{"id":371740,"date":"2026-07-13T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371740\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:45:09","slug":"major-lane-closures-planned-at-texas-interchange-through-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371740\/","title":{"rendered":"Major lane closures planned at Texas interchange through July"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buckle up, South Texas, a slate of lane closures and reductions will impact drivers<\/a> at one of the most critical junctures of Interstate 2 in the Rio Grande Valley this week.<\/p>\n

The maintenance work will impact the\u00a0Pharr Interchange<\/a>, which connects Interstate 2 with Interstate 69 C, according to Dragaos-Pulice Joint Venture, the contractor that the Texas Department of Transportation has tasked with building and maintaining the structure. The interchange is a crucial node for Valley traffic since it serves as the convergence point for motorists traveling between McAllen and the Upper Valley and Harlingen<\/a>, Brownsville and the rest of the Lower Valley, as well as anyone traveling to Edinburg or heading out of the Valley along U.S. 281.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, July 19, all westbound lanes of the interchange will be closed in\u00a0Pharr. That also includes the two-lane Edinburg to McAllen flyover bridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraffic will be diverted to exit at Sugar Road and will be able to re-enter the main lanes at the Jackson Road entrance ramp,\u201d\u00a0Dragados-Pulice officials said<\/a> in a news release.<\/p>\n

Additionally, partial lane closures will impact traffic for the next two weeks \u2014 from Monday, July 13 through Sunday, July 26.<\/p>\n

The westbound main lanes of I-2 \u201cwill be continuously reduced to two lanes between Cage Boulevard and Jackson Road,\u201d over the course of those two weeks. Additionally, the direct connector from\u00a0Edinburg to McAllen \u201cwill also be reduced to a single lane during this time, impacting southbound I-69C traffic at the interchange,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n

Further, the westbound I-2 entrance ramp at Veterans Boulevard will also remain closed through July 26. Dragados-Pulice said drivers should “expect delays” and make plans to take alternate routes.<\/p>\n

About 20 miles east, highway maintenance will cause additional traffic delays for drivers in the Mid-Valley as\u00a0TxDOT conducts repairs on \u201cbridge approaches and departures\u201d on overpasses in Mercedes.<\/p>\n

\u201cNightly lane closures are planned on westbound Interstate 2 (I-2)<\/a> in Mercedes between Mile 1 Road and FM 1015 (International\u00a0Blvd.) from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., Monday, July 13 through Friday, July 17,\u201d TxDOT said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the overnight closures, all traffic will be diverted to the I-2 frontage road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buckle up, South Texas, a slate of lane closures and reductions will impact drivers at one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2320,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-371740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysasotx","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371740","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=371740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}