TRANSPORTATION UPDATES Missouri City set to start Sienna Parkway widening project
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Missouri City is looking to begin a $5.2 million roadway widening and improvement project on Sienna Parkway this summer, though an exact date is not known. Funded through a partnership between Fort Bend County and the Sienna Management District, which manages 345 acres within Missouri City’s city limits, the project aims to increase capacity at intersections along Sienna Parkway between the limits of Hwy. 6 to the north and McKeever Road to the south. “The total project is designed to alleviate congestion and improve mobility along this major corridor that serves the Sienna area,” said Shashi Kumar, Missouri City’s public works director, via email.
The project will add a series of turn lanes and median enhancements. It will also widen shoulders at the intersections of Hwy. 6, Trammel Fresno Road, Sienna Springs Boule- vard, Watts Plantation Road, Sienna Ranch Road and McKeever Road. Sienna resident Jackie Terry said the congestion on Sienna Parkway can get so bad that it keeps her at home sometimes. “It is a mess,” Terry said. “I hope whatever they’re doing fixes it, because right now it can take an hour to go 5 miles down the road. The traffic makes me not want to even leave my house.” The phased project will span until 2023. An exact completion date is not known, according to city officials.
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Knight Road extension As of May 23, Missouri City is about 70% through the Knight Road exten- sion project through a partnership with Fort Bend County. First approved in January 2020, the project will extend the road so it connects from the Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road to McKeever Road in Missouri City. Timeline: July 1, 2021-March 1, 2023 Cost: $7.83 Million Funding sources: Missouri City, Fort Bend County
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City Hall Drive reconstruction A project that will reconstruct City Hall Drive, which connects Texas Parkway to the City Hall complex and to the Missouri City branch of the Fort Bend County Libraries, has gone out to bid. The city said the roadway has reached its useful life. Meanwhile, the city will receive construction bids by June 22, with award of the bid sched- uled for July 18. Timeline: Early September 2022-TBD Cost: $2 million Funding sources: Missouri City, Fort Bend County
Sugar Land looks at speeding on 22 city roads
STUDY STATS The analysis for the study should be available by September, officials said. cost of study $139K miles of road 11.77
A speed study focusing on 22 Sugar Land road- ways is underway after it received the green light at an April 19 Sugar Land City Council meeting. The contract, which amounted to $138,634, went to Alliance Trans- portation Group Inc., a Houston-based transporta- tion engineering firm, and will fund a study collecting data through the summer. The study will look at 22 roads and aims to identify
roadways with speed lim- its that are not appropriate for road, traffic or land-use conditions. Texas law has a default limit of 30 mph on urban streets and 70 mph on highways outside of urban districts—but municipal- ities, such as the city of Sugar Land, can alter those speed limits. The contract was funded through the FY 2021-22 public works traffic division’s operations and
maintenance budget. According to city docu- ments, effective speed zoning can improve safety, make law enforcement eas- ier by giving police officers an indication of excessive speed, reduce accidents, and reduce the frequency and severity of crashes when the zoning is accom- panied by enforcement. Additionally, city documents stated arti- ficially lowering speed limits diminishes their
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effectiveness, decreases safety, and promotes dis- regard for speed limits and other traffic regulations. Officials expect the study analysis to be complete by the end of September.
ALL INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED AS OF JUNE 2. NEWS OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE OR OTHER LOCAL TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS? EMAIL US AT SLMNEWS@COMMUNITYIMPACT.COM.
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