Dallas Morning News – The dirt is flying around Irving’s shuttered Texas Stadium with renovations under way on that area’s four major thoroughfares.

The $518 million worth of highway projects are aimed at transforming how motorists maneuver through state highways 114 and 183, Loop 12 and Spur 482.

State transportation and Irving city officials say the dramatic transformations will also forever change how drivers travel throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The projects will add direct highway connections, flyover bridges and extra highway lanes to an area famous for problematic entrances, exits and switchovers. [read more…]