Ugh.
Road work designed to solve traffic jams at Buffalo Speedway and U.S. 59 is scheduled to get under way Tuesday, Feb. 15.
Work will begin on the east side of Buffalo Speedway between Bissonnet Drive and U.S. 59, with all traffic shifted to the west side.
For the next five to six months, there will be one lane of traffic in each direction, with a “continuous” turn lane between them, on the west side of Buffalo, said Travis Younkin, director of Capital Projects for the Upper Kirby Management District.
When the east side is repaired, traffic will be shifted to one lane in each direction on the east side.
The work entails burying utility lines and improving drainage, but the primary objective is enhancing mobility, Younkin said.
And in the meantime, it’s going to be hell. I drove by this on Monday and saw the prep work going on but was too in denial about it to realize what it meant. According to the latest Upper Kirby Weekly Construction Update, the “goal for completion of the entire reconstruction of Buffalo Speedway is November 2011”. You have been warned.