Transportation
BY KELLY SCHAFLER
Officials evaluate future Sienna Parkway improvements for growth
What else
Discussions are also ongoing to determine other ways to improve traffic flow along the corridor, San Miguel said. He said options engineers and stakeholders are considering include: • Expanding Sienna Parkway from four to six lanes between Hwy. 6 and FM 521 • Replacing some intersections with roundabouts to ease traffic flow Expanding Sienna Parkway would be a multi- phase project that would cost roughly $127 million, Shashi Kumar, Missouri City’s director of public works, said in an email. Johnson Development would fund about $47 million, while the remaining $80 million would be handled by the city, county and other funding partners.
With more residential and commercial growth planned for Sienna, local officials said they are making plans to address traffic conditions on Sienna Parkway, the master-planned community’s main corridor. More than 11,000 single-family homes are occupied in Johnson Development’s 10,500-acre Sienna community, which will have more than 15,000 homes by its estimated 2032 build-out, said Alvin San Miguel, senior vice president of Johnson Development. With this future growth planned, officials with Johnson Development, Missouri City, Fort Bend County and local utility districts are discussing several mobility options to prepare for it, San Miguel said. “We believe we need to be working on additional improvements to Sienna Parkway,” he said. “They could take five to six years to complete. We should certainly start on them in 2024-2025 and that way by build-out—close to 2030—all of these improvements are in place to be able to have the capacity for the community.” One project to address mobility includes adding third lanes to six intersections between McKeever Road and Hwy. 6, San Miguel said. Four intersections have been completed, with the most recent wrapping up in mid-October. Design and right-of-way acquisition is nearing completion for the two remaining intersections at Trammel Fresno Road and Hwy. 6 that will cost about $2 million to complete. However, inflation has pushed the project costs higher since their design, so funding for the projects isn’t secured, San Miguel said.
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What’s next
The expansion project, located in Missouri City’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, is still in the planning phase, so there’s not yet a funding mechanism for the nondeveloper portion of improvements, Kumar said. However, he noted the county is exploring funding options, and officials with local municipal utility districts and levee improvement districts have said they’re able to contribute to the project cost.
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