Design/build team selected for U.S. Highway 281 toll project

San Antonio Business Journal

The Alamo Regional Mobility Authority Board of Directors on Wednesday selected Cibolo Creek Infrastructure JV to serve as the design/builder for the 281 North Toll Project.

The value of the contract is $330 million and it will be paid for by a combination of public funds from the Texas Mobility Fund, money generated from the sale of toll revenue-backed bonds and financing from the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA), a U.S. Department of Transportation loan program, says the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority's (Alamo RMA) spokesman Leroy Alloway.

However, this amount does not include the cost of acquiring all of the right-of-way needed to proceed with the project, Alloway says.

Once the toll lanes are complete, the money generated from drivers on the lanes will pay off the debt on the project. Drivers will pay 17 cents per mile and will be charged through the use of a toll tag on their vehicles. Drivers will be able to use this same tag on toll roads in Austin, Houston and Dallas because the systems will be interoperable, Alloway says.

People who do not have a toll tag will be charged through a video billing system. Video cameras aligned along the toll route will track a vehicle's license plate number and send the person's toll charge through the mail. Drivers will not have to carry cash or coins to pay their tolls.

Alamo RMA wants to begin construction on two to three new "non-toll" lanes along U.S. Highway 281 from Loop 1604 to Stone Oak Parkway possibly as early as this fall.

The next phase of the project will involve building out new "non-toll" lanes from Stone Oak Parkway to the Comal County line along Highway 281, Alloway says. In all, Cibolo Creek Infrastructure will be building new highway lanes along a 7.9 mile route.

Once the non-toll lanes are complete, the Alamo RMA's contractors will build three new toll lanes in each direction. Cibolo Creek has committed to complete the project in 44 months after construction begins.

Cibolo Creek Infrastructure is owned by joint venture partners Fluor Enterprises Inc. and Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc. Atlanta-based Balfour Beatty is an engineering, construction, services and investment business. Fluor Enterprises is an engineering and construction services firm based in Dallas.

The other team members are HDR Engineering Inc., Raba-Kistner Consultants, Guerra DeBerry Coody, Donze Lopez Public Affairs, Vickery & Associates Inc., Bain Medina Bain, AIA Engineers Ltd. and Pinnacle Consulting Management Group Inc.

Alamo RMA officials say this approach is not a concession or a private sector model and the Alamo RMA will retain ownership and operations of the toll project.

"This has been an open and transparent process," Alamo RMA Chairman William Thornton says. "The Alamo RMA has ensured the highest possible value for our community and we will see this needed roadway constructed in the shortest possible time through the use of the design build approach."

The widening and expansion of U.S. Highway 281 using toll lanes will be the first official toll project in Bexar County.

Albany: Construction-related road changes

by Pedro Ramirez III
Thursday May 15, 2008, 7:28 AM

Syracuse, NY -- Here are some of today's construction-related road changes:

I-81
Traffic will be reduced to one lane northbound from Exit 14 (Route 80) to the Tully/Lafayette area from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today.

Route 174
Construction continues in the village of Marcellus between Main Street and Scotch Hill Road. Traffic is reduced to a single lane between 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. The road work will continue through the summer.

I-481
Traffic will be reduced to one lane north from Exit 6 (I-90) to Taft Road until Aug. 1. Also, traffic will be reduced to one lane south from Exit 8 (Northern Boulevard) to Exit 7 (Route 298) until Aug. 1.

NY 46
Bridge work continues north of Oneida from I-90 to the Route 365A Junction until Dec. 31. Expect alternating one-way traffic.

US 20

Expect major road construction in both directions from Route 38A Junction East Genesee Street to Auburn East City Line until further notice.

Road construction continues from the Village of Cazenovia to County Route 17 East Lake Road through the summer. There will be intermittent traffic signal work at the State Route 20/13 and County Route 17 intersection. Flaggers will control traffic as needed.

I-690

Traffic is reduced to one lane eastbound from Exit 7 (Solvay-Fairgrounds) to Exit 11 (West Street) until May 28.

The left and center lanes will be closed westbound from Exit 14 (Teall) to I-81 until May 28.

Traffic is reduced to 2 lanes west from Exit 10 (Geddes Street) to City of Syracuse until Aug. 1.

