HCTRA closes Beltway ramps at Briar Forest : Lone Star Times

HCTRA closes Beltway ramps at Briar Forest

by Matt Bramanti · 01/04/2007 9:13 pm

The Briar Forest entrance and exit ramps to the Sam Houston Toll Road in west Houston are closed today through Jan. 12 for re-striping.

Further lane closures are not expected, the Harris County Toll Road Authority reported.

A week seems like an awful long time to paint two ramps, doesn’t it? Anyway, you might want to take a detour.

We’ll have live video from LST’s NewsSkyJetChopper1 just as soon as we get it out of the shop.

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6 Responses to “HCTRA closes Beltway ramps at Briar Forest”

agent21 on January 4th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

Would that be a chop shop?
sunny on January 5th, 2007 at 12:45 am

Why do *we* have to complain about everything? Perhaps they are doing you a favour!
Matt 'Zilla' Bramanti, CPO™ on January 5th, 2007 at 1:43 am

Who’s complaining? I’m trying to help the flow of traffic. If you really want to sit on a closed ramp while crews spray a nice yellow line across your car, you have my blessing.

Anyway, I was right… a week IS a long time to paint two ramps. Channel 2 is reporting that HCTRA will also install new barriers along the ramps.
sunny on January 5th, 2007 at 4:30 am

And…I’m still *fourth*! Oh! Dear! Wake up, up there, you lot!
Neocon on January 5th, 2007 at 5:09 am

Sunny

Pipe down! You woke me up!
Mike Smith on January 5th, 2007 at 6:38 am

Great… I use the northbound Briarforest ramp almost every day…. I do use the EZ tag lane next to the booths, instead of trying to dive across 4 lanes of traffic to the normal EZ tag lanes…

Oh well… I wish they would hurry up with the lane expansion north of Hwy 290!