Friendswood Lakes Boulevard opens as 'one piece of a multiphase project'

The project involved designing a four-lane road that connects Friendswood Lakes Boulevard to West Boulevard and Stoney Lake Drive, and it also installed 5,100 feet of pavement along with 1,400 feet of new storm sewer line, Foreman said.

The funding for the project came from both Galveston County and Friendswood, City Manager Morad Kabiri said.

“The city of Friendswood made a proposal to Galveston County that if they would give another $1 million worth of matching dollars that the city of Friendswood would put $1 million ourselves to bring the total funding to $5.5 million, so Galveston County put up $4.5 million [and the] city of Friendswood put in $1 million in this project,” Kabiri said.

Multiple alternative routes for travel are desperately needed to alleviate traffic along FM 518, which also connects League City to Pearland through Friendswood, he added.

“Ultimately, though, this project is one piece of a multiphase project ... so what we just completed was monumental but the next phase from [FM] 528 to [FM] 2351 is also needed,” Kabiri said. “We do not have a funding source just yet for that and that’ll be another long-term endeavor on the part of the city.”