{"id":342973,"date":"2026-06-19T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/342973\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:25:08","slug":"east-west-connector-at-dallas-fort-worth-international-airport-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/342973\/","title":{"rendered":"East-West Connector at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA 1.65-mile stretch of road within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfwairport.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Fort Worth International Airport<\/a> campus opened June 12.<\/p>\n<p>The $30.8 million <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.ctfassets.net\/m2p70vmwc019\/5zRtT3XjsyzzxZYKPf1ycL\/31f0c91718a9113054a1a5ed9188c2ef\/EWC_Fact_Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">East-West Connector<\/a> was first envisioned nearly 20 years ago to connect transportation in the airport\u2019s southern corridor, according to a news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfwairport.com\/dfwnewsroom\/dfw-airport-marks-completion-of-east-west-connector-roadway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>The roadway extends from Rental Car Drive to the Harwood Drive\/SH 360 intersection and will connect drivers to the Southgate Plaza, near Terminal E and the under-construction Terminal F.<\/p>\n<p>The project was funded through federal transportation programs and administered by the North Central Texas Council of Governments, which provided approximately 80% of the funding. There was a funding agreement between DFW Airport and the Texas Department of Transportation Fort Worth District for the remaining 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note<\/p>\n<p>Mario Sinacola &amp; Sons Excavating Inc. was the contractor for the project, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/grapevine-colleyville-southlake\/transportation\/2025\/10\/15\/new-flights-and-roadwork-4-updates-from-dallas-fort-worth-international-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previous reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The North Central Texas Council of Governments noted that the first planning and engineering study for the project happened in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nctcog.org\/getContentAsset\/ec257b7e-8008-44ef-9ea4-345df0c986bc\/dfc3d011-8f63-43f6-9ed8-4b444333a1d0\/Final_Website.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Timeline: early 2024 to June 2026Cost: $30.8 millionFunding sources: federal transportation program, North Central Texas Council of Governments, TxDOT, DFW Airport<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 1.65-mile stretch of road within the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport campus opened June 12. The $30.8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5721,122256,116,118,117,122257,18763],"class_list":["post-342973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-dfw-airport","tag-east-west-connector","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-mario-sincola-sons","tag-nctcog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}