If you don’t think to yourself, “This has got to be the worst road in America,” every time you drive the stretch of the Woodall Rodgers Freeway between West Dallas and U.S. 75, we would recommend you do a sanity check.
It doesn’t matter the time of day or the day of the week you attempted to make that drive; it was almost certainly backed up, and you almost certainly considered whether living in Dallas is all that worth it. The good news is that you aren’t crazy. That strip of freeway that goes under Klyde Warren Park isn’t quite the most trafficky road in Texas, but it’s close.
Each year, the Texas Department of Transportation releases a list of the 100 most congested roadways in the state. The report monitors 2,100 segments of roads, ranging from 3 to 10 miles in length, for traffic delays, which are then ranked by time delay per mile. And while we joked that good old Woodall Rodgers is clogged up no matter the day, the study does actually take that into account to consider things like whether a delay is standard rush-hour traffic or a sign of a larger issue…