What is the general consensus?
My wife and I are taking our first major trip from near Houston to Topeka, Kansas. What is the general consensus regarding driving through a large city like Dallas or taking a loop around the city? ...
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Houston to Topeka, you come in on I-45, it ends, becomes US-75 which goes to Topeka (though taking US-69 and Indiana Nation Turnpike saves you time relative to 75 in southern Oklahoma.
For this trip, taking the loop is out of the frying pan, into the fire. That's not general principle, it is specific experience about this particluar route through Dallas.
You can avoid Dallas entirely by taking TX-19 north from Huntsville, to Paris, the US-2xx whatever it is to the Indian Nation, which ends at the junction of I-40 with US-75. Then US-75 to Topeka. I find this route usually saves me about 40 miles, but is a wash on time, compared to going through Dallas, following 69 rather than 75 where the split N of Atoka, and getting on Indian Nation.
For this trip, taking the loop is out of the frying pan, into the fire. That's not general principle, it is specific experience about this particluar route through Dallas.
You can avoid Dallas entirely by taking TX-19 north from Huntsville, to Paris, the US-2xx whatever it is to the Indian Nation, which ends at the junction of I-40 with US-75. Then US-75 to Topeka. I find this route usually saves me about 40 miles, but is a wash on time, compared to going through Dallas, following 69 rather than 75 where the split N of Atoka, and getting on Indian Nation.
