cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17221249
Progress: the Katy Freeway in Houston, Texas, spans across 26 lanes making it the worlds widest. The freeway is broken down in to 12 main lanes (six in each direction), eight feeder lanes.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2024
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It's absurdly wide, but I'm calling bullshit on the widest highway in the world. Didn't China have a 50-lane highway?
It's too bad the straddle buses they were considering in China were infeasible. It was the kinda thing you could see from a mile away but you wanted to pretend it would work anyway, because they were too cool.
Edit: OP is misleading or even wrong, depending on how you count access/feeder/frontage roads. The short of it is that the Katy freeway maxes out at 13 lanes, not counting the access/frontage/feeder roads; which, as mentioned in a later reply, probably shouldn't be counted as part of the highway due to Texas' regulation around highways and frontage roads which causes frontage roads to be glorified city streets.
The wide shot I think you’re referencing in China I believe is a toll plaza, thus the 50 lanes.