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Construction is scheduled to start early next year on an I-35 expansion project stretching from Ben White Boulevard almost to the Hays County line.
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Communities seeking to mitigate the effects of the I-35 widening find most of the city's resources are targeted at downtown Austin.
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Traffic fatalities in Austin are on track to surpass 2021's record-breaking death toll.
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An internal memo advises TxDOT's district engineers to pay more, substitute materials or delay projects when necessary.
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A new push for improvements following a traffic jam at the Rolling Stones concert is moving ahead, but a major road leading to COTA isn't scheduled to be widened until the next decade.
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According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person in Texas dies every eight hours and 31 minutes in a DUI-alcohol related traffic crash. They say spring break can be an especially dangerous and deadly time on Texas roadways.
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The state agency shifted boundaries for one of two I-35 expansion options after realizing the 70-unit Aria Grand apartment complex was in the path of highway widening plans.
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The northbound and southbound frontage roads would run on the same side of the highway from about Cesar Chavez Street to Dean Keeton Street as part of TxDOT's latest revisions to the $4.9 billion highway widening.
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Longer stretches of the highway would be lowered, downtown frontage roads could shift entirely to the west side and pedestrian crossings would increase under a proposal TxDOT developed in collaboration with the city.
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The defect is not dangerous, TxDOT says. But some commuters don't like their vehicles bouncing 50 feet above the highway.