Reasons improving 380 ON 380 could be a good thing

Opportunity
  • Improving 380 on 380 create a continuous “business district” corridor opportunity
Create a continuous “business district” corridor opportunity
  1. Improving 380 on 380 create a continuous “business district” corridor opportunity
    1. This business district would stretch from HWY 5 to the Dallas Tollway and beyond
    2. Sitting next-door to your competitor can be a challenge, but sitting next-door to 10 competitors is good and 100 is wonderful. Like all “shopping districts” more people go out of their way to visit there because whatever you want, it’s there!
    3. Example 1: Restaurants at Preston and
    4. Example 2: Furniture stores on 121 Have you ever seen a single store as big as the Nebraska Furniture Mart? Could you imagine where you would put such a thing that could sell enough sofas to pay for all that land? The answer is obvious: Right “across the street” from a cluster of other furniture stores and minutes away from another cluster at the Dallas North Tollway. The ease of hopping from one store to the next 121 puts all of them basically right next to each other. No hunting around, no thinking, no fuss: just get on the 121 access road and look out the window.If you want a sofa and you want it today something on this row will probably have it.

 

Now look at a bypass route. Where would you put a cluster of furniture stores? By improving 380 ON 380 a cluster stores in McKinney are just minutes from another in Prosper, which is minutes form Frisco – all potentially helping each other. shaped like a snake, with all those twists and turns it not only feels further to get from McKinney to Prosper, it *is* further!

 

Eminent Domain & Traffic
  • Property Rights / Eminent Domain: 4 extra miles of road, hundreds of more acres of seized land.
  • The bypass adds 4 miles of length to regional traffic
  • The bypass adds 4 miles of time to regional traffic
Adds roads and traffic, and results in Eminent Domain
  1. Property Rights / Eminent Domain: In McKinney alone the bypass adds nearly 4 extra miles of road and nearly all of the 400-foot width will have to be taken with Eminent Domain. To improve 380 TxDOT just needs another 150-200 feet to widen.
    1. In McKinney alone, the bypass is 11.9 miles from Airport Dr. to Custer, the same route ON 380 is 7.9.
    2. Beyond asking drivers to drive 4 extra miles each way every day, this will result in the government seizing 100s more acres from private citizens than needed to simply fix 380 ON 380.

 

  1. The bypass adds length to regional traffic 4 miles
    1. This road will be around for 100s if not 1000s of years
    2. A 2016 recent study showed about 100,000 rides taken on 380 every day (page 14)
    3. For commuters that is 8 extra miles driven every day
    4. Millions additional daily driven miles generating unnecessary
      1. Fuel use: oil dependence, carbon emissions
      2. Pollution: Sound, Air, Runoff to water supplies

  1. The bypass adds time to regional traffic
    1. If the goal is to move cars quickly, considered by TxDOT as the only metric worth a special Travel Time “estimator” tool: adding a 4+ mile detour makes the time problem worse

Problems with the Bypass idea