By Edmond Ortiz
The Fiesta-edition of Transit Tracker highlights an upcoming Broadway Street project coming to Alamo Heights, and a milestone in a lengthy – and beleaguered – project on South Alamo Street in downtown.
Elsewhere, more long-term road closures are starting as part of the Loop 1604 project, and Shavano Park continues to make progress with its citywide street improvement efforts.
Alamo Heights
Alamo Heights City Council voted April 13 to award a $1.48 million contract to E-Z Bel Construction to upgrade the Broadway Street/Ogden Lane intersection.
City officials said the project will produce traffic, pedestrian and plaza improvements to the intersection, which lies in front of Cambridge Elementary School.
Specifically, the contractor will realign the intersection, build wider sidewalk zones, provide patio and plaza spaces, landscaped planting zones, and pedestrian-focused, mid-block crossings.
Local leaders said much if not all of the construction work will be finished before the start of the 2026-2027 school year at Cambridge Elementary.
City staff added that the improvements should make the intersection more alluring to local residents, especially pedestrians and cyclists, an area that includes a busy commercial building housing Merit Coffee and Trek Bicycle.
Downtown
City officials gathered April 15 to celebrate the full reopening of South Alamo Street between Cesar Chavez Boulevard and Market Street.
Neighborhood residents, workers, commuters and business owners have had to endure closures of parts or all of the key north-south road since the nearly $59 million street reconstruction project began in late 2022.
City representatives said it was important to fully reopen South Alamo in time for the beginning of Fiesta.
Freeway construction
The ongoing Loop 1604 expansion project is resulting in a new round of long-term closures. The Texas Department of Transportation will be closing the westbound exit ramp to Bulverde Road, beginning April 16. The closure will last through June.
Work crews will close the Interstate 10 eastbound entrance ramp after Camp Bullis Road from April 20 through June.
Additionally, the following spots will undergo closures from 9 p.m. April 17 through 5 a.m. April 20 as part of the Loo 1604 project:
*Westbound Loop 1604 main lanes at the I-10 interchange
*Eastbound Loop 1604 frontage road after the I-10 interchange
*Westbound I-10 to eastbound Loop 1604 flyover ramp
*La Cantera Parkway at the I-10 interchange
*Eastbound to westbound I-10 U-turn at La Cantera Parkway
As part of the Interstate 35 expansion project, contractors will close all lanes of the northbound I-35 frontage road from Forum Parkway to Olympia Parkway from 9 p.m. April 17 through 5 a.m. April 20.
During this weekend closure, the off ramp from northbound I-35 to Olympia Parkway will be closed. The same goes for Forum Access at the intersection of the northbound I-35 frontage road. Affected traffic will be redirected to Evans Road.
Shavano Park
According to local officials, all major road reconstruction in the suburb’s Shavano Creek neighborhood is complete, and that a few small areas of concrete curb repairs and manhole concrete collars are left to be completed in coming weeks.
Shavano Park officials added that they will know by this summer whether a pavement application meant to extend the life of Shavano Creek neighborhood streets can be funded with monies leftover from the city’s 2022 bond.
