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Good news has arrived at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, according to the Dallas Morning News’s Rodger Jones.<\/p>\n

The airport is getting better street signage.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

Earlier this year, I experienced a borderline nightmare trying to get into the place from somewhere — anywhere — on the ground.<\/p>\n

It went something like this:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

With that we headed west toward D-FW. Then the trouble began. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The place was under construction but the detour signs didn’t take us anywhere.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I caught my plane back to Amarillo — for which I was grateful. <\/p>\n

Jones’s blog, which is attached to this post, spells out nicely the confusion he apparently has experienced as well.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It’s good to know, though, that the state highway department is promising less-stressful travel to D-FW.<\/p>\n\n

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