Groundbreaking begins for I-45 North Houston Highway Improvement Project

[@nightfly1]

I will be dead and gone when they finish this.

[@amergrant-ns5cr]

Me too, but I live for life not lanes.

[@713JL]

Only more $$ for the ppl approving this project

[@AnthooFitz]

more lanes = more traffic

[@joetrey215]

Of course. Houston metro is expected to add more than 3.5 million additional residents by 2040. There will be more traffic on I-45.

[@AnthooFitz]

@ jesus that sucks lol that’s so many

[@andrewdennis2806]

Once it is finished, make sure you check the weather before you drive it. You don't want to be caught in a tunnel while it is flooding.

[@David..832]

Where would there be a tunnel?

[@arthurfoyt6727]

13 BILLION and they guaranty that traffic will be better?

[@JohnGengelbach]

Im glad I left Houston for Florida, part of that route used to be part of my commute to my job there

[@jeee1074]

Big waste of money. It will be back to business as usual with traffic as soon as it finishes up.

[@lvbadboy]

13 Billion this needs to be investigated ASAP

[@dyercarpenter1468]

God help us. This will be a mess for at least 10 plus yrs. They have been working on IH 45 since it was first constructed.

[@ddhh1270]

But what about climate change/emergency/emissions yada yada....??

[@gongutierrez4748]

13 billion its alot smh,,7 billion for the project and 6 billion to pockets,,hope they dont move gallery furniture,,

[@sifuhusky3556]

Repeat the same report in 3824.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

Induced demand. The more lanes you build the more people will use it. The easier you make it to live 60 miles away from your work, the more people will do it. You need high density housing and public transportation. It’s simple reality. America is not immune to the human reality, even other industrialized country does it this way.

[@David..832]

Houston is too big and too free for that commie crap

[@joetrey215]

Average urban commute times have typically been around 30 minutes each way far back in history. Such estimates go as far back as pedestrian commuters in ancient Rome.

[@gianpaulosgarcia7228]

That day will come. When the 20 + lanes they built cant be widened no more and traffic is 20 x worse. It might take a while, but it will come.

[@tonynguyen939]

I thought the city is broke?

[@214dude2]

Freeways are owned and built by the state, not the city.

[@allen_p]

A below grade freeway next to a bayou the floods way out of its banks. Morons!!!

[@OPTexas]

Nothing improves traffic, they just build the same thing basically

[@MrBondSinatra]

Sounds like another tragic 610