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I-30/I-35W Interchange Reconstruction

Downtown Ft. Worth

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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

– Widened elevated structure

• Community reaction

– Opposition

– Lawsuit

– Leadership interest to find better solution

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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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ApproachInitial alternatives

• Existing alignment

– Elevated

– At-grade

– Depressed

• New alignments

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

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Relocated I-30 West Leg

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Improved Ramps

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Lancaster Avenue

Before and after photos of the US Post Office façade on Lancaster Boulevard. Source, left: http://www.durangotexas.com/eyesontexas/fortworth/downtown.htm; Source, right: Texas Transportation Institute

New lofts development (next to refurbished old T&P Railroad Complex). Source: Texas Transportation