Only 3 mph shy of activating the flux capacitor!

Funny thing, back in 2006 when 80 mph was first introduced on I-10/I-20, a concerned fellow said "What's next? 85? They'll keep going!" And look what happened...

With the video sped up it looks like they're going 850 mph.

Pretty cool seeing the fastest road in America, loved the partial stack at the end, only in Texas!

Great work Brian! That road is very impressive! And thanks for taking us up the TX45 ramp! Awesome!

I just got around to finally watching this. Pretty cool to see an 85 MPH limit in the United States, if it it's only for some 41 miles. I rarely get political on KZfaq, but do you honestly think this roadway is going to be a success? Several other toll road facilities around the US have had to declare bankruptcy, due to low usage. From watching this video, traffic looks almost non-existent at times?

I like how you give some info about the highway, makes me understand on why it was built and the end process of it is

The US is so vaaaaaast! Amazing highways, landscape and music! You should come to Europe and do a few tours here ^^

Only 85 mph seems to be barely a difference compared to 75 mph. They should have allowed something like 100 mph to make it really attractive.

while in L.A. everyone drives at 85, speed limit 65 is a joke to them.

I've heard recently the road has been facing some financial trouble, despite the speed limit and thinner traffic. Heck, make it a tourist attraction.. do away with the speed limit and make it the only experimental open speed zone in the country. It worked for Montana for a while, before the insurance lobby got ahold of it.

Great job on this - thanks!

I'm from Indiana. I drove this road last March and I'm STILL waiting for the bill.

You have a great taste in music! Nice videos!

those ramps are astounding!

It Blows my Mind how Rural 2-Lane Roads have a 70mph Speed Limit and even better, 75mph.

.. that was a great ride - thanks Brian ..

Man this road would be so cool to drive on

I saw a person vandalizing the speed limit in a residential area where it was 30 was painted to put to 80 XDXD

Nice ride! Was wondering when someone would post a vid of this high-speed highway! VERY NICE!

Look at the interchanges in Houston, Texas. They are even higher than the one in this video. Truly a rollercoaster. I went on one on Beltway 8 (Houston's outer toll loop) and I could see downtown Houston from there.

Texas has the coolest freeways/tollways in America. They have the best freeway designs.I love the freeway/frontage road concept. Besides that stretch of SR 130 seems to be very brand new having been opened in 2012(or late 2011)

as a german this looks so freakin slowly haha but i understand for the us it's still fast

Man,I think you videos are real cool.I love videos of Texas...Thanks again!

Yeah I like the freeway frontage roads in texas... they all have a dedicated left turn lane that spits you right back onto the freeway if you need to get back on or do a uturn. Makes you feel like you wont miss your exit and have to drive 5 miles to turn around

Excellent video! I definitely want to drive this one day!

I had the pleasure of driving on this highway last week. It was a great experience and i plan to do it again the next time I am traveling back to San Antonio. It's well worth the tools.

Cool ride, bet the TXDOT engineers get hard-ons creating those flyovers!

Great video and this puts NJ, DE, and PA turnpikes along with the NY thruway, JFK memorial highway (I-95, 76, 276, 476, DE-1, I-90, 87 & I-287) and the Garden state parkway because these toll roads have 65mph maximum speed limits. For the toll method txtag might be replaced by EZ-Pass because Texas will join the EZ-Pass group by mid-2013 this will allow drivers in NJ, NY, PA, MA, NH, RI, DE, and MD to try TX-130 for the 80-85 mph speed limit.

Definitely a great stretch of road for 85 MPH! Obviously with time-lapsed video, it isn't too obvious that you're going 85, but the experience itself would probably say so. Definitely something I will check out in the future!

Sweet may have to go check it out sometime!!!!!

I love this 👍😎

"I feel the need. The need....for speed." ;D

In November, it will be my first time driving on SH-130. (Visiting Texas from Kansas) Can anyone tell me how strictly the 85 MPH limit is enforced? Where I live, drivers can go up to 10 MPH over the limit and not get pulled over on major highways. This highway looks absolutely beautiful, especially with the massive interchange at SH-45.

85Mp/h= 136.7km/h. Its a good speed. Nice Video

TX-130/TX-45 tollways must be a short cut to avoid traffic

3:00 85MPH and someone was still passing you! Good grief!

This ride was great!

I-35 also comes up where I live in Kansas City, Missouri

85 MPH ?! my brother in law got nailed doing 120 in this area...!a beary large fine with a court date...! tough teddies...!!!

the sky's bigger everywhere out west. :)

Nice video!

haha cool video, sometimes I go out here and do 120-130 the whole way, it’s privately maintained and in the middle of farmland so police don’t really seem to be out there or care

The tallest one in the U.S. is in Dallas, Tx. It's called the High Five, at 120 ft. at the tallest point.

Have traveled this route countless times....it's a rush. SLOWER DRIVERS PLEASE STICK TO THE RIGHT LANE! and caution with Deer and Hogs at night, God forbid you smack on, hold on tight and brace yourself. No complaints, just a part of life given that we built a road in the middle of their home.

So what's the actual travel time from the interchange with 45 in SE Austin to Seguin?

My question is this will the toll that I pay pay for round trip or is it just one way? I haven't used a toll road yet. I am thinking about it though. I wish they'd build a toll road from Laredo to Brownsville & South Padre Island. I've been down that way before more than once & your always having to go through a bunch of traffic lights before finally getting to the freeway in Mission. Very slow indeed!

Traffic tickets wern't meant to be a revenue generator they were meant for safety. Unfortunately today's law enforcement abuses the system.

