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TxDOT’s $802M I-30 Project in Dallas Area Makes Strides By Irwin Rapoport
An I-30 frontage road under construction.
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The Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) $802 million Interstate 30 improvement/expansion project in Dallas and Rockwall counties is pressing forward with SEMA Construction Inc. completing Segment 1 in August and Williams Brothers Construction Co. Inc. working on Segments 2 and 3 simultaneously. The project widens I-30 from Bass Pro Drive to the Hunt County line and adds continuous frontage roads, including across Lake Ray Hubbard in Rockwall County. “The current configuration is inadequate to handle traffic congestion and population growth and results in bottlenecks and road closures when there is an incident on the lake bridge,” said Madison Schein, a TxDOT public information officer. “Adding separate frontage road bridges and expanding the main lanes means traffic can continue to
cross the lake if an incident has closed or limited general-purpose lanes.” The last full reconstruction of I-30 in Rockwall County occurred in 1995. “When construction is completed, the relocation of ramps and addition of the frontage roads over the lake should provide a system better capable of handling the increase in capacity,” Schein said. The project is funded through the Texas Clear Lanes Program. SEMA started working on the $142 million Segment 1 in July 2021, which covers the area from Bass Pro Drive to Dalrock Road. Crews widened I-30 from three to four lanes in each direction, constructed one-way frontage roads with a maximum of three lanes in each direction, made Bayside Drive bridge and ramp modifications, and built the Dalrock Road interchange. SEMA is finalizing the work, configuring see I-30 page 12
Construction Under Way On First New Terminal at DFW Since 2005 Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) celebrated the beginning of construction on Terminal F — the airport’s sixth terminal and the first new construction of an entire terminal at DFW since 2005. Airport officials and project partners gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking at the site of the new terminal, which will feature a double-loaded con-
course with 15 gates and modernized customer amenities. “The new Terminal F will expand the airport’s footprint with state-of-the-art facilities that align with our first-in-class customer experience and operation as we support the historic rise in air travel to and from the North Texas region,” said Sean Local officials break ground on Terminal F at Dallas Fort Worth see AIRPORT page 14
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