The westbound on-ramp from Hiawatha Blvd is closed. Traffic is detoured to Bear Street on-ramp. The eastbound on-ramp from State Fair Boulevard at Willis Avenue, CLOSED until completion of project.

NY 690
Long term construction will reduce traffic to one lane in both directions along the bridge over the Seneca River at Route 31 until Aug. 29.

NY 931B; State Fair Blvd
Watch for single lane restrictions and shoulder closures from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily through Monday on the ramp from State Fair Boulevard northbound to Route 695 southbound.

NY 5
Expect construction from the town of Sennett to before County Route 10A. The work will reduce traffic to a single lane from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through Friday.

In Cortland,
Bridge construction continues in both directions of NY 13 at I-81 until Sept. 3. Also, construction is scheduled in both directions of I-81 from Exit 10 (US 11/Route 41) to Exit 13 (Route 281) from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily through Friday. Expect intermittent shoulder closures. On NY 281 watch for road construction in both directions from Route 222 to Route 13 until Dec. 1.

To report road closings or other traffic-related news, contact staff writer Pedro Ramirez III at pramirez@syracuse.com or at 470-2078.

Syracuse, NY -- Here are today's construction-related road changes:

by Pedro Ramirez III
Tuesday May 13, 2008, 6:14 AM

I-81

The right lane will be closed southbound at Exit 15 (US 20) from about 8:38 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Route 174
Construction continues in the village of Marcellus between Main Street and Scotch Hill Road. Traffic is reduced to a single lane between 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. The road work will continue through the summer.

I-481
Traffic will be reduced to one lane north from Exit 6 (I-90) to Taft Road until Aug. 1. Also, traffic will be reduced to one lane south from Exit 8 (Northern Boulevard) to Exit 7 (Route 298) until Aug. 1.

NY 46
Bridge work continues north of Oneida from I-90 to the Route 365A Junction until Dec. 31. Expect alternating one-way traffic.

US 20

Expect major road construction in both directions from Route 38A Junction East Genesee Street to Auburn East City Line until further notice.

Road construction continues from the Village of Cazenovia to County Route 17 East Lake Road through the summer. There will be intermittent traffic signal work at the State Route 20/13 and County Route 17 intersection. Flaggers will control traffic as needed.

I-690

The left and center lanes will be closed westbound from Exit 14 (Teall) to I-81 until May 28.

Traffic will be reduced to two lanes east from the Syracuse city line to Exit 9 (Bear Street) until Aug. 1.

Traffic is reduced to 2 lanes west from Exit 10 (Geddes Street) to City of Syracuse until Aug. 1.

The westbound on-ramp from Hiawatha Blvd is closed. Traffic is detoured to Bear Street on-ramp. The eastbound on-ramp from State Fair Boulevard at Willis Avenue, CLOSED until completion of project.

NY 690
Long term construction will reduce traffic to one lane in both directions along the bridge over the Seneca River at Route 31 until Aug. 29.

NY 5
Expect construction from the town of Sennett to before County Route 10A. The work will reduce traffic to a single lane from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through Friday.

In Cortland,
Bridge construction continues in both directions of NY 13 at I-81 until Sept. 3. Also, construction is scheduled in both directions of I-81 from Exit 10 (US 11/Route 41) to Exit 13 (Route 281) from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily through Friday. Expect intermittent shoulder closures.

To report road closings or other traffic-related news, contact staff writer Pedro Ramirez III at pramirez@syracuse.com or at 470-2078.

"People who say we can't do anything about congestion are wrong. We can do lots,"

By FRANK GREVE
McClatchy Newspapers
Published on: 05/14/08

WASHINGTON — Fine-tuning controls on the nation's traffic signals would cut U.S. road congestion by as much as 10 percent, transportation experts estimate.

It would also reduce air pollution from vehicles by as much as a fifth, cut accidents at intersections and save about five tanks of gas annually per household, according to the National Transportation Operations Coalition, an alliance of federal, state and local traffic departments and equipment-makers.

That's the good news. The bad news is that the average local traffic department earned an overall grade of D on the alliance's latest report card. Streamlining intersections is happening in only some cities and states, even though it's eminently doable.

"People who say we can't do anything about congestion are wrong. We can do lots," said Joel Marcuson, a specialist in urban intersections with the Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. in Phoenix.

