North Side residents should prepare for a doozy of a highway closure this weekend, as the Texas Department of Transportation plans to close stretches of both Interstate 10 and Loop 1604 during nighttime hours.
TxDOT says it will close all lanes of I-10 and the eastbound lanes of Loop 1604 where the highways meet near the Rim from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
During those hours, the state transportation agency will also close the frontage roads for Loop 1604 going both ways. The frontage roads for I-10 will remain open.
Detours will be available.
The closures are being made as part of TxDOT’s $1.4 billion Loop 1604 North Expansion Project, which will expand the highway from four to 10 lanes across a long stretch of the North Side. The project broke ground in 2021 after being mired for years in funding and environmental regulatory problems. TxDOT expects to complete it in 2028.
The project includes the construction of a $463 million new interchange linking Loop 1604 and I-10, replacing the cloverleaf design dating to the 1980s, which has come under strain as San Antonio’s North and West sides have boomed in population.