{"id":461465,"date":"2026-10-09T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461465\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:30:09","slug":"major-i-10-hov-connection-to-close-for-two-years-starting-friday-evening-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461465\/","title":{"rendered":"Major I-10 HOV connection to close for two years starting Friday evening \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/833846811_1825696065521620_1384235129719968585_n-Edited.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-564046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/833846811_1825696065521620_1384235129719968585_n-Edited.jpeg\" alt=\"Interstate 10 construction notice from TxDOT.\" width=\"1445\" height=\"921\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Provided\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Interstate 10 construction notice from TxDOT.<\/p>\n<p>Travel between Katy and downtown Houston is about to be more congested than usual.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has announced that the Katy Freeway-Downtown HOV connector will close at 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9, while crews continue work on the I-10 White Oak Bayou flood-mitigation project. The I-10 eastbound HOV connector at Studemont Street is expected to reopen in fall 2027, while the westbound connector at Franklin Street isn&#8217;t expected to reopen until summer 2028.<\/p>\n<p>TxDOT recommends planning for an additional 15 to 30 minutes of travel time while traffic patterns adjust in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provided\/Facebook Interstate 10 construction notice from TxDOT. Travel between Katy and downtown Houston is about to be more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,14031,223,272,37589],"class_list":["post-461465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-katy-freeway","tag-news","tag-traffic","tag-txdot-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461465","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=461465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}