New (one direction?) overpass + more on Alt 90 at Grand Parkway? (Sugar Land)

[armadillo speedbump]

Recent construction work has started on Alternate 90 at the Grand Parkway interchange.  Grading work is taking place on the shelf at the level of the railroad on the north side of Alt 90, which looks like prep for a bridge and westbound through lanes to avoid the intersection.  The right 2 (IIRC) lanes have been closed off, creating a massive bottleneck.  No such work or prep is visible on the south side for a similar eastbound bridge.  It looks like through westbound traffic on Alt 90 would stay to the right and all exiting traffic to the GP would veer left.

Am I correct in assuming this will be a westbound only bridge?  That's probably sufficient, as traffic doesn't really clog up going east the way it does going west, primarily from west to north onto the GP feeder road traffic.

There's room to add a continuous right turn lane from west to north and under the railroad bridge, that could be protected by some kind of barrier (or even 2 continuous right turn lanes and maybe just 1 through northbound lane instead).  That would help immensely, as there are major backups each afternoon turning west to north.  It's a dual turn lane after stopping at the light, but invariably someone going straight west will get in the second lane and sit at the light.  Or a hothead will roll stop the light regardless of how heavy the northbound through traffic is, often causing a wreck.

No matter what they put in, it should help. 

[thisdj78]

Here's information on the project:

https://www.fortbendcountytx.gov/node/22428

[Some one]

I wonder if they plan on building an overpass at Highway 6 too.

[jgb191]

I wonder if they plan on building an overpass at Highway 6 too.

That should have been done a long time ago....as is the one at Grand Parkway.  The active railroad crossing along US-90A has been quite a road block for cross traffic (TX-6 service road) and in turn backing up the US-90A westbound lanes.  Upon completion of this project, drivers from Stafford/Sugar Land can drive virtually uninterrupted from TX-6 all the way into Richmond and Rosenburg.  Ft. Bend county has rapidly growing for decades with no signs of slowing down.