Are you gripping the steering wheel a little tighter these days on Loop 820, Texas 121/183?

I'm working on a story about the work zone for the North Tarrant Express project. Concrete barriers have been put up on the 13-mile stretch of Northeast Loop 820 and Texas 121/183 (Airport Freeway). Are you feeling a little squeezed in as you navigate your way through this work zone, in areas where there are no shoulders or frontage roads? Are other drivers in the corridor behaving themselves? Comment on this blog post or send me a note to gdickson@star-telegram.com to let me know what you think.

Comments

[Clay]

People never could drive on that freeway anyway, but now its 10 times worse !!

[rooster po]

It is not worse than many other road construction projects.

[Bryan]

I would say that this is kind of a non-story. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I drive from Bedford to west FW every day and traffic isn't any worse than it was before construction started (and that wasn't that bad). The traffic on I-30 where the Sycamore Creek bridge is being repaired is much worse.

[anonymous]

The real story should here should be when the dram queen fire departments come out for a fender bender and take TWO fire trucks and block TWO lanes when the accident is on the shoulder.

Why hasn't anyone released the details of the project of what it looks like now vs when completed?

[Smart Aholic]

anonymous @ 7:49

http://www.northtarrantexpress.com/Videos.asp There, that shows what it'll look like when complete.

Well, I say you can always switch out driving the North Tarrant Express (NTE) for the Trinity Railway Express (TRE), not to be confused with Tarrant Express (TEX)which hasn't been built yet.

I think they should have called it the Super Wide North Tarrant Suburban Sprawl Free/Tollway (hmm.. Frito?) or SWNTSSFT. Or simply the North Tarrant Frito. ;-)