I love seeing all the old cars. I forgot what a highway looked like that wasn't filled with cookie cutter SUVs.

@rustyshackleford6637

Жыл бұрын

Look at all these big ol cars

@CentralTexasRailJetProductions

8 ай бұрын

Real Cars, GM A, B, G Bodies, the Trucks, some nice Ford and Mopar alternatives as well. The only exception to this rule is the Corvette, all eight generations of being nothing but simply a beauty on wheels.

I love to see those old cars again

@henrystowe6217

6 ай бұрын

They weren't that great. A lot of them were sluggish

0:38 turns out it did take (about) two decades from the time of this footage in 1978; the North Central Expressway reconstruction south of I-635 was completed in 1999. The High Five Interchange between I-635 and US-75 was completed in 2005.

@thelastdon6562

9 ай бұрын

Yep

Even a few 50s cars still rolling around at that time.

Trying to merge onto 75-Central in the 80s involved a lot of praying.

In the 1970's rode up and down Central daily on a motorcycle. I sure wouldn't do that now.

@telcobilly

Жыл бұрын

I did too starting in '79 on a '78 XT500. I had a ton of close calls then. Later, I had a Suzuki GS 750 so keeping up and passing traffic back then was easy. I'd be a little nervous now to ride on Central these days.

@stephendavidbailey2743

Жыл бұрын

@@telcobilly I was on a Honda CB175 with 15 ground shaking horsepower. Rode it to Austin regularly too.

I lived off of the Meadow exit off of Central in '79-'80. 2br apt back then was $185pm. I was just down the street from the first Chili's on the corner of Meadow and Greenville. What a blast from the past!

@henrywal

Жыл бұрын

No more Chilli's which was the original

@TSeeker1

27 күн бұрын

Me too, in 1987-1989. I loved that area, all the grills, taverns along Greenville - great food and drinks!

@larryrobbins5795

25 күн бұрын

Yes, River falls complex on Stone canyon 1980. $185 furnished 1 bedroom. Those were the days .

@TSeeker1

25 күн бұрын

@@larryrobbins5795 The best! 👍

legend has it that those teens at 2:09 and 2:32 are still there to this day changing that tire...

Wow, at 1:34 that is the famous Scott Pelley who would later be on CBS News. I knew it right when he started talking. The transcript has his name misspelled as he clearly says his name is Scott Pelley when the segment concludes. This is cool. You don’t see network level TV personalities in their old roles very often.

@tomloft2000

Жыл бұрын

He was at channel 4, which then was the CBS affiliate.It's now a Fox channel.

@lisasdfwhightechworld9946

7 ай бұрын

Bill O'Reilly did time in Dallas also.

Almost unrecognizable from the post-1992 NCX. Great footage!

75 flowed better then than it does now...

I remember getting stuck 4 hours on 75 while under the new expansion in the late 80s. Bunch of us played hacky sack until they removed center gaurd rail.

75 is backed up from McKinney to Dallas during rush hour now.

@REPORTEVERYLIBERALCOMMENT

Жыл бұрын

I lived on Fitzhugh right by the 75 and can confirm this lol

@GSM92

Жыл бұрын

Why

@REPORTEVERYLIBERALCOMMENT

Жыл бұрын

@@GSM92 All of the Californians that escaped to infect Texas with their liberal poison. They are jamming it all up.

@lucifermorningstar411

Жыл бұрын

@@GSM92 population boom.

@larrysutton925

Жыл бұрын

And it's now like 5 lanes wide and is still congested! Another reason I moved out to the country in east Texas a couple of years ago.

I spent the first part of my life living in Lucas. Back when that section of 75 was still rural highway.

Wow, how far Dallas’ skyline has grown

Almost all, 90%+ USA made cars... few BMWs, Mercedes, etc. Good days for sure..!

I remember Central in the 80s with those short on ramps. I was living in Houston by the time it was rebuilt in the 90s. It was much better when I moved back in 2008 but ended up leaving Texas a few years later and I hear it's backed up a lot now.

@kyergilreath2130

Жыл бұрын

It’s terrible…

The entire time I lived in Plano 1980-1993 there was consistent construction on I75 and that didn't include the California style sweeping off and on ramps or the Bush tollway project. One big improvement was lengthening of the sudden on and off ramps. and redesigning the two way service roads.

@bajamike9276

Жыл бұрын

OMG yea, I remember those murder/suicide ramps!!!

@davestewart2067

Жыл бұрын

It should be I-45, all way north to Big Cabin.

