Ongoing projects
Approximately 2 miles of Flint Rock Road—between RR 620 at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Lakeway and Serene Hills Drive—will be widened and an asphalt shoulder added. The intersection of Flintrock Trace at the former site of Flint Rock Road closed May 22 for construction and water line work. It will reopen in June.
October 2015-July 2017
An $80 million project is in development to widen
RR 620 from four lanes to a six-lane, divided road stretching from West Hwy. 71 to the Colorado River. The Texas Department of Transportation is managing the project.
August 2023 bid
A $9.8 million project to construct a four-lane urban roadway with a continuous left-turn lane, storm drains and signals on Bee Caves Road is underway from just east of Redbud Trail to 1,000 feet west of Buckeye Trail.
A $13.2 million project to construct a four-lane urban roadway on Bee Caves Road with a continuous left-turn lane, storm drains and signals is underway from 1,000 feet west of Buckeye to Walsh Tarlton Lane.
Nov. 1, 2016-Sept. 28, 2018
Improvements costing about $291,000 to Hurst Creek Road include an asphalt overlay from Lohmans Crossing to Brooks Hollow Road and area surface patch work.
June-mid-August
Recent updates
MoPac toll lanes
Work continues on the MoPac express toll lanes between Parmer Lane and Cesar Chavez Street. In the coming weeks, the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority expects to reopen the northbound auxiliary, or merge lane, between 35th and 45th streets. Friction course paving southbound between US 183 and RM 2222 was expected to begin during the week of June 12. The MoPac contractor previously expected to complete the project in June, but the agency is now anticipating the project will be finished sometime this summer.
Timeline: October 2013-summer 2017
Cost: $204 million
Funding sources: various
Pedestrian hybrid beacon install
A pedestrian hybrid beacon will be installed this summer at the Westbank Drive pedestrian crossing to Westlake High School in West Lake Hills. The beacon, which flashes red lights above a crosswalk to indicate walkers are present, resulted from an agreement between the county and Eanes ISD.
Timeline: June-August
Cost: $80,000
Funding sources: EISD, Travis County
Flintridge Road waterline install
A Water Control & Improvement
District 10 bond project to install an 8-inch diameter pipe under Flintridge Road to Redbud Trail went out for bids in May. Construction could begin in June.
Timeline: June-March 2018
Cost: $639,839 estimated
Funding source: WCID 10
Beacon, lighting installation
A flashing beacon and safety lighting will be installed on West Hwy. 71 at Fall Creek Road.Timeline: July 1, 2016-August 2017
Cost: $61,220
Funding source: TxDOT