Right now, however, three out of four of the nation's 300,000 traffic signals need replacement or timing adjustments for optimum performance, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Among the obstacles are a nationwide shortage of skilled traffic engineers, unfocused local political leaders with tight budgets and stodgy local traffic departments. For that matter, federal aid that could ease congestion goes mainly to building and maintaining roads.

Nonetheless, lots of cities and at least seven states — California, Florida, Washington, Minnesota, Maryland, Georgia and Texas — are finding ways to move traffic through intersections faster, according to the transportation engineers group.

Georgia focuses much of its energy on the 20-county area around Atlanta when it comes to traffic signal improvements. Since 2005, it has cut travel time in Atlanta's traffic corridors by 18 percent and time stopped by 39 percent, said Yancy Bachmann, assistant state traffic engineer. Macon and Columbus have also seen traffic signal improvements, he said.

And where does your metropolitan area stand?

It could need improvement, traffic engineers say, if your answer is no to any of these questions:

—Can you sometimes make it through six to eight consecutive intersections on green lights?

—Is there useful traffic information on the radio and on roadside message signs?

—Is it rare that there's no cross traffic when you're stopped at a light?

—Can you drive into the next jurisdiction without encountering congestion at the border?

—Are predictable traffic jams, such as the post-game exits from stadium parking lots, handled adroitly?

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Construction-related road changes

by Pedro Ramirez III
Monday May 12, 2008, 7:32 AM

Syracuse, NY -- Here are today's construction-related road changes:

Route 174
Construction continues in the village of Marcellus between Main Street and Scotch Hill Road. Traffic is reduced to a single lane between 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. The road work will continue through the summer.

I-481
Traffic will be reduced to one lane north from Exit 6 (I-90) to Taft Road until Aug. 1. Also, traffic will be reduced to one lane south from Exit 8 (Northern Boulevard) to Exit 7 (Route 298) until Aug. 1.

NY 46
Bridge work continues north of Oneida from I-90 to the Route 365A Junction until Dec. 31. Expect alternating one-way traffic.

US 20

Expect major road construction in both directions from Route 38A Junction East Genesee Street to Auburn East City Line until further notice.

Road construction continues from the Village of Cazenovia to County Route 17 East Lake Road through the summer. There will be intermittent traffic signal work at the State Route 20/13 and County Route 17 intersection. Flaggers will control traffic as needed.

I-690

The left and center lanes will be closed westbound from Exit 14 (Teall) to I-81 until May 28.

Traffic will be reduced to two lanes east from the Syracuse city line to Exit 9 (Bear Street) until Aug. 1.

Traffic is reduced to 2 lanes west from Exit 10 (Geddes Street) to City of Syracuse until Aug. 1.

The westbound on-ramp from Hiawatha Blvd is closed. Traffic is detoured to Bear Street on-ramp. The eastbound on-ramp from State Fair Boulevard at Willis Avenue, CLOSED until completion of project.

NY 690
Bridge construction continues northbound at Route 31 until 7 a.m. Tuesday. Expect alternating lane closures.

NY 5
Expect construction from the town of Sennett to before County Route 10A. The work will reduce traffic to a single lane from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through Friday.

In Cortland,
Bridge construction continues in both directions of NY 13 at I-81 until Sept. 3. Also, construction is scheduled in both directions of I-81 from Exit 10 (US 11/Route 41) to Exit 13 (Route 281) from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily through Friday. Expect intermittent shoulder closures.

To report road closings or other traffic-related news, contact staff writer Pedro Ramirez III at pramirez@syracuse.com or at 470-2078.

Plan your alternate routes: 14th Street bridge closing May 27

Closure will last year and a half while aging structure is replaced
By ARIEL HART
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/08/08

Doomsday for 14th Street bridge users now has a name: Tuesday, May 27.

On that day, Midtown Memorial Day travelers who haven't made it home by midnight Monday should find the bridge closed – for a year and a half.

The closure is to allow workers to replace the aging bridge and add a turn lane and other improvements.

Closure is scheduled between Fowler Street and Williams Street, by the state Department of Transportation. Williams Street, which is one way north, should have at least one lane open throughout the closure.

Introducing the change to latecomer vacationers on the same day that commuting resumes after the holiday weekend wasn't the goal.

When Techwood Drive closed for the bridge project, it happened over the weekend first to give drivers a bit of warning before the week's commute started.

