PM Drive in Dallas–Fort Worth: Denton's I-35E/W Interchange Keeps Its Intermittent Closures Until Saturday Morning

DENTON — Friday evening's drive has one construction program still standing between the Metroplex and the weekend. Intermittent closures at Denton's Interstate 35E and 35W interchange, which began Thursday night, will last until Saturday morning, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported — the junction where the interstate splits for Dallas on one side and Fort Worth on the other, and where any closure touches both cities' northern commutes at once. The closures are intermittent rather than a full shutdown, and the desk prints the window as reported: Thursday night through Saturday morning.

The rest of tonight's verified board is completions. The TxDOT closure of westbound I-30 at Spur 580 and West Camp Bowie Boulevard — the one this station's weekend roundup flagged for last night — ran from 9 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday and is finished; its detour sent westbound traffic off at Spur 580, along the frontage road and back onto I-30 after Linkcrest Drive, and the Horse Creek crossover under the freeway has its scheduled window behind it as well. In Rockwall County, the daytime flagging on the westbound I-30 frontage road between FM 2642 and FM 551 ended with its 3 p.m. window today, though the notice's alternating overnight lane closures between State Highway 205 and the John King Boulevard / FM 3549 stretch continue through November 7.

That leaves the practical shape of the evening simple: the PM drive runs on a clear construction board except at the top of the map, where Denton drivers should expect the interchange to close and reopen in stretches into Saturday morning. No other new TxDOT Dallas District closure was read by this desk this cycle. The Traffic Desk's next scheduled file is the weekend roundup cycle; incident closures, when officials confirm them, file as they are verified, never from scanner traffic alone.