{"id":386721,"date":"2026-07-26T01:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386721\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T01:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:16:31","slug":"gulf-fwy-closures-reroutes-to-affect-texas-city-wye-area-for-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386721\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Fwy. closures, reroutes to affect Texas City Wye area for 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers heading to Galveston on the Gulf Freeway will experience reroutes and closures for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galvnews.com\/news\/texas-city-wye-traffic-shift-marks-major-milestone-in-interstate-45-project\/article_6b04fb23-0e95-44c4-836f-b5e012068e19.html\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">next two years <\/a>as the Texas Department of Transportation I-45 expansion project continues.<\/p>\n<p>This will lead to the permanent closure of the\u00a0westbound state Highway 146 connector to southbound I-45 at the Texas City\u00a0Wye, the city said in its post.<\/p>\n<p>For the Highway 146 detour, drivers will turn right onto the I-45 northbound frontage road, merge onto the northbound mainlanes and exit at FM 519. They will then make a U-turn at FM 519 and head south onto the southbound mainlanes, according to the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The work is part of a longtime project that also includes widening I-45 to a total of four lanes in each direction from the Galveston causeway to 61st Street on Galveston Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED 6:50 p.m. July 25: This story was revised to include the information about the southbound frontage lane detour.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers heading to Galveston on the Gulf Freeway will experience reroutes and closures for the next two years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-386721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386721","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=386721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}