The sea of orange cones and zig-insulting traffic models made Lubbock Commuters avoid some major road lanes and road roads due to stress and confusion of numerous current road projects.
The top of them is the long-standing, state processing project on the 19th street through the central Lubbock. Over the last few years, bus and bus travelers have been very vowel to the seemingly endless road work on 19th Street.
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According to the Texas Department of Transport, the project, which began in 2022, must be enveloped early next year; However, Lubbock just got into another project that will take well in the 2030s to complete only part of it – Loop 88.
With the two projects that are underway, here’s what TXDOT says about everyone and when they are expected to be completed.
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Initially, the project was expected to be completed in June 2025, said Diana Coronado, a public information employee of the TXDOT Lubbock area, but faced a delay as crews found problems with water and storm drainage systems.
“There were some discrepancies in what was in the plan and what was actually under the roadway,” Coronado said. “Some adjustments to the plans, which took some time, had to be made, and then some materials had to be ordered to continue with the changes made in the plans.”
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It took time, but construction was underway on the three sections of 19th street.
Interstate 27 to Avenue Q (Depot District)
Currently, crews are working to install alleys, curbs and gutters on the south side of 19th street.
“Once this particular job is over, the next step is to put asphalt on the roadway or to pave the roadway,” Coronado said. “This is not the last road surface now, but this is what we call the first course.”
Avenue Q to University Avenue (in front of Lubbock High School)
The crews are working again to install alleys, curbs and gutters on this part of the street. However, another change of tape comes in this section.
“The current plan is to pass all the Avenue Q traffic to the Avenue U to the new lane in the next few weeks, and after they do this, they can start working on the rainwater and water connections on the east side,” Coronado said.
The cars cross the road to road construction in the project on the 19th street of the Ministry of Transport in Texas near Avenue University on June 14, 2025 in Lyubok, Texas.
While the bigger part of the water system is completed, Coronado said crews also work in parts of it from Avenue U to Avenue X on 19th Street.
However, once it is completed, the road will be paved with the first layer of the final process.
University Avenue to Mampis Avenue (in front of Texas Tech, Covenant Health)
“It really just consists of crews that put road signs, things like regulatory signs, speed limitation signs, such things,” Coronado said.
However, all the main road work is completed and simply expects the final road treatment that TXDOT will put on all three sections at the same time when all work is completed.
The final completion of this project is expected to be in March 2026.
After all is said and done, Coronado said TXDOT would transfer control and maintenance to the 19th street to the city of Lyubbok.
The Loop 88 project has been decades of fully completed
The cars pass along the 130th street and the Avenian Indiana Bridge surpass part of the Texas Department of Transport Loop 88 construction project on June 14, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas.
Unlike the 19th street, Coronado said the project for the construction of the new 88 south and west of Lubbok has been on the way so far.
This project has an asterisk. It is divided into four sections, each with different phases, all dependent on one basic thing – state funding and the federal government.
Coronado said TXDOT focuses on section 3 of cycle 88, more special phases:
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3A – from the 130th street from Avenue U to Memphis Avenue.
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3B – from the 130th street from Avenue Memphis to Chicago Avenue.
“They continue to make the main sails of cycle 88,” Coronado said. “This is the main part of the work they do now is the bridge deck that works on the medians at the intersections, at the intersections of the bridge and work to stretch these basic sails per cycle 88.”
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The completion of 3A and 3B is expected to be in 2026, with Section 3B starting to accept contractor offers in October 2026. However, there are three additional sections after 3c that will still have to be completed.
“It is estimated that Segment 3 will take from 15-20 years to finish; if funding is available,” Coronado said.
On top of that, there are three other main sections where the work has not even started:
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Sections 1 and 2 – US 84 (Shallowater) to US 62/82 (Wolfforth).
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Section 4 – US 87 (South Lubbock) to US 84 (SLATON).
For more information on the projects of Loop 88 and 19th streets, visit www.txdot.gov/projects.
Mateo Rosiles is a government and public policy reporter for Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Do you have news about it? Send him an email: [email protected].
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: TXDOT to complete the 19th street in Lubbock soon, Loop 88 in the coming decades