Learn the latest on four transportation projects happening across New Braunfels.
Upcoming projects
Common Street widening
Project: adding lanes, providing a continuous pedestrian facility, converting existing roadside ditches into storm sewers and completing utility upgrades between Loop 337 and FM 306
Update: The project is in the design phase.
- Timeline: Construction is expected to begin in 2028, with a completion date in 2030, according to city documents.
- Cost: $24.78 million
- Funding source: 2023 bond (Proposition A)
Project: widening a two-lane road to a four-lane road, adding a turn lane and new traffic signal at FM 1101 and improving drainage infrastructure between FM 1101 and I-35
Update: The project is currently in the design phase.
- Timeline: Construction is expected to begin in early 2027, with an estimated completion date in mid-2029.
- Cost: $15.93 million
- Funding source: 2023 bond (Proposition A)
Citywide intersections
Project: new traffic lights at several intersections across the city, including San Antonio Street and Market Avenue; Walnut Avenue and Gardenia Drive; and Loop 337 and Borchers Boulevard
Update: The project is under construction.
- Timeline: Construction began in 2025 and is estimated to be completed in 2026.
- Cost: $5.21 million
- Funding source: 2023 bond (Proposition A)
Project: improve the existing two-lane road with turn lanes and traffic signal improvements at major intersections, and improve drainage infrastructure and railroad crossing between Goodwin Lane and FM 1102
Update: Construction is anticipated to begin in 2028, according to an email from the city.
- Timeline: Construction is anticipated to begin in summer 2028, according to an email from the city.
- Cost: $11.8 million
- Funding source: 2023 bond (Proposition A)
The Conrads Lane is different from the Goodwin/Conrads Lane project. The Goodwin Conrads Lane project is funded through the city's 2019 bond and Roadway Impact Fees, according to an email from the city.
