In early 1974, at the height of gas sales only between 8-5 5 to 6 days a week, traffic low, I remember getting stuck in 5 pm traffic in Houston on the KT. Long lines and a woman had a flat on a horse trailer and the traffic would not let her to the shoulder of the road until a cop drove down the shoulder and stopped the traffic allowing her to exit across two lanes to the shoulder. Houston makes Dallas look like a piece of cake - only Denver rivals it in my book, at least in St. Louis you can circle town and get out.