CORNERING CONGESTION IN CONROE
The Texas Department of Transportation is studying I-45 from Beltway 8 to South Loop 336 to improve mobility, safety and congestion. A 2022 ranking of Texas’ most congested roads included parts of I-45.
45
KEY:
105
336
Congested road segments
A
2022 rank: Severity of road congestion out of 1,860 total roads Annual hours of delay/mile: Time delayed in traffic per mile Annual congestion cost: Dollars spent by drivers on delay and fuel
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B
CONROE
1488
Annual average daily number of vehicles from 2016-21: Between Hwy. 105 and W. Semands Ave. A
242
#
Rank 679
29,341 hours $5.07M
+6.73%
99
C
At I-45 north of Loop 336 South
B
+26.58%
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Rank 98 115,324 hours $20.26M
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At I-45 near Belvedere Point +4.24%
C
SPRING
8
45
N
SOURCES: TEXAS A&M TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE, TXDOT/COMMUNITY IMPACT
proposal would widen the freeway and make way for two HOV lanes as well as four to five main lanes north and south. The third proposal would create two elevated HOV lanes going north and south. “The volume on I-45 is growing exponentially, and there’s still more and more people coming,” Bruce Berger, Montgomery County Precinct 2 chief of staff, said in an interview. “We also have the people commuting to and from our community from the north and the south. So the most important question is, how do we keep ahead of that or at least nose to nose with it?” Additional suggestions given during Phase 1 of the study includes building six additional direct connectors going from Hwy. 242 to I-45. A new direct-connect flyover from northbound on I-45 to eastbound on Hwy. 242 is already in the works. The $14.9 million project is part of Mont- gomery County’s 2021-24 improve- ment plan. Berger said the project is nearing the
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the Houston area enables the commu- nity to participate in the transporta- tion decision-making process,” Emily Black, public information officer for TxDOT’s Houston region, said in an email. “The PEL process represents an approach to transportation deci- sion-making that considers environ- mental, community and economic goals early in the planning stage and carries them through project develop- ment, design and construction.” Studying the corridor Spanning 24 miles from Houston to Conroe, TxDOT has come up with three primary alternatives to the cur- rent structure of I-45, which were presented by TxDOT officials at public meetings Jan. 17 and 19. The first proposal suggests using the existing paved roadway and restriping it to create one high-oc- cupancy vehicle lane and five main lanes in both directions. The second
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