Christmas shopping and the Grapevine Mills traffic jams

Remember those two years or so back in the mid-late 1990s when the FM2499 flyover allowed Flower Mound-bound traffic to whiz by the farmland that is now Grapevine Mills Mall? No traffic lights, no slow traffic? That "speedway" is long gone. Now, it's a rare journey when you can make it past both of the mall traffic lights without having to stop for red at one or two. The holiday season makes the traffic around the mall that much worse. Be careful when exiting 121 to get onto FM2499. You may find a traffic backup hiding on the backside of the overpass, and too close for you to stop in time.