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Major projects in the area
Compiled by David Pollan
2 FM 1774 overpass
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Timeline: Project is estimated to be
Timeline: Project is expected to take more
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than two years once construction begins.
Cost: $30.3 million
Funding sources: TxDOT
Cost: $5.88 million
Funding sources: City of Tomball
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The contractor is finalizing the installation and
testing of utilities. The excavation for detention
is underway and the contractor is expected
to begin paving in the next few weeks. Once
completed, Segment 3 of the Medical Complex
Drive extension in Tomball will connect the
street from where it dead-ends near Lawrence
Street through to Cherry Street.
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The Texas Department of Transportation is
working to secure funding to build an
overpass on FM 1774 in Magnolia that will
elevate over the railroad tracks at the FM
1488 intersection and provide continuous
movement along FM 1774. The design phase
of the project is about 85 percent complete.
The project will be opened for contractor
bidding in spring 2016.
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Project spotlight
1 Tomball Tollway
The paving of the Tomball Tollway from
Spring Cypress Road to Canyon Gate
Pointe Drive is 95 percent complete and
all the retaining walls have been fully
constructed. The main lane toll gantry
has been painted and the remaining
structural work necessary on the gantry
will be completed in early November.
The bridge beams for the northbound
side of this segment—where the Tomball
Tollway crosses the Grand Parkway—
have been hung. The deck panels, which
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are placed on top of the bridge beams,
for the northbound elevated span are
50 percent complete and pouring of the
actual concrete surface for the elevated
span started the last week of October. The
paving between the southern intersection
with Business 249 and Alice Road is 90
percent complete. The paving of the tollway
from Alice Road to FM 2920 is underway.
The hanging of the bridge beams at
Willow Creek is 60 percent complete, and
the hanging of the bridge beams over
Holderrieth and Alice roads is expected to
begin the first week of November. Phase
I of the Harris County Toll Road Authority
project will be a six-lane—three in each
direction—electronically monitored tollway
in the median between the existing Hwy.
249 main lanes.
Timeline: Project is estimated to be
complete in spring 2015.
Cost: $170 million
Funding sources: HCTRA
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3 The Grand Parkway Segments
F1, F2 and G
Construction of the Grand Parkway is
requiring lane closures and traffic
diversions on some roads near the
project, including a total closure of
Boudreaux Road—both eastbound
and westbound—from Hwy. 249 to Old
Boudreaux Road nightly from 8 p.m. to
6 a.m. from Nov. 5 through Nov. 7. There
will also be a total closure of eastbound
and westbound Gleannloch Forest Drive
from Boudreaux Road to Northpointe
Drive nightly from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. from
Nov. 10 through Nov. 12. In addition, the
left lane of eastbound and westbound
Champion Forest Drive from Boudreaux
Road to 0.6 miles east of Boudreaux Road
will be closed through March 2015. Three
segments—F1, F2 and G—of the project
are under simultaneous construction and
will total 37 miles.
Timeline: Project is estimated to be
complete in December 2015.
Cost: $1 billion
Funding sources: TxDOT
The clearing activity is nearing completion and
the respective utility relocation efforts are
underway as part of the capital improvement
project by Harris County Precinct 4 to widen
Segment 1 of Hufsmith-Kohrville Road in
Tomball from a two-lane asphalt roadway
to a four-lane concrete boulevard section.
Construction is expected to commence
November 2014. Segment 1 will widen the
road from 400 feet south of Spring Cypress
Road north to Hollow Glen Lane.
Timeline: Completion is expected 10–12
months from November 2014.
Cost: $6.4 million
Funding sources: Harris County Precinct 4
6 Hufsmith-Kohrville Road
widening Segment 6
Harris County Commissioners Court approved
the results of the study phase of the project to
widen Segment 6 of Hufsmith-Kohrville Road
in Tomball from 500 feet south of Willow
Creek Estates south to Holderrieth Road
on Oct. 28. The project will move into the
design phase, which will determine whether
to upgrade the existing two-lane asphalt
roadway to a four-lane concrete boulevard
section with storm sewer system or to a fivelane concrete pavement roadway with open
ditch draining. Construction is slated to begin
in either the third or fourth quarter of 2015.
Timeline: Completion is expected nine–12
months from start date.
Cost: $7.4 million
Funding sources: Harris County Precinct 4
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