Today, Interstate 345 and Interstate 30 divide Deep Ellum and Fair Park from downtown Dallas. That’s why a plan to improve transportation links between...
The Traveling Man stands as a DART train goes by at the Deep Ellum station in downtown Dallas, Texas, Saturday morning, September 23, 2023. Transportation can make or break a neighborhood. A railroad junction brought economic prosperity to Deep Ellum in the late 1800s. But in the 1940s, the railroad was torn out to make space for a new highway, and many residents were displaced. Today, Interstate 345 and Interstate 30 divide Deep Ellum and Fair Park from downtown Dallas.
Pedestrian caps to link parts of Oak Cliff over Interstate 35E, and the Cedars neighborhood to downtown Dallas over Interstate 30 recently won federal grants. Plans are also underway to reconstruct highways near Deep Ellum and Fair Park, but any deck parks over those projects are just ideas at this point. That’s why a plan to improve transportation links between downtown Dallas and these neighborhoods is promising.
Shanay Wise, a South Dallas resident, said that she was concerned that the NCTCOG planners were not aware of theStaff with the regional planning group told residents that the project is focused narrowly on the transportation links between Fair Park and downtown Dallas and doesn’t deal with broader land use improvements.
The plan will be finalized in the summer, and residents can share their feedback online through Sunday. As our region balances the objectives of moving people efficiently and reconnecting neighborhoods, plans like Fair Park Links can be the right solution when accompanied by robust community input.. Dallas Morning News editorials are written by the paper's Editorial Board and serve as the voice and view of the paper.
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