Follows I-30 East from its beginning west of Fort Worth eastbound to US-75 North in Downtown Dallas and up to the High Five Interchange. All music and equipment FAQ's are in the closing credits.
You have no idea how often I watch this video in full! Love the music first of all, all three of the songs of choice! Second of all, I moved to Dallas about a month ago from Georgia and we drove there! I recongize some of the roads you were on now, especially US75! You can actually see where I live (wasn't built in this video) from US75 North now!! Thank you, Freewayjim, for making me anticipate my love for Dallas!
When I drove on Route 75, 3 realizations came to mind: 1. I had never seen a speed limit of 70 mph inside city limits. 2. Driving to McKinney from Dallas was a longer drive than it felt because you're driving through nothing but sprawl, so it flies by fast. 3. Those 4 and 5 stack interchanges are truly done the Texas way. They make it obvious with the stars embedded on the sides. Anyway, it was a great video you put together. Can't imagine why anyone would dislike it, but we can't please everyone, I guess.
Freewayjim I didn't drive the express lanes on LBJ, but I have driven the toll road outside Austin, TX, the portion where the speed limit is 80mph (or 85mph in the southern end). Let's say it takes some getting used to.
It's 3:39 a.m., and I've been binge watching your videos for a couple of hours. This one is by far my favorite for a bunch of reasons, one being in the late 90's, I lived in FW, went to church in Arlington, and spent a whole summer running camps in Denton for a church in Dallas. There's no place like Texas. It's the only place that ever felt like home, and after watching this, I'm so homesick. 😔
The final third of the ride was beyond excellent. I love that song and never considered how it could be used in a road video until now. Great work all around.
JasnoGT We've only had two hurricanes in the last 35 years at least when there is a hurricane you have the time to evacuate yah have some tornadoes which are far more destructive and almost have no time to evacuate, and Dallas is not all that yah have some pretty ugly slums in the south side.
@@joemartin1253 In pretty sure Houstons been truck by more than just 2 hurricane warnings. My uncle's always coming to dallas because there's a hurricane warning. Also, explain the floods. I was there 3 times in December and January and not a single day passed where I didn't see the streets flooding. Why would that make it far ahead? Also, DFW was named the best place to build a business and that's why companies are moving to dallas. Hell, Amazon was so close to choosing dallas for its HQ2, where was Houston. It's top 3 fastest growing cities/ metro in America for a reason. Houston isn't even top 30
A M Dallas is just a hyped up city your Galleria is boring, I don't think Dallas has the level of business as Houston we the largest amount of fortune 500 companies in the US after New York, we have more international businesses than yah do, we have a pretty large Chinatown that NO TEXAS city has, PEMEX the largest petroleum co in Mexico is now here in Houston and nowhere else in the US so in terms of businessin we are ahead of Dallas.
I doubt you will see this comment since this video was posted 4 months ago, but I just have to say I have probably watched this video 50 times now, and I still can't get enough of it. Truly amazing video with the perfect combination of good footage, amazing editing, and perfect song choices ("Uprising" is my favorite song now).
@@davestewart2067 If you want to see waste, come to California, they're so corrupt they can't even complete a railway. I'd rather they spend money on decorations and modernization
I'm not sure what I am more blown away by: How nice and beautiful the highways are, or how many high rise buildings there are along the highway in the Dallas area.
At 11:45 - this transition has Andy Warhol written all over it. Fantastic video all the way around...as usual. :) I am so grateful you and your posse have the patience and calm to drive some of these ginormous metroplex routes. They are fascinating and frightening at the same time. Excellent.
It's amazing that TxDOT engineers some amazing freeway interchanges which included 2 or more freeways, plus the service roads that have to connect to each other, all in small space. They keep it up today by building things like the LBJ Express built in the median of I-35E. Amazing work!
Freewayjim Greetings... I'm from Texas and I've traveled the South all the way to Florida. What exactly is so special about Texas freeways/interstates besides the 75+ mph limit?
drive up north through Tennessee and you will see... they have no frontage roads and all their exits lead into weird roundabouts instead of stack exchanges that we have... oh, and all those u-turn things that we have under our bridges yeah they don't exist!!
Rick Smooth Tennessee doesn't have very big cities like Dallas so this no need for those interchange and theirs no frontage road because te land isn't as flat as Texas this is one interchange in Knoxville which is the most amazing one in tenn with 275 and 40 crossing
Very nice ride! Always love going through downtown Dallas, the freeways of Dallas and all by video and hopefully one day I will get to see it in person- including the High Five, plus a little TV trivia... in the opening credits of Dallas, you can see US 75 and the Campbell Center Towers, which were used as the offices of Barnes-Wentworth Oil- and it amazes me to see how much that highway has changed since seeing it in the opening credits of Dallas! Very nice ride! Also- awesome soundtrack to go with it!
