16-39 The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex: I-30 East to US-75 North
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- čas přidán 12. 02. 2017
- Follows I-30 East from its beginning west of Fort Worth eastbound to US-75 North in Downtown Dallas and up to the High Five Interchange. All music and equipment FAQ's are in the closing credits.
You have no idea how often I watch this video in full! Love the music first of all, all three of the songs of choice! Second of all, I moved to Dallas about a month ago from Georgia and we drove there! I recongize some of the roads you were on now, especially US75! You can actually see where I live (wasn't built in this video) from US75 North now!! Thank you, Freewayjim, for making me anticipate my love for Dallas!
Thank you for the comment, glad you enjoy the video and the tunes!
When I drove on Route 75, 3 realizations came to mind:
1. I had never seen a speed limit of 70 mph inside city limits.
2. Driving to McKinney from Dallas was a longer drive than it felt because you're driving through nothing but sprawl, so it flies by fast.
3. Those 4 and 5 stack interchanges are truly done the Texas way. They make it obvious with the stars embedded on the sides.
Anyway, it was a great video you put together. Can't imagine why anyone would dislike it, but we can't please everyone, I guess.
Much appreciated thank you! Wait till you see the LBJ express Next week, the speed limit was 75, shocked the hell out of when I saw it.
Freewayjim I didn't drive the express lanes on LBJ, but I have driven the toll road outside Austin, TX, the portion where the speed limit is 80mph (or 85mph in the southern end). Let's say it takes some getting used to.
@@keyowilson5695 they are both dangerous highways to drive on, so many stupid drivers on them, and i live in dallas right along LBJ
Charlotte's I-485 is partially within city limits and is mostly a 70MPH road.
Meanwhile many highways on the east coast are 55 in suburban/urban locations and the speed limits have not been changed since 1995.
The final third of the ride was beyond excellent. I love that song and never considered how it could be used in a road video until now. Great work all around.
Thank you very much, Erik got me hooked on Muse during the trip so I ended up using 4 tracks of theirs.
This is an amazing video, man! I've really enjoyed it. Dallas is a beautiful city.
Thank you very much!
Michael William people like you are annoying
I Know!!!
I doubt you will see this comment since this video was posted 4 months ago, but I just have to say I have probably watched this video 50 times now, and I still can't get enough of it. Truly amazing video with the perfect combination of good footage, amazing editing, and perfect song choices ("Uprising" is my favorite song now).
Thank you very much, glad you enjoy it and thanks for watching!
It's 3:39 a.m., and I've been binge watching your videos for a couple of hours. This one is by far my favorite for a bunch of reasons, one being in the late 90's, I lived in FW, went to church in Arlington, and spent a whole summer running camps in Denton for a church in Dallas. There's no place like Texas. It's the only place that ever felt like home, and after watching this, I'm so homesick. 😔
Glad you are enjoying the videos, thank you for watching!
Dallas is building so fast there's already high-rises missing from this 2016 vid.
JasnoGT Houston is still far ahead.
@@joemartin1253 In terms of what? Being dirty and on the brink of another hurricane?
Dallas all the way
JasnoGT We've only had two hurricanes in the last 35 years at least when there is a hurricane you have the time to evacuate yah have some tornadoes which are far more destructive and almost have no time to evacuate, and Dallas is not all that yah have some pretty ugly slums in the south side.
@@joemartin1253 In pretty sure Houstons been truck by more than just 2 hurricane warnings. My uncle's always coming to dallas because there's a hurricane warning.
Also, explain the floods. I was there 3 times in December and January and not a single day passed where I didn't see the streets flooding.
Why would that make it far ahead?
Also, DFW was named the best place to build a business and that's why companies are moving to dallas. Hell, Amazon was so close to choosing dallas for its HQ2, where was Houston.
It's top 3 fastest growing cities/ metro in America for a reason. Houston isn't even top 30
A M Dallas is just a hyped up city your Galleria is boring, I don't think Dallas has the level of business as Houston we the largest amount of fortune 500 companies in the US after New York, we have more international businesses than yah do, we have a pretty large Chinatown that NO TEXAS city has, PEMEX the largest petroleum co in Mexico is now here in Houston and nowhere else in the US so in terms of businessin we are ahead of Dallas.
I was looking at the map at the beginning of the video... 60 miles?? Man, that is a huge metro area!
Trevor Jameson Salt Lake City has 80 miles of metro on i15
The Dallas-FortWorth Metro strecthes 100 Miles From East to west
i know denver to heart but that shit 6pm
Why Yes. Yes it is. LOL.
