Tuesday PM Drive, Evening Edition: Denton's I-35E Goes Dark at 9 P.M. for the Second Straight Night, Rockwall's I-30 Lanes Narrow Overnight — and Fort Worth's Parade Streets Close Wednesday Morning
The evening commute itself is a normal Tuesday. The night is not: full I-35E closures in Denton from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. and overnight I-30 lane work in Rockwall County. And Wednesday's Veterans Day parade will close its downtown Fort Worth route — Belknap, Commerce, 5th and Houston — from mid-morning.
DENTON — The closures this desk announced Monday execute for the second straight night at 9 p.m.: Interstate 35E closes in both directions between North Texas Boulevard and Bonnie Brae Street until 5 a.m. Wednesday for bridge work, with traffic diverted to the service roads, according to the TxDOT-compiled schedules reported by Texas Network. The work sits inside TxDOT's I-35E/I-35W interchange rebuild — about 4.8 miles from North Texas Boulevard to U.S. 77, an estimated $583 million project widening the freeway from four lanes to six, started spring 2025 and due to finish in summer 2029. Late-night drivers between Dallas and Denton should budget the frontage-road detour both ways.
In Rockwall County, the Interstate 30 overnight program continues on its published schedule: the westbound right lane from Erby Campbell to FM 35 is closed 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. nightly through Nov. 16 for crews pinning concrete traffic barriers, and alternating westbound lanes and Exit 68, from John King Boulevard to SH 205, may close as needed overnight through Nov. 14 for barrier and pavement-marking work, per the East DFW News report of TxDOT's schedule. Emergency vehicles are allowed through the closures. Daytime flagging on the westbound frontage road, FM 2642 to FM 551 and John King to SH 205, runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Nov. 14.
Wednesday's traffic story is a parade. The 107th Tarrant County Veterans Day Parade steps off at 11 a.m. from Panther Island Pavilion, and its route — up Belknap Street past the Tarrant County Courthouse, down Commerce Street, across 5th Street and up Houston Street, then back down Belknap — will be closed to traffic as the procession moves, with barricades pre-positioned along the route from 9:30 a.m. and an opening ceremony at 10:30, according to the parade council's own published schedule and FAQ. Downtown Fort Worth drivers should plan around the Belknap/Commerce corridor from mid-morning to the parade's 12:30 p.m. conclusion; spectators get the prime curbs along that same route. Dallas's Veterans Day observances were filed on this station Nov. 8 — tonight's file carries the Fort Worth street picture because Wednesday is when it closes.
