Timeline: May-August
Cost: $233,000
Funding source: city of Oak Ridge North
Work on Woodson Road in Oak Ridge North this summer planned to make turning safer
Work on the Woodson Road project will begin in May. (Courtesy Fotolia)
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Intersection improvements along Woodson Road in Oak Ridge North will begin this spring following the close of bidding in early April. The project will expand the turning space available at the Woodson intersections at I-45 and Blueberry Hill Drive as well as creating a new center turn lane set back from the frontage road, according to the city.
Timeline: May-August
Cost: $233,000
Funding source: city of Oak Ridge North
Timeline: May-August
Cost: $233,000
Funding source: city of Oak Ridge North
By Vanessa Holt
A resident of the Houston area since 2011, Vanessa began working in community journalism in her home state of New Jersey in 1996. She joined Community Impact Newspaper in 2016 as a reporter for the Spring/Klein edition and became editor of that paper in March 2017 and editor of The Woodlands edition in January 2019.
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