If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, it’s a safe bet that he would’ve added “Dallas highway construction” to death and taxes on his short list of life’s only certainties from 1789. These days, headache-inducing, route-altering construction projects are more of a constant presence than a dreaded eventuality, in all fairness to the ol’ Newton of Electricity.
Indeed, some big projects made significant progress in Dallas in 2025. The TEXpress lanes on Interstate 635, near U.S. 75, have been steadily progressing, for a sizable example. However, before too long, some other major projects will begin and will certainly add hours, and perhaps screams, to the commutes of countless Dallas drivers.
“The Dallas District’s projects represent some of TxDOT’s [Texas Department of Transportation] largest and most impactful projects,” reads TxDOT’s 2026 Unified Transportation Program. “Dallas is home to projects such as the I-30 Canyon project through downtown Dallas that will reconstruct the underutilized collector-distributor roads and widen the main lanes of I-30 between I-35E and I-45 to address the bottleneck on the 4th most congested roadway in the state.”…