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    Traffic News

    Look for road closures and Lyft rides on Labor Day weekend in Dallas

    Teresa Gubbins
    Aug 31, 2018 | 9:02 am
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    Labor Day weekend promises to be an obstacle course of sorts, as there are a number of road closures going down. There's also an updated holiday schedule for DART, and holiday free rides from Lyft.

    Here is all your traffic and transportation news for the Labor Day weekend and beyond:

    I-30 closure
    Two right lanes of eastbound I-30 between Fort Worth Avenue and Beckley Avenue will be closed nightly from 9 pm-5 am each night on Tuesday, September 4; Wednesday, September 5; and Thursday, September 6.

    All lanes will be open as usual by 5 am on Friday, September 7.

    I-35 closures
    The westbound Woodall Rodgers ramp to southbound I-35E will be closed nightly from Tuesday, September 4 through Friday, September 7. Also, various ramps, frontage roads, and southbound lanes on I-35, between Hi Line Drive and I-30, will be closed for construction activities on the Lowest Stemmons project.

    These are the closures scheduled to take place overnight on September 4-7, from 9 pm-5 am:

    • Southbound I-35E — various lanes closed including the Woodall Rodgers connection to southbound I-35E
    • Southbound I-35E frontage road between Continental Avenue and Commerce Street including the entrance ramp from Continental Avenue to southbound I-35E
    • Northbound I-35E Continental Avenue entrance ramp
    • Southbound Continental Avenue exit ramp from I-35E

    These are the daytime closures on September 4-8 from 9 am-4 pm:

    • Reunion Boulevard entrance ramp to eastbound I-30

    Long-term closures

    • Southbound I-35E frontage road between Inspiration Drive and Continental Avenue, south of Hi Line Drive, is estimated to remain closed until late Fall 2018.
    • The Pennsylvania Avenue entrance ramp to southbound I-45 will close for an extended period of time beginning Tuesday, September 4 at 9 am, and will remain closed until the new ramp and connectors to I-45 are completed in the summer of 2019. Traffic will continue on the southbound frontage road and will utilize the Lamar Street entrance ramp to gain access to southbound I-45. This closure is a part of the reconstruction and configuration of the SM Wright phase 1 project to build the new connectors between I-45 to US 175.

    DART's Labor Day hours
    Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) will operate a modified schedule for Monday, September 3:

    • DART bus, light rail and Dallas streetcar services will follow a Sunday schedule.
    • The Trinity Railway Express commuter rail will not operate.
    • DART's administrative offices, Customer Care Center, and Lost and Found will be closed.

    Customers with questions about schedules can contact DART's Customer Information Center at 214-979-1111 from 8 am-5 pm.

    DPD DWI
    The Dallas Police Department will conduct a No-Refusal DWI Initiative over the Labor Day Holiday. If you refuse to voluntarily give a breath or blood sample, officers will secure a search warrant for a blood sample. That ends at midnight on September 3.

    Lyft rides
    This Labor Day, Lyft will help DFW residents celebrate responsibly by providing $50,000 in free rides across the state.

    These rides are part of Lyft's commitment to reduce drinking and driving through its Ride Smart TX program, launched in May over Cinco de Mayo and recently activated over the 4th of July.

    Texans can claim their free Lyft ride (up to $10 discount) by applying code RIDESMARTLD in the Lyft app (offer valid August 31 at 12 pm-September 3 at 11:59 pm). You get one free ride up to $10.

    "Labor Day festivities create a busy weekend for DFW’s roads,” states Yohan Bobcombe, DFW manager, in a release. "Data shows that 36 percent of Labor Day weekend fatalities involved an alcohol-impaired driver, and Lyft is committed to doing our part to combat this statistic and encourage responsible choices through our Ride Smart TX program."

    For further details on the Ride Smart TX program, Lyft’s blog post is accessible here.

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    SAFE SPACE

    5 Dallas neighbors dominate 2026 list of safest cities in Texas

    Brandon Watson
    Feb 16, 2026 | 3:43 pm
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    Who wouldn't feel safe in Trophy Club with this guy around?

    A new report says the Dallas suburbs are home to some of the safest cities in Texas. Home security review site SafeWise has ranked Trophy Club, Parker, Melissa, Murphy, and Colleyville on its recent top-10 list of towns unburdened by crime worries.

    Trophy Club bests every other city, topping the charts at No. 1. Parker follows right behind at No. 2, Melissa is No. 4, Murphy ranks No. 7, and Colleyville comes in at No. 9.

    For its 2026 report, SafeWise factored in FBI-reported property and violent crime data for 343 cities, then adjusted it for population to fairly compare metros to rural and suburban towns. (Data for the Texas cities can be found here.)

    Although the rankings do provide a snapshot, the site says “a number of factors, including local agency reporting practices, community resources, prevention efforts, and lived experience all influence how safe a place is (or is perceived to be).”

    North Texas cities have tended to do well in "safe city" surveys in recent years. Arlington and Fort Worth scored top-10 spots on a ranking of America's safest large cities last fall. SmartAsset ranked Frisco and McKinney among the nation's safest suburbs in a 2025 list.
    The Safewise rankings were released with its State of Safety survey, which found that perception didn’t always gel with reality. Although the statewide property crime rate of 23.4 incidents per 1,000 people is slightly higher than the national rate, Texas’ violent crime rate of 4.44 incidents per 1,000 people is consistent with the national average.

    Still, Texans feel less safe than the average American. Only 49 percent of the survey’s respondents say they feel safe in the state compared to the national norm of 52 percent. 55 percent said they worry about their safety on a daily basis, a year-over-year increase from 52 percent. The data contrasts with first-hand reporting. For the second year in a row, Lone Star State participants said they have had few personal experiences with property crime and package theft.

    The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan statistical area had the most ranked cities on the SafeWise list. The full top 10 includes:

    • No. 1 — Trophy Club (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington)
    • No. 2 — Parker (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington)
    • No. 3 — Memorial Villages (Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land)
    • No. 4 — Melissa (Dallas-Fort Worth)
    • No. 5 — Fair Oaks Ranch (San Antonio-New Braunfels)
    • No. 6 — Whitehouse (Tyler)
    • No. 7 — Murphy (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington)
    • No. 8 — Fulshear (Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land)
    • No. 9 — Colleyville (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington)
    • No. 10 — Lumberton (Beaumont-Port Arthur)
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