2/19/2024 0 Comments Woodlands township sewer![]() The 14- to 15-month project will add two 12-foot lanes in each direction between Creekside Forest Drive and Gatewood Reserve Lane. Precinct 3 also is widening Gosling Road to four lanes alongside the newly opened Gosling Bridge. Still, the department plans to make improvements to intersections, drainage and shoulders. The Woodlands township put the brakes on the Texas Department of Transportation’s original plan to widen the stretch between FM 1488 and Interstate 45 to six lanes. ![]() The Woodlands’ biggest upcoming road project will improve Texas 242 on the eastern edge of Cochran’s Crossing. While neither the township nor county can use public funds to repair Welch’s cul-de-sac, the county is conducting several projects to keep traffic in The Woodlands’ original villages - Grogan’s Mill, Panther Creek and Cochran’s Crossing - running as smoothly as it did in 1974. originally put each parcel of the cul-de-sacs on separate plats and listed them as private property, meaning residents own the roads and will have to maintain them, township Chief Operating Officer Chris Nunes said. Montgomery County’s Precinct 3 is in charge of maintaining public rights-of-way in the township. “Things used to work, but they don’t quite work the way they used to anymore, and they have to be reevaluated.(The water) probably used to be able to make it across the street when it rained, and the ditches probably flowed the way they needed to flow, but they just don’t do it anymore.” Like other original structures and roadways in The Woodlands, Welch said the cul-de-sac no longer functions properly. ![]() ![]() He said he didn’t learn that until he bought his 43-year-old home a few years ago and raised the infrastructure issue with the township and county. Welch’s small cul-de-sac, like many others in Panther Creek, is classified as private property. In some cases, it’s the residents themselves who need to fix things. As the community turns 50 in 2024, residents say they need Montgomery County’s Precinct 3 and Woodlands Township leaders to rebuild infrastructure in some of The Woodlands’ oldest villages. ![]()
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