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With this “behemoth of a construction project” and patience from the public, government officials are hoping to turn Bonds Ranch Road from a nightmare of traffic into a safe and efficient roadway for commuters.

At a meeting on Monday night, representatives from Tarrant County, the City of Fort Worth and Texas Department of Transportation presented the public with a six-part plan that will span across the next several years to fix the far north Fort Worth congestion problem.

The roughly $200 million project will target Bonds Ranch Road west of U.S. 287 to Boat Club Road and will transform it from two lanes into a mostly-four-lane road.

The corridor is expected to see thousands of homes popping up in the next five years. A collaborative effort among government from top to bottom, private stakeholders and rail partners is aiming to create solutions that benefit the quickly-developing area.

Breaking it down

Segment 1, which encapsulates the roadway west of Business 287 to Boat Club Road, will add five traffic lights, a four-lane divided roadway and improve the storm drain throughout the corridor. Dillon Maroney, Tarrant County Precinct 4 executive administrator of operations, estimated that Segment 1 will be ready to break ground in March 2026.

Segment 3, spanning from east of Business 287 to Wagley Robertson Road will get sidewalks on either side of a four-lane road with dedicated turn lanes. The Thatcher Road and Willow Springs intersections will be getting traffic lights. The beginning of construction will depend on the 2026 City of Fort Worth bond, Maroney said.

Segment 4, encompassing the roadway from Wagley Robertson Road to west of U.S. 287, will also be made into a four-lane road with sidewalks on either side. This section will see a new traffic light at the Fossil Springs/Kittering Terrace intersection and improvements to the Wagley Robertson Road intersection. It will break ground in spring 2026, according to City of Fort Worth Project Manager Alex Ayala. She expects Segment 4 to be finished in fall 2027.

Each of these sections will have traffic flowing continually throughout the construction process. Once the north two lanes are finished being built, traffic will move to those two lanes while the south two lanes are reconstructed.

Segments 2, 5 and 6 are more complicated.

Segment 2 deals with the intersection of Bonds Ranch and the railroad crossings. Michael Morris, North Central Texas Council of Governments director of transportation, said he’s unsure if the construction will put Bonds Ranch going over those railroads or under them. As this section is still early on in the design phase, the leaders are unsure about how long the road will be shut down, if at all.

Segment 5 focuses on creating a bridge for Bonds Ranch Road to pass over Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway near U.S. 287.

Segment 6 works on connecting Wagley Robertson Road to U.S. 287, creating U-turns at the Bonds Ranch-U.S. 287 intersection and connecting frontage roads. This section will be completed before Segment 5 to give vehicles a way between Bonds Ranch and U.S. 287 while Segment 5 has part of the road shut down.

Construction for Segment 6 will start in summer 2027 and Segment 5 is expected to start in fall 2028.