PM Drive, Weekend Ahead: Westbound I-30 Drops to One Lane at Royse City Friday Night, and FM 548 Shuts at the Interstate All Weekend
Plan the east-side weekend now: westbound I-30 will be reduced to one lane between FM 35 and Erby Campbell Boulevard from 9 p.m. Friday, November 13, through 5 a.m. Saturday — and again nightly through Monday morning, November 16 — while all lanes of FM 548 close and detour at I-30 for the same stretch, part of the $348 million I-30 corridor expansion.
ROYSE CITY — The PM drive home Wednesday is not the problem; Friday night is. Westbound Interstate 30 will be reduced to one lane between FM 35 and Erby Campbell Boulevard from 9 p.m. Friday, November 13, until 5 a.m. Saturday, November 14, to allow for bridge work, according to Rockwall County officials' November 6 announcement — and the one-lane pattern continues nightly through Monday morning, November 16.
The cross-street takes the harder hit. All lanes of northbound and southbound FM 548 at I-30 will close and detour from Friday night through early Monday morning during the same period. If your weekend route crosses I-30 on FM 548 — the Fate and Royse City run — it does not cross this weekend; build the detour in before Friday evening, not at the barricades.
The work is one piece of the $348 million I-30 corridor expansion, which is widening the interstate and adding continuous frontage roads from State Highway 205 to the Hunt County line, with completion expected by early 2028 under TxDOT's Texas Clear Lanes initiative.
For tonight's drive, the standing advice holds: the closures begin Friday at 9 p.m., not before. Daily lane-closure updates are posted at drivetexas.org, and the desk will re-check the pattern on Friday's cycles before the first night lands.
