{"id":523775,"date":"2026-01-17T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/523775\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:46:10","slug":"crews-demolish-parts-of-interstate-30-in-downtown-dallas-for-planned-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/523775\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews demolish parts of Interstate 30 in downtown Dallas for planned construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The weekend construction of Interstate 30 in downtown Dallas has begun, resulting in road closures, shutdowns, and delays for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/\">North Texas drivers.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2026\/01\/14\/a-full-shutdown-of-interstate-30-in-downtown-dallas-is-coming-soon-heres-what-to-expect\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2026\/01\/14\/a-full-shutdown-of-interstate-30-in-downtown-dallas-is-coming-soon-heres-what-to-expect\/\">a planned construction activity<\/a> by the Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/txdot\/\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/txdot\/\" target=\"_blank\">TxDOT<\/a>, all lanes of east- and westbound I-30 are set to be closed between the I-35E and I-45\/U.S. 75 interchanges, as part of the ongoing I-30 Canyon corridor improvement project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Closures were planned to be in effect starting Friday at 10 p.m. and are expected to continue through Monday at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials previously warned of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/traffic\/\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\">significant traffic delays<\/a> as a result of the closures. They urged people to avoid unnecessary travel in the area, if possible, and plan for longer travel times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The same weekend closure and detour will likely be scheduled again later this month, and officials said they will provide details once it\u2019s finalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Staff Writer Zacharia Washington contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The weekend construction of Interstate 30 in downtown Dallas has begun, resulting in road closures, shutdowns, and delays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":523776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,14052,358,314,522,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-523775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-downtown-dallas","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-traffic","14":"tag-transportation","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115912873550583687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}