Dallas has improved greatly over the last two decades which speaks to the nightmare it was, but Fort Worth has degraded. With the exception of I-30 through downtown, very little has changed in FW. Now that the whole city is afloat in Gas drilling dollars, perhaps they will be willing to make some progress. Previously, the people of Tarrant county made a conscious effort to ‘not become Dallas’ and weren’t growth friendly, but the growth happened anyway. Now they have the traffic problems that Dallas had 20 years ago.
I used to work near Lake Worth - coming in from the
north on 35W was a problem at the 820 interchange, and
820 is always a mess through the Midcities. Some of my
colleagues came in from Plano - commute from hell!
I suppose now all new roads will be toll. 121 and the
NE(?) Expressway are the wave of the future.
Of course I now leave at 530 am to get to Redmond before
I90W/405N/520 become gridlocked - everyplace has problems.