Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Lane Closure Affects Sweetwater Boulevard

(Source: Fort Bend Now)
The Texas Department of Transportation will close lanes and change traffic patterns on Sweetwater and First Colony boulevards at U.S. 59, according to information from the City of Sugar Land.
For about the next month, beginning Friday, motorists driving north on Sweetwater will be shifted to what is now some of the southbound lanes. “The traveling lanes will be reduced to one through lane and a designated left-turn lane,” the city said in a statement. Right turns still will be allowed, for motorists entering the northbound U.S. 59 frontage road.
Motorists driving south on First Colony will be shifted to the outside lane only, the city said. “The traveling lanes will be reduced to one through lane and a designated right-turn lane. Left turns will be permissible to travel northbound on the U.S. 59 frontage road.”
The city said the lane closures are necessary for the completion of the frontage roads on both sides of U.S. 59.