Great footage and song choice. I've driven the entire 83-mile stretch and doing 85 mph is totally worth the toll, the reduced mpg and wear and tear to my car. Note: Once you reach the junction of Hwy 45 and 130, the speed limit drops to 80mph and remains that way until you reach I-35 in Georgetown. It is 85mph for the first 50 miles (from the south end of TX130) then is lowered to 80mph for the remaining 43 miles. I absolutely love driving on TX 130, and I can't describe the freedom I feel when I drive on the "Texas Autobahn."

Nice road, been on it many times. It is a pity the state and designers did not take it all the way from Sequin to Dallas!

Judging how people drive around texas, probably was doing 100mph or higher.

Wow. That road is really empty. It’s way too expensive to take 130 so no one uses it and I-35 continues to take on all the traffic. 130 is a much prettier drive, but the toll cost is outrageous and you save no time at all. Great video, though. Thanks

The ironic part is that road has less safety features than most freeways in Victoria Australia yet they are all signed 70mph while this is 85mph

I wish Arizona would do a toll on their stretch of the I-40. even the 10 wouldn't be a bad idea!

The sky really is bigger in Texas, even on a cloudy day

3:21 find the typo and by typo I mean the first road in texas

States haven't been allowed to do it in the past but that's changing.

haha damn.. I'm from Latvia (Eastern Europe) and we never had such a roads and i guess never will, despite on that my country is in European Union...

The toll road had another purpose, and that was to reduce truck traffic in downtown Austin. This failed because most truckers are poor and companies won't pay for toll roads that can be avoided. Great video as always.

Texas actually cares about there roads. Is I think will be the first 100mph speed limit road in the us. Probably in 5-10 years though

Good Info, But Why Does Each Word Begin With A Capital Letter?

My gauge reads up to 85mph, so it will be pegged out the whole way from Seguin to Austin. If I wanna go past 85, I will not know how fast I'm going...wait, thanks GPS speedometer. Also riding my motorcycle at that speed the lane stripe will be a solid stripe...

That interchange looks like a rollercoaster when u come up to it? So how much is it for the whole length of road with a car?

Meanwhile on the garden state parkway and NJturnpike

Very nice video of a great looking highway;BUT Its going to need a lot more traffic to even begin to pay for itself I would think

I take that route every time I go to San Antonio. Also, have you traveled on I-70 through the Rockies?

2:05 hello speed limit 85

Nice song for this video,

Road is failing its financial targets. Love the 1950’s speed limit signs. Totally worthless as the road seems to be. The thrill might be for one time experience. 50 miles at that speed saves little time plus gas expense plus toll expense.

The Texas Autobahn!

They are building that one in segments. A good chunk of it should be open to traffic this year. It runs from I-10 to U.S 290 and is probably the most important segment because it will relieve the abhorrent traffic on U.S 290. The next three segments (F1,F2 are the only ones I can remember) will start construction sometime this summer-fall and be open to traffic by 2015. So most of the loop should be finished by 2016.

7:52 Thanks For Watching We're At 80 Mphs

85 allows me to do 90, right?? 😂😎 Edit: Does it let me do 100mph without getting pulled over 😂😂 (just asking) I started driving lately... The fastest I've done is 110mph

People are complaining about the tolls but not the $20 you'll spend on gas driving the whole thing at 85 mph. At those speeds you'll get like 20 mpg in a sedan or 15 mpg in an SUV. And on top of that you'll spend more maintaining/fixing your car cause of the increased wear. Do enjoy your 85 mph highways, but the tolls will be the least of your expenses, so don't blow them out of proportion.

There's another toll road near Houston . It's SH 99 when is that road going to be finished?

There should be more roads like this. But back East, the thought of a privately owned road with 85 MPH would be abhorrent, even in more rural areas. Because obviously roads must be run by the government charging huge tolls and having 65MPH speed limits so that they can get more revenue through traffic tickets. Privately run roads are better, cheaply and more efficiently run than if all that toll $ goes to gov't beauracrats.

2:08 If You Speed Up To 2x Speed That Will Be 90 Mph

And this vid is played back at real speed :-)

Hey Screwd, i can't find the exact remix of this song that you are playing. It's not Spencer and Hill remix.

this is my goal of life to drive to SH130 Toll

Amazing. Practically no cars on the highway.

5:29 90 Mph Per Hour Sign 85 Mphs

This is the video that got me into KZfaq.

I want to drive 125 miles an hour legally!

Except where I live (Southern California)

They are nice, yes. France, Spain, Italy and Sweden do also have pretty nice roads. However, you should check out roads in Norway, where I come from. That's in the other end of the scale, to put it that way :P

apart from that 85 mph is only around the recommended speed in Germany, not the limit ^^

In germany there is no speed limit

I can't go 5455miles to that highway

I found it, Max graham & Proculture remix

1:40 speed limit 75 currently

texas everything is big

Leadfooters dream come true 😜

See a trend here? 75, 80, 85? They're probably going up to 100 in the future...

this looks faster than 85...

these days everybody is doing 95mph anyways

Toll roads are likely the future . Not sure it's a good idea to encourage higher and higher speeds.

reread what I wrote. Your question makes no sense. The only thing I don't like about this kind of toll road is that it's privately owned. Almost anything can happen on it and no one would be held accountable. What I am talking about is the same thing as the Pennsylvania turnpike, Indiana one too. Brings in a ton of money.....where do taxes- MORE taxes come into play????? Re-read both my comments fully before commenting again. Thank You.

Anyone else bummed there was no screw music involved here?

I would never move to a place that has tolls.