That was awesome! Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

Please post more of this. Thank you

@Yandelvillegas

Жыл бұрын

It’s not like what 😮 u expect bro like please shut the f 🆙 up bro 😎

Ahh the days of a stoplight at the entrance ramps! There sure were a LOT of pintos then, I guess most of them just blew up.

@elmobolan4274

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, then u had to floor it and say ur prayers as u merged into traffic....

@Rockstopmotion

Жыл бұрын

Chicago still has a few

@rocknroller77

Жыл бұрын

They're all over here in Southern California. Of course 90% of "drivers," never pay attention to them and do whatever the hell they want to do anyway

@mariosanchez-sj9yv

Жыл бұрын

I don't see any chevy novas

@PlayWaves1

6 ай бұрын

Says the guy with an MGB? You should be used to unreliable cars.

I remember the construction started around 93 or 94 from downtown up to Walnut Hill Lane exit. Central Expy was rebuilt from Walnut Hill through Plano by then.

I still remember those times I'm the 80s. Slot of older cars didn't age well and you'd here mufflers dragging every so often.

@vidpie

Ай бұрын

There used to be a lot of muffler and transmission shops that I never think about now.

I remember when the tore up the Houston & Texas Central Railroad to build this.

@MFXdump

Жыл бұрын

If they did, then it was rebuilt east of the freeway. The Dart rail was built on it in 1995 when Southern Pacific stopped running through freights on it after a large washout occurred south of Lake Lavon in 1992. An army corp of engineers screw up at the dam. I have heard that the North Dallas Tollway was built on an old cotton belt line that went south from Addison to Dallas. You can easily see that one on satellite maps. A short spur of it still exists from just north of Beltline Road southward maybe a mile and a half.

@frankschultz4170

Жыл бұрын

​@@MFXdump OK - the H&TC was merged into the T&NO in 1934 and I have a 1936 map of Dallas showing it as such. The line was abandoned from Ellsworth Ave. (just south of Mockingbird Ln.) to downtown and US 75 a/k/a Central Expressway which was so named in honor of the H&TC which was built on the grade. At the time of the construction, we lived next to the SMU campus on the east side and I remember seeing the excavations for the overpasses. As an aside, there was a mechanical interlocking tower which controlled the crossing of the H&TC and M-K-T. Many years later, we lived on Park Lane between Midway and Inwood, and I would ride my bicycle over to Preston Center, crossing the Cotton Belt track. There was a concrete passenger platform on the east side of the line just south of Northwest Highway and I remember seeing a passenger train with a steam locomotive stopped at it. Years after the tollway was built, the track remained in Lovers Lane for quite some time. And yes, the toll road is built on the Cotton Belt grade to just south of 635. As another aside, I had a little part-time job with a friend of mine in the ‘70s on a derailment crew with a 100-ton Holmes high-rail wrecker. We had a job in Addison picking-up and rerailing some box cars that had gone on the ground on a curve on what remained of the Cotton Belt line. The things we do when we are (kinda) young and stupid… As yet another aside, before DUT was built in 1916, the H&TC had a depot just east of downtown (it was still there into at least the '60s - maybe ‘70s). There is or was a brick commercial building whose west wall was curved to accommodate the line going into the east-west yard and depot. As I seldom get to Dallas these days, I don’t know what remains or how things have changed. In the '60s, I was a Towerman at DUTCo and worked both the North and the South towers (ran some of the last passenger trains into and out of Dallas). The track board in the North Tower had the SL-SWofT (Cotton Belt) terminal lead tracks and occupancy lights painted out. An old Towerman told me that the Cotton Belt trains had to come in fast over the double-slips or the long-wheelbase 4-8-4 locomotives would derail if the engineers were overly-cautious and came in too slow. I have some Cotton Belt passenger ticket stubs someplace salvaged from the trash. There: More than you ever wanted to know… By the way, there is an excellent channel devoted to regional railroad historical photos and videos: www.youtube.com/@timetable5245 I have more comments there.

@MFXdump

Жыл бұрын

@@frankschultz4170 Sure. Really nice.

@Mark-uv6sm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the history and information,My father had told me some of what you printed but over time I've forgotten, Thanks,My memory has been refreshed

"Central Expressway has some of the worst traffic in the US" 495, 395, and 295 in DC: "Am I a joke to you?"

I came for the cars...

Its amazing how slow traffic was moving back then even when the road wss not at capacity. 55 mph speed limit was no good.

@PlayWaves1

6 ай бұрын

People commonly drove 5-10 over the speed limit just like they do now. There was less traffic back then so commute times would be shorter then they are now.

