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Interstate 35W North - Tarrant County (to Interstate 30)
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IH 35W enters Tarrant County with 6 lanes, here in Burleson. The sides of the freeway are lined with every kind of retail establishment available. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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The interstate maintains a very busy but fast pace as it nears the FM 1187 interchange. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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Another view of an FM 1187 advance overhead sign. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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IH 35W northbound at FM 1187. The FM road is the most important east/west route in southern Tarrant County. Just to the west it provides the main road into Crowley. A bypass FM route has been constructed with the old 1187 turning into a business FM. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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IH 35W northbound through south Fort Worth and Crowley. The town was named for a railroad executive. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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IH 35W northbound before Garden Acres Dr. Fort Worth's municipal Spinks Airport sits to the east of the road. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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Garden Acres Dr is a short connector route that runs into residential areas on the south side of Fort Worth. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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The next northbound exit is for Risinger Road. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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IH 35W northbound at Risinger Road. Risinger runs west to Crowley Rd, through generally new residential communities. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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IH 35W was built directly on top of the right of way of the old US 81 highway, which had been upgraded to a four lane expressway in the 1950s. This section of freeway opened in 1967. It was widened in the early 90s when the median was filled in with an extra lane. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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This view looks northbound at the Everman Pkwy/Sycamore School exit. This exit was not in the original plans for the freeway and was added in the 70s. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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The next exit connects the freeway with Altamesa Blvd and Felix St. The city's Miller Beer distribution center sits on the east side of the freeway here. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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Altamesa Blvd was designed in 1969 specifically to parallel Interstate 820, and was completed in the early 70s. Today is forms an important arterial along the south side of Fort Worth. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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Downtown Fort Worth becomes visible in the distance with the Interstate 20 interchange coming up. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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As IH 35W nears IH 20 the stack comes into view. This location is one of the farthest east that Abilene is a control point, it sits approximately 2.5 hours west along 20. The furtheast east location with that control city is in Arlington at the U.S. 287 interchange.1 Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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The Dallas ramp is immediately after the Abilene ramp. Dallas is about 30 miles east of Fort Worth. IH 20 never goes into the central part of Dallas, but enters the city limits on the far south side of the city. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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The IH 35W/20 interchange was originally constructed as a cloverleaf. Construction began in May of 1987 to rebuild the interchange and the new one opened in 1991. Photos taken 03/11/08. |
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Seminary Drive is the first exit in Fort Worth proper, just north of IH 20. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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Seminary Drive was named because it runs west to the Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary nearby. One of the two lanes gained north of IH 20 is lost here. Photos taken 03/11/08. |
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Ripy Street was named for confederate Colonel James T. Ripy of Kentucky - its a short street running through older residential areas. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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IH 35W is depressed in a trench as it heads north towards Ripy St. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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35W maintains eight lanes as it heads north through South Fort Worth, the road was opened around 1960 through here, but was reconstructed in 1992. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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After Ripy, Berry Street and Texas Christian University are the next interchanges. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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Installed in 1992, 35W has lights over each lane indicating with bright red Xs if any of them are blocked ahead. Fortunately on this day, none of the lights are lit up. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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IH 35W northbound at Berry Street. TCU sits just to the west of the freeway here. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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Allen Avenue, and a very tall pedestrian overpass are just to the north of Berry. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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IH 35W northbound at Allen. The freeway passes over Jessamine Street between the trenched sections at Morningside Drive and Allen Avenue. Photos taken 03/11/08. |
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The interstate remains very busy as it nears IH 30. This portion of road was rebuilt in 1998. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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Rosedale Street runs east/west along the southern side of downtown, and it forms the business loop for US 287, which is otherwise a freeway through town. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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After Rosedale, the next exit is the downtown stack at IH 30. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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Interstate 35W drops below grade again at the Hattie Street overpass. Interstate 30 (Exits 51A/B) east of downtown Fort Worth represents the historic Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike, a toll road opened 1957. West of Interstate 35W, Interstate 30 opened in 1964 but was rebuilt onto a new alignment west to Henderson Street in 2000. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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The first exit in downtown Fort Worth is for westbound IH 30, the ramp sits just under the Hattie St overpass. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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The Lancaster Ave exit sits amongst the downtown interchange. Originally, IH 30 was built directly on top of Lancaster, which was one of Fort Worth's great drives. The original interstate viaduct was relocated south and torn down and Lancaster was returned to its former glory in 2002. Lancaster also forms the old route of US 80. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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The downtown interchange has a ramp to IH 30 east towards Dallas after the Lancaster Ramp. IH 30 is the old Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike and was built in the 1950s and made a free highway in 1978. This also marks the end of the South Freeway, which is IH 35Ws name south of 30. North of 30, it becomes the North Freeway. Photo taken 03/11/08. |
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The downtown interchange in Fort Worth was originally built from 1956-1958. The old stack was torn down in 1999 and rebuilt. The new interchange spans 17 acres and was fully complete in 2002. Photos taken 03/11/08. |
 
Sources:
- Porter, K. Personal Email: "I 35W Fort Worth," February 4, 2009.
Page Updated February 4, 2009.
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