Stuart Straznicky, south Texas area manager at Webber, says the team collaborated closely with TxDOT to develop alternate concepts early on, in hopes that the sessions would save TxDOT both time and money in the long run. Construction bids continued with the US at Beltway 8 and US at SH 6 interchanges, both of which improved local connectivity with new continuous frontage road systems.
The 13 construction contracts under the US program also include 15 miles of freeway reconstruction and 23 miles of freeway widening, Napolillo says. If the US program were not built, experts estimated that by the congested stop-and-go traffic along the roadway would have increased to more than 12 hours each day, Leong adds. This original implementation schedule extended program improvements out to with construction bids.
TxDOT started design of the corridor to position the project for potential available construction funding, Leong says, but US is a design-bid-build project. The original construction sequencing of the US corridor, approved in , included building the Hempstead Tollway before the US improvements, so the tollway could help relieve traffic during the US reconstruction, Leong says.
As part of that sequencing, the existing US HOV lane would have been relocated to the Hempstead Tollway, allowing all US lanes to be utilized for general purpose travel.
The changes added a 1. That provided access to and from the frontage roads on either side of the freeway to the HOV lane in the center of US Crews also accelerated reconstruction of five spans on the existing HOV connector to the transit center, completing that work in 21 days. The City of Houston is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States and the largest in Texas.
With regional growth-rate predictions at approximately 72 percent between the years and , traffic congestion and transportation-related problems will follow. Without substantial changes, the current regional transportation network will be unable to provide an acceptable level of service on many travel corridors. In particular, the US Corridor has experienced considerable growth. With the current corridor population at , and a projected population of 1. He is a small businessman and lifelong district resident.
During the 79th Legislative Session, Rep. Community Corner End in Sight: U. The Oak Hill Parkway Environmental Study was launched in October to determine the best options for addressing traffic congestion and increasing long-term mobility at the intersection of US and SH The US intersection improvements will provide an interim solution to congestion while the environmental study is underway and until a long-term solution can be implemented.
More information is available on the Oak Hill Parkway website. There were countless lessons learned along the way. The biggest one? That required significant coordination and planning because things can and will change so quickly. To capitalize on available construction funding, some of the construction projects were let before right of way acquisition and utility relocations were complete. And in order to continue to advance construction, numerous meetings and collaborations with designers, contractors, and utility companies were held to coordinate strategies to work around constraints.
These implementation strategies were further challenged during unprecedented weather phenomena such as floods, freezes and hurricanes when utility companies needed to reallocate their resources. In response, the project team prepared an interim implementation plan to accommodate the HOV traffic while minimizing additional right of way impacts.
The changes included a reconfiguration of 1. Each time the plan changed, TxDOT would meet with the public to explain the changes. On this project, it was critical.
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