Major road closures this weekend

HOUSTON

At 9pm Friday, all westbound lanes of the Katy Freeway, as well as the U-turn lane, were closed at the Grand Parkway exit. Drivers were detoured onto the westbound frontage road at the exit ramp for Texas 99 and re-entered I-10 westbound mainlanes after the signal via the next entrance ramp.

That closure remained in effect until 11am Saturday, then authorities switched sides and shut down the eatbound lanes of I-10.

Drivers will be detoured to the eastbound frontage road at the Grand Parkway exit ramp until they pass the construction.

The closure is expected to remain in effect until 5am Monday.

Crews are working to construct direct connectors for the I-10/Texas 99 interchange at a cost of $29.6 million.

Also, from 9pm Friday until 5am Monday, there will be several additional closures at the I-10/ Texas 99 interchange. They are:

• Texas 99 northbound mainlanes at Affinity - Motorists will be detoured to Affinity, then turn onto Fernhurst and then turn right onto the I-10 eastbound frontage road. They can either continue onto I-10 eastbound or U-turn at Mason Rd. onto the I-10 westbound frontage road to get back onto the mainlanes of Texas 99.
• Texas 99 northbound frontage road at Fernhurst. Motorists will be detoured onto Fernhurst then onto the I-10 eastbound frontage road.
• I-10 westbound frontage road U-turn. Motorists can use Katy-Ft. Bend Rd. to U-turn.

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