{"id":224280,"date":"2025-10-31T01:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/txdot-spends-748m-to-burrow-bus-size-tunnels-under-central-austin"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:03:48","slug":"txdot-spends-748m-to-burrow-bus-size-tunnels-under-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/txdot-spends-748m-to-burrow-bus-size-tunnels-under-central-austin","title":{"rendered":"TxDOT spends $748M to burrow bus-size tunnels under Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/txdot-spends-748m-to-burrow-bus-size-tunnels-under-central-austin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txdot.gov\/\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article Links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"0\" mrfobservableid=\"b9fdf659-8682-4574-8f56-0b33ae59204c\">Texas Department of Transportation<\/a> is set to launch one of Austin\u2019s largest underground construction projects in 2026, digging 6.5 miles of 22-foot-wide tunnels beneath the city\u2019s busiest highway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explained<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/south-central-austin\/transportation\/2024\/11\/04\/buckle-up-austinites-txdot-breaks-ground-on-next-decade-of-construction-along-i-35\/\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article Links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"1\" mrfobservableid=\"1d26b431-8260-46b3-a120-32b2403a192c\">I-35 overhaul<\/a> in Central Austin, which will lower sections of the highway below ground level, the transportation agency will build underground drainage tunnels to help prevent flooding along the corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Department of Transportation is set to launch one of Austin\u2019s largest underground construction projects in 2026, digging 6.5 miles of 22-foot-wide tunnels beneath the city\u2019s busiest highway. Explained As part of the I-35 overhaul in Central Austin, which will lower sections of the highway below ground level, the transportation agency will build underground [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}