The Interstate 35 Capital Express Central Project will add 32 miles of lanes between Ben White Boulevard and U.S. 290 East. Construction could last a decade.
J. Bruce Bugg Jr., chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, speaks at the I-35 Capital Express Central groundbreaking event hosted by the Texas Department of Transportation.officially kicked off Wednesday as the Texas Department of Transportation held a groundbreaking ceremony on top of a six-story parking garage at UT Austin's baseball stadium.
The highway will be lowered up to 40-feet below ground level from Holly Street to Airport Boulevard. The City of Austin and UT Austin couldwith giant decks, effectively tunneling the interstate for blocks at time. The city's construction costs are estimated above $800 million, not including tens of millions of dollars in annual maintenance expenses.
"We've got to prepare Texas not only for today, but also for tomorrow," Bugg told a crowd of government transportation officials seated on rows of folding white chairs."The highways, the bridges, our road structure, it all has to keep up with our population growth." The multibillion dollar expansion is being subdivided into several smaller chunks. The first piece will be reconstructing the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge over I-35. Signs have already gone up indicating construction has started.
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