BAY-05-20

TRANSPORTATIONUPDATES

COMPILED BY JAKE MAGEE

ONGOING PROJECTS

I45widening project deadlines extended by several months

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS 1 NASA Parkway to FM 518 Original completion date: third quarter of 2021 New completion date: end of 2021 Cost: $99.2 million 2 FM 518 to FM 517 Original completion date: early 2021 New completion date: early 2022 Cost: $121.7 million 3 FM 517 to FM 1764 Original completion date: third quarter of 2022 New completion date: end of 2023 Cost: $230.4 million 4 FM 1764 to FM 519 Expected completion date: third quarter of 2025 Cost: $163 million PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT 5 FM 519 to Texas City Wye Start date: August 2020 Cost: $105.7 million 6 Texas City Wye interchange work Start date: August 2020 Cost: $74 million 7 Texas City Wye to Causeway Start date: August 2020 Cost: $92.1 million 8 Causeway to 61st Street Start date: April 2022 Cost: $114 million and utility relocation eorts took longer than planned, delaying those projects, Perez wrote. Additionally, the major project to recongure the intersection of I-45 and FM 646 was delayed for over two months because it was originally scheduled to happen over the holidays in late 2018. TxDOT delayed that work to March 2019 to reduce the negative eects to travelers, Perez wrote. “It is our goal to nish each project as quickly as possible and to minimize impacts on the traveling public,” Perez wrote. “Our project teams work to overcome any challenges that may arise by working with the contractor.”

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The Texas Department of Transpor- tation’s widening of I-45 fromHouston to Galveston has been going on for years, and the construction will last years longer in the Bay Area. According to a February update from TxDOT, several widening projects along I-45 have new deadlines that are months—up to over a year— later than originally projected. The widening project between NASA Parkway and FM 518 was expected in summer 2018 to be com- pleted in the fall of 2021, but that has been pushed back to the end of 2021. It will cost $99.2 million. The project from FM 518 to FM 517 was going to be complete near the beginning of 2021 but has now been pushed back to the beginning of 2022 with a cost of $121.7 million. Finally, the project between FM 517 and FM 1764 will wrap up at the end of 2023 at a cost of $230.4 million. The original expected completion date was the third quarter of 2022. TxDOT Public Information Ocer Danny Perez said weather and holiday travel aected expected completion dates for projects. “Inclement weather has limited the contractor’s ability to work on critical items. Work was suspended during periods of heavy holiday trac to minimize lane closures and impacts to the traveling public,” Perez wrote in an email to Community Impact Newspaper . The pushed back completion dates were not related to the coronavirus. In fact, the outbreak may lead to some

Dickinson Avenue reconstruction The completion of reconstructing Dickinson Avenue between FM 646 and Walker Street has been delayed from December 2019 to summer 2020. There have been delays on the north side of the project due to utility relocations that have interfered with the placement of the new underground storm sewer, but the southern half of the project, from FM 646 to Hwy. 96, has been completed. Timeline: January 2019-June 2020 Cost: $7 million Funding sources: Galveston County ($6 million), city of League City ($1 million)

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ALL INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED AS OF APRIL 20. NEWS OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE OR OTHER LOCAL TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS? EMAIL US AT BAYNEWSCOMMUNITYIMPACT.COM. Red Blu Road bridge replacement The bridge at Red Blu Road and Big Island Slough will be reconstructed as part of the Texas Department of Transportation’s program to ensure all bridges meet safety standards. Timeline: March-October Cost: $5.1 million Funding source: TxDOT ($4.6 million), Harris County ($510,000)

SOURCE: TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER

parts of the project being completed sooner, Perez said. “In such cases, the contractor is being allowed to work in some areas for longer stretches of time, speci- cally because peak travel periods are not as congested as they would be under ‘normal’ circumstances,” Perez wrote. For the two projects between FM 518 and FM 1764, right of way acquisition

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