If there’s one thing you can safely bet on, it’s that Texas highways will be under construction. It’s something we’ve all learned to live with — constantly rerouting our unique paths we’ve developed to avoid traffic and construction nightmares. Well, anyone who traverses the Northside of San Antonio is likely familiar with what’s felt like decades of revamps along Loop 1604, and that construction isn’t expected to halt anytime soon, and San Antonio has a lot to say about it.

The intersection of Loop 1604 and I-10 is quite the sight to behold at the moment with sky-scraping cranes crowding every corner of the intersection. It's the latest endeavor in the Texas Department of Transportation’s $1.4 billion project expanding Loop 1604 from Bandera Road to I-35, as well of ridding the city of the four-leaf-clover exchange. While the project is making serious headway as 2023 comes to a close, some San Antonians have had enough.

“They’ve had closures since 2005 when I attended UTSA, and they still aren’t done with these highways,” Jay Hernandez said in a Facebook comment on a MySA story about road closures from the expansion project. “Where has all the billions of dollars gone since 2005 to 2023, now leaning to 2024? Funny how San Antonio is ranked as one of the best places to live in the U.S., though. Who’s answering those surveys? I’d bet they’d be very different it was actual residents of S.A.”