{"id":3654,"date":"2013-10-05T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2013-10-05T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:03:38","slug":"txdot-ends-dfw-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3654","title":{"rendered":"TxDOT ends D\/FW nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Texas Department of Transportation has brought an end to the nightmare of trying to get into Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport by automobile.<\/p>\n<p>I read today that TxDOT has completed signage that&#8217;s supposed to make it clear &#8212; and not clear as mud &#8212; for motorists trying to find long- and short-term parking into the immense air terminal.<\/p>\n<p>I know about these things, having been caught trying to blunder my way into a terminal to catch a flight from D\/FW home to Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, my son was at the wheel at the time; my wife and I were passengers in his car. We circled the terminal seemingly forever before we accidentally found the off-ramp that led us to our destination, which we could see from the car; we just couldn&#8217;t find our way <em>to<\/em> it.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m glad to know TxDOT has finished this job.<\/p>\n<p>TxDOT is full of some smart civil engineers who I&#8217;m sure know how to make our travel lives easier while they construct, reconstruct and re-do our state&#8217;s roads and highways.<\/p>\n<p>Some adequate construction signage would be a good start.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Department of Transportation has brought an end to the nightmare of trying to get into Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport by automobile. I read today that TxDOT has completed signage that&#8217;s supposed to make it clear &#8212; and not clear as mud &#8212; for motorists trying to find long- and short-term parking into the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TxDOT ends D\/FW nightmare<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1230,4936],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dfw-international-airport","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}