You know those people who say they were "born in the wrong generation" and "wish they could live back in the 80's or 90's"? Well, I'm not really one of those people in the slightest sense of the word, but if someone asked me if I wanted to visit the 70's, 80's, and 90's each for a week respectively (with a car, ability to legally drive, and bring back anything from then with me back to now) I'd take that up in a heartbeat. I'd love to drive down the old freeways with colourful and unique traffic, visit the Twin Towers and see the stunning views from the top, maybe even buy a 32x and a copy of Knuckles Chaotix before they both became expensive and rare. If only...

I’m here to see the cars…❤

They had relative number back then with the rush hour frequency. Today a whole central is needed just for the three wheelers and to add to it they gave it a go go look last winter. If these numbers keep coming up you will need a commute rail tracker and a low dive steeper cliff just to get to the downtown.

I drove that stretch during the high 5s being built

How the hell did this end up in my feed? I have never even been to Dallas

@ChatGPT1111

Жыл бұрын

I don't know. I never even watched Dallas 😂

@Westhamsterdam

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

It's sad to think that a lot of these cars seen in this video are just rotting away in a barn somewhere now

I drove that road on a few of those days one being the Wednesday in 1985, it was the 17th not the 16th of July, I had a crash that day.😭

Happy birthday 🎂

So funny watching this. 2 things always come true: 1: by the time they come up with a good "plan", that plan is 20 years out of date by the time the changes are implemented. 2: they always take away the things that actually work, I.E. those two ladies who took the Lovers Lane ramp. Anyone remember the left exit off 30 for Industrial/Riverfront? Best way to get to Sterrett when you had jury duty. Now it's gone, and they force you to jump thru hoops to get there. 🙄

Back in the day when most of the semis you saw on North American roads were cabovers.

Pretty sure I saw my mom in her blue Ford Falcon on her way to work at Northpark Mall.

Even back in 1970s rush hour traffic was bumper to bumper…hmm, like now

3:13 first generation Mazda RX7 :))

2:03 I need that version of happy birthday now!!! help me somebody!

At least it looks a lot nicer now

US 75 in Dallas Texas

Chicago ben unde construction since 1850 we need to keep busy walsh construction and Kenny with kickbacks

My brother's bestie was killed in a DUI crash the night before on 2/13/1986(Thu). He rode with the drunk driver who fled the scene.☹️🥺

I remember those terrible short on ramps on Central Expy. It was 3 lanes on each side until you got past Mockingbird Ln. Then it went to 2 lanes on each side. It sucked.

@trevorjameson3213

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, I remember that well! I was driving up and down Central every day for work from '78-'89. It was absolutely horrible! And now it's still horrible but at least it looks really nice. Lol

Need some of this for San Antonio freeways

@davestewart2067

Ай бұрын

Seen the “1604” loop lately? They’re getting some, not enough finally. 1604 should have been upgraded to an Interstate loop years ago.

I looked at the 80's to see if I saw myself.

Big hoop earrings, giant curly hair, big round sunglasses, looong collars, yup... this was the 70's for sure. I lived really close to the 635 and 75 mixmaster and went to the Gemini Drivein movie theater a LOT. Had a whole lot of fun there as a young adult back in the late 70's and early 80's. I was 17 and had my own apartment. I was growing weed in the creek behind my apartment.

@stephendavidbailey2743

Жыл бұрын

Me too, except the greenery.

Sad they didn’t follow through with the transit system… maybe there wouldn’t be so much traffic till this day

@henrystowe6217

Жыл бұрын

Doubtful.

@henrystowe6217

Жыл бұрын

We like our cars.

@toreall101

Жыл бұрын

@@henrystowe6217 perhaps because we’ve had no choice for over a century so we can’t conceptualize a life without it.

@daveassanowicz186

Жыл бұрын

​@@henrystowe6217fukk cars

@trevorjameson3213

Жыл бұрын

Nobody wants to ride public transportation with all the nasty bums and thugs. That's why everyone drives instead.

The speed limit was 55 or 60 back then...lol Was there road rage back in those days ?

Car Dependency is a Hell of a drug

@davestewart2067

Ай бұрын

Better than being shoved into an archology by a far left government

i see they were cutting each off back then too.

When I was a teenager I met a woman who remembered the day Central Expressway opened, and it was obsolete that day.

