​I-35 through Downtown Austin​

Overview

Two concepts are being considered for Downtown Austin:

• Modified Existing – Incorporates mobility improvements in a similar configuration to today's existing roadway, utilizing modern bridge design to widen crossings under the interstate
  
• Depressed – Incorporates mobility improvements  and depresses the roadway, or lowers the grade of the mainlanes below surface level, from approximately 12^th Street to south of Cesar Chavez
  
• Caps, or covers for the roadway at surface level, could be constructed at locations over the depressed freeway. These caps could be a part of initial construction or added at a later date.

Purpose and Need

• Improved frontage road and intersection operations
  
• Add mainlane capacity
  
• Improved corridor congestion
  
• Improved bicycle and pedestrian facilities
  
• Improved east/west connectivity
  

End Result

• Ramp reduction and relocation
  
• Addition of the Future Transportation Corridor​
  
• Reconstruction of cross streets
  
• Improved bicycle/pedestrian facilities
  
• Maintained east/west connectivity at all existing locations for all existing modes of travel
  

Funding

• Project development funded by TxDOT
  
• Construction not currently funded​
  

Schedule

• Neighborhood and stakeholder outreach: ongoing
  
• I-35 Downtown Stakeholder Working Group complete:                       October 2014