{"id":332728,"date":"2026-06-11T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332728\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:28:09","slug":"league-city-backs-19-6m-fm-270-widening-project-walker-street-improvements-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332728\/","title":{"rendered":"League City backs $19.6M FM 270 widening project, Walker street improvements move forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe effort to widen a portion of FM 270 in League City from FM 518 to FM 646 to four lanes has garnered city officials&#8217; support.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>League City City Council voted unanimously at its June 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/leaguecity.legistar.com\/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1409860&amp;GUID=A1954B34-1882-41AF-A464-F16C17B7D4E0&amp;Search=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meeting <\/a>to support the widening of FM 270 from FM 518 to FM 646, a project currently spearheaded by the Houston-Galveston Area Council and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txdot.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Department of Transportation<\/a>, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>The project would widen portions of the roadway from two lanes to a four-lane divided facility and includes drainage, access management, sidewalks, shared-use paths and bicycle improvements, per city documents.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing<\/p>\n<p>City Council also approved entering an agreement with the TxDOT for <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/bay-area\/transportation\/2026\/06\/03\/check-out-ongoing-upcoming-road-projects-in-league-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traffic<\/a> and drainage improvements at the intersection of Walker Street and Hwy. 96, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to cost $2.76 million and will be funded through the 2018 Galveston County bond program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The effort to widen a portion of FM 270 in League City from FM 518 to FM 646&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[71682,56,58,57,52553,52554],"class_list":["post-332728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-government-in-league-city","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-league-city-city-council","tag-league-city-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}