Dallas Ft. Worth Routing

[BwanaDik]

Need some help from our Dallas/Ft Worth friends. I'm going from Conroe to Farmington, NM next Tuesday for work and another SS1k and it looks from my routing/planning I'll be passing thru your area about 7:00 AM. I don't know the commuter traffic flow around there, i.e., which direction on a given freeway is "inbound" or "outbound". I'm trying to get to U.S. 287 on the north west side to go up thru Wichata Falls.

Any suggestions on how to avoid the worst of it? I'm thinking about going thru Cleburne and Weatherford on 171 but this seems a little too far west. Or will I more than make up for the time lost in Ft. Worth?

 

[fjrchik]

The hardest part of your route (if your going by google) will be from downtown 35W north to 287. From downtown going north, 35W turns into a 2 lane instead of a 4 lane, like south of downtown. That's where all the back up begins. And 7 am is hitting it too late. If you can shoot for 6 am, you'd have much less trouble, if any at all. But around 6:30, things start picking up fast. I can't speak for 287 from downtown south to Kennendale. 8 years of living in south FTW and I've never been on that stretch.

So the good news is, you'd have about 9 (at least) miles of stop and go. The bad news is you'd have about 9 miles, at least, of stop and go.

 

[jcyuhn]

That's not my side of the MetroMess, but I think you've got the right idea. I'd suggest taking 22 west from Corsicana to Hillsboro, then 171 up to Cleburne and on to Weatherford. From there, take FM roads north along the west side of the metroplex, meeting up with 287 in the vicinity of Decatur, or perhaps points north of there.

Good luck. I expect you know that 287 is one seriously boring stretch of road. Watch out for speed traps in the small towns.

 

[donroger1]

I would avoid DFW entirely. That slow stretch northbound on I-35W is nearly a parking lot in the mornings. In addition to the lane reductions, there is a large group of workers headed north to Alliance Airport and the Warehouse businesses in Roanoke.

I would suggest: Map around Fort Worth