But for the bridge itself, the contractor, C.W. Matthews, juggled a lot of factors to decide the date for the closing, DOT spokeswoman Crystal Paulk-Buchanan said.

They didn't want to close it over the entire Memorial Day weekend. But scheduling it earlier would have been chancy because utility companies and the city of Atlanta are still removing their pipes and wires from the bridge and re-routing them through a tunnel, and that all has to be done before the bridge work begins.

As for waiting to the next weekend, the contractor has a project deadline to meet and didn't want to lose four summer days for construction after work was rained out on recent weekends.

"If you're ready to go, you're ready to go," Paulk-Buchanan said. "Your crews are ready to go, so let's get going."

Besides, she said, "a week sooner the bridge closes is a week sooner it'll re-open."

Another consideration, Paulk-Buchanan said, "their plan is, within three days of the closing they're going to start taking pieces of it off," and they can't dismantle the bridge above moving traffic.

So when they're doing that, they want it to coincide when possible with lane closures that are already happening on the Connector below for a separate re-paving project.

Atlanta approves sale of bonds to help pay for Beltline

By PAUL DONSKY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/05/08

The Atlanta City Council on Monday approved a measure giving Beltline leaders the ability to begin the process of selling up to $120 million in bonds to help pay for the 22-mile loop of trails, transit and parks.

Beltline officials will have to come back later this summer for council approval on precisely how they plan to spend the money. The bonds would be issued in September, backed by increases on property tax revenue inside the Beltline tax allocation district.

It's the first of several planned bond sales over the next 25 years, projected to raise $1 billion.

http://www.beltline.org/

Luther Forest road work under way

State funding $33M project at tech campus in Malta, which may become home of AMD computer chip factory

By LARRY RULISON, Business writer

First published: Saturday, May 3, 2008 MALTA -- Construction has started on the main entrance and roads leading into the Luther Forest Technology Campus, which may one day be home to a $3.2 billion computer chip factory.

Last month the Malta Town Board approved a $33 million contract for Rifenburg Construction Inc. of Troy to build 5.5 miles of roads at Luther Forest. The money is coming from the state.

Michael Relyea, executive director of the Luther Forest Technology Campus Economic Development Corp., the nonprofit that operates Luther Forest, says road construction started within the last week or so. The project will be spread over two years.

"We're getting into significant construction," he said.

Luther Forest is a 1,350-acre, mostly undeveloped, tract of forest being marketed as a business park for semiconductor manufacturing. Parts of the site once were used for military missile testing.

State officials have offered Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's second-largest microprocessor manufacturer, $1.25 billion in incentives to locate its next factory at the park.

AMD has said it wants to build the facility, but has yet to officially commit. The state's offer is good until July 31, 2009.

The work being done now is just north of Round Lake, about a quarter mile east of Route 9 on Route 67 going east toward Stillwater.

Relyea said the park's entrance will have a four-lane road, with a 10-foot grass divider. There will be a lot of trees.

"That will be a beautiful entrance," Relyea said. "We're trying to design a college campus setting."

The exact design of the entrance, including signage, is still being developed.

"We're in the middle of doing our landscape design plan," he said.

Relyea said he does not know where trucks serving the park's businesses would enter and exit, although he said a service entrance will be created. Most people, he said, would get to the park either from Exit 11 or Exit 12.

The Round Lake Bypass, a state project that will allow traffic coming off Exit 11 on the Northway to circumvent the historic village of Round Lake, will connect to Route 9 close to where the Luther Forest entrance will be.

Currently, the main entry into Luther Forest is Hermes Road, which comes into the park off Dunning Street north of the park and is best accessed from Exit 12.

The new entrance is at the southern end of Luther Forest, best accessed by Exit 11.

Larry Rulison can be reached at 454-5504 or by e-mail at lrulison@timesunion.com.

Neighbors to fight new proposed Beltline trail

By PAUL DONSKY at AJC.com

The proposed stretch goes through Atlanta Memorial Park and Bobby Jones golf course

Just weeks after a compromise was reached on a leg of the Beltline trail through a Buckhead park, residents are gearing up for what may be another showdown over a nearby trail that's also in the planning stages.

The proposed stretch, which goes through Atlanta Memorial Park and Bobby Jones golf course, is expected to be discussed at a Beltline community planning meeting tonight at 6:30, at the AGL Resources building, 10 Peachtree Place in Midtown.

