Highway 6 reopens weeks after Houston's flooding event

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Good news for drivers out in west Houston. All lanes of Highway 6 are now back open.

A stretch of the popular roadway -- between Clay and Park Row -- was closed after the Tax Day flood brought record-setting water levels to the Addicks Reservoir and flooded the highway.

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About 49,000 drivers who used that route daily were forced to find an alternate route.

Earlier in the day Thursday, officials reopened North Eldridge Parkway from Dairy-Ashford to Clay Road.

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