Beginning spring 2012, Harris County Precinct 4's road and bridges department targeted dozens of roadway and intersection projects for expansion, realignment or improvement, adding them to the list of capital improvement projects projected for the area. About a year later, work on several of these projects are wrapping up while others are slated to begin in the near future.
"We are working very hard to take the small set of resources we have available and try as strategically as we can to apply them in the best way possible for a magnitude of mobility issues in our area," Precinct 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle said. "We have a small pot of money and a huge cauldron of work that needs to be done."
Throughout Northwest Houston, Precinct 4 has nine capital improvement projects in design with an estimated construction value of more than $38 million, 10 improvement projects under construction with a value of about $58 million and five traffic signal and intersection improvement projects in design with a construction cost of more than $2.7 million, said Pamela Rocchi, special projects coordinator.
"It is significant to point out that in years past it would take Precinct 4 about two to four years to design a traffic signal package," she said. "Now we are able to get those from project initiation to project completion within 90 days. The timeline has changed significantly. Last year, we completed about 17 traffic signal projects."
