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Harris County Precinct 3 plans new road projects
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Harris County Precinct 3 has several road projects planned for the Cy-Fair area this year to improve tra c conditions.
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1 Greenhouse Road widening Target completion: First quarter 2023
4 Cypress North Houston Road widening Target completion: TBD 5 Telge Road widening Target completion: 2025
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Redistricting brought many changes for Harris County precincts 3 and 4 in 2022. Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey said 80% of his jurisdiction—which includes more than 6,500 miles of roads—is new territory. Throughout the year, Precinct 3 leadership took on several projects planned by the previous Precinct 4 sta . “We vetted every project we inherited from Precinct 4, which are now [in] Precinct 3, and we think we have made them even better. I think they were all good, and we made them great,” Ramsey told Community Impact . Part of an e ort to construct the remaining two lanes of the Greenhouse Road four-lane concrete boulevard from north of West Road toward Hwy. 290 wrapped up in 2022, and work will continue through the rst quarter of 2023. The comprehensive project cost more than $9.2 million. Several other Cy-Fair projects are slated to break ground this year, including a $7.5 million project to widen the two- lane asphalt Cypress North Houston Road to a four-lane concrete boulevard from Perry Road to Jones Road. The next phase of a project to widen Telge Road from Louetta Road to the Grand Parkway will pick up again this year and continue through at least 2025, Ramsey said. Additionally, a two-phase plan to widen Schiel Road from Mason Road to the Grand Parkway will be a $9 million
2 Schiel Road widening Target completion: Third quarter 2023
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3 North Eldridge Parkway widening Target completion: TBD
Transportation is reconstructing and widening a half-mile stretch of FM 1960 near North Eldridge Parkway. Timeline: August 2022-May 2024 Cost: $14.69 million
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Hwy. 6 resurfacing TxDOT o cials said the resurfacing of Hwy. 6 from Hwy. 290 to Park Row will soon be complete. Timeline: May 2022-February 2023 Cost: $8.98 million
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e ort in total and is set to open in the third quarter of 2023. Another project will widen North Eldridge Parkway from Pine Drive to Lakewood Meadow Drive this year.
As fatalities rise, TxDOT aims to stop cycle of daily deaths on Texas roads
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The Texas Department of Transportation looks to end the 22-year streak of daily deaths on Texas roads. The streak started Nov. 7, 2000. ENDING THE STREAK
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Since Nov. 7, 2000, at least one per- son has died every day in automobile crashes across Texas. Crash fatalities are trending upward, according to Laura Ryan, commissioner for the Texas Depart- ment of Transportation. Ryan said over 3,300 Texans died in crashes from Jan. 1-Oct. 20. On Oct. 20, the agency launched its #EndTheStreakTX campaign to raise
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growth in annual automobile deaths in Texas, 2019-2022 22.4% Texas automobile deaths from Jan.1-Oct. 20, 2022 3,300 SOURCE: TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION COMMUNITY IMPACT
deaths on Texas roads over the past 22 years 79,000
Seattle Street reconstruction The reconstruction of Seattle Street in Jersey Village—which is funded by city, county and federal sources—is slated to wrap up this summer. Timeline: summer 2022-summer 2023 Cost: $3.3 million
awareness about tra c deaths and the dangers that can lead to crashes. While tra c crashes fell in 2020, fatalities increased—3,893 people died
on Texas roads in 2020, compared to the 3,623 deaths the year prior, TxDOT reported. Fatalities continued to spike in 2021 with 4,436 deaths recorded.
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