Transportation Updates Conroe | Montgomery August 2017


FM 1097 widening


The Texas Department of Transportation’s expansion of FM 1097 between I-45 and
Hwy. 75 will include a continuous left-turn lane and is 53 percent completed.


Timeline: July 11, 2016-third quarter 2017
Cost: $5.56 million
Funding source: TxDOT


FM 149 widening


TxDOT will start a project to widen FM 149 in Montgomery by the end of the year. The project will add a center left-turn lane from FM 1097 to Hwy. 105.


Timeline: fourth quarter 2017-TBA
Cost: $6.9 million
Funding source: TxDOT


FM 3083 railroad overpass


The project to widen FM 3083 east of Hwy. 75 from two to four lanes and build a bridge over the Union Pacific Corp. railroad tracks has reached 41 percent completion. The project includes construction of a continuous left-turn lane.


Timeline: May 2016-third quarter 2018
Cost: $13.1 million
Funding source: TxDOT


Lone Star Parkway improvements
Montgomery County Precinct 1 is repairing the surface of Lone Star Parkway between FM 149 and Hwy. 105. The project includes adding a left-turn lane, and removal of medians containing trees for safety purposes.


Timeline: July-late 2017 or early 2018
Cost: $1.1 million
Funding sources: Montgomery County


M.P. Clark Road extension
The city of Conroe is extending M.P. Clark Road, located between League Line Road to FM 830 . The city awarded the contract for the project to Triple B Services, and construction started April 14.


Timeline: April 14-March 2018
Cost: $6.5 million
Funding sources: city of Conroe, Willis ISD


Wilson Road widening


The city of Conroe has completed about 90 percent of design plans for the widening of Wilson Road between I-45 and Frazier Street. Crews will expand the roadway from two lanes to four lanes, make curb and gutter improvements, and add mast-arm traffic signals, sidewalks and street lights. The project will go to bid by the end of summer.


Timeline: summer 2017-TBA
Cost: $4.5 million
Funding source: City of Conroe


Transportation Updates Conroe | Montgomery August 2017