{"id":402713,"date":"2026-08-10T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402713\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:10:14","slug":"st-emanuel-street-to-be-closed-between-polk-and-clay-for-12-weeks-due-to-storm-sewer-work-txdot-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402713\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Emanuel Street to be closed between Polk and Clay for 12 weeks due to storm sewer work, TxDOT says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">The closure will be between Polk and Clay streets through Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 10, 2026 4:03PM<\/p>\n<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A long-term closure east of downtown begins this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">TxDOT officials said starting on Monday, there will be a 12-week closure of St. Emanuel Street between Clay and Polk streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ABC13 captured video of crews doing work on the planned closure on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19657015_081026-ktkr-emanuel-closure-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">TxDOT said the closure will last until Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said storm sewer boxes will be installed beneath the street as part of the I-45 expansion project, which aims to widen the freeway from downtown to Beltway 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">READ MORE: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/txdot-offering-peek-proposed-future-expansion-45-gulf-freeway\/17931791\/\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TxDOT gives preview into the proposed future expansion of Gulf Freeway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The closure will be between Polk and Clay streets through Oct. 31. Monday, August 10, 2026 4:03PM Watch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[141092,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-402713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-141092","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402713","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=402713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}