1. Hwy. 290 Project G

Eastbound Hwy. 290 mainlanes from FM 529 to Senate Avenue, as well as connector ramps to the Sam Houston Tollway, were closed over the weekends in early November. Traffic was shifted to frontage roads to allow crews to work on mainlanes near the Tollway. Overall construction on Project G, which runs from FM 529 to West Little York Road, is roughly 64 percent complete. The Texas Department of Transportation project involves widening Hwy. 290 from Loop 610 to FM 2920.

Timeline: July 2015-late 2017 Cost: $110.4 million Funding sources: TxDOT

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2. Hwy. 249 direct connector

Construction on the direct connector from southbound Hwy. 249 to the westbound Sam Houston Tollway was completed and opened to the public Nov. 2. The project allows drivers to cross directly onto the westbound lanes of the Sam Houston Tollway without exiting onto the Hwy. 249 feeder road. The new ramp is expected to limit the bottleneck and reduce accidents near the Beltway 8 westbound and Hwy. 249 southbound feeder roads.

Timeline: summer 2014-October 2015 Cost: $35 million Funding sources: Harris County Toll Road Authority

3. Greenhouse Road

Significant progress has been made on a Greenhouse Road extension from Alston Hills Drive to Towne Lake Greene Trail. The project—which connects two existing pieces of the roadway as a four-lane boulevard—was initially slated to be complete in November, but the deadline has been extended to the first week of December due to weather delays. Officials with Towne Lake have also released community plans showing the further extension of Greenhouse Road, including a bridge over future lakeland.

Timeline: April-December Cost: $5.9 million Funding sources: Harris County Precinct 3