The mixmaster is almost completed, the I-30 bridge is finished, and the construction is starting to end, which is great. The mixmaster now has ramps open for permanent traffic flow, so it's truly shaping up. In about a year or so, you should come back for a ride on all the new stuff!
Note of correction: "Dallas - Fort Worth - Arlington" is actually the MSA and it has a population of over 7.5 million as of 2018. The greater CSA is even larger in size and population.
Ryan Bloss Yup! And what’s odd is that on the very same Wikipedia page where he got the information about DFW being larger than Rhode Island and Connecticut combined, it literally says “The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, officially designated the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX **Metropolitan Statistical Area...** and it also calls DFW a metropolitan area multiple times in the article. So I’m curious why Freewayjim put “Combined Statistical Area” rather than MSA.
Also, I-30 in downtown Ft. Worth used to go north of the old "main" post office along the Lancaster Ave overpass. Now, it goes south of that building near I-35W.
Omg, wow, this is the first time I have seen a (5 stack interchange), your giving me the sensation to just get into the truck and drive somewhere, anywhere! You've given me a new hobby, view all of your videos and experience the ride through your camera, without sounding corny, Great video Jim!!
There are many five stacks across Texas and a few in California. Hope you get back on the road on your terms, that's the best way to do it! many thanks.
Great job as usual on the video! I was hoping you would do the new LBJ Express Lanes and when I saw the title of this video I thought you were going to skip it, but I stayed until the end and saw that you are saving it for a stand alone video next week which should be AMAZING! Excited to see that video next week and keep up the great work!
Thank you, yes indeed, the next video starts on I-635 West just before the LBJ lanes and I took them to I-35E South, I think you'll enjoy it. And there's much more than the LBJ lanes too.
That bridge was just completed last year. It currently goes to nowhere. There's supposed to be a very ritzy edition (Walsh Ranch) going in there at some point. if you look at satellite imagery, there is a street/roadway going from I-30 for a few miles with some intersections, but I don't think anyone lives there yet.
It's interesting on how it changed from rural to urban at the beginning. In only about 5 miles (8 kilometers), there's already lots of people in Ft. Worth.
There is already a lot of suburban development starting to build up in the area at the beginning of this video. It may look rural right now but I don't expect that to last too much longer (sadly, because I always loved how open the land is around Aledo and Willow Park).
Dallas freeways are amazing! I have'nt been through Big D since the mid nineties. I love your vids I started watching when I was missing my second home Denver. They took me there when I can't be there and I thank you greatly for them! They really take me there and I'm so glad I found your channel. You are doing a great service.
US-75 just outside of Dallas is one of my favorite roads that I have ever been on and that Hi-Five interchange is just icing on the cake. I also think Muse is just great in about any freeway video.
When I lived in Arlington in the 1980's it was a horror show! I can't believe they still haven't updated it. Especially with the expansion of I 30 you'd think that would have been part of it.
Like the Ghost Rider Music that you used was great and I didn't mind the football music for a little bit and the last song from Muse I'd came across the music video of that song a while back after watching one of your Seattle videos when I'd desided to look up Muse on youtube to hear more of their music beside the other songs I like to look up and listen to everything time I listen to a song on a dash cam video you guys got some very interesting music.
Nice video. LOVE that high 5 interchange. One thing I wonder, is if there are enough interconnected freeways, how would traffic flow be affected, if they were to do like Tokyo, Japan and install signs that show a map of that section of the freeways, where the lines that depict the freeways, lights up yellow or red depending on traffic conditions, or remain unlit if traffic is good. Since that is a lot of info for a sign, those signs are always large, and are also always overhead, and never off to the side.
US 95 does a nice job at being a great non-Interstate freeway too. NDOT really put a lot of work and planning and it'll only be better once Neon is completed. You should come back to Las Vegas and give it a look later this year.
As a DFW resident, the first rule of driving in Dallas (and to a lesser extent Fort Worth) is to avoid all highways that end with a 5 between the hours of 8 and 8 😂
It is so crazy how Dallas highways are I was actually born in Plano and I have family that lives in the Dallas area but it so crazy with the tolls and all the construction that TxDOT does
6:09 As you were on the western part of the western interchange of I-30 and PGBT, you just crossed the county line from Tarrant County, TX to Dallas County, TX and that part is roughly 9 to 10 miles south of the DFW International Airport. By the way, that airport also touches the county line and is in the 3 city limits of Grapevine, Euless (both in Tarrant County) and Irving (that in Dallas County).
