Waco s Motor Mile is close to completion as the $54 million mall-to-mall highway upgrade nears completion. Traffic flow will be smoother and businesses can exhale.
Main lanes and frontage roads are open in the project segment between Richland Mall and Central Texas Marketplace, with completion expected by April 20.
The project would turn the two-lane highway into a fully fledged freeway with four lanes, frontage roads and new overpasses between Highway 84 and near Highway 6.
The concrete was still fresh on a four-year, $350-million reconstruction of a Waco segment of Interstate 35 when the word came down in June of a sequel to the project.
The Waco District of TxDOT received an excellence award for the $350 million I-35 reconstruction project that widened the highway between 12th Street and the north end of Loop 340.