Project 1 i-30-35 interchange ft worth 092210

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Project 1I-30/35 Interchange Reconstruction

Fort Worth, Texas

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Project Existing elevated freeway over Lancaster Avenue

Project Reconstruction Capacity and safety improvements

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Initial Plan Initial plan – west leg (early 1980s)

Widened elevated structure

Community reaction

Opposition

Lawsuit (filed 1983)

Leadership interest to find better solution

Collaborative Approach District Engineer saw advantage to proceed with collaborative

effort Community leaders and stakeholders wanted I-30 improved Problem was “how,” not “if”

DE assembled “I-30 Working Group” 1985 Also wide range of stakeholders

Leaders Residents Businesses Property owners

Numerous workshops Objectives Concepts Options Evaluations

Multi-disciplinary planning team 4

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CSS Approach – Stakeholder Objectives Objectives/concerns

Replace aging structure

Increase interchange capacity

Increase safety Merges, weaves

Design speed

Sight distances

Improve aesthetics Freeway

Barrier

Historic preservation

Permit T&P building revitalization

Redevelopment

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Approach

Initial alternatives

Existing alignment Elevated

At-grade

Depressed

New alignments

Preferred alignment

Late 1987 Visualization of preferred alternative (SDH&PT, FHWA, 1991)

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Relocated I-30 West Leg

Original Interchange

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I-30/I-35W interchange looking south, 1958. Source: http://www.texasfreeway.com/dallas/historic/photos/images/i35w_i30_fw_looking_s_july-1958.jpg

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Improved Ramps

Lancaster Avenue

Completion Freeway - 2000 Lancaster - 2008 Redevelopment - 2006+

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