Massive development along the toll way prompts Texas transportation officials to begin plans to widen Grand Parkway less than 10 years after it opened.
are parameters for setting toll rates and when more lanes are required,
“What is triggering the widening is the level of service out there,” said Grady Mapes, director of comprehensive development agreements for TxDOT in the Houston area. “If we see the growth, if it accelerates, and that level of service drops we could see those move ahead,” he said. "Developers are confident that if they get too much congestion TxDOT will build them out of it," critic David Crossley, then president of Houston Tomorrow, a local nonprofit that argues against suburban sprawl and for more in-city investment, said in 2014.
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