If your commute to work takes you on US-75 in Dallas, the views will be a little different between Forest and Royal.
Over the weekend, TxDOT installed a 201-foot, 800,000-pound pedestrian bridge between the intersections of Forest Lane and Royal Lane that will connect pre-existing bike and pedestrian trails in Dallas.
Some work still needs to be done on the bridge, including ramps that would actually allow pedestrians to get onto the elevated platform.
Before, there were no real safe options to travel on trails across 75. One the west side of the highway, there's the Northaven Trail. On the east, there are Cottonwood Creek and White Rock Creek trails, with the Preston Ridge Trail, and the Central Trail in Richardson also nearby.
Jeff Kitner, president of Friends of the Northaven Trail, told WFAA, "It's just unsafe. You can't get anywhere on the other side of the highway very easily without crossing central at an unsafe crossing or going underneath the highway.
"This bridge will really open up the whole city."
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