TxDOT 2024 UTP

[MaxConcrete]

It is available
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/get-involved/tpp/utp/070723-draft-2024utp.pdf

Most new funding is incremental increases (often large) on previously authorized projects to cover inflation.

Highlights are for new funding only. This list is not comprehensive - it is just some highlights.

Houston
Inner Katy Managed Lanes: $949 million. This is the biggest news in the UTP. Total project cost is $1.137 billion, so only $154 million is unfunded. It looks like construction is slated to start in 2027 and 2028. The previously funded and separate work just west of I-45 is $290 million.

NHHIP: $465 million, entirely for cost increases.
Only previously authorized sections received funding. The interchange at I-45 and Loop 610 remains unfunded. The cost of the I-45/I-10 interchange is now $1.294 billion.

Loop 610 south: $102 million for 2 miles west of I-45 (Gulf Freeway). This is news because TxDOT has just started environmental process for the section from I-45 to SH 288, and they are already funding a subsection.

I-10 San Jacinto bridge: $283 million. Project is now fully funded (total cost $556 million)

I-10 Katy to Brookshire: $234 million new funding

SH 99 Grand Parkway: no new funding, but page 105 summarizes the remaining work, including a map. Cost for remaining work excluding section A is $4.2 billion.  Section A is listed at TBD.

Austin
I-35: $2.417 billion in new funding. It looks like the project is now fully funded.

SH 71 between Austin and Bastrop: $146 million for freeway upgrades

Loop 360: $90 million for work at Spicewood Springs and Lakewood

Dallas
I-30 Canyon: $524 million. The $593 million project is now fully funded

US 380 Collin County: $393 million new funding

SH 399: $154 million new funding. Total project cost is  $1.021 billion

Midland-Odessa
I-20: $682 million new funding

South Texas
I-69E in Kenedy County: $292 million for freeway upgrades

Wharton
I-69: $525 million for freeway upgrades

[thisdj78]

It is available
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/get-involved/tpp/utp/070723-draft-2024utp.pdf


SH 71 between Austin and Bastrop: $146 million for freeway upgrades

I'm curious what segment this is, considering work is already underway on the remaining stop lights between Toll 130 and Bastrop. Looks like about 5 miles of work based on the math you've shared.

[MaxConcrete]

It is available
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/get-involved/tpp/utp/070723-draft-2024utp.pdf


SH 71 between Austin and Bastrop: $146 million for freeway upgrades

I'm curious what segment this is, considering work is already underway on the remaining stop lights between Toll 130 and Bastrop. Looks like about 5 miles of work based on the math you've shared.

See page 60, projects 1a, 1b, 1c and 6.  https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/get-involved/tpp/utp/070723-draft-2024utp.pdf

1a, 1b: Interchange at Tucker Hill Ln- Cedar Creek (Travis County)
1b: Interchange at Pope Bend Rd - Cedar Creek (Bastrop County)
6: Interchange at FM 1209 - Cedar Creek

[thisdj78]

It is available
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/get-involved/tpp/utp/070723-draft-2024utp.pdf


SH 71 between Austin and Bastrop: $146 million for freeway upgrades

I'm curious what segment this is, considering work is already underway on the remaining stop lights between Toll 130 and Bastrop. Looks like about 5 miles of work based on the math you've shared.

See page 60, projects 1a, 1b, 1c and 6.  https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/get-involved/tpp/utp/070723-draft-2024utp.pdf

1a, 1b: Interchange at Tucker Hill Ln- Cedar Creek (Travis County)
1b: Interchange at Pope Bend Rd - Cedar Creek (Bastrop County)
6: Interchange at FM 1209 - Cedar Creek

Nice, so those are the last remaining stop lights. Hopefully long term plans call for continuous frontage roads at some point.

[Road Hog]

Still sifting through the UTP and there are more tasty nuggets in it than my dog cleaning out my cat's litter box. Gonna take me a while to process it. Thank you Biden!

[-- US 175 --]

Amarillo district:
Potter County-- US 87 widening, between Hartley and Dumas (2 separate projects)
Randall County--
I-27 widening, between the US 60/US 87 interchange and Loop 335;
I-27 widening, at the US 60/US 87 interchange;
I-27/Loop 335 interchange;
Loop 335 extension work between FM 2590-Soncy Rd. and FM 2186;
Loop 335 extension at FM 2186;
Loop 335 extension between FM 2186 and north of Arden Rd. exit;
FM 2590, between Loop 335 in Amarillo and US 60 in Canyon, safety improvements (this corridor is starting to get busier as an I-27 alternative, and as more residential projects pop up in the area)

Tyler district:
(There are several projects such as work on TX 31 between Tyler and Kilgore, I-20 between Tyler and Longview, US 271 between I-20 and Gladewater, Loop 485 in Gladewater, TX 42 between Kilgore and White Oak, plus several assorted FM projects in Smith, Gregg, and Wood counties.... but of course, the one that would interest me the most?)
Cherokee County-- US 175 widening, from just east of the Neches River to FM 347 in Jacksonville

This project will widen US 175 to 4 lanes divided until just before the city limits of Jacksonville, then become 4 lanes undivided with a center left-turn lane the rest of the way into town.  Work has been underway to rearrange utilities and clear trees and structures along the path in advance of the project.  When completed, this will be, at last, the final widening project on US 175.  The highway will be completely 4-laned, except for between I-45 and the I-20/I-635 interchange, where it is 6-lane.  Barring any delays, the project will be done in advance of the 100th anniversary of the commissioning of US 175 in 2032.

[Bobby5280]

It's about damned time they finally widen US-87 between Dumas and Hartley. I don't know why it has taken TX DOT so long to address that segment, given it's still a part of the Ports to Plains Corridor. The 4-lane upgrade of US-87 from Dalhart to Texline was finished more than 10 years ago. The leg from Hartley to Dalhart was built in the early 2000's.

[armadillo speedbump]

Probably because traffic from DFW splits between 4 options from Amarillo and Hartley that are within a minute of each other for total travel time.  Besides 87 all the way, there's 87 to 354 to 73 back to 87 (bypassing Ding Dong Daddy Dumas), 87 to 354 to 385, or staying on I-40 to 335 west to 1061 to 385.  I've always used the last 2 (Channing) options.

Though it will be safer to induce more through traffic onto an entirely 4-lane all 87 route, so good to see this upgrade.  I'll probably switch to that when finished.  For sure if they ever build a Dumas bypass.

[Bobby5280]

When I drive from Lawton to Colorado Springs I almost always take US-87 from Dumas to Hartley as part of the larger "leg" of the road trip from Amarillo to Raton. I don't bypass Dumas because that's where I usually top off my fuel tank for the rest of the drive. The gasoline prices are much cheaper in Dumas than farther up the road in Dalhart and beyond.

So far it seems like they've only had a couple public meetings about a possible Dumas bypass. Some of the locals don't like the idea out of fear for losing business. But truck traffic on US-287 is pounding the hell out of local streets. I think the locals there would be more on board with the bypass idea if there were more than just whispers about the possibility of extending I-27 farther North into Colorado. IMHO, US-287 needs to at least be upgraded into a divided 4 lane highway from Stratford up thru Boise City and thru that caprock transition area on the OK/CO border. That stretch of 2-lane highway on the OK/CO border is pretty dangerous. I vastly prefer driving to Raton instead.