The nonprofit PATH Foundation has been planning the segment for a number of years. Some residents who live along the proposed route have been pushing for the trail to stay on the golf course side of Tanyard Creek, which runs close to their backyards.

The residents vehemently oppose placing the trail closer to their homes, saying it would jeopardize their privacy and could pose security concerns.

Mark Corrigan said that option could place a paved trail within 35 feet of his back door. Corrigan said his street, Overbrook Drive, is a busy thoroughfare carrying people to nearby Piedmont Hospital.

"All we on Overbrook Drive have is our backyards," he said. "We have foxes back here. We see geese. It's a natural habitat."

Officials with PATH could not immediately be reached for comment.

A few weeks ago, officials with PATH and the Beltline agreed to keep most of a planned leg of a walking and biking trail out of the meadow at Tanyard Creek Park in Buckhead. Neighbors had resisted plans to place the trail along the edge of the meadow, saying the trail would tarnish the cherished bit of green space.

Suburbanites ran, but couldn't hide, from traffic pain

By BILL MURPHY
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

Louanne Smith dutifully looks after her husband. So after he had a recent stressful week as an oil company geologist, she knew what would ease his chronic back problems: a massage from a licensed therapist.

That sounded good to him — until he remembered the traffic they would have to negotiate on Fry Road in Katy to reach the fitness center.

"He wouldn't let me make an appointment because he doesn't want to drive," his wife said.

Traffic congestion, long the bane of downtown workers and residents living near the city center, afflicts nearly all Houston area suburbs.

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Houstonians, Hate Traffic?

Written by Houston Business Journal

{Houston is one of 23 large metro areas in the United States facing an infrastructure challenge, according to an Urban Land Institute report released Tuesday.

ULI reports that Houston and other Sunbelt areas such as Atlanta, Dallas and Phoenix, "choke in suburban car dependence and a history of disconnected regional development just as driving becomes increasingly expensive."

Among the challenges facing these cities are expanding road capacity and retrofitting pedestrian-unfriendly subdivisions with mass transit, the report says.

The report shows that since 1980 vehicular travel in the United States has grown 95 percent, but road capacity has grown by only 4 percent. Los Angeles leads the largest cities with an average annual commute time of 72 hours in 2005, up from 45 hours in 1982. Houston's commute in 2005 was 56 hours a year on average, up from 30 hours in 1982.

ULI said Houston is focusing on controlling congestion and enabling mobility, and creating new transit methods such as the Light Rail.

"Houston expects traffic to double, but pins hopes on transit and highway funding to control congestion increases," the report says.

In terms of annual funding allocations for both transit and highway, ULI shows Houston spending less than $1 billion for short-term transit, almost $2 billion on long-term transit, and close to $3 billion each on short- and long-term highway projects.

However, the report warns that investing in transit isn't enough to fix the ailing infrastructure in "coreless metropolitan areas" such as Houston, Dallas and Phoenix.

Cities like Houston need to align transit projects with land use planning, or people will remain car-bound, the report suggests.

"Although transit budgets constitute about 50 percent of aggregate expenditures in long-range plans (approximately $610 billion), the expected share of transit commuting averages a measly 5.5 percent," the report says. "Although most plans seek behavioral changes in driving habits, they assume continued growth patterns toward the suburban edge, where car-dependent lifestyles predominate out of necessity."}

Metro pushing ahead with second rail line

Written by Houston Business Journal

Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County has chosen Parsons Transportation Group for the next phase of the authority's light rail project.

The agency awarded a $77.3 million contract to Washington Group International in May 2007 for Phase I development work, but decided to go with Washington, D.C.-based Parsons, an infrastructure developer, for Phase 2, according to Metro.

Metro's decision not to work further with WGI was based on factors including "failure to deliver an acceptable and reasonable price for the next phase of construction and its failure to deliver on promises made in its original proposal," Frank Wilson, Metro's president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.

Parsons was one of three contractors bidding on the light rail's second phase, which will begin with the East End rail line in June. The East End rail corridor will begin downtown off of the Southeast line and go east to the Magnolia Transit Center Station.

The contract with Parsons will award $12 million to the company through December.

