The Texas Department of Transportation has awarded a $52 million contract to widen Interstate 10 in Orange. The project includes removing low frontage road bridges across Adams Bayou.
TxDOT in a release said the project is to be completed by 2026.
A group of citizens and local officials have avocated to remove the low bridges since Harvey flooded the county three years ago.
Williams Brothers Construction Co., Inc., was awarded the contract for the project to widen about five miles of the interstate from Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (FM 3247) eastward to the Sabine River Bridge.
The release said the current construction in the same area will continue.
The new widening project will increase the number of lanes from four to six 12-foot-wide traffic lanes, three in each direction. Each direction will have 10-foot-wide shoulders on the inside and outside.
A new main interstate bridge will be constructed over Adams Bayou with the increased number of traffic lanes.
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