An effort to expand McCaleb Road is set to become the latest transportation improvement effort made by Montgomery County Precinct No. 2 to expand the thoroughfare. The thoroughfare is known by different names, but projects spanning from the Harris County line south of The Woodlands to Hwy. 105 in the Lake Conroe area all connect to expand the entire corridor from two to four lanes. Projects like the expansion of Sendera Ranch Road are ongoing, while segments like the expansion of FM 2978 will break ground in November. “There is a plan to make that corridor a north-south route that can be used as an evacuation route if we have a hurricane or any kind of disaster,” Precinct 2 Commissioner Charlie Riley said. “That is why we are trying to make this four-lane road—so we can get people to Hwy. 105.” The McCaleb Road project will expand the roadway between FM 2054 and Hwy. 105. Estimated to cost between $4 million and $5 million, the project will expand the roadway from two to four lanes and include a continuous turn lane, Riley said. The project is expected to begin in January and take about a year to complete. The precinct is also finalizing a design to build an additional overpass over FM 2854 that will run parallel to the existing overpass. The new two-lane overpass would be used as the northbound lanes over the BNSF Railway tracks while the existing overpass will be converted into the corridor’s southbound lanes. “We have projects going on in almost every area of Precinct 2 to help mobility,” Riley said. “Most of our major bond projects that we told people that we were going to do, we are doing.”