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Northpark Drive Expansion Update: Life in the Slow Lane

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:30:19 +0000

2/9/25 – Northpark Drive expansion has become a bewildering maze of lane switches and traffic barriers where SUVs tango daily with excavators and dump trucks. All of that makes for life in the slow lane … which can actually be a good thing given the potential for accidents. Since my last construction update, contractors have […]

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Northpark Drive Expansion Project Overcoming Hurdles

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:23:37 +0000

8/8/24 – In the last year, the Northpark Drive expansion project hit several snags. But one by one, project partners seem to be overcoming the hurdles. Contractors discovered utility poles and gas lines in their way. Permits to bore under the railroad and bridge over it took longer than expected. Delays forced changes in plans […]

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First Concrete Poured for Northpark Drive Expansion

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 18:42:22 +0000

Earlier this week, contractors poured the first concrete for Northpark Drive expansion. It was for the first of several new outbound lanes at US59. Crews are doing both surface and subgrade work, moving back east towards Chick-Fil-A. Stormwater Retention Basin Progress Elsewhere along Northpark, excavation work continued on the south pond. The twin ponds will […]

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City Council Approves Northpark Expansion Agreement with Union Pacific

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 01:37:15 +0000

Last Wednesday, 11/1/23, Houston City Council approved an agreement with the Union Pacific railroad that will give contractors the right of entry so that private utilities can continue to relocate their facilities. Utility work must be completed before construction of two at-grade crossings over the UP tracks at Loop 494. Now that City Council has […]

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First Tree Transplanted in Northpark Expansion Project

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:17:47 +0000

October 12, 2023 – This morning, contractors transplanted the first tree in the Northpark Drive expansion project. The Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority has budgeted $700,000 for the transplantation project in response to public concerns about saving as many trees as possible. Plan for Tree Transplantation Trees from the Northpark entry areas at US59 will be […]

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Contractors Clearing South Side of Northpark Entry at US59

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:11:22 +0000

October 2, 2023 – Contractor have finished clearing the north side of Kingwood’s Northpark entry last week. Now they have shifted their focus to the south side to make room for two stormwater retention basins that will double as decorative lakes. TxDoT requires the basins to catch extra runoff caused by widening of the road. […]

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New Design for Northpark Entry, Construction Schedule Update

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 12:17:37 +0000

Harper Brothers Construction has encountered another unexpected problem in the Northpark Drive expansion project. While attempting to place 5’x7′ culvert in the median, it uncovered a water line much closer to the surface than it should have been. While developing a solution with the City of Houston, crews will continue to focus on other areas […]

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Pack Your Patience: Accident Closes Northpark in Both Directions

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:45:18 +0000

Update as of 6:30 PM: Outbound lanes have opened. One inbound lane open. Utility crews onsite. Northpark Drive is closed in the worst possible place at the worst possible time – Friday night during rush hour in a construction zone. However, the accident that caused the closure is not related to construction. A little before […]

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More Drainage for Northpark Drive Expansion Project

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 23:22:38 +0000

The drainage project currently underway down the median of Northpark Drive represents only part of the drainage improvements for the expansion project. Another parallel drainage system about 250 yards north of Northpark will carry additional stormwater all the way from U.S. 59 to the Kingwood Diversion Ditch and Bens Branch. Project engineers call it “Ditch […]

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Northpark Drainage Construction Stretches Halfway to US59 in Less than Week

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 14:53:44 +0000

After spending years to study Northpark Drive expansion, partners are wasting no time getting it started. Northpark drainage construction now stretches halfway to US59. On Friday, 7/25/23, I wrote about contractors starting to stack drain pipe near the Kingwood Diversion Ditch. On Monday, I posted about box culverts being stacked hundreds of yards farther up […]

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Northpark Drive Expansion Begins in Earnest

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:56:30 +0000

After what turned out to be a ceremonial groundbreaking on 4/13/23, the Northpark Drive expansion project appears to have started in earnest today, 7/25/2023. Northpark is a vital evacuation route for tens of thousands of Kingwood and Porter residents during floods. Cones and Culvert Line Northpark Center Ditch Traffic cones line the center ditch between […]

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Northpark Drive Expansion Starting Today

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:23:24 +0000

On 4/13/23 at 8 A.M. sharp, Northpark Drive expansion started after 10 years of planning. Dignitaries gathered in the parking lot of a local business for the groundbreaking ceremony even as surveyors were already working father east and Harper Brothers Construction started prepositioning equipment. This project will make Kingwood safer in the next big flood. […]

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February Update on Northpark Drive Expansion

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 01:36:26 +0000

My posts earlier this week about repair of the Northpark Drive drainage ditch between Loop 494 and the Kingwood Diversion Ditch sparked a flurry of questions. People wanted to know when the Northpark Drive expansion project would begin. Last July, local leaders felt it would begin before the end of 2021. Obviously that didn’t happen. […]

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