How many vehicles travel the corridor today? How much traffic will the improved freeways be able to accommodate?
Traffic on IH 30 and IH 35E has been increasing at a rate of 1 to 5 percent a year. In 1999, over 155,000 vehicles a day traveled the Canyon portion of IH 30, and 286,000 vehicles per day traveled the Lower Stemmons portion of IH 35E just south of the Dallas North Tollway. The Mixmaster has received national notoriety, and the dubious distinction, by being named one of the top ten “Worst Commuting Bottlenecks” in the nation by the American Automobile Association for five consecutive years. The Canyon, Mixmaster, and Lower Stemmons are critically congested and operate in stop-and-go traffic every business day. The congestion also slows travel for many miles along the other freeways feeding into the downtown area, including IH 35E (Stemmons and South R.L. Thornton freeways), US 75 (North Central Expressway), and IH 30 (Tom Landry Highway and East R.L. Thornton Freeway). If this downtown congestion is not solved, the bumper-to-bumper conditions are forecast to worsen to nearly 9 hours of
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