US-75 Expansion/Construction between north of Dallas and the TX/OK state line

[Bobby5280]

That widening segment is stopping at Howe? It's too bad the project can't go the rest of the way into Sherman. Hopefully they'll have that last segment of 2x2 road scheduled to upgrade soon.

[rtXC1]

That widening segment is stopping at Howe? It's too bad the project can't go the rest of the way into Sherman. Hopefully they'll have that last segment of 2x2 road scheduled to upgrade soon.

It is stopping in Howe because that's the end of the segment completed around 2005. I guess they will do the section from FM 902 to FM 1417 at once as a 3x3.

[ZLoth]

Multiple construction projects on US-75 between Melissa and the Oklahoma state line. You know that section between Melissa and the North Collin County line? They migrated the traffic to the newly constructed eastern half of the freeway and have torn up the western half.

Sigh... only a year or two more before completion.

[bwana39]

Something you guys are missing. Melissa is in Collin County, Van Alstyne is on the county line.

Collin County is in the Dallas TxDOT District. North of Van Alstyne is Grayson County. Grayson County is in the Paris TxDOT District.

This is a very pertinent point.

[rte66man]

Came up 75 from Dallas yesterday. The construction from Sherman north was hot and heavy. I did not realize they removed the existing interchange with TX503 and are replacing it with what looks like a standard diamond interchange. I did not see any evidence of flyover ramps at the US82 interchange. Are any planned?

[05danper42842]

There are no planned flyovers sadly. Would been if they were added to the intersection of heritage Parkway the outer loop of Sherman.

[Stephane Dumas]

There are no planned flyovers sadly. Would been if they were added to the intersection of heritage Parkway the outer loop of Sherman.

They should have keep some ROW to add some flyovers later or it would became another problem down the road like the US-281/I-410 junction in San Antonio and still they menaged to put a stack interchange there despite the few ROW available. https://www.texashighwayman.com/281-410-hist.shtml
https://web.archive.org/web/20010430220516/http://www.crosswinds.net/~mgk920/hfotw/exit_6.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20001017000221/http://enconnect.net/greengrl/no410281.htm

[Bobby5280]

Yeah, there are too many properties built into the corners of the US-75/US-82 interchange to build any flyover ramps in the immediate future. Those interchange corners have been used up going back at least to the 1990's if not earlier.

On the bright side, none of the properties at the corners of the US-75/US-82 interchange are what I would consider "high value" businesses. Two Casey's conveniences stores are on the South corners. A car wash is in the NW corner. A building holding Verizon & Stanton Optical stores is on the NE corner. I think those would be fairly easy to buy and remove via eminent domain.

Obviously TX DOT will finish the upgrade work on the thru US-75 lanes before any talk of interchange flyover ramps takes place. A stack interchange will be needed at this location at some point in the not too distant future. Along with US-75 being upgraded, I figure US-82 will be widened to a 3x3 lanes configuration thru the interchange as a next step. They may start building the planned interchange connection on US-75 for the Grayson County Tollway in Denison, even if it only connects to an interim Super 2 road. All of that stuff may happen before they improve the US-75/US-82 interchange from a volleyball configuration to a full 5-level stack.