Grand Parkway (SH 99) Segments H-I

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The Grand Parkway (State Highway 99) Segments H & I Project is a 43-mile segment of the planned 184-mile circumferential Grand Parkway toll highway around the Greater Houston Metropolitan Region. The Grand Parkway is divided into 11 segments in all (A through I-2). The highway connects State Highway 146 in Galveston County to State Highway 146 in Baytown and crosses seven counties: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, and Montgomery. The route aims to improve connectivity across the existing network, reduce congestion and unsafe "stop-and-go" conditions, and accommodate the metro area's demographic and economic growth. Segments H and I are in the northeast quadrant of the route, extending in a clockwise fashion from Grand Parkway Segments D-G, which were constructed between 2013 and 2016 and added 53 miles along the northwest quadrant of the Grand Parkway alignment. Segments H and I consist of 43 miles of tollway, tolling equipment upgrades, and other improvements: Segments H and I-1 provide 37.5-miles of two-lane toll road, with intermittent four lane sections for passing, from I-69/US 59 North in Montgomery County to I-10 in Chambers County Segment I-2A upgrades tolling equipment along an existing 8.7-mile, four-lane section, which opened in 2008 and became part of the Grand Parkway in June 2017, from I-10 to FM 1405 Segment I-2B adds 6.1-miles of four-lane toll road from FM 1405 in Chambers County to SH 146 in Harris County Segment H also includes the option of widening 7.9 miles of the Grand Parkway alignment from two to four lanes between I-69/US 59 North and Huffman-Cleveland Road, near the Galveston Bay estuary. The widening work is known as the H West Option. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has executed a contract with a design-build joint venture team, Grand Parkway Infrastructure (GPI), who will construct Segments H and I and be responsible for maintaining portions of the project through a Capital Maintenance Agreement. Financing for the project is the responsibility of the Grand Parkway Transportation Corporation (GPTC) a public, nonprofit corporation created in April 2013 to act on behalf of the Texas Transportation Commission and lead the effort to finance, build and operate certain segments of the Grand Parkway, including Segments H and I. Project financing consists of proceeds from toll revenue bonds as well as bond anticipation notes to be replaced by a TIFIA loan following construction.

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