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