The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has envisioned a future for Downtown Dallas that includes more downtown and fewer freeways.
Brandon Formby reports on a "surprising yet powerful voice" adding to the "joining the chorus calling for a sea change in downtown Dallas’ car-centric infrastructure building":
The Texas Department of Transportation released a report Friday [June 10] that lays out several scenarios for minimizing congestion on the noose of aging highways that chokes off urban neighborhoods from the Central Business District. The study, called CityMAP, offers a stark departure from the agency’s standby approach of adding more highway lanes or re-engineering traffic chokepoints.
Included among the options explored in the CityMAP (short for the Dallas City Center Master Assessment Process) report: tearing down Interstate 345 and moving a stretch of Interstate 30 out of downtown to a new route farther south in Fair Park.
According to Formby, "CityMAP doesn’t suggest one construction option over another. Instead, the report is meant to arm urbanites, city officials and regional planners with data and estimated effects so a holistic plan can be pieced together for the urban core’s transportation network."
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