{"id":237812,"date":"2025-09-19T02:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/237812\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T02:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:07:22","slug":"friendswood-approves-nearly-4m-in-road-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/237812\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendswood approves nearly $4M in road projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFriendswood <a href=\"https:\/\/friendswoodtx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/1934\/files\/attachment\/8601\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City Council <\/a>moved forward with a couple of transportation projects with the help of grants and a funding agreement from the Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The two projects total about $3.8 million, according to city documents, and include intersection work along two separate roads in town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The gist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pair of projects was approved at <a href=\"https:\/\/friendswoodtx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/1934\/files\/attachment\/8601\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City Council\u2019s<\/a> Sept. 8 meeting. The first project, which is estimated at $3.25 million, will involve traffic signal improvements at four intersections along Sunset Drive, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>Intersections that will have existing signals rehabilitated include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>West Castlewood Avenue<\/li>\n<li>Falling Leaf Drive<\/li>\n<li>Cowards Creek Drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new traffic signal will also be installed at the Briarmeadow Avenue intersection, documents show.<\/p>\n<p>The second, totaling an estimated $550,000, will include intersection improvements at FM 518 and FM 528, according to city documents. Specifically, the project will include installing dedicated right-turn lanes for traffic on the east and west sides of FM 528 at the intersection of FM 518.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through its Transportation Policy Council, the <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/heights-river-oaks-montrose\/transportation\/2025\/08\/04\/h-gac-seeks-public-input-on-2050-regional-transportation-plan-backed-by-140b-funding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston-Galveston Area Council<\/a> has provided the city with a surface transportation block grant, which the city will match to cover the cost of the projects.<\/p>\n<p>However, no city funds will be used for the match, according to city documents. Instead, the city will use transportation development credits, courtesy of TxDOT.<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not specify the breakdown of how much the grant will be and how much in transportation development credits will be needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The timeline for each of these projects will depend \u201con several factors,\u201d Director of Communications Glenda Faulkner said in a Sept. 18 email.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are looking to bid out the projects within the next year, and construction could start potentially in early 2027, Faulkner said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friendswood City Council moved forward with a couple of transportation projects with the help of grants and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":237813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5310,43028,127507,4345,43715,127506,358,3187,8320],"class_list":{"0":"post-237812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-city-council","9":"tag-friendswood","10":"tag-hgac","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-road-work","13":"tag-sunset-drive","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-txdot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115228524147815719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}