DALLAS — A Dallas Council committee told city staff to come up with new proposals to manage the traffic connection between North Oak Cliff and Downtown as neighbors fear it could cut the area off from the city’s urban core.
The city said its preferred proposal would make the Jefferson viaduct a two-way street, but change its endpoint Downtown from Young Street to Hotel Street, below the new Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Previous plans called for Houston Street – currently the Southbound connection from Downtown to Oak Cliff – to become pedestrian only.
City staff said increasing costs for the $3 billion-plus Convention Center redevelopment forced them to change their plans and lower the building – removing the possibility for Jefferson to connect directly to Downtown…