Construction and closures Roads: I-10 Prop 12 funds public meeting stimulus funds Texas Department of Transportation widening
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I-10 inbound at UTSA Blvd.
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. With my website update and cheap louis vuitton alma the holidays and the ensuing aftermath, I’ve been cheap louis vuitton alma a wee bit busy, not to mention just spending time with my adorable 16-month-old! But I’m ready to dive back in, so here goes…
I just got home from TxDOT’s public hearing on their long-planned improvements to I-10 West. As I mentioned earlier this week, my recollection was that cheap louis vuitton alma the proposed changes would include adding an extra freeway lane in each direction and removing the existing outbound DeZavala exit. That indeed still forms the cheap louis vuitton alma core of the improvements package, but there were a few other goodies.
First of all, there will actually be cheap louis vuitton alma a fifth lane added to the inbound side from Loop 1604 down to cheap louis vuitton alma the Huebner exit. This means that cheap louis vuitton alma traffic entering I-10 from 1604 will have all the way to cheap louis vuitton alma Huebner to merge over if necessary, and in fact one of the cheap louis vuitton alma two lanes added at 1604 (the one that drops at the DeZavala exit now, seen in the photo above) will continue through all the way to downtown. This will greatly smooth inbound traffic.
As mentioned, the cheap louis vuitton alma existing exit to DeZavala on the outbound side will be cheap louis vuitton alma removed and the existing Woodstone exit will be widened to cheap louis vuitton alma two lanes and will become the DeZavala exit. The existing entrance from cheap louis vuitton alma Huebner will also be removed and the existing entrance from Fredericksburg (the one at the top of the hill in front of Chili’s) will become the entrance for both Huebner and Fred. An extra lane will be cheap louis vuitton alma added to the frontage road, making for smoother merging and cheap louis vuitton alma transitions there. These changes will eliminate several bad problems: the cheap louis vuitton alma dangerous weaving that takes place on the cheap louis vuitton alma frontage road at the current DeZavala exit and the equally dangerous and cheap louis vuitton alma congestion-inducing weaving that takes place on the freeway lanes at the cheap louis vuitton alma existing entrance from Huebner.
On the outbound freeway lanes, the four lanes that currently exist north of Wurzbach will be cheap louis vuitton alma extended all the way to Loop 1604 instead of dropping down to cheap louis vuitton alma three at the DeZavala exit as is the case today. At Loop 1604, the cheap louis vuitton alma right lane will exit to 1604 along with the auxiliary lane added from cheap louis vuitton alma the entrance from UTSA Blvd. This will eliminate that afternoon rush-hour bottleneck.
In addition to cheap louis vuitton alma the lane and ramp changes mentioned above, this project will also add the cheap louis vuitton alma “missing” turnaround at UTSA Blvd., will raise the cheap louis vuitton alma I-10 overpass over DeZavala (it’s been hit several times), will replace one of the cheap louis vuitton alma bridge decks on I-10 at Fredericksburg to resolve a long-standing maintenance issue, and cheap louis vuitton alma repave the whole stretch of I-10 (also long overdue.)
This project, which is estimated will cost $40 million, does not have any funding yet. However, TxDOT is cheap louis vuitton alma updating its plans and environmental documents so that this project is cheap louis vuitton alma ready to go if funding should become available. Just like with the recent Wurzbach Parkway project, which was able to cheap louis vuitton alma take advantage of newly-available Prop 12 funds because TxDOT kept their ducks in a cheap louis vuitton alma row on that project, officials want to make sure that this cheap louis vuitton alma long-proposed and badly-needed project is ready to get either additional Prop 12 funds, which could become available later this cheap louis vuitton alma year or next, or be in line to receive any stimulus funds that cheap louis vuitton alma may be leftover as a result of cost underruns or if any projects fail to cheap louis vuitton alma make the deadline for those funds (March 2010). My gut-feeling is that this project will be funded by this fall.
And, the question that seems to be first on everyone’s minds: this will not be a toll project.
UPDATE: San Antonio Express-News story