Houston HWY 288 Road Contruction

County HARRIS Highway SH0288 From SH 288 To AT SIMS BAYOU BRIDGE CSJ 6178-40-001 Proj ID EMC - 617840001 Work Type EMERGENCY REPAIR TO BRIDGE FOUNDATION

Work Order 03-27-08 Work Began 03-28-08 Work Completed Time Computed 03-28-08 Contract Working Days 25 Addl Days Granted 0 Working Days Charged 4 Percent Time Used 16 Contractor(s) LECON, INC. SUBCONTRACTOR(S) FOR CCSJ: 6178-40-001 NO SUBCONTRACTORS FOR THIS CCSJ Contract # 03081240

Houston, FM 1960, Lake Houston

County HARRIS Highway FM1960 From AT MCKAY BRIDGE OVER LAKE HOUSTON To AT MCKAY BRIDGE OVER LAKE HOUSTON CSJ 6165-73-001 Proj ID RMC - 616573001 Work Type SIDE SLOPE FAILURE REPAIR

NO CURRENT ESTIMATE AT TIME OF THIS RUN Work Order 00-00-00 Work Began 00-00-00 Work Completed Time Computed 00-00-00 Contract Working Days 90 Addl Days Granted 0 Working Days Charged 0 Percent Time Used 0 Contractor(s) EROSION & RETAINING WALL STRUCTURES, INC. SUBCONTRACTOR(S) FOR CCSJ: 6165-73-001 NO SUBCONTRACTORS FOR THIS CCSJ Contract # 12071202

Houston, Grand Parkway

The Grand Parkway (SH 99) is a proposed 180+ mile circumferential scenic highway traversing seven counties and encircling the Greater Houston region. The project has been shown on governmental planning documents since the early 1960's. Currently 20 miles of the highway, Segment D, from US 59 near Sugar Land to IH 10 near Katy, have been constructed and is a toll free road open to the traveling public since August 31, 1994. Other segments are in various stages of project development. For detailed segment information, please click on the segment's tab to the left.



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Houston HWY 290 Road Contruction

The US 290 Project, which entails reconstruction of US 290 and Hempstead Tollway, covers a corridor of varying width that is approximately 38 miles long, extending from the interchange area of IH 10/IH 610/ US 290 northwest to FM 2920.

The overall vision for the US 290 Project includes:

• Freeway capacity reconstruction and widening from IH 610 to FM 2920 to create:
  • Five general-purpose lanes in each direction from IH 610 to just west of Beltway 8, plus auxiliary lanes where appropriate
  • Four general-purpose lanes in each direction from just west of Beltway 8 to near the proposed SH 99/Grand Parkway, plus auxiliary lanes
  • Three general-purpose lanes in each direction from near the proposed SH 99/Grand Parkway to the west study limit, plus auxiliary lanes
  • Two- or three-lane frontage roads in each direction throughout the corridor

ALSO:

• A four-lane, two-way managed lanes facility along Hempstead Tollway from IH 610 to the proposed SH 99/Grand Parkway
• Two general-purpose lanes (possibly three) with curb and gutter in each direction to be reconstructed along Hempstead Tollway from IH 610 to Beltway 8
• US 290 METRO HOV operations moved to the Hempstead Tollway managed toll lanes
• Proposed high-capacity transit corridor located along Hempstead Tollway
• Bicycle and pedestrian improvements

Phase I of US 290 construction, which includes the US 290/IH 610 interchange out to W. 34th Street, and Phase I of Hempstead Tollway construction, which goes from IH 610 to just west of Huffmeister, are both on track to begin in late 2010 or early 2011, with completion targeted for 2014.

When Phases II and III of US 290 construction will start is unclear at this point; work on those phases all depends on when funding becomes identified and there is resolution to current state and federal funding challenges as noted here. The sooner funding can be secured, the sooner construction on these phases can begin following completion of Phase I.

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County HARRIS Highway US0290 From VARIOUS HIGHWAYS IN WEST HARRIS CO. To . CSJ 6144-49-001 Proj ID RMC - 614449001 Work Type BRIDGE DECK REPAIRS

Work Order 07-28-06 Work Began 08-01-06 Work Completed Time Computed 08-01-06 Contract Working Days 730 Addl Days Granted 0 Working Days Charged 609 Percent Time Used 83 Contractor(s) SCR CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. SUBCONTRACTOR(S) FOR CCSJ: 6144-49-001 NO SUBCONTRACTORS FOR THIS CCSJ Contract # 05061204