TX Dot .pdf or I-35E Highway Improvements

[CAV]

Keep Dallas Moving .pdf file link

Look at how close the highway will come to the stadium, and also look at how homes and businesses will be impacted south of Fouts Field. It also show how the new bridge at North Texas Blvd. will allign with Mean Green Village. This will change the look of the I-35 corrider through Denton. Go to the main Keep Dallas Moving website to see how the whole project will work from the Lake Lewisville Bridge up through 380.

[BleedGreen64]

Oops!

Will UNT be compsated for its loss of property? Can that funding go to a new stadium?

Edited May 3, 2006 by BleedGreen64

[flyonthewall]

Man what I great link. I can see my building from the satellite photos. I am going from 1/2 a block of the highway to highway frontage.

Thanks

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

The Dillo or Doodlebug building (Performing Arts Center) is going to be very close as well. It looks like the stadium is actually in the way somewhat... Sell it to them... the whole thing. Then they can build the Hwy anyway they want. The Hwy fense may be less than 25 feet from the base of Fouts. McDonalds and some other buildings look like history as well.

[DeepGreen]

No way they can build a super major highway that close to an existing structure(Fouts). They are going to have to move the stadium or build a new one at NT.

Any indications when this project will get underway? Surely the stadium will have to be relocated or rebuilt and completed prior to new road construction.

[kj86]

Unfortunately, it looks to me like it's designed specifically to spare Fouts.

[MeanGreenBuzz]

Oh for the love of traffic flow. Every time they "improve" 35 they take out an exit ramp and move on ramps and all it does is screw up traffic. Now in this plan they are taking out the southbound McCormic exit... I use that exit sometimes up to 2 times a day.... The las time they did that they took out the exit ramp after 288 so now even more people have to take the 288 exit (as if it wasn't overcrowded before) to get to the new movie theatre and the restaurants. Maybe someone that uses the roadway should advise them, not some guy on a computer in India...

[keith]

Unfortunately, it looks to me like it's designed specifically to spare Fouts.

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Looks that way to me too. All that's lost is some parking.

Keith

[FirefightnRick]

In the grid it states that a lane is 12 feet. If that's true then according to the proposed section they want to take up is about 12 to 16 feet to widen the access road beside the stadium. Won't affect it a bit? I see little change other than some ramps changing. This all is just a bandaid and won't solve that many of the overcrowded problems we currently have. When will we ever get on board with the rest of the free world and go with mass transit?

Rick

Edited May 4, 2006 by FirefightnRick

[NTEagle08]

In the grid it states that a lane is 12 feet.  If that's true then according to the proposed section they want to take up is about 12 to 16 feet to widen the access road beside the stadium.  Won't affect it a bit?  I see little change other than some ramps changing.  This all is just a bandaid and won't solve that many of the overcrowded problems we currently have.  When will we ever get on board with the rest of the free world and go with mass transit?

Rick

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Light rail is coming to Denton by 2010, the line will meet up with DART in Carrollton.

[MeanMag]

In the grid it states that a lane is 12 feet.  If that's true then according to the proposed section they want to take up is about 12 to 16 feet to widen the access road beside the stadium.  Won't affect it a bit?  I see little change other than some ramps changing.  This all is just a bandaid and won't solve that many of the overcrowded problems we currently have.  When will we ever get on board with the rest of the free world and go with mass transit?

Rick

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Not sure about a bandaid, they are adding 1 lane each direction and making the long entrance and exit ramps we really don't have in denton.

[UNTFan23]

In the grid it states that a lane is 12 feet.  If that's true then according to the proposed section they want to take up is about 12 to 16 feet to widen the access road beside the stadium.  Won't affect it a bit?  I see little change other than some ramps changing.  This all is just a bandaid and won't solve that many of the overcrowded problems we currently have.  When will we ever get on board with the rest of the free world and go with mass transit?

Rick

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Since they're expanding both the interstate and the access road, you're looking at really adding two more lanes on the interstate and 1 lane on the access road, so you're actually losing roughly 36 feet. Add in the equivilence of another driving lane in as a buffer (right of way?) and your total comes out to roughly 50 feet of land lost from where the interstate ends and the parking lot begins right now.

From the looks of the diagram, the access road will practically come up to the fence at Fouts. Not terribly fan friendly if you have to stand in line next to an interstate if you ask me.

The mosting interesting thing about the rendering that really sticks out to me ... North Texas Blvd is 8 lanes wide south of 35 compared to Bonnie Brae being only 5 lanes wide. Kinda makes you wonder what the traffic patterns that are anticipated will be coming/going from that vicinity.

[green_goblin]

Light rail is coming to Denton by 2010, the line will meet up with DART in Carrollton.

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Here is a map on current and future services. It does have Carrollton Farmers Branch included.

Future Expansion

[untbowler]

Here is a map on current and future services.  It does have Carrollton Farmers Branch included.

Future Expansion

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The C-FB DART should be ready by 2010, they have finished there EIS and should begin soon, think the whole Parkland/Love Field part of the route has been the main issue.

The DCTA should have bus/train service out of Denton into North Carrollton hopefully by the same time as DART.

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

testing computer

[green_goblin]

The C-FB DART should be ready by 2010, they have finished there EIS and should begin soon, think the whole Parkland/Love Field part of the route has been the main issue.

The DCTA should have bus/train service out of Denton into North Carrollton hopefully by the same time as DART.

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DentonRc: Article posted on April 28th

The $700 million grant will pay about half the cost to build 21 miles of rail line from Pleasant Grove to Farmers Branch. The first stations from downtown Dallas to Fair Park should open by September 2009. Another 27 miles of lines or extensions to Rowlett, Carrollton, Irving, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and south Oak Cliff will be built with local money.

When complete, the new lines will tie together residential areas of southeast Dallas with employment centers in the hospital district and the airport, as well as provide commuting alternatives from southern Denton County along Interstate 35E. Most lines should open by 2010 to 2013. The south Oak Cliff extension is scheduled to open in 2018.

[PlummMeanGreen]

A SLOW POSTING DAY, EH? Edited May 4, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen

[green_goblin]

A SLOW POSTING DAY, EH?

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No kidding..