Project Overview
State Highway (SH) 130 is a 91-mile, four-lane toll road east and south of Austin, Texas. The road runs roughly parallel to I-35 through central Texas and is intended to accommodate growth in long-distance travel between Mexico and the Midwest, in addition to providing additional capacity for local traffic. The road also serves as an eastern bypass of the Austin metropolitan area, providing motorists the opportunity to avoid the highly congested stretch of I-35 through Austin. |
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Segments 1 through 4 of SH 130, which extend 50 miles from I-35 at Georgetown to US 183 at Mustang Ridge, were developed by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). TxDOT operates the facility along with several other toll roads in the greater Austin area.
Segments 5 and 6 extend along the southernmost section of the SH 130 alignment, from US 183 in Mustang Ridge to I-10. Segments 5-6 include 15 miles that follow the alignment of US 183. SH 130 Segments 5-6 were developed as a 50-year design-build-finance-operate-maintain (DBFOM) public private partnership (P3) between TxDOT and the SH 130 Concession Company, which comprises Cintra (a subsidiary of the Spanish construction firm Ferrovial) and Zachry (a Texas-based construction company). The $1.35 billion project opened to traffic in October 2012 as the first privately developed highway in Texas.