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Houston, TX- Congressman Gene Green (TX-29) today, November 3, 2006, broke ground for the US-90 highway improvement project together with Congressman Ted Poe (TX-02) and Gary K. Trietsch, the District Engineer for the Houston District of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).
The much needed improvement project for US-90 will connect the existing gap between Beltway 8 and I-10/610. U.S. 90 is a major east and western thoroughfare freeway for the East Harris County region, but its true regional mobility potential cannot be reached unless the freeway links up directly with the interstate system and central Houston through I-10. By completing this roadway improvement project, the area will be further developed by increasing the mobility potential of the area.
Congressman Green and Congressman Poe worked together to secure funding for the improvement project. Congressman Green secured $1 million worth of funding in the FY2005 Transportation
Appropriations Act (HR 4818). Both Congressman Green and Poe each secured $1.8 million for the project in the 2005 Highway Bill (HR 3, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century-A Legacy for Users).
The Texas Transportation Commission has awarded a contract to add the New Crosby Freeway to the IH 10-East/IH 610- East Loop interchange, providing motorists with a seamless transfer onto the present freeway system from Houston’s newest freeway. Without rebuilding the IH 10 and IH 610 interchanges east of Houston, this long awaited project will insert new US 90 direct connectors into the present interchange. This project builds a six-lane freeway from IH 10-East to Mercury Drive. When completed, motorists will have direct access to the new six-lane US 90-Crosby Freeway. The new Crosby Freeway will provide more direct access to northeast Harris County and the communities between Lake Houston and IH 10-East Freeway, including many of Houston’s newest suburbs
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