TXDOT wants your input on I-45 road widening

What is really needed?

Jay Blazek Crossley, Oct 10, 12.

TXDOT is seeking public input on proposals to invest major infrastructure funds in the I-45 corridor north of downtown Houston, according to KUHF:

TxDOT has been studying various I-45 improvement plans for about ten years now, and officials say a final decision is still a few years off.

Right now, the agency is having public meetings as part of an environmental impact study that covers I-45 from Beltway 8 to downtown, as well as adjacent corridors like the Hardy Toll Road.

TxDOT’s Raquel Lewis says they’re still looking at a variety of options to ease traffic flow.

“What our objective is for this study is to look at how do we provide added capacity, particularly in the form of managed lanes that alleviate congestion.”

And Lewis says those options may or may not include new construction.

“Well in some cases, it’s more capacity. In some cases, the alternatives are better operations. In some cases, it’s looking at what parallel routes can be improved to alleviate congestion on the existing facility.”