A Downtown Ramp Disappears for 16 Months: The Westbound I-30 On-Ramp From Canton and Akard Closes Sunday Night Until Spring 2028
Beginning at 10 p.m. Sunday, November 15, the westbound I-30 on-ramp from Canton Street and Akard Street shuts down until spring 2028, TxDOT says — the newest long-term piece of the $888 million I-30 Canyon rebuild between I-35E and I-45.
DALLAS — Downtown drivers get four days' warning on this one. The westbound Interstate 30 on-ramp from Canton Street and Akard Street will close at 10 p.m. on Sunday, November 15, and remain closed until spring 2028, according to TxDOT reporting published Tuesday evening. It is not a weekend closure. It is a sixteen-month removal of one of the downtown grid's entries onto westbound I-30.
The ramp is one piece of the $888 million I-30 Canyon corridor improvement project, the rebuild of the freeway trench between the I-35E and I-45/U.S. 75 interchanges. The project's long-term map already in place around it is extensive: all lanes of Cesar Chavez Boulevard are closed and detoured at I-30 through late 2028, all lanes of Akard Street itself are closed at I-30 through summer 2028, and Good Latimer Expressway is narrowed to one lane in each direction through early 2028, with signed detours in place.
For the morning commute, the practical effect starts Monday, November 16: drivers who habitually enter westbound I-30 from the Canton/Akard side of downtown need another entry — the adjacent downtown ramps and the I-35E connection — and should expect the first mornings to sort themselves out slowly, as every long-term closure's first week does in the Canyon.
TxDOT posts the project's future lane and ramp closures at DriveTexas.org as they are scheduled. This desk will file the closure again only when its terms change — a new date, a new detour, or a reopening. Until then, Sunday night at 10 is the hour the ramp goes away.
