A major thoroughfare in North Dallas will reopen after a year-long closure. According to a release, a portion of Hillcrest Road that was closed for continued construction of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Silver Line Regional Rail project will re-open Thursday, January 23, 2025, to commuters traveling through North Dallas.
The road was closed for 52 weeks. Let the traffic return!
UPDATE 1/23/2025: The opening has been delayed. According to a statement, the City of Dallas and DART are delaying the partial reopening of Hillcrest Road between McCallum and Wester Way for two weeks. The delay of delivery of equipment for the new Hillcrest stormwater pump station has resulted in the station not being fully operational. And with the forecast rain over the next 10 days, the City and DART, in abundance of caution, decided to delay the partial reopening of Hillcrest.
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DART and the City of Dallas agreed to close this 1/5-mile stretch of Hillcrest Road on January 25, 2024, as crews built a new section of roadway underneath a raised rail guideway for the Silver Line.
Hillcrest RoadThe closure was near the city of Richardson border and within Plano Independent School District attendance zonesDART
The closure was located near the city of Richardson border and within Plano Independent School District attendance zone, and included no access to Hillcrest Road between McCallum Boulevard and Wester Way.
Hillcrest Road will open with one lane of traffic in each direction in the inside lanes before resuming to multiple lanes at McCallum to the north and Wester Way to the south. Medians will separate the open lanes with a strict 25-mph speed limit enforced.
When they made the closure a year ago, they predicted the reopening would take place on January 24, so they beat their target by a day. Huzzah.
With major construction primarily complete, DART will post digital road signs alerting drivers of any upcoming changes and will continue providing updates to nearby cities who may have commuters that frequent the area.
Pedestrians will have access to a designated temporary walkway on the eastside of the roadway barrier wall. The fully constructed sidewalk is expected to open in February.
The DART Silver Line is a 26-mile commuter rail that will cross seven North Texas cities (Grapevine, Coppell, Dallas, Carrollton, Addison, Richardson, Plano) between DFW Airport and Shiloh Road in Plano, as wel as three counties (Collin, Dallas, Tarrant), with a goal of providing service across the northern portion of DART's service area, as well as access to DFW Airport. DART Silver Line revenue service is scheduled to begin in late 2025 to mid-2026.
