According to the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA), all major traffic movements on the SamRayburn Tollway SRT) and US 75 Interchange are expected to be fully operational by the end of January.
This will almost complete the SRT project. The major piece left will be the interchange at the Dallas North Tollway (DNT), which is scheduled to be opened in early 2012.
After touring the project, the NTTAsent over the following facts concerning the SRT (it's still difficult not to call this 121) that I thought you might find interesting:
Overall the SRT is approximately 26 miles in length, stretching from Denton Tap Road in Denton County to east of US 75 in Collin County, linking the region's fastest-growing communities with DFW International
Airport; * The SRT consists of 40 miles of concrete traffic barriers and over 277 acres of concrete pavement;
* The volume of concrete used in constructing the SRT is enough to build a five-foot-wide sidewalk from Dallas to Minneapolis;
* The square foot area of concrete walls along the tollway is approximately the same square foot area as the face of the Hoover Dam;
* The SRT/US 75 Interchange is designed to handle 238,000 vehicles per day;
* 16 million pounds of steel beams are being used to construct the SRT/DNT Interchange. This is enough steel to reconstruct the Eiffel Tower or build Gateway Arches in St. Louis;