How much time do Dallas-Fort Worth drivers waste in traffic? This list might make you angry
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Fort Worth’s 10 worst traffic nightmares
Planners have been predicting growth in North Texas for decades. But without necessary funds for road improvements, congestion will only get worse.
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In the time Dallas-Fort Worth drivers spent angrily inching through rush hour traffic last year, they could traveled to the moon.
About three days in a manned spacecraft accomplishes that mission. Perhaps unsurprisingly, you cover a lot less ground during the same amount of time in a car on a DFW highway during rush hour.
According to a study from location tech company TomTom, local drivers lost 67 hours in rush hour in 2021.
In its Most Congested Road Sections report using 2020 data, Texas A&M Transportation Institute breaks down each roadway, detailing hours of delay experienced by vehicles traveling on each.
Here’s how much time was lost on each of Tarrant County’s most congested roadways in 2020:
- Interstate 35W, from NE 28th Street to Interstate 30: 1,162,287 hours
- I-35W, from Texas 170 to U.S. 287: 861,703 hours
- I-35W, from U.S. 287 to NE 28th Street: 959,733 hours
- Texas 360, from Airport Freeway to I-30: 455,265 hours
- Texas 360, from I-30 to I-20: 426,808 hours
- Airport Freeway, from Texas 26 to NE Loop 820: 1,060,168 hours
- I-35W, from I-30 to I-20: 396,370 hours
- Airport Freeway, from Texas 121 to Texas 360: 280,862 hours
- Jacksboro Highway, from Confederate Park Road to NW Loop 820: 272,712 hours
- Loop 820, from I-35W to Jacksboro Highway: 487,477 hours
That’s a total of 6,363,385 hours lost in 2020.
When converted to financial losses, Texas Transportation Institute estimates congestion on these 10 segments cost $145.9 million in wasted time and fuel associated with congestion.
This story was originally published February 25, 2022 at 5:00 AM.
