Good news has arrived at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, according to the Dallas Morning News’s Rodger Jones.

The airport is getting better street signage.

Let me be among those to a offer major shout-out to anyone involved in improving the signage at the mammoth air complex that, even in the best of circumstances, is difficult to navigate.

http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/08/good-news-for-my-fellow-confused-dfw-airport-bound-drivers-better-signage-is-coming.html/

Earlier this year, I experienced a borderline nightmare trying to get into the place from somewhere — anywhere — on the ground.

It went something like this:

My wife and I drove to Allen to welcome our new granddaughter’s arrival into this world. Emma Nicole Kanelis was born March 6 at a hospital in Plano. I had to leave after three days to return to work; my wife was staying a few extra days to help with caring for our little angel while our son and daughter-in-law got used to having a newborn in the house.

My son offered to drive me to the airport. “Do you know how to get there?” I asked. “No problem,” he said with supreme confidence.

With that we headed west toward D-FW. Then the trouble began.

We couldn’t find our way to the terminal. We kept circling, looking for exits. Signs were guiding us up this and that overpass. We had hoped we’d see something — an off-ramp or a sign — that made sense of the confusion.

The place was under construction but the detour signs didn’t take us anywhere.

I think we made three, maybe four, passes on the highway before we stumbled our way onto a lane of traffic that took us — finally — to where I could get out of the car and hustle into the terminal.

I caught my plane back to Amarillo — for which I was grateful.

Jones’s blog, which is attached to this post, spells out nicely the confusion he apparently has experienced as well.

I cannot remember the precise highway we took from Allen to D-FW, nor can I recall the myriad loops we took trying to find our way into the terminal.

It’s good to know, though, that the state highway department is promising less-stressful travel to D-FW.