Ray Pedraza, public information officer for TxDOT’s Pharr District, and Pete Alvarez, district engineer for TxDOT’s Pharr District, shared details Thursday about changes coming to the I-2/ I-69C Interchange Project. (Monitor Photo)
Beginning Saturday evening, the I-2 and 1-69C Pharr interchange will be closed and drivers will be directed onto a new connector, DC4, Texas Department of Transportation officials said Friday.
The Edinburg to Harlingen connector, DC3, will remain open until early to mid-July, when it’ll temporarily close and traffic will be directed to the westbound connector toward McAllen, and “loop around at the Sugar Road underpass, and then merge onto eastbound I-2.”
TxDOT says drivers should stay right and follow signage.
“Along both routes, there will be continuous movement; no traffic lights will be in place to stop the flow of traffic,” TxDOT said in the news release.
Residents can get updates at DPJVTX.com, or call a project hotline at (956) 803-3560.
The work is part of a $303 million interchange project that’s expected to be completed by late 2023.
“Once completed, the interchange connectors will each accommodate two lanes of traffic and Interstate 2 will widen to 8 lanes, between Second Street in McAllen and Stewart Road in San Juan,” the release read.
