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May 19, 2009

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Green Line Updates:

Downtown Dallas construction information

Downtown Dallas: • To support construction around the Bryan/Hawkins intersection: Bryan is closed between Leonard and Good Latimer. View a street location map. Good Latimer is reduced to one lane in each direction between Bryan and Elm. View a street location map. • Motorists will not be able to make left turns from Leonard St. across the DART Rail tracks. View a street location map.

Market Center Community construction information

Market Center Community: • Three northbound lanes on Harry Hines between Wycliff and Market Center are open. Two southbound lanes on Harry Hines are open between Market Center and Douglas. View a street location map. • On Monday, April 13, one additional southbound lane on Harry Hines between Market Center and Wycliff is scheduled to open. At the Wycliff intersection, median work is scheduled and lanes will continue be reduced to two southbound lanes through the intersection. View a street location map. • Two northbound lanes on Harry Hines between Wycliff and Throckmorton are now open. View a street location map. • The intersection of Vagas and Harry Hines is closed until further notice while street work is performed on Vagas. View a street location map.

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Love Field West Community construction information

Love Field West Community: Neighborhood Construction Advisory - West of Love Field Construction on DART's exciting Green Line expansion into Northwest Dallas, Farmers Branch and Carrollton has begun in earnest and will continue until passenger service officially begins in December 2010. Listed below is a brief outline of how some of the major streets in the neighborhood west of Love Field will be affected. Denton Drive at Mockingbird Lane Motorists should expect periodic lane reduction on both streets as various construction stages proceed during the project. Wyman Street at Denton Drive Wyman is closed until further notice. Access is available via a bus lane from Burbank. View a street location map. • Bomar Ave. at Denton Drive will be permanently closed. View a street location map. • Traffic is reduced to one lane each way at W. Mockingbird Lane and Denton Drive. View a street location map. • Beginning the week of May 11, Denton from north of Hawes Ave. to Lovedale will have a traffic switch to begin new paving work. The northbound lanes will be closed and traffic will be detoured onto the southbound lanes with one lane open in each direction. Once the northbound lanes are completed, traffic will be switched to the new lanes while southbound lanes are paved. View a street location map. • Empire Central at Denton is now open. View a street location map. • Denton is closed from Shorecrest to Webb Chapel for underground utility work until further notice. Detour is available via Harry Hines. View a street location map. • Webb Chapel Extension and Denton Drive is reduced to one lane in each direction for the installation of underground utilities until further notice. View a street location map. • There will be traffic switches at the intersection of Webb Chapel and Denton until further notice. View a street location map. • From 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 21 through 6 a.m. on Friday, May 22, Webb Chapel at Denton will be closed for the installation of overhead concrete beams. Detour is available via Northwest Highway. View a street location map. • Community Drive is open to two way traffic. View a street location map.

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Walnut Hill/Denton Area construction information

Walnut Hill/Denton Area: Construction for DART's exciting Green Line Expansion Program into Northwest Dallas, Farmers Branch and Carrollton, is underway and will continue until the new passenger service begins in December 2010. Construction in this area will necessitate occasional traffic shifts and detours as some of the local streets and infrastructure are improved. • Denton Drive is closed from Storey Lane to Webb Chapel until further notice. View a street location map. •  Denton Drive between Storey Lane and Lombardy is reduced to one lane southbound. View a street location map. • Denton Drive between Lombardy and Walnut Hill will be closed except for local traffic. Motorists are encouraged to look for local road detour signage. View a street location map. •  Century Drive between Doric Street and Denton Drive will permanently close. Local business traffic wishing to access Denton Drive from the east will need to detour along Doric Street to Abernathy Avenue and Lombardy Lane. This work will be followed by subsequent traffic shifts at this location--each lasting for several weeks--to allow for the reconstruction of Century Drive with a direct connection to Abernathy Lane. Road construction on Century Drive is anticipated to continue until Fall 2009. • Walnut Hill near Denton Drive may have daily lane closures. View a street location map. • There is an altered lane configuration on Denton, north of Forest Lane, to accommodate the next phase of paving. View a street location map.