Thank you so much for filming this! This will help me when I drive in Dallas in April. I plan to film driving through DFW on I-20. Also, what camera or dash cam do you use?
I-20 is interesting. It's a dump in the Dallas portion and early 90s renovated in Ft. Worth, but you have what passes for a mountain pass in north Texas (like a 200 foot climb) in the Cedar Hill area SW of Dallas. Still tons of stack interchanges though.
I'm assuming you mean the intro because all the songs are listed in the video and the credits. Th intro music is not a song, it's an apple loop called "Chelsea Loft", here is the full 37 seconds version. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PkOgToM-3V4.html
Thanks for the link. The Central expressway looks much safer now, and as you said it is a state highway and not part of the "interstate" system. When I lived in Anaheim in southern California in the early 1970s, MOST of the freeways in the LA area were state routes and not part of the interstate system, however I have noticed that many of these routes now have interstate numbers. I guess the were added to get the federal funding. Seems like when I was there, there was I-5, I-10, I-405, I-605, I-210, and US-101. The rest were all state routes. ( something like 600 miles at the time) One thing I liked about the system in the LA area is that the NAMES of these freeways actually pertain to what LOCATION the road connects to. (rather than some persons name or other random name important to the area).
You are welcome, it's actually a US Highway, but is still a freeway that isn't an Interstate (like US-101 in California). California decommissioned some old US Routes and turned them into state routes (like the 91 Freeway for example) and just converted other state routes to freeways over time. Yes, agree with you on the Freeway Names.
Don't understand why but after moving to Texas I've become enthralled with the highway infrastructure as there are so many impressive interchanges that are also mostly efficient. Still love it though when the interstates run at around 80-85+ when the speed limit is 65.
Did anybody notice the huge backup on the flyramp from I-30 east to I-35W north in downtown Ft. Worth? That backup is due to the North Tarrant Express projects: major expansion projects on I-820 and I-35W. The I-820 portion of the projects are complete (expanded I-820 from I-35W in north Ft. Worth to TX 121/TX 183 in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford (H-E-B) area. I was recently on I-35W in north Ft. Worth about 2 weeks ago. Traffic is backed up regardless of time of day as they are adding toll lanes and expanding the right-of-way from I-30 north to near TX 114 by Texas Motor Speedway.
Trinité Films I suggest it. There's so much to do here, so many good freeways, so many jobs. Housing market is booming, you can get a 5 bedroom 2300 square foot house for around 230,000 or less, and the food is amazing. The people are super friendly as well. It's worth the move.
TheSolarcatcher lol don't be surprised, that is 80 MPH in Texan, we always go 10 over, and the cops let it slide. We have 80 and 85 MPH speed limits too, that means 90 and 95 MPH! Gotta go fast in a big state ya know.
That is awesome. Seeing the High Five again, I wonder if it is unique that it has cantilevered flyovers. Most other stack interchanges seem to have beams.
The brand-spankin'-new I-49/I-220 interchange here in Shreveport, Louisiana that is under construction seems to be utilizing the cantilever concept as well. Though the arches are shallower.
US 75 (this section) is unnumbered Interstate 345 - like US 50 between Washington DC proper and the Severn River Bridge is unnumbered Interstate 595. This "silent Interstate" exists only as far north as the Trinity River Bridge - it began at the northern end of Interstate 45 (at the Mixmaster Interchange).
Love your videos (and musical selections), as always. While it would of course not be appropriate for an urban video such as this particular one, have you ever used Chris Rea's "Texas" in any of your videos? You may well have, and I just missed it.
Jim, you should return to Dallas in 2018 to film the finished results of Project Horseshoe! And next time you're in Phoenix you should check-out Arizona 51 Piestewa Peak Freeway and the Musical interment Museum near the freeway's northern terminus in Paradise Valley. It could be part of a National Park tour that would go North from Phoenix through the Grand Canyon, Brice Canyon, Arches, Zion and up to Yellowstone and return via the Midwest.
As for the Dallas "mixmaster", "antiquated" is appropriate. I have driven I-30 and I-35E many times through that interchange regardless of crossing the Trinity River.
What song are you talking about? they are all noted in the video and the closing credits, if you mean the intro, that's an apple loop called Chelsea Loft, it's not a real song.
The second song isn't Heavy Action, all results seem to indicate Heavy Action is the Monday Night Football theme, which is a different song. I can't find the song used in the second section.
