{"id":385660,"date":"2026-07-24T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385660\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:45:07","slug":"west-15th-st-bridge-receives-state-funding-for-repairs-heights-river-oaks-montrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385660\/","title":{"rendered":"West 15th St. bridge receives state funding for repairs | Heights &#8211; River Oaks &#8211; Montrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoustonTelevision\/videos\/1514528056458285\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">approved an agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation<\/a> on July 21 to move forward with improvements to the West 15th St. bridge located across a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcfcd.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County Flood Control District<\/a> ditch.<\/p>\n<p>What this means<\/p>\n<p>Located in District C, the project will replace or rehabilitate the bridge on West 15th St. between Beall St. and Dian St., as part of TxDOT\u2019s Off-System Bridge Program, which funds improvements to bridges that are not part of the state highway system.<\/p>\n<p>The project is estimated to cost about $726,000, <a href=\"https:\/\/houstontx.primegov.com\/viewer\/preview?id=0&amp;type=8&amp;uid=5bf4b164-2abd-4eeb-9113-e6ecf765b07e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per the agenda item<\/a>. The city will use a state-approved equivalent match waiver, allowing bridge improvements at two other locations at Reo St. and Packard St., to satisfy the local match requirement. Those projects will cost a total of $72,600.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing<\/p>\n<p>The city has not yet announced a construction timeline for any of the projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston City Council approved an agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation on July 21 to move forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,6563,136001,136002],"class_list":["post-385660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-the-heights","tag-transportation-update","tag-w-15th-street-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385660","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=385660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}