All the bridges ARE adding turnarounds. Adding a fourth lane means that for every road that crosses the highway--except Barron, Harvey Mitchell, and Harvey those bridges will have to be removed, and that means nothing in any direction. While they're being demo'd, the highway lanes will have to be partially redirected onto the frontage road (we last saw this years ago when the Barron Road overpass was built) which means no exits or entrances onto the road in question. There are enough alternate paths to prevent endless circling around to the other side, but the misery of doubling an exits' volume and having even more stoplights will make the project far worse than it actually is.BCSWguru said:then maybe they could add turnarounds, too. seems like a great opportunity.PS3D said:A fourth lane would mean all the bridges have be torn down and rebuilt.jagouar1 said:
Overall mostly positive changes, the only thing I think is shortsighted is not taking the opportunity now to go ahead and add a 4th lane each way so we would be future proofed for the next few decades. I have a feeling by the time this project is done there will still be backups on hwy 6 just not as extreme.
Ag97 said:I was talking last week with the project manager from the company that won the bid. He made it sound like they were going to do everything in their power to get it knocked out in the set time line or sooner. The sooner they can knock it out, the sooner they can move on to the next project according to him. Keep your fingers crossed.aggie-1997 said:You do realize this is more equivalent to dog years and will likely be finished closer to 2040 or 2050.Ag97 said:Starts this summer. 5 year project, so should finish up around 2030 or 2031.Tumble Weed said:
When does construction start and when is it scheduled to be completed?
I like most of the improvements and feel they are needed/overdue, but don't look forward to the years of construction.
This board forgets that everything depends on contractors. Sometimes it takes forever, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the work is great, sometimes it is terrible. The Northwest Freeway project in Houston was plagued by a contractor that built the freeway wrong then went bankrupt, so there were 9-foot tall weeds with no work being done (they divided the project into segments, this was the segment near West 34th and Antoine), but the rest of the project went smoother because they had different contractors for each segment.