@trevorjameson3213

Жыл бұрын

My Dad used to ride his scooter from north Dallas to south Dallas on Central Expressway back in '55 or so. He said there was very little traffic on it back then, and the land was all farmland north of Lovers Lane. So Dallas ended at that point, just past University Park, and after that it was nothing but crops and fields.

1:20 Tootsie!

Those roads with the black oil stripe, don't see that much today! Much more dangerous to motorcycles back then.

"Ramp metered when flashing" -- So it wasn't just Houston freeways that had this

If you don’t mind me asking, where I can view these old news archives?

@dand.5376

Жыл бұрын

texashistory.unt.edu/ Play around with the search functions. If you search for "Central Expressway" a lot of news and videos come up. It's amazing how many news stories there were about it.

@MF_ZOOM214

Жыл бұрын

@@dand.5376 thanks for the tip!

35 took that title

This is funny to see 😅😆😆😆

isnt there a song or something that has been repeated over and over again where ive heard the first few sentences????????

Why is there almost no room to accelerate or merge in the merging lane?? Is it still like that today?

@dand.5376

Жыл бұрын

They fixed that problem when they widened it in the 1990s.

@jaylucien669

Жыл бұрын

Think that's bad, they used to have stoplights on those on ramps. Also, Dallas drivers have never grasped the concept of the "zipper merge." There're always too many scaredy-cats, that just don't understand that accelerating to get on the freeway is both far safer and more practical than slowing down and/or breaking. We all learn this in Drivers Ed but for whatever reasons, that just doesn't seem to compute here with Dallas drivers.

@sarayoung9395

Жыл бұрын

@@jaylucien669 They showed the stoplights in the video, yeah that's quite bad compared to Minnesota ramps, you get plenty of room to accelerate even with the ramps that have stoplights, nothing like this video shows.

@telcobilly

Жыл бұрын

I rremember those short onramps. It was the big joke in Dallas back then. Try merging with a '65 Chevy farm truck with a straight 6 and 3 on the tree like I had..At least there wasn't nearly as much road rage in the 70s/80s...

@robertfarrar6212

5 ай бұрын

@@telcobilly I moved to Dallas Summer '84 from Atlanta, Tx. (south of Texarkana). Dallas was the first big city I'd driven in; '56 Chevy, straight 6, three on the tree. I was mortified...I learned real quick..go! Especially on-ramps. I'll never forget merging I-30 to LBJ that day!

think i saw jr ewing 🤣

@henrystowe6217

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748

Жыл бұрын

@bb-gc2tx, it sounds VERY SCARY to be getting followed by him, regardless of whether it's day or most nerve-wracking, night time.🚘😨🤠 J.R. Ewing would highly likely follow you on the road, so in such a case, you're TEXAS-SIZED EFFED! 😮

Looks like Peter griffin got a flat tire.

What I think is maybe more needed is better mass transit infrastructures, no matter how many freeways you build, you will still have big traffic jams.probably too late now for most major urban areas in the US

Where's the tornado?

Thankfully, Dallas resolved all their issues with roads and traffic. 😐

@trevorjameson3213

Жыл бұрын

Lol.. yeah. But hey at least the freeways are mostly modern and new now.

@karlhungus5554

Жыл бұрын

@@trevorjameson3213 True. I'm sure they're better than many other places. I'm no longer in Dallas, but when I first moved there years ago, they were working on I-75. When I left 11 years later, they were still working on it. It seems they were perpetually working on many roads. By the time they got from one end to the other, it was time to turn around and start working back in the opposite direction. A lot of infrastructure is falling apart in some other states I've visited.

Dallas is bunk 🤘🏼

Looks more like LA greater area traffic

@ChatGPT1111

Жыл бұрын

Except L.A. had twice as many lanes by then. Dallas could be a suburb of L.A. 😂

No one tailgating

Slabs everywhere….

@2:55 look at how surreal that shot is. ever wonder why boomers are so absurd? look at that. that was "reality".

@dand.5376

Жыл бұрын

Curious exactly what you mean by this. I'm not a boomer. I'm Gen X. But I remember this reality.

Dallas is so prissy: "expressway" indeed. Just call it a freeway, like the peasant folk in the rest of the South and West.

@johnd8167

Жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that "expressway" was an early term for what most now call and label as "freeway"s. The original part of Central pre-dates the other big highways in the area. If Central had come along later, like most of the rest of the big highways, it probably would have had a "freeway" name.

2:09 Gen Z? hahahahahaha

Dallas is a shithole now. Glad I live in Fort Worth.

The 'Happy Birthday' rendition to a highway is typical lamestream media cringe.

Before this immigrants got to USA