That Guy yeah but only like 10 miles of metro on I-80 lol
I love living in Fort Worth and seeing all of that beautiful scenery!
TXDOT seems to have made highway design into its own art form.
I agree
A lot of frills and waste too. Billions spent on decorations clearview signage and other waste.
@@davestewart2067 If you want to see waste, come to California, they're so corrupt they can't even complete a railway. I'd rather they spend money on decorations and modernization
It’s very nice when you’re not the one in the driver’s seat.
OMG
good video :)
I'm obsessed with Dallas freeways, greetings from Mexicoooo!!!.
I don't write English very well, excuse me
Thank you, it's all good.
If you are obsessed with Dallas Freeways, have you seen this book? you can download a free .pdf of it. www.dfwfreeways.com/
Wow, a 70 mph speed limit in the middle of a big city. Amazing video!
Thank you
Meanwhile cities on the east coast are mostly stuck at 55 mph
I'm not sure what I am more blown away by: How nice and beautiful the highways are, or how many high rise buildings there are along the highway in the Dallas area.
I was always impressed by how far away you can see the Dallas skyline approaching the city.
It's amazing that TxDOT engineers some amazing freeway interchanges which included 2 or more freeways, plus the service roads that have to connect to each other, all in small space. They keep it up today by building things like the LBJ Express built in the median of I-35E. Amazing work!
Thanks, yes they build some amazing things, TxDOT today is like Caltrans of the 50's through the 70's, cutting edge.
Freewayjim Greetings... I'm from Texas and I've traveled the South all the way to Florida. What exactly is so special about Texas freeways/interstates besides the 75+ mph limit?
drive up north through Tennessee and you will see... they have no frontage roads and all their exits lead into weird roundabouts instead of stack exchanges that we have... oh, and all those u-turn things that we have under our bridges yeah they don't exist!!
terrelable Oh ok, never been up that way. Curious as to why it wouldn't be set up similar to the freeways in Texas.
Rick Smooth Tennessee doesn't have very big cities like Dallas so this no need for those interchange and theirs no frontage road because te land isn't as flat as Texas this is one interchange in Knoxville which is the most amazing one in tenn with 275 and 40 crossing
What a spectacular 5-levels crossroads! Thank you for your videos, Jim! Keep up the great work!
Thank you for watching!
What a perfect video. Exhilarating! Love the speed of the traffic, the tunes and all the helpful info. 😁
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
At 11:45 - this transition has Andy Warhol written all over it. Fantastic video all the way around...as usual. :) I am so grateful you and your posse have the patience and calm to drive some of these ginormous metroplex routes. They are fascinating and frightening at the same time. Excellent.
Thank you very much, Lisa!
Also, I-30 in downtown Ft. Worth used to go north of the old "main" post office along the Lancaster Ave overpass. Now, it goes south of that building near I-35W.
That, sir, was the best editing job you have done so far. Simply outstanding!
Thank you very much for that!
Omg, wow, this is the first time I have seen a (5 stack interchange), your giving me the sensation to just get into the truck and drive somewhere, anywhere! You've given me a new hobby, view all of your videos and experience the ride through your camera, without sounding corny, Great video Jim!!
There are many five stacks across Texas and a few in California. Hope you get back on the road on your terms, that's the best way to do it! many thanks.
James Grate We've had this in Houston for a long time.
I don't know why you're not at 1 million subscribers cuz your videos are the best!!!!!!
Thank you very much! I don't promote myself at all, if people find and like it, great!
Haven't been to DFW in ten years and it all still looks familiar. Great video
Thank you!
Outstanding ride as always! Definitely beginning to wonder what the big finished product in Dallas will look like in the coming years...
Thanks....you and me as well.
Freewayjim I love the music and the video
Have a blessed day Freewayjim
thanks
The mixmaster is almost completed, the I-30 bridge is finished, and the construction is starting to end, which is great. The mixmaster now has ramps open for permanent traffic flow, so it's truly shaping up. In about a year or so, you should come back for a ride on all the new stuff!
It's interesting on how it changed from rural to urban at the beginning. In only about 5 miles (8 kilometers), there's already lots of people in Ft. Worth.
There is already a lot of suburban development starting to build up in the area at the beginning of this video. It may look rural right now but I don't expect that to last too much longer (sadly, because I always loved how open the land is around Aledo and Willow Park).
Note of correction: "Dallas - Fort Worth - Arlington" is actually the MSA and it has a population of over 7.5 million as of 2018. The greater CSA is even larger in size and population.
