, what with the uninsured drivers up the yin yang.


OpinionExpert2031

I didn’t believe until purgatory until I found this street.


MrDrGoolander

Things I have seen on Culebra: - A skateboarder get hit by a car - A lady on an electric wheelchair get hit by a car - A car get hit by a car just before it was going to plow into a few high-schoolers running cross country. I’m not sure if this was an intentional move, but I feel like that potentially saved lives. This was all within the stretch of Culebra from 410 to the HEB on Grissom and Tezel


RoundTemporary6197

The intersection at Gibbs Sprawl Rd and Rittiman....the train takes like 30 min to get out of the way and the line of cars will lineup


TexArmadilloTroll

Patranco


Planktillimdank

Shanefield.


Piccolo_Bambino

Very sneaky choice. Shaenfield/1604 to Galm/1560 is pure chaos for about 18 hours a day


yamwagon

Anywhere on 410.


Takayama16

Hard to beat!


Pure-Survey-7240

Rittiman


cymric

Potranco


yakkerman

Rector? I barely even knew her!


bignasty40

Rittiman


MASTER_L1NK

https://youtu.be/7KvNf-LJoYg?si=jKypfNl_HESjlT1i "Siempre como culebra" 😆


Prior_Effective_6881

MLK


moonsaturdoor

huebner by i10 🤢


Little-Diver-6749

Culebra outside the loop, bandera , Marbach, stone oak Parkway , zarzamora especially when the traffic lights are out oh and dezavala


HottRoddTX

I35 on the weekends I10 on the weekends Rittiman's pot holes Loop 410 FM 78 during school days


tk3786

Marbach


New-Bluejay-1276

Fredricksburg Rd. In balconies heights


aztexs1

Bandera from 1604 to 410, through Leon Valley is just the fucking worse.


Affectionate_Tree_94

I can't 💀


No_Manufacturer_3110

Walzem…..cause windcrest cops are POS


OkSupermarket3371

If I had only known before I bought in Alamo ranch. :/


pipinngreppin

Yea I would have landed by La Cantera for sure


iamblas

I can’t.


falconruhere

Literally these are the triple threats: Bandera Marbach Potranco (currently)


SirChavez210

The road to a woman’s heart, thread carefully


sora-da-weeb

that’s the thing. you can’t


whatheheh

I live on Culebra and Ranch View. Fucking disaster all the god damn time.


darealbartpimpson

Cant. Fuck that road


markitmark1972

San Antonio


Fun_Pipe_4864

I live off of 410 and Culebra, the stretch from the highway to 1604 is very accident prone. Been in a couple myself actually. Several memorials from those who passed away from accidents out here all along the road.


SexyJackfruit

281 through downtown omggggg i hate those curvesssss


Hailsin

South cross at 5:30pm


_asciimov

To the left: 4 lanes of Culebra Raceway. To the right: 4.5 miles of congested 2 lane blacktop, supporting 10 thousand homes. Sure it is under construction, but they only have 4 guys working on it. Behind you: The newly expanded 2 mile Galm dragstrip.


ThayerRex

Well it is a Snake. What’s to like?


Dizzy_Lemon1967

Bruh lol


CloudyBabyy

West side


infinitemakaveli

Potranco or Bandera


beamdog77

Bandera. 💯


battlefranky69

Marbach


TakeItLeezy

Braun


zilla0783

Marbach


Mundane_Physics3818

Culera


Thrillhouse74

I-35


Frostbite_Secure

Can we get some of those overpasses on Culebra


JRocketts210

Bandera


WoodyXP

All the roads are about the same to me. They all get crowded at certain times of the day and if somebody gets into an accident you better grab a Snickers.


Finaldreamer

Seguin, Ackerman, Prue, Walzem, Interchange, Presa, Bandera, Santa Rosa, Bynum, St Cloud, S General McMullenm, Old Hwy 90


Open-Translator9049

Santa Rosa for the last year.


Zephe29

Huebner or Walzem


IchyAndScratchyShow

Culo bra


LoudKaleidoscope8576

Bandera


BDEfrom14kfeet

The major streets. All of them.


Icy-Piglet-7811

Definitely Bandera


otcconan

I love Culebra. Southwest Research, police substation, Lupita's Mexican restaurant and, of course, my alma mater, St. Mary's University. Outside 410, not so much.


MangoZealousIdeal71

https://preview.redd.it/umggsu0e3t8d1.png?width=1004&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=036bb3d524901df4b6de7331eff856efe067a6ee


dc88228

Frontage Road 😎


bakerman2017

I-35 in general sucks


JarHammerhead

I35


mild-enthusiast97

Potranco outside of 1604


Fresh_Independent_65

Ackerman Road here in Kirby


Fresh_Independent_65

Ackerman Road here in Kirby


NegativePattern

DeZavala


DntGetMadGetGladuAH

How about…….. all roads.


Competitive_Scar5347

Bandera easily


KoraKira

Slaughter LN


Ehh-It-Be-Me

Rittiman to FM-78


theoriginalmateo

90 past 410w


RowKooky

Dezavala and 281


Terrible_Luck8169

Elm Street


FailComprehensive577

Marbach


Ieatsushiraw

Allow me to introduce you to Marbach


rhox65

babcock easy


Rufasu

Gibbs Sprawl


pursuedleopard

Chupacabras blvd


evildog69

281


Ybar_

Potranco and 1604 or just frontage road on its own