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The North Tarrant Express (NTE) project is a total highway reconstruction of the Interstate 820 (I-820) and State Highway 121/State Highway 183 (SH 121/SH 183, Airport Freeway) corridor between I-35W and Industrial Boulevard in Northeast Tarrant County, Texas. The NTE and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) anticipate the new highway system will relieve traffic congestion, improve safety on its roadways and has integrated plans for the anticipated traffic growth in one of the country’s fastest developing regions. When the improvements are completed, the $2.5 billion North Tarrant Express will have upgraded main highway lanes, continuous frontage roads and of newly added tolled managed lanes (TEXpress Lanes). Construction began in late 2010 and is scheduled to be completed before the end of 2014, at least six months ahead of schedule. Also included in the North Tarrant Express' scope is the of I-35W from north of I-30 (Downtown Fort Worth) to the I-820 interchange. The project will provide over $1.5 billion of needed infrastructure to the Fort Worth area. The NTE project is completely reconstructing and upgrading existing general highway lanes. Also improving and expanding frontage lanes to double the existing capacity. Moreover, adding TEXpress managed lanes, or tolled express lanes are designed for commuters seeking the most reliable and time-saving trip. The variable tolls are based on travel time with a minimum goal to maintain a 50 mph traffic flow on the highway; motorists can choose to utilize general highway lanes or tolled express lanes depending on their traveling objectives. ==History== A study by the free-market Reason Foundation in 2009 that focused on 11 metro areas, showed that North Texas would have a huge economic boost by alleviating traffic congestion, calculating the extra productivity from better movement of people and goods around the region. Wise infrastructure investments that eliminate gridlock and produce free-flowing road conditions will more than pay for themselves by boosting the region’s economy, and thus tax revenues to maintain the mobility. The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (DFW) was singled out in the study due to its poor showing in congestion indexes and ranked miserably in many indexes in the annual mobility study by the Texas Transportation Institute. The Reason study says the biggest economic gains would come from eliminating severe congestion, which could add $46 billion a year to the regional economy and over $3 billion in annual tax revenues. Dallas is the fourth fastest-growing city in the country. For the 150,000+ cars a day that travel through the I-820 and SH 121/SR 183 corridor, drivers are no stranger to some of the bottlenecks that cause these delays. As one of the region's most important corridors, this stretch of highway has not kept up with the growth and North Texas' nearly seven million residents.〔http://www.ntc-dfw.org/northtexas/poplargestmetro.html〕 Dallas/Fort Worth commuters spend an average of two days a year stuck in traffic—the fifth-highest in the nation. On January 29, 2009, the Texas Transportation Commission voted 5–0 to hire Cintra's NTE Mobility Partners to rebuild phase 1 of North Tarrant Express corridors. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Tarrant Express」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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