Ryan Bloss Yup! And what’s odd is that on the very same Wikipedia page where he got the information about DFW being larger than Rhode Island and Connecticut combined, it literally says “The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, officially designated the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX **Metropolitan Statistical Area...** and it also calls DFW a metropolitan area multiple times in the article. So I’m curious why Freewayjim put “Combined Statistical Area” rather than MSA.
Possibly to get an additional person in the coming weeks or Maybe months. I'm waiting on something that's going to decide that factor for me.
Thanks for another great ride, Jim. Great soundtrack, as always.
Thank you very much
Holy crap! I love that bridge at 0:57! And US-75 is an awesome sunken freeway too!
That bridge was just completed last year. It currently goes to nowhere. There's supposed to be a very ritzy edition (Walsh Ranch) going in there at some point. if you look at satellite imagery, there is a street/roadway going from I-30 for a few miles with some intersections, but I don't think anyone lives there yet.
Very nice ride! Always love going through downtown Dallas, the freeways of Dallas and all by video and hopefully one day I will get to see it in person- including the High Five, plus a little TV trivia... in the opening credits of Dallas, you can see US 75 and the Campbell Center Towers, which were used as the offices of Barnes-Wentworth Oil- and it amazes me to see how much that highway has changed since seeing it in the opening credits of Dallas! Very nice ride! Also- awesome soundtrack to go with it!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing this with us !!! ☺️
Thank you for watching!
Another great video. Thanks for posting Jim
Thank you Bill.
I love driving through the Metroplex. Nice freeway stacks everywhere with neat looking roads (save for 35E) and neat landscaping
Same here!
Great job as usual on the video! I was hoping you would do the new LBJ Express Lanes and when I saw the title of this video I thought you were going to skip it, but I stayed until the end and saw that you are saving it for a stand alone video next week which should be AMAZING! Excited to see that video next week and keep up the great work!
Thank you, yes indeed, the next video starts on I-635 West just before the LBJ lanes and I took them to I-35E South, I think you'll enjoy it. And there's much more than the LBJ lanes too.
Freewayjim sounds great! Can't wait until next Monday!
Dallas freeways are amazing! I have'nt been through Big D since the mid nineties. I love your vids I started watching when I was missing my second home Denver. They took me there when I can't be there and I thank you greatly for them! They really take me there and I'm so glad I found your channel. You are doing a great service.
Thank you for the kind comment and for watching!
This is why I love Dallas...awesome job with the video!!!!
Thank you much!
Stunning! Love those triple stacked freeways and the views of Dallas are amazing!
Thank you!
It’s nit all Dallas it’s Fort Worth as well.
I live in Houston, TX. I did this drive one time, when I was 18 in 2011. I was in Ft Worth recently in Dec 2016. Thanks.
I hate Texas and colorado because are very racist and xenofobic states i am from latin américa so that realy affects me
I had to rewatch the High 5 portion 3 or 4 times at 0.25 speed, just to soak it all in. AH-MAZE-ING!
Yes it is truly amazing, I never feel like I get to see enough of it, and that includes a "360" video of it 2010, just an incredible interchange.
@@Freewayjim just drive through oh say 3PM any day and you will get it at 0.25speed :)
The interchange at I-30 and Texas 360 is getting a major upgrade.
Something new to see :)
They should just build one massive 2 or 3-mile interchange with 30/360/PGBT and blow all others out of the water!
It needs it, it's beyond a horror show.
When I lived in Arlington in the 1980's it was a horror show! I can't believe they still haven't updated it. Especially with the expansion of I 30 you'd think that would have been part of it.
A fantastic video from the Metroplex!
Lots of nice interchanges there
Thank you David!
just got back from visiting the MetroPlex, can't wait to relocate in the next few weeks to possibly months!!!
The Muse song made sense Muse came to Cowboys Stadium in 2009 with U2 when the stadium had its inaugural season
This is a wonderful job.congratulations!!
Thank you!
Good info and good music. Great video!
Thank you!
Yippyyay!
I like the first song it's epic
Thank you!
God Bless your work
Love the Beatrice truck looking perfectly 'preserved' or totally taken care of at 1:58.
great video Jim, keep up the work
Thank you!
I was going to stop in the middle to watch the rest of the vid later...and then I heard Muse. Glad I stayed. :D
Cool, thanks for sharing that. I also used Muse in Seattle 16-24, Portland 16-28 and Las Vegas 16-35 if you have not seen those yet.
US-75 just outside of Dallas is one of my favorite roads that I have ever been on and that Hi-Five interchange is just icing on the cake. I also think Muse is just great in about any freeway video.
Thank you very much!
10:57 was a great move,great video,great tunes🌴
Thank you!
best video man the music is god level!!
