TxDOT Breaks Ground on the I-35 Capital Express Central Rebuild
Interstate 35 at Cesar Chavez Street, downtown Austin, TX 78701, United StatesTexas Department of Transportation
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCETxDOT's[1] own newsroom item, dated Oct. 31, 2024, announces that it "breaks ground on transformational I-35 Capital Express Central project".
TxDOT started the rebuild of eight miles of I-35 through central Austin, which lowers the mainlanes, removes the 1970s upper decks and adds two non-tolled high-occupancy-vehicle managed lanes in each direction from US 290 East to SH 71/Ben White Boulevard. First work was the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge; the corridor is not finished until 2033.
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