If you ever travel Skillman North and Northeast of LBJ 635 you know how fast you can become confused as to where you are. That nightmare is about to end. I can remember my first trip up that way and even an old navigational and seasoned driver or passenger, getting that lost feeling just was not something that I experience. I have a good sense of direction. But Skillman from Whitehurst to where Skillman joins Forest Lane is like the Bermuda Triangle of being lost, turned around with curves and mergers and intersections that seem to not go anywhere with a lot of open space in between, one can see the brewing of a nightmare even as you got deeper into the triangle. When completed, NO MORE!
Couple that with the already 5,000 bridges in Dallas ( give or take a hundred or so ) and the count really wasn't driven home so much as it was with the High 5 or even the big namesakes of the Maggie 1 and the Maggie 2 (Maggie 1 being the Margaret Hunt Hill with one arch and the first constructed; Maggie 2 being the Margaret McDermott with two arches and second build of Santiago Calatrava Design). Now, in far Northeast Dallas the new Skillman bridge will (pardon the pun) bridge the gap between the
North side of LBJ 635 and the South side of the I-635 LBJ with this tied arch construction that is more lake the Maggie 2 (MMD) than the Maggie 1 (MHH). Maggie 1 is cable stayed with round arches. Maggie 2 is cablestayed but has flat arches like this design.
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