Glad you like it, thank you!
I like the sky it's so cloudy i was built for driving at that time👍
Alright! Your riding in my hometown!!
Ahhhhh, stacks! I miss driving through the Big D. Sadly those trips were before I thought about doing video. One day...
Like the Ghost Rider Music that you used was great and I didn't mind the football music for a little bit and the last song from Muse I'd came across the music video of that song a while back after watching one of your Seattle videos when I'd desided to look up Muse on youtube to hear more of their music beside the other songs I like to look up and listen to everything time I listen to a song on a dash cam video you guys got some very interesting music.
Thank you very much!
That interchange is amazing!
It truly is!
Bliss Of Mega High 6 Levels Interchange In Dallas Of I-35, I-30
It is so crazy how Dallas highways are I was actually born in Plano and I have family that lives in the Dallas area but it so crazy with the tolls and all the construction that TxDOT does
As always, great video. BTW, I'm in DWF, just about 30mins north of I-30 off in 377. :-)
Thank you!
First time driving 75 north to 635 west on the high 5 terrified me....now I’m an old pro. Being 100+ feet off the ground doesn’t faze me anymore🤣
It's quite a piece of engineering ;)
awesome adventure!!!
Thank you!
As a DFW resident, the first rule of driving in Dallas (and to a lesser extent Fort Worth) is to avoid all highways that end with a 5 between the hours of 8 and 8 😂
Great video. Texas freeways are so much fun to drive on.
It seems like other states are learning from Texas how to improve their interchanges.
Thank you and agreed.
Now your driving in my neck of the woods. Good to have ya. One thing you may notice is we drive quick here. Most of us anyway. LOL
LOL, yes you all don't mess around, no doubt!
Can't believe I'm going to say this...GAWD I Miss DFW.
Best Texas freeway video ever . 5:38 was that the six flags over Texas - Arlington . Can't wait for the LBJ express
Thanks
Nice video. LOVE that high 5 interchange. One thing I wonder, is if there are enough interconnected freeways, how would traffic flow be affected, if they were to do like Tokyo, Japan and install signs that show a map of that section of the freeways, where the lines that depict the freeways, lights up yellow or red depending on traffic conditions, or remain unlit if traffic is good. Since that is a lot of info for a sign, those signs are always large, and are also always overhead, and never off to the side.
Very awesome! thanks Freeway Jim!
Thank you
11:23 is the North Park Mall 😃
Yes
Loved the freeway stack!
Me too, it's pretty awesome!
DFW Metroplex aaaaay!!!! 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
i live in the DFW metroplex AMAZING freeway designs and huge freeways
Very nice! I assume this was a fun one to make. I met a guy once who played for Tom Landry
Thanks Nash, yes this one was fun.
Did you know that Route 75 in Downtown Dallas is actually I-345? I didn't knew that until yesterday when this video was uploaded.
Yeah, but it's only 1.4 miles long. It's not even worth the designation.
The video brilliantly showcases a metroplex 😃😃😃😃😃.
Thank you!
@@Freewayjim Keep up the great work, Jim 😃😃😃😃😃.
@@davidmcclellan9621 Much appreciated, thank you!
US 95 does a nice job at being a great non-Interstate freeway too. NDOT really put a lot of work and planning and it'll only be better once Neon is completed. You should come back to Las Vegas and give it a look later this year.
US-101in the SF Bay Area and LA and formerly US-59 in Houston before it was marked I-69 were also great non-interstate freeways.
The last song in this video is also used briefly during the London Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Too good video Sir 👍
Thank you!
Really nice video 👍
Thank you!
I drove to dallas back in december... I can't wait until the mixmaster is done, that interchange is a huge clusterfuck
Did anybody notice the huge backup on the flyramp from I-30 east to I-35W north in downtown Ft. Worth? That backup is due to the North Tarrant Express projects: major expansion projects on I-820 and I-35W. The I-820 portion of the projects are complete (expanded I-820 from I-35W in north Ft. Worth to TX 121/TX 183 in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford (H-E-B) area. I was recently on I-35W in north Ft. Worth about 2 weeks ago. Traffic is backed up regardless of time of day as they are adding toll lanes and expanding the right-of-way from I-30 north to near TX 114 by Texas Motor Speedway.
I noticed, good to know the deal there, thanks.
Texas has the nicest roads, I swear. So much nicer than New York. The only good road on the entirety of Long Island is NY 27.
CobaltYoshi27 well that’s because of the decreasing populations along the Great Lakes and the roads are much older
CobaltYoshi27 I live in Staten Island and I agree!!! The roads here in NYC suck!!! I can’t wait until I move out of NYC for college and go to somewhere in the Southern US like Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, Dallas, or Houston!!!
