Transportation
BY HALEY MCLEOD & GRACIE WARHURST
Tra c signal installed near new H E B The city of P ugerville installed a tra c signal on the southeast corner of SH 130 and East P ugerville Parkway near the new H E B grocery store. Overview The signal, at the P ugerville Parkway and Colorado Sand Drive intersection, became fully functional in mid-November. The new H E B, across from the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - P ugerville, is the third P ugerville location.
TxDOT breaks ground on I 35 construction TxDOT broke ground on its I-35 Capital Express Central project Oct. 30, which falls under the over 800,000 miles of roadway maintained by the agency statewide. The project will add two nontolled high-occupancy-vehicle, or HOV, lanes stretching roughly 8 miles from Hwy. 290 down to Hwy. 71. The $4.5 billion infrastructure project will also lower the main lanes from Airport Boulevard to Lady Bird Lake and remove the upper decks, making room for a separate city of Austin initiative to add deck plazas. The transportation agency also outlines bicycle and pedestrian improvements, including 19 miles of new shared-use path, as well as bike-pedes- trian-only crossings constructed at Third Street, Fourth Street, 15th Street, 41st Street and 51st Street. Looking ahead Crews have already begun work to reconstruct and widen the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge, with the next segment of construction to begin near Lady Bird Lake, from Holly Street to Hwy. 71, in early 2025. Construction along the entire corridor is not Hutto CIPs continue in new scal year In scal year 2023-24, the city of Hutto worked on 61 Capital Improvement Plan projects across the transportation, water, wastewater and parks and recreation departments. Of the 61 total projects, the city com- pleted 20. Zooming in Completed projects include approving the South Wastewater Treatment Plant capacity rerate and expansion, which the city broke ground on in August. The fencing at Fritz Park was also completed last year as well as the Hutto Lake Park dock. Crews completed sidewalk reconstruc- tion throughout Hutto as well as repairs to CR 199 and a turn lane project on Hwy. 79.
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expected to be complete until 2033, but TxDOT has broken the larger project down into smaller contracts. As segments get contracted out, residents should expect road closures. The transportation depart- ment remains committed to keeping three lanes open in each direction at all times. Plans for this stretch of I-35 will also see the Red Line stations at Fourth Street and Hancock Center rebuilt, as well as an added infrastructure at River- side Drive to support future light rail connections as a part of Project Connect.
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Completed projects include approving the south wastewater treatment plant capacity rerate.
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Utility construction on CR 132 to a ect tra c Ongoing construction to provide utility services to Hutto residents will change tra c patterns for the project’s duration, according to city communications.
The gist The project has ve phases and will last through Jan. 31, 2025. Construction will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, when agging crews will stop tra c accordingly. Phase 1 encompasses tra c on Limmer Loop between CR 136 and Carol Drive, as well as on CR 132 between Chickasaw Lane and Mager Lane. The next four phases will roll out north on CR 132.
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