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TX 114 John Carpenter Freeway
           
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 15-April-2008
Last Updated
 16-Oct-2008
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Looking east-southeast at TX 161, April 2005
Named for John Carpenter (1881-1959)
Successful businessman in the electrical utility and insurance industries
Civic leader, president of the Trinity Improvement Association 1930-1959
Arranged the donation of 90% of land of the first freeway section of TX 183
Named by Dallas County, city of Dallas, and Irving in December 1959
First section open circa 1970
Completecirca 1973 to DFW Airport
Max traffic count 110,000 vehicles per day, west of TX 161 (2005)
Construction Begin work in 2009: Add two connector ramps at Loop 12 and expand freeway to 8 main lanes and 4 toll lanes from Loop 12 to Riverside/Rochelle.
Quick Info TX 114 was part of the original DFW freeway plan formulated in 1953, and its construction was accelerated to provide access to DFW Airport, which opened in 1974. The freeway passes alongside Texas Stadium, opened in 1971, and the Las Colinas office development, built mostly in the 1980s by John Carpenter's son Ben on land that was the former Carpenter family cattle ranch. The Las Colinas development is one of the leading suburban corporate centers in the United States, with more than 100,000 jobs and corporate headquarters of Exxon Mobil, Kimberly-Clark and Fluor. The east section of TX 114, from TX 183 to O'Connor, is a minimal freeway with only 4 main lanes; west of Northwest Highway the freeway has a minimum of 6 main lanes. There are plans to expand the freeway to 8 free main lanes and 4 tolled lanes from TX 183 to DFW Airport. The first construction contract valued at $224 million for work at Loop 12 and extending about 1 mile west was awarded in October 2008.

Additional historical information will be added in the future.