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U.S. 90A at S.H. 99 Project in Sugar Land Nears Finish
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A significant part of the project is occurring at night.
By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
The Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) $47 million U.S. 90A at State Highway 99 project, which began in September 2023, features SER Construction Partners LLC building a 546-ft.-long, four-lane bridge directly beneath the S.H. 99 bridge in Sugar Land to relieve congestion in a heavily traveled area. The project’s anticipated delivery date is June 2026. This project was financed with Category 2 funding — Metropolitan and Urban Area Corridor Projects. Category 2 addresses mobility and added capacity projects on urban corridors to mitigate traffic congestion, as well as traffic safety and roadway maintenance or rehabilitation. The project includes the construction of 0.98 mi. of frontage roads to serve travelers who prefer not to use the main lanes or bridge, upgrades to drainage infrastructure and the building of retaining walls and sidewalks. The new five-span structure spans the southbound and northbound S.H. 99 frontage roads and is expected to improve traffic flow across the U.S. 90A/S.H. 99 intersection, according to TxDOT. “Eastbound or westbound through traffic along U.S. 90A will flow free, while turning traffic would be required to use the intersection to access S.H. 99,” Costas Georghiou, a principal with Houston-based engineering firm PGAL Inc., told Construction Equipment Guide. “Currently, there are significant congestion issues due to the significant turning traffic. Approximately 27,000 vehicles use the current intersection daily, with a significant portion turning to and from S.H. 99.
“The project has been in planning since before 2010, with the schematic approved in January 2013,” Georghiou said. “This intersection is very important to the local and regional traffic as, until this project is completed, significant congestion impacts both the turning and thru traffic along U.S. 90A. A direct connector further relieving turning issues is currently in the planning stages.” “A major issue was designing storage and mitigation for the depressed area and designing drilled shaft retaining walls along the UPRR to support current and future tracks,” he said. “The frontage road pavement was designed for a 30year lifespan. The proposed bridge design was chosen for economy and speed of installation.” Status Report SER Construction has completed the eastbound and westbound U.S. 90A frontage roads; all the bridge substructures; and the MSE retaining wall structures on each side of the bridge. That allows for the necessary embankment to raise the roadway approaching the bridge to the overpass elevations. see SER page 20
The new U.S. 90A overpass is being constructed beneath the existing S.H. 99 overpass, which created overhead clearance issues and constraints.
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