Houston Traffic at 7 P.M. Monday: Three I-45 Incidents Still Working, From the Gulf Freeway at Beltway 8 to Tamina in Montgomery County
TranStar's 7:09 p.m. board lists six freeway incidents, and three of them sit on one corridor. I-45 has a two-vehicle accident on the Gulf Freeway's Beltway 8 exit ramp, a three-vehicle accident taking the right lane at Greens Road, and a two-vehicle accident over three lanes at Tamina in Montgomery County - plus five major street accidents inside the hour.
HOUSTON - The evening's remaining trouble, on Houston TranStar's 7:09 p.m. board, runs in a straight line up Interstate 45. Northbound on the Gulf Freeway, a two-vehicle accident on the exit ramp at Beltway 8-South was verified at 6:35 p.m.; its companion accident on Beltway 8-South eastbound at the Gulf Freeway cleared at 6:37 p.m. On the North Freeway, a three-vehicle accident southbound at Greens Road - right shoulder and right lane - was verified at 7:03 p.m., the freshest freeway incident on the board, and a two-vehicle accident southbound after Cypresswood Drive, on the right shoulder, was verified at 6:53 p.m.
The corridor's third live incident is its widest: a two-vehicle accident on I-45 southbound at Tamina / Research Forest in Montgomery County, touching the right shoulder, the right lane and the center lane, verified at 6:30 p.m. The sixth freeway incident, a three-vehicle accident on the West Sam Houston Tollway southbound at Tanner Road, cleared at 6:51 p.m.
Off the freeways, TranStar listed five street accidents as major inside the last hour: Bellfort Street at Scott Street at 6:56 p.m., the SH-288 highway at the Airport Boulevard exit at 6:40 p.m., Gears Road at 6:35 p.m., Glenburnie Drive at the North Freeway at 6:32 p.m., and Rankin Road at the North Freeway at 6:28 p.m. TranStar reported no high-water locations anywhere in the region.
And the night's construction is still ahead: the program detailed in this station's 5 p.m. file - the I-45 Gulf's three alternate lanes at Maxwell Lane from 9 p.m., the I-69 Southwest's nightly ramp closures from 8 p.m., and the South Loop frontage U-turn lane at Stella Link - runs on schedule as posted. Drivers crossing the I-45 corridor tonight meet both boards at once: clear the incidents first, then the cones.
