Case Study #1 for UTCM Report #08-14-03 "Making Mobility Improvements a Community Asset: Transportation Improvements Using Context-Sensitive Solutions"

1. Project 1
I-30/35 Interchange Reconstruction
Fort Worth, Texas
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2. Project
 Existing elevated freeway over Lancaster Avenue
 Project
 Reconstruction
 Capacity and safety improvements
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3. Initial Plan
 Initial plan – west leg (early 1980s)
 Widened elevated structure
 Community reaction
 Opposition
 Lawsuit (filed 1983)
 Leadership interest to find better solution
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4. 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

5. 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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6. 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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7. Relocated I-30 West Leg
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8. Original Interchange
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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9. Improved Ramps
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10. Lancaster Avenue
 Completion
 Freeway - 2000
 Lancaster - 2008
 Redevelopment - 2006+
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