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Transportation Projects & Issues
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WHA PARTICIPATES IN GREATER WEST HOUSTON SUBREGIONAL PLANNING INITIATIVE The Association joins the Greater West Houston "Urban Core" management districts, the City of Houston and other area agencies in a study to improve long range transportation in and to the urban core of our region. The study is being done with the HGAC. Details at this link.
GREATER WEST HOUSTON'S CURRENT AND FUTURE
TRANSPORTATION NETWORK
The West Houston Association advocates
aggressively for first class highways, thoroughfares and transit.
The result: one of the nation's most accessible growth communities.
The transportation network serving Greater West
Houston stands above that of other like regions in Houston and elsewhere
in the United States in providing mobility and access, the critical
components of a region's economy. Few similar region's can match the
number and quality of these facilities:
US 290/Northwest Freeway--"Greater
West Houston's Next Great Transportation Corridor"
is currently being
expanded with over $700 million in contracts or funding approved.
And is the subject of a major MOU between TxDOT and Harris County which
will greatly accelerate completion of this facility in the near term. This major transportation corridor serves the rapidly growing northwest of
Greater West Houston master planned communities and major activity
centers. (Click on the shield for more information)
Sam Houston Parkway West--completed in 1987
this tollway has become the north-south backbone of not only Greater West
Houston. The entire "Sam Houston" loops the City on an approximate
12-14 mile radius of the CBD of Houston. The final eastern portion
was completed in 2011.
The Grand Parkway or SH 99 will be a 180 mile
loop around the the Houston Region. In Greater West Houston it is
underconstruction by TxDOT as a toll road north of 10 W to US 290.
It is largely completed south of 10 W to the Westpark Tollway where it
operates as a free road. South of Westpark Tollway, it exits as
frontage roads with tolled grade separations being constructed by Fort
Bend County. (Click on the shield for more information)
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Interstate
10 West (The 10 W) reconstruction of this 21 mile urban freeway was
completed in 2008 after a record-breaking 6 year construction schedule.
10 W is recognized as THE premier urban freeway and high occupancy toll roadway in the
United States. The 10 W runs through the heart of Greater West
Houston and is the main link between the master planned residential
communities in the west and the high density urban work centers in the
central and eastern portions. 12 miles of 10 W contains the four
lane "Katy Managed Lanes". More information on the
planning and record breaking construction of
