Mockingbird Lane (Dallas)

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Mockingbird Lane
Length10.6 mi [1] (17.1 km)
Location Dallas, Texas
West endTrinity River
Major
junctions
I-35E.svgTexas 183.svg I-35E / SH 183
Toll Texas DNT new.svg Dallas North Tollway
Texas 289.svg SH 289
US 75.svg US 75
East endTexas Loop 12.svg Loop 12 (Buckner Boulevard)

Mockingbird Lane is a road located mainly in central Dallas, Texas. It is one of three main arterial roads in this part of Dallas, and is also a major road through Highland Park.

Dallas City in Texas, United States

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Dallas County, with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall counties. With an estimated 2018 population of 1,345,047, it is the ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in North Texas, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country at 7.5 million people as of 2018. The city's combined statistical area is the seventh-largest in the U.S. as of 2017, with 7,846,293 residents.

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Highland Park, Texas Town in Texas, United States

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Route description

The road runs west from Buckner Boulevard at its eastern terminus, then travels westward past the Mockingbird Station area between Greenville Avenue and North Central Expressway, narrowing to two lanes as it forms the southern boundary of Southern Methodist University, crosses Hillcrest Avenue, and then passes over the Dallas North Tollway, then intersects with Inwood Road. From there, it curves southwestward, intersecting with Cedar Springs Road to give access to the terminal at Dallas Love Field Airport and forming the airport's southeastern boundary, past the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center while forming the campus's northwestern boundary, has an interchange with Harry Hines Boulevard, curves to the west, and then again to the southwest as it passes under Interstate 35E and Texas State Highway 183. Finally, it intersects Irving Boulevard after curving due south, and the street becomes Westmoreland Road at the midpoint of its bridge over the Trinity River floodway into West Dallas. Further east, Mockingbird Lane becomes Peavy Road.

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Dallas North Tollway highway in Texas

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History

After the construction of Mockingbird Station around 2002, developer Ken Hughes invested $600,000 dollars in streetscape improvements for pedestrians. Unfortunately, the improvements made it worse for the pedestrians and half of the street lights were broken as of September 2012. [2]

Points of interest

Mockingbird Station, the light rail platforms are in the foreground, the mall and parking in the background Mockingbird Station 1.jpg
Mockingbird Station, the light rail platforms are in the foreground, the mall and parking in the background
Dallas Love Field, Mockingbird Lane is the road furthest foreground, while Cedar Springs Road is the road connecting to the terminal DallasLoveFieldAerial-2009-a.JPG
Dallas Love Field, Mockingbird Lane is the road furthest foreground, while Cedar Springs Road is the road connecting to the terminal
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