Katy Freeway

• 40 mile section of IH 10 from downtown Houston to the Brazos River

• Constructed in the 1960’s

• Design capacity of 79,200 vehicles per day– Pavement design life of 20 years

• Part of Interstate Highway System

• Maintenance cost $ 49,375 per mile

Katy Freeway - Reality

GRIDLOCK• 207,800 vehicles per day

• 11 hours daily congestion

• 30 to 40 year old pavement

• Annual maintenance costs of $ 197,500/mile (4 times normal highway maintenance costs)

• 23 mile section from IH 610 to Fort Bend County line

• 8 main lanes, 2 managed lanes, 6 feeder lanes

• Construction 2003 - 2009

• 10 Sections

• Beginning at east and west ends working to center

• First construction contract awarded June 11, 2003

$ 2,400,000,000

CONSTRUCTION COST

(excludes ROW,utilities)

UTILITY ADJUSTMENTS• Expense of TxDOT’s ROW Division• ROW acquisition,relocation assistance,utility

relocation $599,000,000 • Construction period spans 2003-2009• Annual Statewide Budget - $300,000,000 for all

TxDOT ROW Division• Katy utility adjustments alone will be one-third of

ROW Division’s budget for three years running

CenterPoint Energy Work

• 40 miles of OH distribution

• 42 underground distribution crossings

• 21.5 miles of Entex gas lines

• Fiber optic reroute and one T-comm antennae

• 5.7 miles OH Transmission 138kV double circuit converted to UG

• 3 Substations modified for UG Transmission

$ 110,000,000

• Transmission • Substation• Overhead Distribution• Underground Distribution• Fiber Optics• Entex

28 Contracts over 2003 - 2006

Bureaucratic Red Tape

• Unprecedented amount of Bureaucratic red tape

• Extended review/approval time for Utility Adjustment contracts

• Hesitant to make decisions• Disconnect between TxDOT’s

local office and Austin

TXDOT • Contract required for relocations prior to start

of any construction

• Austin-TXDOT review/approval of contracts

• Construction overhead cost issue

• 431 parcels required for project .Not all parcels acquired prior to construction letting

• GEC (PB) controls project

• Project Website established

CenterPoint Energy Underground Distribution

• 45 locations with proposed underground

• 42 crossings of I-10 (Katy Freeway)

• 90 estimates/work orders

• Plan & profile drawings and traffic control plans - 120 drawings, 80 traffic control [plans

CEHE• Drawing review required by all utilities through GEC -

PB

• Project crossed ROW of several governmental agencies – TXDOT– Harris County Flood Control– Army Corp of Engineers– City of Houston– Hedwig Village– Spring Valley– Hunters Creek

CEHE• TXDOT lacked numerous parcels but still

expedited construction schedule

• Directional bores

• 3 dry bore crossings

• Existing easements, required temporary construction easements for work area

• City permits - lane closures,street cuts

CEHE Distribution Underground Status

• 10 Sections (42 crossings total)– 24 crossings complete – Sections 1,2,8,9,10 - 100% complete– 8 crossings under construction– 7 on hold - require ROW by TXDOT– 3 crossing scheduled for 2006