Wear: Free roads mean late
Wear: For roads, free can also mean late
By Ben Wear
Austin American Statesman
November 18, 2012
The late evening sight has become a familiar one for Southwest Austin residents over the past couple of years: blinking red and blue lights on police cars at the U.S. 290/MoPac Boulevard interchange, blocking off road sections because of work on the new flyover bridges overhead.
The flyover project, if you go back to the original time estimates by the Texas Department of Transportation, was supposed to be done by December 2011.
Now, TxDOT officials tell me, the seemingly endless $8.4 million project should be done early next month when the remaining incomplete flyover, the one connecting westbound U.S. 290 to southbound MoPac (Loop 1) will finally open.