TRANSPORTATION UPDATES
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ONGOING PROJECTS
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Bulverde Road widening The project is designed to widen Bulverde Road from two to four lanes with a median and turn lane 6,300 feet northward from the Marshall Road intersection. Bexar County officials said the project is more than 50% complete and should be fully finished by March 2023. Timeline: winter 2021-March 2023 Cost: $13.3 million Funding sources: Bexar County, Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
North US 281 expansion Phase 2 of highway expansion between Stone Oak Parkway and East Borgfeld Drive continues to involve alternating lane closures for asphalt work. Work crews in October also introduced a new traffic pattern for US 281 southbound commuters, opening a new entrance ramp between Marshall Road and Mountain Lodge. Timeline: summer 2021-early 2023 Cost: $304 million Funding source: Texas Department of Transportation
North Loop 1604 expansion Contractors widening Loop 1604 from 4 to 10 lanes did excavation work, spurring weeknight closures of west- bound lanes between Blanco Road and Northwest Military Highway in October. Work crews also did short-term, rolling closures on eastbound main lanes and frontage roads as well as the westbound frontage road between NW Military and Huebner Road. Timeline: May 2021-after 2025 Cost: $1.3 billion Funding source: TxDOT
Wurzbach Parkway improvements Workers finished expanding and improving Wurzbach Parkway between Northwest Military Highway and Lockhill Selma Road by early November. Final project activities earlier this fall included surface paving, striping, signage, utilities and traffic signalization. Additionally, contractors removed construction area safety barriers. Timeline: October 2021-November 2022 Cost: $8.1 million Funding source: TxDOT
ALL INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED AS OF NOV. 7. NEWS OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE OR OTHER LOCAL TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS? EMAIL US AT NSANEWS@COMMUNITYIMPACT.COM.
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