Lots going on already!

Huge yard/lot at Harvey is in place.

Concrete plant near 2818 looks set up and ready to go.

Fencing is up for a large yard/lot at Rock Prairie.

Utility work at Fitch started today and goes through 12/12/25.

Maybe subject for a separate thread, KBTX announced a meeting about the Hwy 30 Corridor Tuesday night 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Wolf Pen Creek Senior Center..... It is billed as a come & go information meeting.....

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Utility work at Fitch started today and goes through 12/12/25.

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I saw they had a dozen bucket trucks and a couple cranes out there yesterday! How is this related to the Big 6? It looks like they were just adding electrical capacity to those lines? But I have no idea what I am looking at.

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Maybe subject for a separate thread, KBTX announced a meeting about the Hwy 30 Corridor Tuesday night 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Wolf Pen Creek Senior Center..... It is billed as a come & go information meeting.....

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Is there a summary of this project posted anywhere?

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AggiePhil said:

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Utility work at Fitch started today and goes through 12/12/25.

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I saw they had a dozen bucket trucks and a couple cranes out there yesterday! How is this related to the Big 6? It looks like they were just adding electrical capacity to those lines? But I have no idea what I am looking at.

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I'm not sure, but it's big and it's on 6! lol

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Maybe subject for a separate thread, KBTX announced a meeting about the Hwy 30 Corridor Tuesday night 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Wolf Pen Creek Senior Center..... It is billed as a come & go information meeting.....

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Is there a summary of this project posted anywhere?

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https://www.txdot.gov/thebig6/project-overview.html

At least 7

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Fitch & 6 are a mess with that lane closed. Just avoid it if at all possible.

East part of Fitch that is.

I'm just impressed the OP thinks this will take 5 years. I'm betting 10.

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I'm betting we'll all be dead before it's finished…

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I better not be dead in 10 years! We may actually have flying cars by then though...

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Not enough. 4 lanes each way from 2818 north to 40 south. Three lanes to OSR and to 105. That should have been the plan.

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I admit that was my first thought, as well. But seeing 2,200 more cars an hour going both directions, I'll have to wait and see before passing judgement.

Not that anybody cares one way or another about my judgement.

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What he said. Capacity of the road itself shouldn't be an issue with three thru lanes. Upgrading (and adding, in some cases) auxiliary lanes between on and off ramps will help tremendously with the bottlenecking.

Wrong. Don't make statements of fact when you don't know what you're talking about. Projects are designed for at least 20 years beyond completetion of construction and include growth during that time time frame.

Tailgate88 said:

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AggiePhil said:

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Utility work at Fitch started today and goes through 12/12/25.

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I saw they had a dozen bucket trucks and a couple cranes out there yesterday! How is this related to the Big 6? It looks like they were just adding electrical capacity to those lines? But I have no idea what I am looking at.

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BTU is upgrading those lines. Not related to the TxDOT work

Staging area at Fitch appears to be in place.

Big 6 will go quickly if the contractors put all of there workers on it for the duration. We all know that they will not. Thus the pessimism in the proposed finish date.

Nope. Ramps, not overpasses, were redone to address cars backing up on to the mainlanes from the frontage road intersections. I almost had a wreck at one of those spots because of those backups.

I for one am glad those ramp improvements were done when they were instead of waiting to do them until they could afford a $600 million total rebuild 15 years later. Looks like most of those ramps aren't getting touched in this project.

So, you'll need a better example to use to justify building miles of unnecessary extra lanes. For argument sake let's say they want to do what your suggesting and future proof the road for 50 years - how long would it delay the project to find the extra money? What other projects get delayed elsewhere and for how long to cover that cost? Which is a bigger need the delayed project needed now or the fourth lane on hwy 6 that isn't needed for at least 20 years?

Oddly enough for the first time in history (aside from the Black Death and Spanish Flu) we are in a phase of population decline in the developed world. I don't see that changing with a large portion of the younger generation not having kids or having one. If we don't have a large increase in legal immigration we, as a county, are looking at population decline over the next 100 years. Thus three lanes is likely to be adequate barring some amazing baby boom in a coming generation.

So what you're saying is improvements are planned for 20 years of need but expect additional multi year projects to occur in the interim that will disrupt traffic flow for a year or two? Just like we had a year or two of traffic impediments when they redid the overpasses 10 years or so ago. Again, we are back to impeding traffic along Hwy 6 every 10 years or so.

I'm fiscally conservative in most cases but infrastructure isn't one of them. Over plan and develop roads, bridges, police and fire and be conservative on everything else. I don't see growth slowing for this area unless A&M decides to shrink. If A&M is planning on reaching 100K students and RELIS and other industries continue to migrate here, let's get ahead of the incoming population curve. In 15 years when 6 lane Hwy 6 is becoming congested like its become the last 4 or 5 we'll be thankful. It's a mute point at this time for this project but my hope is my way of thinking accepted for future projects.

Bryan/College Station is much like Austin in the 80's. We're approaching a half million in population if you take into account Brazos and the immediate surrounding counties. Once population hits a half million it tends to explode exponentially not the other direction. If the interstate does get developed through our area in the next 20 to 30 years, Katie bar the door, this place will grow even faster.

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Oddly enough for the first time in history (aside from the Black Death and Spanish Flu) we are in a phase of population decline in the developed world. I don't see that changing with a large portion of the younger generation not having kids or having one. If we don't have a large increase in legal immigration we, as a county, are looking at population decline over the next 100 years. Thus three lanes is likely to be adequate barring some amazing baby boom in a coming generation.

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If trends continue, though, urban populations will rise as our population becomes more concentrated. At least until the inevitable economic collapse. Then we'll all be sharecroppers again, growing what we need to survive, like my grandparents and great-grandparents were.

KidDoc said:

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Oddly enough for the first time in history (aside from the Black Death and Spanish Flu) we are in a phase of population decline in the developed world. I don't see that changing with a large portion of the younger generation not having kids or having one. If we don't have a large increase in legal immigration we, as a county, are looking at population decline over the next 100 years. Thus three lanes is likely to be adequate barring some amazing baby boom in a coming generation.

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Yeah but this is Aggieland.

They are planning on connecting Hwy 36 from Freeport to Hwy 6 in Hempstead. They are calling it Hwy 36A

There is work underway to widen and deepen Freeport to handle larger ships.

https://www.txdot.gov/projects/projects-studies/houston/36a/36a-overview/36a-north.html