Houston Traffic: US 290's Westbound Frontage Road Near Skinner Road Runs One Lane at a Time From Today Through November 25
TxDOT's roadway work closes one frontage-road lane at a time, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays only, for two weeks - no weekend closures - and the schedule itself carries a weather caveat on a week that starts with an 84 percent rain chance.
Northwest Houston's frontage-road drivers have a new two-week pattern to plan around. Alternating lane closures began Wednesday on the westbound frontage road of US 290 near Skinner Road, according to the Texas Department of Transportation in the report read in full this run - one lane closed at a time so crews can conduct roadway work, with the schedule running through Wednesday, November 25.
The hours are the commuter-friendly part of the notice. Closures run between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on weekdays - after the morning rush's peak and clear of the evening drive's worst of it - and no weekend closures are scheduled. One lane stays open at all times; this is a lane-at-a-time work zone, not a frontage-road shutdown.
The caveat is the weather. TxDOT's schedule is subject to change or cancellation due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances, and this week's station feed opens with an 84 percent rain chance on Wednesday before two dry days - which means the work window most likely to slip is the one that just started. Drivers who build the closure into a Thursday or Friday trip are planning on the two days the forecast says the crews can actually work.
The rest of Wednesday's Houston traffic picture is the one this station has carried all day: the Veterans Day parade closures downtown from the morning file and the I-10 work at Barker Cypress and Houston Avenue. The US 290 frontage work is the only new verified closure item of the afternoon - and at 9-to-4 on weekdays, it is built to be driven around, not through.
