Collin County Highway Plans

[Katana49]

I don't see 380 becoming a toll road. The situation is different than it was with 121, 121 had the available land to build a toll road alongside the previous road (which is now the access road for 121.)

380 has commercial development springing up all along it, and those plans call for some major developments at the intersections of 380/DNT, 380/Preston, 380/Custer, etc. Some of it has already started. To build a toll road, you'd need to create on/off ramps, and elevate the roads to clear intersections. Considering they just spent money to widen 380 along McKinney and Prosper, I don't see them changing the plan this late in the game.

[Aceraceae]

"County officials began looking at possibilities for US 380 in the spring and found that officials in McKinney were concerned that there might not be enough available right-of-way to turn US 380 into a limited access roadway. Right now, the widely used roadway consists of traffic lights and small spurts of high speed limits. If the roadway was turned into a limited access roadway, it would operate more like US 75, officials said, without the need for traffic-controlling red lights.

In order to turn the road into a limited access roadway, officials anticipate the need for 300 feet of right-of-way on each side. McKinney officials said the right-of-way in some spots of US 380 is less than 150 feet total.

During Monday’s Commissioners Court meeting, county officials showed Commissioners a plan that would include a US 380 bypass route just north of McKinney, which would not only allow the roadway to be expanded, but would also solve the issue of limited right-of-way, county officials said.

However, in order to make this roadway a reality a total of $487.8 million in state funding would be needed. Commissioner Duncan Webb said though this seems like a lot of money, he told the court it was not outside the realm of possibility.

At this time, TxDOT is preparing to take a look at the scope of the project to evaluate existing and alternative routes, including the potential northern “loop” around the central part of McKinney where right-of-way is limited."

[Johnhw2]

It was three years ago or so, the decision not to be an interstate had been made by then, I was hoping it would go interstate