Originally Posted by
MissJoeyDFW
When visiting Dallas you need to be aware that we are in road hell construction in and around the airport. Updates can be found on this website
http://www.dfwconnector.com/index_flash.php. If you are going to go anywhere west of the airport like Grapevine, Southlake, Fort Worth I highly recommend you allow extra time and check out the traffic updates. If you head east to Dallas proper or northeast to Addison or Plano it won't be much of an issue once you clear the airport.
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There are a lot of restaurants and shopping in Southlake Town Square, twenty minutes from the airport, two hours if you go at the wrong time of the day or when a lot of lanes are closed.
http://www.southlaketownsquare.com/
Grapevine has a nice downtown, restaurants and clubs, 15 minutes from the airport, again two hours if it is rush hour and the lanes are jacked up.
http://www.downtowngrapevinetexas.com/
I'm sure the exaggeration was intended but just so our out of town visitor is in on the joke: there's no way it would ever take two hours to go from DFW to either Grapevine or Southlake.
Even if the 114/121 freeway is all jammed up because of the major construction project, 45 minutes at most, and that's if there's a bad accident too.
Of course by departing the airport via Airfield Drive instead of the 114 freeway there's really no reason to fight the traffic and construction mess at all. Just take Airfield Drive westbound to Main Street and then head north (for downtown Grapevine) or keep going further west until it becomes Mustang Drive; cross William D Tate Blvd. on Mustang and keep going NW bound on Mustang towards Highway 26 and Southlake.