The current plan to amend lane assignments on the I-45 northbound feeder roads is designed to alleviate traffic buildup along the Woodlands Parkway overpass.
Plans could be on hold to alter the lane assignments at the Woodlands Parkway/Robinson Road and I-45 overpass after the Oak Ridge North city council voted to ask the Texas Department of Transportation to suspend the project at its May 14 meeting.
Oak Ridge is hoping the proposal will be scrapped after potential businesses looking to possibly operate in the southeast corner of the intersection expressed concern to the city that they could not access the I-45 southbound lanes under the planned design, said City Engineer Ed Shackelford.
Mobility planners in Oak Ridge, The Woodlands and TxDOT recently joined to create a lane design to ease congestion for traffic traveling west over the overpass and onto the I-45 northbound feeder lanes. The plan included assigning a designated lane to traffic traveling west along the overpass and onto I-45, a lane that currently is assigned to northbound traffic along the feeder road. Vehicles currently must yield to oncoming traffic, which creates long backups that extend onto the overpass.
