Central Expressway at Lovers Lane

Central Expressway is a north-south highway in Dallas, Texas (USA) and surrounding areas. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2183x1446, 447 KB)NCX File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2183x1446, 447 KB)NCX File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Category: ...      Nickname: Big D Location in the state of Texas Country United States State Texas Counties Dallas, Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall Mayor Laura Miller Area    - City 997. ... Official language(s) See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 268,581 sq mi (695,622 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ...

North Central Expressway

The best-known section is the North Central Expressway, a name for a freeway section of U.S. Route 75 between downtown Dallas and McKinney, Texas. The southern terminus is at an intersection with "hidden" Interstate 345 (signed as Interstate 45) and Woodall Rodgers Expressway. A freeway is a type of highway that is designed for safer high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections. ... U.S. Highway 75 is a north-south United States highway. ... McKinney is a city located in Collin County, Texas (USA). ... Interstate 345 is the former designation of what is now the northernmost section of Interstate 45 between I-30 (R.L. Thornton) and Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway). ... Interstate 45 (abbreviated I-45 or in Texas IH-45) is an intrastate interstate highway located entirely within the state of Texas, United States. ... Facing south-southwest towards downtown from Harwood Street, with the angular Fountain Place dominating the view. ...

South of US 75's terminus, North Central Expressway briefly continues south in the median of I-345, then continues through the eastern side of downtown Dallas as a surface street. On an expressway, motorway, or autobahn, the median (North American English) or central reservation (British English) is the strip of grass or the wall which separates opposing lanes of traffic. ...

The North Central Expressway is near high-income neighborhoods and enclave cities such as Highland Park and University Park. The freeway is also adjacent to popular districts including Uptown, Cityplace, NorthPark Center, and the Telecom Corridor. Near the intersection of Central Expressway and Mockingbird Lane is a prestigious private university, Southern Methodist University, and the popular Mockingbird Station project. Tree-lined street in Highland Park Highland Park is a town located in central Dallas County, Texas (USA). ... Nickname: The Bubble Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: County Dallas County Mayor James H. Holmes, III Area    - City 3. ... Cityplace Tower, the tallest structure in Uptown. ... Cityplace Tower Cityplace is a neighborhood in Oak Lawn, Dallas, Texas (USA) around the intersection of U.S. Route 75 (Central Expressway) and Haskell Avenue/Blackburn Street. ... NorthPark Center is an upscale shopping mall located in north Dallas, Texas (USA) with over 120 stores and anchors. ... The Telecom Corridor is a technology business center in Richardson, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas, which contains over 25 million ft2 of office space and accounts for over 82,657 jobs as of 2000. ... Dallas Hall at Dedman College at SMU The Laura Lee Blanton Hall during a rare snow Southern Methodist University (also known as SMU) is a private, coeducational university in University Park, Texas, (an enclave of Dallas). ... Mockingbird Station is a DART light rail station located in North Dallas, Texas (USA) at Mockingbird Lane and North Central Expressway (US-75). ...

Reconstruction

North Central Expressway was once one of the most poorly designed freeways in the nation.^[1][2] Though initially an engineering marvel as Dallas's first freeway when it opened to traffic in 1950, the explosive growth that soon hit north Dallas and the nearby suburbs quickly overwhelmed its design and capacity. North Dallas is a group of neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas, USA. It can also include three island cities of Dallas. ...

In the early 1980s, the TxDOT floated plans to build an elevated structure above the existing freeway^{[citation needed]}. After considerable study and debate, elevated structures were eliminated. Construction started in 1992 and was finally completed in November 1999. Total reconstruction cost was around $600 million. // History The Texas Legislature created the Texas Highway Department in 1917 to administer federal highway construction and maintenance. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ...

Current state

The facility has 8 continuous general-purpose lanes from downtown Dallas to Legacy Drive in Plano except for a six-lane the segment where it passes under Interstate 635 (two additional lanes are present but are only entrance ramps/exit ramps for Forest Lane and Midpark Road). For the six miles north of downtown Dallas, the freeway sits over 30 feet below adjacent frontage roads. Interstate 635 signage on the Dallas North Tollway frontage road. ... Pedestrians along Stone Street. ...

