Transportation
BY HALEY MCLEOD & SAM SCHAFFER
Phase III of 183A Toll in Liberty Hill now complete The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority announced on May 20 that the nal segment of the 183A Toll expansion is now open. More details 183A 29 Liberty Hill
Leander completes Bagdad Road updates The Bagdad Road and Collaborative Way improvement project has been completed. “The intersection is open, sidewalks are in place, striping is done. We’re just cleaning up and re-vegetating now,” Leander Capital Improvement Projects Project Manager Rus- sell Alabastro told City Council on April 17. Two-minute impact The project kicked o in November, according to Leander’s website. During the initial phase of the project, crews focused on widening portions of Bagdad Road for new turn lanes. The second portion of the project was focused on installing trac signal poles, mast arms and equipment, according to the website. The second portion of the project encompassed nal surfacing and restriping.
CTRMA completed a 5-mile segment of the agency’s ongoing 183A Toll extension project. This nal section nished out Phase III of the $259 million expansion project. The extension originally opened on April 9, but commuters still faced some delays due to some nal construction and clean-up along the onramps. Final construction on the shared-use path and landscaping along the work route is expected to be completed in July, according to previous Community Impact reporting. The extension now allows for 16 miles of unin- terrupted travel between northwest Austin and Liberty Hill, according to a CTRMA news release. The new segment extends from Hero Way West and passes under SH 29. This allows commuters
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to bypass trac signals at Hero Way, San Gabriel Parkway, Bryson Ridge Trail and Whitewing Drive. What else? CTRMA has reported an average of 35,000 users per day since the Phase III extension opened in April, according to previous reporting.
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