New Tarrant-Johnson Toll Road Hailed As Traffic Reliever

May 4,2014

Photos by David Woo/Staff Photographer

By BRANDON FORMBY AND JEFF MOSIER

Staff Writers

bformby@dallasnews.com; jmosier@dallasnews.com

The drive from Cleburne to Fort Worth is about to get a lot easier. For a price, of course.
The North Texas Tollway Authority on Sunday will open Chisholm Trail Parkway, a 28-mile toll road that connects Interstate 30 near downtown Fort Worth to U.S. Highway 67 in Johnson County.

The north-south road has been planned for 40 years. It’s seen as a milestone in giving Cleburne residents better access to Fort Worth.
“It is a motorist’s nightmare in this area,” said Elizabeth Mow, NTTA’s assistant executive director of infrastructure.

But motorists won’t be the first to take the road for a test drive. Runners, walkers and bicyclists will break in the thoroughfare Saturday. The parkway will serve as the backdrop to a series of events dubbed Run & Ride the Chisholm Trail Parkway.

“A once-in-a-lifetime event,” Mow said.

The parkway will be six lanes from Forest Park Boulevard to Arborlawn Drive. It will go down to four lanes from Arborlawn to Altamesa Boulevard. It will be two lanes from Altamesa to Highway 67.

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