Southwest Austin Dripping Springs Edition | January 2023

TRANSPORTATION

Top transportation stories to watch in 2023

Work to continue on Bergstrom Spur

Bridge work to begin

OAK HILL PARKWAY

OLD BEE CAVES RD.

BY KATY MCAFEE

increase connectivity for bicyclists, pedestrians and transit networks, according to city ocials. Several other trails will be improved or expanded in 2023. The Trail Conservancy will begin construction on the Rainey Street trailhead and begin gathering per- mits to realign and restore landscaping for the Holly Project, a site located west of the decommissioned Holly Power Plant at Festival Beach.

Intersection closes summer 2023

The William Cannon Drive and Hwy. 290 intersection will be restored and work on the Old Bee Caves Road and Hwy. 290 intersection will begin as part of the Oak Hill Parkway project.

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The city of Austin’s Urban Trails Program is making progress on the Bergstrom Spur Trail, a 6.5-mile bicycle and pedestrian trail that will run through an abandoned rail corridor from Vinson Drive to US 183. The design for the west section of the trail—one of three parts—will continue in 2023 and be nalized in 2024. Construction will be completed by 2026. When nished, the trail will

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290

W. WILLIAM CANNON DR.

Sound wall

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Intersection restored

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SOURCE: TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONCOMMUNITY IMPACT

Oak Hill $674 million project construction pushes west

BY ELLE BENT

Lane and Joe Tanner Lane will reopen. Work will begin at Old Bee Caves Road at Hwy. 290 in the summer and close the intersection for about six months. Drivers westbound on Hwy. 290 will continue onto Hwy. 71 and detour onto Fletcher Lane to access Old Bee Caves Road. In 2023, the sound wall near the Rid- geview neighborhood will be completed and work will begin on ground-level bridges on the cross streets of Convict Hill Road, RM 1826, Scenic Brook Drive and Circle Drive, Wheelis said. Work on the Hwy. 290 frontage roads will also continue.

Some of the work being done as part of the $674 million Oak Hill Parkway project will wrap up while new sections will break ground in 2023. The project, which will widen the road up to 12 lanes from Hwy. 290 to Hwy. 71 and add two yovers, broke ground in 2021. In 2023, the intersection of Hwy. 290 and William Cannon Drive will be restored to normal use with left-turn lanes before the driver reaches the intersection, said Brad Wheelis, Texas Department of Transpor- tation public information ocer. McCarty

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Austin will make progress on a plan to redevelop an abandoned rail line into the Bergstrom Spur trail which will be completed in 2026.

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VINSON DR.

W. ST ELMO DR.

183

SOURCE: AUSTIN URBAN TRAIL PROGRAM

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