Architecture

The freeway's architecturally distinctive design distinguishes it as one of the nation's most attractive urban freeways. Every structure and element along the highway right-of-way was given aesthetic attention during the design phase. Support columns for overpasses and bridges have been designed to be as visually appealing as possible. The beige concrete columns which form the support structure for the retaining walls contrast with the brown, textured infill panels of the walls to create a multicolored and articulated edge to the freeway. Two million square feet^{[citation needed]} of these walls along the nine mile-long project distinguishes the freeway.

History

Central Expressway's 1940s construction methods would come to represent inadequacies of both civil engineering and social engineering. The southern end of North Central Expressway passed through an historic African-American neighborhood, displacing 1,500 black residents. But the full scale of the injustice was not revealed until preparations began for the 1990s expansion of the route. The living weren't the only ones displaced; a quarter of the four-acre Freedmen's Cemetery, with graves dating back to Emancipation, had been paved over. Archeological excavations uncovered the remains of over 1,100 men, women, and children under existing and proposed roadways. After their reburial, the site was turned into a memorial to the working-class black residents of the area, which after the expressways were built, became the upscale Uptown Dallas neighborhood. ^[3] The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... The Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive decree by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during that countrys Civil War, which declared the freedom of all slaves in those areas of the rebellious Confederate States of America that had not already returned to Union control. ... Cityplace Tower, the tallest structure in Uptown. ...

South Central Expressway

South of Main Street in downtown Dallas, Central Expressway becomes the South Central Expressway. The road meets Interstate 30 at a three-level interchange and continues south as a surface road. Upon crossing Interstate 45, it becomes U.S. Route 175 and is signed both as South Central Expressway and SM Wright Freeway (named for a local minister). Where US 175 turns off to the east, the road continues south as State Highway 310; the SM Wright Freeway name ends at Loop 12, past the end of freeway standards. The South Central Expressway continues past a partial interchange with Interstate 20 to end at a merge with I-45 north of Hutchins. This section through and south of downtown mainly serves local traffic. I-45 was built roughly parallel to it. However, the parallel section of I-45 north of the Trinity River is completely elevated, and is often difficult to traverse when ice storms hit Dallas (about once per year); thus, South Central often takes over some of the traffic during this time. A long exposure of Main Street. ... Pedestrians along Stone Street. ... Interstate 30 (abbreviated I-30) is an interstate highway in the southern United States. ... Interstate 45 (abbreviated I-45 or in Texas IH-45) is an intrastate interstate highway located entirely within the state of Texas, United States. ... U.S. Highway 175 is an east-west United States highway. ... State Highway 310 (SH 310) is a short north-south state highway entirely within Dallas, Texas. ... State Highway Loop 12, usually just called Loop 12, is a state highway that runs mostly within the city limits of Dallas, Texas. ... A freeway is a type of highway that is designed for safer high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections. ... Interstate 20 (abbreviated I-20) is a major east-west interstate highway in the southeastern United States. ... Hutchins is a city located in Dallas County, Texas. ...

Exit list

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Destinations	Notes
Lamar Street	northbound exit and southbound entrance
Municipal Avenue; Lamar Street	northbound exit and entrance
Haven Street	southbound exit and entrance
U.S. Highway 175 east - Kaufman	no southbound entrance
Hatcher Street	no northbound exit
Pine Street
Metropolitan Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue	northbound exit and southbound entrance
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard	northbound exit only
Interstate Highway 45 to U.S. Highway 75 - Sherman	northbound exit and southbound entrance
Good-Latimer Expressway	northbound exit and southbound entrance

