M-streets to Medical District - Conditions Report - Tuesday Morning

Okay final report here. Left around 6:45, got home around 7:25ish. I was expecting the drive in to be more of a mess today with refreezing and was actually impressed with how much the roads have been cleaned up, I’ll just quickly list my impressions below but long story short, things were looking really good on the route I took. I obviously can’t vouch for other areas of Dallas, but I think the highways are all good now.

The route:

- I actually took the highway in today and the medical district, maple, wycliff/Avondale service roads back. Lots of plowing and sand/salt (is there salt or is it just sand?) have been done to the roads.

- mockingbird has gotten sand in the sections I drove on. The actual section over 75 looked slick still but I didn’t have any issues.

- I decided to take the highway in today. It looked night and day different from yesterday at 7 am. I’m sure it was still a better route on the whole yesterday, but today it was heavily plowed and you’re essentially on clean pavement the whole way and not single file in ruts. If you can take the highway and exit medical district absolutely do it.

- I did take the maple/wycliff/service roads back just to see if they had improved as well. There are a few areas that are still a bit slick looking and very bumpy/rutted, but these areas have generally all been plowed or treated as well. The only time I felt a little nervous on the drive was going down the wycliff/Avondale hill. There are more cars out today so unlike yesterday morning where I could have just slid down and not worried about it much, I was much more cautious around my speed and braking. This one specific section didn’t look as treated which is supersizing, but I didn’t have any issues.

- there are definitely more cars out, but I didn’t encounter any crazy drivers. People are going fairly quick and occasionally getting irritate when streets essentially become one lane, but things were calm.

- my only concern/worry is that over the next few hours things will get very wet and slick again. But, I think was well as the roads have been plowed and treated things will still be way better on the whole.

- only area I slipped around noticeably in was M-streets side streets, but I was expecting that.

So, if you’ve gotta go in, rest assured things are currently way better than yesterday. Sorry to those going back to work! I hope it’s not a mess later. This is my last report and I won’t weigh in on afternoon conditions!