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Farmers Branch Community construction information

Farmers Branch Community: Farmers Branch On-Call Boarding With Other DART Routes at Farmers Branch Park & Ride - Effective October 20, 2008 All Farmers Branch On-Call vehicles drop off and board passengers at the temporary transit center on Denton Drive. This is the location currently being used by Bus Routes 44, 185, 204, 247, 331, 400 and 486. Boarding will take place at the sign marked: DEPARTURES All Bus Routes All DART services will use this stop until the new Green Line rail station opens across the street in December 2010. Riders may continue to call 972-880-7786 to schedule an On-Call trip reservation. For other questions about On-Call service, please consult www.DART.org or call 214-979-1111. View a street location map. • Villa Creek near Denton Drive may have daily lane closures. View a street location map. • Farmers Branch Lane at Denton is closed for utility installation. View a street location map. • Buttonwood Drive is closed until further notice. View a street location map. • Pike Street is closed until further notice. View a street location map. • Squire Place at Denton Drive is closed until further notice. View a street location map. • McClintock is closed between Squire Place and Fruitland for utility work until further notice. View a street location map. On Wednesday, May 20, a detour will be put in place on Denton at Distribution Way for approximately two weeks for the installation of a storm water pipe. View a street location map.

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Carrollton Community construction information

Carrollton Community: Construction for DART's exciting Green Line Expansion Program into Northwest Dallas, Farmers Branch and Carrollton, is under way and will continue until the new passenger service begins in December 2010. Construction in this area will necessitate occasional traffic shifts and detours as some of the local streets and infrastructure are improved. • On Valwood Parkway at the rail guideway, traffic has been switched to the outside lanes while median paving work is done. View a street location map. • From Monday, May 18 through Tuesday, May 19, traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction on Frankford Rd. near the rail guideway for storm pipe installation. View a street location map.

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Deep Ellum Community construction information

Deep Ellum Community: •  Malcolm X Blvd. between Junius and Indiana may be periodically reduced to one lane in each direction until further notice. View a street location map. • There will be a traffic switch on Hall Street at the rail guideway to the new paving on the northbound lanes until future notice. View a street location map.

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Fair Park Community construction information

Fair Park Community: • Parry Ave. at Haskell will be reduced to one lane in both directions until further notice. View a street location map. • Trunk Ave. between Pennsylvania and Birmingham is closed until further notice. View a street location map.

Detail of Green Line Southeast Corridor View a printer-friendly PDF of the complete map in a new window

Hatcher Community construction information

Hatcher Community: From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19 and Wednesday, May 20, eastbound Scyene is reduced to one lane between Borich and Hatcher. View a street location map. •  Eastbound traffic along Scyene Rd. between Second Ave. and Hatcher St. and westbound traffic along Scyene Rd. between Hatcher St. and Lawnview Ave. may have periodic lane reductions. View a street location map. • Traffic along Hatcher St. at Scyene Road will be reduced to one lane in each direction. There will be daily lane closures at the intersection of Scyene Road and Hatcher St. View a street location map. • On Monday, April 13, there will be a traffic switch to the newly paved lanes on Hatcher at Scyene. One lane in each direction will be open. View a street location map. • Dixon Avenue near Scyene Road has one lane open in each direction. View a street location map. •  Left turn lane on Lawnview Avenue at Scyene Road is detoured. Motorists are encouraged to look for detour signage. View a street location map. • Westbound traffic along Scyene Road to Lawnview Avenue will be detoured to Elmira Street (right) to Greenmere Place (left) and back onto Scyene (right). View a street location map.

Detail of Green Line Southeast Corridor View a printer-friendly PDF of the complete map in a new window

Lake June Community construction information

Lake June Community: •  There may be temporary lane reductions on Buckner Blvd. between Elam Rd. and US 175. View a street location map. • There is one lane open in each direction on Elam Road between Hillburn Drive and Buckner until further notice. View a street location map.

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Orange Line Updates:

Orange Line construction information

Geotechnical testing on SH 161 at Valley View is scheduled for the week of May 18. From 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday evenings, May 18 and 19, geotechnical testing will be taking place on southbound SH 161 at Valley View. From 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, May 20 and 21, the testing will be taking place on the northbound side of SH 161 at Valley View. View a street location map. Lane restrictions for geotechnical testing, utility locations and barrier placement will occur in the following locations: From 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. on Monday, May 18 and Tuesday, May 19, there will be overnight various lane restrictions on Northwest Hwy., Story Lane and IH 35 to place construction barriers. There will be lane restrictions on Jameson for curb removal. View a street location map. At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, Jameson Dr. at the Northwest Hwy. frontage road will be closed until further notice for Orange Line construction activity. View a street location map.

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