TRANSPORTATION
Top transportation stories to watch in 2023
Pearland initiates sweeping tra c signal improvement program
BY DANIEL WEEKS
signals to current standards, replacing outdated and failing equipment,” interim City Manager Trent Epperson said. Overall, 24 of these cabinets and vehicle detection equipment will be replaced across many of the 29 intersections along the Shadow Creek Parkway, Broadway and Main streets, and McHard and Bailey roads. Signals will be inspected by the city once the work reaches substantial completion. The project has a total of $2.1 million in funding from certif- icates of obligation, a method of borrowing money that local govern- ments can use without needing voter approval. The contract awarded to Reliable was $1.56 million.
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Reliable Signal & Lighting Solutions will upgrade up to 29 tra c lights at intersections along ve major corridors in the city.
The city of Pearland awarded a construction services contract Dec. 5 to Reliable Signal & Lighting Solutions LLC for a program that will upgrade up to 29 intersections along ve major roadway corridors throughout the city. This multiyear tra c signal upgrade program will remove and replace signal control cabinets and detection systems and install new battery backup systems. According to the latest update made to the Pearland Tra c Operations Department by the city’s contractors, the new tra c control cabinets are expected to be delivered by February. “This will bring 29 of our tra c
Tra c signals receiving upgrades
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Construction on Blackhawk Boulevard to kick o in 2023
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Planning continues for FM 518 project
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In partnership with Harris County Precinct 2, Friendswood will make improvements to a stretch of Black- hawk Boulevard this year. Engineering for the project is ongoing since the county signed an interlocal agreement with Friend- swood in October, Public Information O cer Glenda Faulkner said. Friend- swood will open the project for bids by late spring 2023, and construction will begin within two months of the project being awarded. The project is a continuation of past
renovations that ended south of Pen- nystone Way and continues north to Geneva Drive, Director of Engineering Jil Arias said. Friendswood will cover $1.2 million of the $2.4 million project cost, with Precinct 2 contributing $1.2 million. Friendswood will prepare plans, speci cations and estimates for con- struction of the project and assume responsibility for maintenance once it is completed, according to the interlocal agreement.
BY DANIEL WEEKS
in 2025. Phase 1 involves the west section of Broadway from Hwy. 288 to Cullen Parkway, and construction is projected to cost $54 million. Progress on design is dependent on when the funding is secured, Perez said. Phase 2, which also does not have funding secured yet, includes Cullen Parkway to McLean Road and Walnut Street.
A project to widen and recon- struct Broadway Street, also known as FM 518, from four to six lanes with a raised median, will seek additional right of way this year for the project’s proposed design, Texas Department of Transportation Public Information O cer Danny Perez said. TxDOT is projected to lead the project’s Phase 1 construction
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