Allen Parkway
Category: Projects
Address
Allen Parkway
Houston, TX
Details
The reconfiguration of Allen Parkway to improve public safety and enhance connections to Buffalo Bayou Park.
The project’s overall scope included:
- realignment and repaving of the roadway, with main eastbound and westbound travel lanes shifted southward to a low utilization frontage street
- creation of 140 parking spaces adjacent to Buffalo Bayou Park, in the right-of-way area formerly occupied by westbound travel lanes
- upgrades to storm drainage
- two new and one restored signalized intersection
- one new pedestrian-activated traffic signal at the crossing between Allen Parkway Village and Eleanor Tinsley Park in addition to pedestrian crosswalks at Dunlavy, Taft, and Gillette
- a new east-to-westbound u-turn vehicular bridge over an Allen Parkway underpass at Waugh
- extensive median landscaping and irrigation, including 200+ trees
- addition of LED street lighting
Total project cost $14,300,000.
Allen Parkway Construction Memo
