Transportation
BY HALEY MCLEOD & AMIRA VAN LEEUWEN
TxDOT ocials announce 1st of long-term closures The Texas Department of Transportation has announced the rst extended road closure along I-35 in Austin. What you need to know The northbound I-35 bypass at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard closed Dec. 2, remaining closed to trac through early 2025, according to an announcement made by the agency on
Contract OK’d for mobility improvement Buda City Council approved a $585,130 contract with Jerdon Enterprise, L.P. for an interim solution to the Main Street East Extension Project on Nov. 6. The Main Street East Extension Project includes widening the existing roadway to two lanes in each direction, according to the city’s bond website. What you need to know The project looks to alleviate trac congestion at I-35 and Main Street.
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remove the upper decks, according to TxDOT’s managing engineer Tucker Ferguson. Crews have also begun work to reconstruct and widen the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge. Looking ahead The next segment of construction is scheduled to begin near Lady Bird Lake in early 2025. While construction won’t be complete until 2033, TxDOT sta have indicated that the large project is broken into smaller “more manageable” contracts, Ferguson said.
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TxDOT broke ground on its $4.5 billion I-35 Cap- ital Express Central infrastructure project Oct. 30, which will see the construction of two non-tolled high-occupancy vehicle lanes stretching roughly 8 miles from Hwy. 290 down to Hwy. 71. The highway project will lower the main lanes from Airport Boulevard to Lady Bird Lake and
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