Construction will be phased and will include night and weekend road closures. The project has incentives and disincentives to encourage the contractor to complete various phases sooner than anticipated.
The project is expected to take about five years to complete. Road closure information will be posted at Houston Transtar. Follow HOUat69 on Twitter for updates and more on this project. The purpose of the project is to improve safety and mobility, reduce congestion, and upgrade the interchange to current design standards. It addresses several issues: one-lane direct connectors that are over capacity, projected growth increasing demand, lack of shoulders, low vertical clearances, below minimum sight distances, and crashes in merge areas.
I West and I South are heavily congested during peak hours, and though the I West Loop is ranked as the 1 Most Congested Highway in Texas , this project aims to change that statistic.
Just days before this photo was taken, a ship's crane collided with the bridge deck and knocked out a large hole in the pavement, forcing the closure of 3 northbound lanes. This view looks east. Historic construction photos. Looking south along with the ship channel bridge in the background. The Ship Channel Bridge has 10 lanes.
The four-level stack at the intersection of the East Loop and IH This stack was completed in the early 's. Aerial view of the interchange at the East Loop and IH If you look closely you can see the stub-outs and embankment for the future connections to the Northeast Freeway, which will begin at this interchange. Construction on the connections to the future Northeast Freeway is scheduled to begin in This aerial view was taken around This is a typical section of the northeast section of Loop The freeway has 8 main lanes plus feeders.
This was the last section of the loop to be completed in This section of freeway was expanded to 12 lanes around View looks west, towards IH Interstate provides connectivity to metropolitan area freeways radiating out of Houston including U.
The Loop is heavily traveled freeway varying between six to eight lanes with multi level systems interchanges at intersecting freeways. Plans in the s assigned Loop along the southern, western, and northern portions of the beltway.
The eastern section and the bridge across the Houston Ship Channel were not included in the Loop plans, but they were added to the IH approval in The entire loop route was open to traffic by North at. Exit 26A departs for IH 10 and U. IH makes a northwesterly turn beyond this exchange to U. The Crosby Freeway was completed here in Button copy signage at Exit 24, where U. Predecessors to the modern arrow per lane APL signs found throughout the Interstate Highway system are used in the Houston area at freeway junctions.
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