The city of Cedar Park has been preparing to expand East Whitestone Boulevard from four to six lanes between Market Street and Cottonwood Creek Trail, and the Texas Department of Transportation may now be paying the entire bill.
Cedar Park plans to extend RM 1431 to Market to match the six-lane design of the pass-through project on East Whitestone, which runs from Market to Sam Bass Road and is in its final phases of construction. The planned project, known as the 1431 Gap Project, was selected by the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization in 2014 to be partially paid for with federal funds that were allocated through CAMPO, said Tom Gdala, Cedar Park senior engineering associate.
In 2014 the project was expected to cost $11.43 million, and CAMPO opted to pay $9.144 million using Surface Transportation Program-Metropolitan Mobility federal funds. The remaining 20 percent would be paid by Cedar Park and Williamson County, each of which would pay $1.143 million, Gdala said.
During a July 14 meeting, Gdala told City Council that CAMPO had revised the scope of the project to include elevating and lengthening the Spanish Oak Creek Bridge. He said CAMPO revised the total project cost to be $17.5 million, and TxDOT stepped in with a state funding alternative.
