TxDOT wants this option:
What some residents would rather have:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/txdot/2 ... nterchange
I guess if you are just passing through the area you are looking for the least inconvenient way to get to where you are going, never mind what it looks like or does to the area around it.The_Overdog wrote:The flying lanes in the people recommended version seem much worse than the TXDot version. With those wings, that isn't a T intersection. It's your average highway interchange. A legit T would be better than either.
Well, just like Deep Ellum... a neighborhood with a history of harboring minorities, currently famous for bars and nightclubs, debauchery and perversions, and edged by persistent homeless camps, yet people who move there complain about it.Hannibal Lecter wrote: To complain that people use it to pass through the neighborhood is like the people who move next an airport and complain about the noise.
That would be like US 75 traffic still having to take Ross and Greenville instead of Central, or US 175 traffic still having to take Commerce and Second Ave. instead of the Hawn Freeway. I can't even imagine the difference.electricron wrote:It wasn’t until 1961 with the opening of Thorton Freeway (I-30) before US-67 and interstate trucking traffic left Gaston.
Can you imagine all those semi trucks using Stemmons to get through Dallas today on Gaston instead? That’s where they were before 1961.
I can image it, I am old enough to remember that traffic before most of the freeways and highway bypasses were built.itsjrd1964 wrote:That would be like US 75 traffic still having to take Ross and Greenville instead of Central, or US 175 traffic still having to take Commerce and Second Ave. instead of the Hawn Freeway. I can't even imagine the difference.electricron wrote:It wasn’t until 1961 with the opening of Thorton Freeway (I-30) before US-67 and interstate trucking traffic left Gaston.
Can you imagine all those semi trucks using Stemmons to get through Dallas today on Gaston instead? That’s where they were before 1961.
Yeah, the obvious actual solution to the issue those residents are identifying is a road diet on Gaston, like a standard 4>3 conversion (i.e. change it to one through lane in each direction with a center turn lane and bike lanes on either side). I can't imagine the DOT would be too thrilled about that, though, with the existing volumes, and I don't really have a handle on the politics of those kinds of things in Dallas, regardless.Tivo_Kenevil wrote:I'd be okay with delays if they expanded the sidewalks ( or created them portions of Gaston don't even have sidewalks!) Or if they added bikelanes. But this isn't advocating anything.
https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/closur ... postponed/the temporary closure has been pushed back “until further notice while crews make additional revisions to the detour route. A new schedule will be shared as it is finalized.”