Definitely choose Dallas, you’ll love it there! I live about 3 hours from Dallas, and it’s a joy being close to a big city!
Nice!
Up north the roads get destroyed by freezing and thawing in the winter. Plus the salt they put down on the roads just ests it up. It makes sense for the roads in the southern states to be better than northern states. I think it would be cool if they had underground heating for the roadways. My neighbor has pipes that pump hot water under his driveway. Snow just hits it and melts. He never has to shovel his driveway.
6:09 As you were on the western part of the western interchange of I-30 and PGBT, you just crossed the county line from Tarrant County, TX to Dallas County, TX and that part is roughly 9 to 10 miles south of the DFW International Airport. By the way, that airport also touches the county line and is in the 3 city limits of Grapevine, Euless (both in Tarrant County) and Irving (that in Dallas County).
For your next video, I want you to do a ride along of Camp Bowie all the way to Weatherford.
That is awesome. Seeing the High Five again, I wonder if it is unique that it has cantilevered flyovers. Most other stack interchanges seem to have beams.
Thank you and I think you are correct on your High Five observation.
The brand-spankin'-new I-49/I-220 interchange here in Shreveport, Louisiana that is under construction seems to be utilizing the cantilever concept as well. Though the arches are shallower.
Always love the frontage roads along the Texas highways. It's a perfect way to deal with local vs. express traffic.
They take some getting used to for us non-Texans :)
I'm not a Texan. ;)
Don't understand why but after moving to Texas I've become enthralled with the highway infrastructure as there are so many impressive interchanges that are also mostly efficient. Still love it though when the interstates run at around 80-85+ when the speed limit is 65.
That was a good ride
Thank you!
US 75 (this section) is unnumbered Interstate 345 - like US 50 between Washington DC proper and the Severn River Bridge is unnumbered Interstate 595. This "silent Interstate" exists only as far north as the Trinity River Bridge - it began at the northern end of Interstate 45 (at the Mixmaster Interchange).
Tom Landry Highway is a very well deserved name for that road.
glad you save the best for last....and indeed the high five interchange is huge
ethan aldrich lamatan When I first moved to Mesquite in 03' the "High 5" was nothing but several huge pillars when I left in 05' it wasn't quite completed I think....nice to see it again.
Thanks
Love your videos. Love from PAKISTAN.
Thank you very much!
You should come and do the loops around Phoenix
Great ride. Only 13 miles to get from pasture to city. And 70 mph in the middle of the city? Crazy!
Thanks, yeah that's Texas for ya, and in the next video it's 75MPH on the LBJ Express Lanes, I was shocked to see that to be honest.
TheSolarcatcher lol don't be surprised, that is 80 MPH in Texan, we always go 10 over, and the cops let it slide. We have 80 and 85 MPH speed limits too, that means 90 and 95 MPH! Gotta go fast in a big state ya know.
Am I the only one who thought the "Uprising" song was a Doctor Who remix at first....anywho 😵
Daytona*Beach me,
It definitely sounded that way at first.
I was thinking that, too.
The song is a lot newer than I thought it'd be... definitely has the late 80's/early 90's style to it.
Interesting. I was just watching Dr. Who before watching this vid. haha. Synchronicity is everywhere! Pretty sure Muse plagurized Dr Who just a little on that melody. )
It looks different then when you are looking from maps
Another awesome upload! Texas is amazing!
Thank you
Thanks for the link. The Central expressway looks much safer now, and as you said it is a state highway and not part of the "interstate" system. When I lived in Anaheim in southern California in the early 1970s, MOST of the freeways in the LA area were state routes and not part of the interstate system, however I have noticed that many of these routes now have interstate numbers. I guess the were added to get the federal funding. Seems like when I was there, there was I-5, I-10, I-405, I-605, I-210, and US-101. The rest were all state routes. ( something like 600 miles at the time) One thing I liked about the system in the LA area is that the NAMES of these freeways actually pertain to what LOCATION the road connects to. (rather than some persons name or other random name important to the area).
You are welcome, it's actually a US Highway, but is still a freeway that isn't an Interstate (like US-101 in California). California decommissioned some old US Routes and turned them into state routes (like the 91 Freeway for example) and just converted other state routes to freeways over time. Yes, agree with you on the Freeway Names.
Favorite. Song. To. Drive. To. Ever.
And I have you to thank.
The first one btw
Sorry, I keep thinking of things. If you made a playlist of all the songs you use, I would buy it. Also, I would turn into a racecar driver. But I would love it.