Heads up, San Antonio drivers: Some more traffic headaches are on the way. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) will shut down a popular stretch of a Northside interstate in just a few hours.<\/p>\n
Interstate 10’s eastbound (EB) and westbound (WB) main lanes at the Loop 1604 interchange will be closed beginning at 9 p.m. and until 5 a.m. beginning on Friday, July 31. Weather permitting, the shutdowns will end on\u00a0Monday, August 3, TxDOT wrote in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All flyover ramps at the interchange will remain open. Still, it could create some stalls near Six Flags Fiesta Texas, the Rim shopping center and UT San Antonio. It won’t help that the eastbound and westbound Loop 1604 frontage roads at the interchange will also be blocked during the same closure period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, the agency says it’s necessary so that its crews can work on the bridge, a task that is part of the Loop 1604 North Expansion Project. The $1.4 billion initiative involves improvements to 23 miles of road to increase mobility, reduce congestion and enhance safety on what TxDOT has labeled as “one of the most congested corridors” in the state. The plan, in its entirety,\u00a0has an estimated completion year<\/a> of 2028.<\/p>\n Detour: Drivers on the\u00a0EB I-10 main lanes will be forced to take Exit 555 to the EB I-10 frontage road, TxDOT says. They will continue on the\u00a0frontage road through the Loop 1604 interchange and will be able to re-enter the\u00a0EB I-10 main lanes by taking the first available entrance ramp.<\/p>\n Trucks and oversized vehicles must exit the main lanes via the flyover ramp to WB Loop 1604. Drivers should take the\u00a0Kyle Seale Parkway exit\u00a0to the\u00a0WB Loop 1604 frontage road, then\u00a0use the U-turn at Kyle Seale Parkway to enter the EB Loop 1604 frontage road. Operators must\u00a0then follow the posted signage to the flyover ramp and then to the entrance of the EB I-10 main lanes.<\/p>\n Detour: Commuters on the\u00a0WB I-10 main lanes will take Exit 556B to the WB I-10 frontage road, according to TxDOT’s press release. They will continue on the frontage road through the Loop 1604 interchange and can access the WB I-10 main lanes after taking\u00a0the first available entrance ramp.<\/p>\n Trucks and oversized vehicles must exit the main lanes via the flyover ramp to EB Loop 1604. Drivers should take the NW Military Highway exit to the EB Loop 1604 frontage road, then use the U-turn at NW Military Highway to enter the\u00a0 WB Loop 1604 frontage road. Operators must then follow the posted signage to the flyover ramp and then to the entrance of the WB I-10 \u00a0main lanes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heads up, San Antonio drivers: Some more traffic headaches are on the way. The Texas Department of Transportation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[820,59494,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-395626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysatranspo","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\/395626","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=395626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}