#		Destinations	Notes
Old
		Bryan Street; Good-Latimer Expressway	southbound exit and northbound entrance
		Interstate Highway 45 south - Houston (Interstate Highway 345 south)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	285	Ross Avenue	southbound exit only
	1A	to Interstate Highway 35E - Denton; Waco (Spur 366 west)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
1		(Hall Street)
2		(Lemmon Avenue)
3	1B	Haskell Avenue; Blackburn Street; Fitzhugh Avenue; Lemmon Avenue
4		(Fitxhugh Avenue)
5	2	Knox Street; Henderson Avenue; Monticello Avenue; Fitzhugh Avenue
6		(Monticello Avenue)
7		(McCommas Boulevard)
8	3	Mockingbird Lane; University Boulevard; Monticello Avenue
9		(Yale Boulevard)
10		(University Boulevard)
11	4A	Lovers Lane; Southwestern Boulevard; University Boulevard	exit 4 southbound
12		(Southwestern Boulevard)
13	4B	Caruth Haven Lane	southbound exit is combined with 5A
14-15	5A	Loop 12 - Caruth Haven Lane
16	5B	Northpark Boulevard; Park Lane
17	6	Walnut Hill Lane; Meadow Road
18		(Meadow Road)
19	7	Royal Lane; Meadow Road
20A	8A	Forest Lane	exit 20-20A southbound
20B	8B	Coit Road	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	20B	Frontage Road	northbound exit only
	21	Interstate Highway 635
	20A	Frontage Road	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	22	Midpark Road
	23	Spring Valley Road
	24	Belt Line Road; Main Street
	25	Arapaho Road
	26	Campbell Road	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	27A	Galatyn Parkway; Renner Road; Campbell Road	exit 26 southbound
	27	Renner Road	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	28A	Plano Parkway
	28B	President George Bush Turnpike
	29	15th Street (former Farm to Market Road 544)	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	29A	Park Boulevard; 15th Street
	30	Parker Road
	30A	Frontage Road	southbound exit only
	31	Spring Creek Parkway
	32	Legacy Drive
	32A	Frontage Road	northbound exit and southbound exit
	33	Bethany Drive
	34	McDermott Drive (former Farm to Market Road 2170)
	35	Allen Drive	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	36	Exchange Parkway
	37	Image:Texas FM 2786.svg Farm to Market Road 2786 - Stacy Road
	38	Ridgeview Drive
	38A	State Highway 121 south; to State Highway 5 - Fort Worth (Spur 399; former Farm to Market Road 720)	SH 121 joins northbound and leaves southbound
	39	Eldorado Parkway
	40A	Image:Texas FM 3038.svg Farm to Market Road 3058; Spur 359 - Louisiana Street; Virginia Parkway
	40B	White Avenue	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	41	U.S. Highway 380 - Greenville; Denton
	42	Wilmeth Road
	43	Image:Texas FM 543.svg Farm to Market Road 543 - Weston Road
	44	Telephone Road; Davis Road
	45	State Highway 121 north - Bonham	SH 121 joins southbound and leaves northbound
	46	Melissa Road
	47	Throckmorton Road; Foster Crossing Road
	48	Image:Texas FM 455.svg Farm to Market Road 455 - Anna-Weston Road
	49	Mantua Road
	50	County Line Road
	51	Image:Texas FM 121.svg Farm to Market Road 121 - Van Alstyne
	52	Farmington Road
	53	Spur 381 - Howe
	54	Image:Texas FM 902.svg Farm to Market Road 902; State Highway 5
	55A	Frontage Road	southbound exit and entrance
	55	Frontage Road
	56	Image:Texas FM 1417.svg Farm to Market Road 1417
	56A	South Travis Street	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	56B	Frontage Road	northbound exit only
	57	Park Street; Center Street
	58	State Highway 56 - Lamar Street; Houston Street
	59	Washington Street	no southbound entrance
	60	Image:Texas FM 131.svg Farm to Market Road 131 - Travis Street; Taylor Street
	61	State Highway 91 north	no southbound exit
	62	Lamberth Road	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	63	U.S. Highway 82 - Bonham; Gainesville
	64	Loy Lake Road; Fallon Drive
	65	Image:Texas FM 691.svg Farm to Market Road 691 - Grayson County Airport; Grayson County Junior College
	66	Spur 503 - Denison
	67	Loy Lake Road
	68	Crawford Street Road
	69	Image:Texas FM 120.svg Farm to Market Road 120 - Pottsboro; Lake Texoma
	70	Image:Texas FM 84.svg Farm to Market Road 84
	71	Randell Lake Road
	72	State Highway 91
	73	U.S. Highway 69 south - Greenville; Denison	US 69 joins northbound and leaves southbound
	74	Texas Travel Info Center

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Images of Central Expressway

Central Expressway heading southbound, towards Downtown Dallas Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1788x1149, 331 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

Central Expressway near NorthPark Center Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2246x912, 223 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... NorthPark Center is an upscale shopping mall located in north Dallas, Texas (USA) with over 120 stores and anchors. ...

Central Expressway near Southern Methodist University and Mockingbird Lane Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1773x1050, 314 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

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