Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Parking Lot Carnival Is Back In Spite of LBJ's Construction

Looks beautiful but there was a 40 MPH wind blowing!
The Tea Cup Ride still shows up at Carnivals
Part of the main midway
A regional carnival and amusement company is back at a redefined Mall parking lot in spite of the LBJ Construction between Preston Road and North Dallas Tollway segment. The project stretches 11 plus miles from the Dallas High Five to the North South connection to I-35E.

The spot where the carnival usually sets up is covered in steel, pipe,wire,forms,gravel,chunks of torn up pavement and all the orange barrels that goes with such a project. The HOV lanes will be below grade level in the middle with the East West lanes at grade level. When done in 2015, one of the worse congested corridors of traffic will be well ahead of the traffic for the next several decades. When connected to the High Five on the East and the busy I-35E Corridor on the West, new flyways and HOV lanes up in the air along the right and left side of the main traffic lanes going South and North.

However, even with the Valley View Mall about to undergo redevelopment, in the shadows of the Galleria Mall that is less than three or four football fields down the block, the carnival draws a large crowd of families, especially on the weekends,.because of the toll way and  635 LBJ.

 

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