Texas 45 SE tollway to open in April

From statesman, January 31, 2009...

The Texas 45 Southeast tollway, which will complete a 56-mile bypass around the metro area's east side, will open in April, officials said Friday. That would be about three months earlier than an estimate made just a couple of months ago.

However, the 7.4-mile connecting road from the Texas 130 tollway to Interstate 35 south of Austin probably will open without one of its three flyover bridges to I-35, the one that would take people driving north on the interstate to the eastbound tollway lanes. Tim Weight, director of construction for the Texas Department of Transportation's Austin office, said that final bridge probably will open about a month later.

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