These days, even $1.6 billion isn't enough to solve a highway's congestion problems.
After years of work to improve traffic on Interstate 35W in north Fort Worth, a bottleneck still occurs on the southbound side of the freeway at Loop 820.
On most days, traffic is backed up for at least 1 mile — and sometimes the line stretches as far as 4 miles, beyond North Tarrant Parkway. The congestion occurs not only during peak travel periods, but even during middays and evenings.
Why?
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