Bypass process begins From the cover
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Impacted businesses
US 380 bypass
The various projects along the roadway, which have been in progress for more than five years, are expected to accommodate future growth while also increasing the level of service of the current roadway, Schein said. Portions of roadway currently have a level of service ranked “F” on an A-F scale, indicating significant delays and unstable traffic conditions during peak traffic times. The Texas Transportation Institute named the McKinney portion of the roadway as 44th most congested roadway in the state, causing over 120,000 annual hours of delay per mile, according to TxDOT documents. The roadway also saw higher crash rates than the statewide average for highways. As the county’s population continues to grow, an increase in congestion and crashes would be expected along the roadway at its current capac- ity, which is an identified cause for the roadway expansion project, TxDOT documents state. “Collin County is so good that it just continues to attract people,” Daugherty said. “I don’t know what’s going to stop that growth.”
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WILMETH RD.
N. CUSTER RD.
NEW HOPE RD.
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Approximately 38 businesses expected to be impacted
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SOURCES: 3NATIVES MCKINNEY, JASON’S DELI, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, WHITE RHINO COFFEE/COMMUNITY IMPACT
The specifics
alignment of the US 380 bypass in September 2023, TxDOT officials have begun right-of-way acquisitions for properties and land parcels in the path of the planned road construction in McKinney. Jason’s Deli was one of the earliest businesses to close due to acquisitions, and other stores in the same shopping center saw customer traffic decrease following the closure. “As soon as … the community started to hear wind of, ‘This area is going to close,’ traffic started getting much slower,” 3Natives owner Jin Mocanu said. “It’s been downhill.” Madi Morales, assistant general manager of a Papa John’s location in the shopping center, said she was the first person at the store to learn that they would be forced to close for the bypass.
Ahead of population growth in the area, planning work on the US 380 bypass is underway, which will create an eight-lane controlled access freeway with frontage roads routed through north McKinney. The project will also include constructing a six-lane highway with frontage roads through Frisco and Prosper, as well as other expansions to the roadway in Princeton and Farmersville. The Collin County-wide project is expected to cost nearly $8 billion, according to TxDOT documents. Evaluation of the roadway was initially requested by the county’s commissioners following a 2019 planning session for the county’s transportation infrastructure, said Clarence Daugherty, director of engineering for Collin County. Following a final decision on the
Collin County population growth
Projected growth Actual growth
US 380 in McKinney saw a 46% increase in traffic and an over 400% increase in crashes between 2012 and 2019.
1.5M
1.22M
1.2M
1.05M
900K
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2021 2022 2023 2024
2018 2019 2020
SOURCE: COLLIN COUNTY ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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