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Crews are working to install utilities, including waterlines and storm water drainage, along Shell Road, ahead of a project to widen it from Williams Drive to Sycamore Street to four lanes.
Read an update on this project, and others in Georgetown, below.
Upcoming projects
1. Williams Drive
The city project will construct medians with turn lanes on Williams Drive from I-35 to Serenada Drive, including a shared-use path on the north side of Williams Drive, a new waterline, and street lighting from DB Wood Road to Jim Hogg Road and Serenada Drive to I-35.
A 2.91-mile stretch of SE Inner Loop will be widened to a four-lane, divided road from Hwy. 29 to FM 1460. A shared-use path for pedestrians and bicycles will be added on one side.
The Texas Department of Transportation will construct additional travel lanes, lengthen turn lanes and improve traffic signals on Hwy. 29 from Wolf Ranch Parkway to I-35 as well as add shared-use paths.
This project will include construction of two pedestrian and bicycle bridges crossing the San Gabriel River, east of the existing Austin Avenue vehicular bridges.
The city will widen Shell Road from Williams Drive to Sycamore Street to four lanes with a raised median, shared-use path, and left- and right-turn lanes.
6. Rockride Lane
This work will upgrade Rockride Lane to a two-lane collector roadway with a continuous center left-turn lane and a 10-foot-wide shared-use path along one side from SE Inner Loop to Sam Houston Avenue.
The project adds four 12-foot wide lanes, a center turn lane and a 10-foot shared-use path from Hwy. 29 to Oak Ridge Road.
