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We've heard a lot about yesterday's bridge collapse in Minneapolis, and we also noted a story yesterday about repairs on a Highway 288 bridge that had to be carried out after recent heavy rains washed out part of the bridge's embankment. The natural question, then: Could something like the Minneapolis collapse happen in Houston? And the answer: Sure it could, but officials are doing their best to make sure it doesn't. According to the Chronicle,...

Well, this shouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone who's been in Houston for a while: The Chronicle reports that a draft agreement for the operation of the toll lanes on the new, super-wide Katy Freeway doesn't include a provision for rail transit. Instead, we'll have four toll lanes running down the middle of the freeway, which will take the place of Metro's HOV lanes — but will be accessible for free to...

— so things might be better this time around. But, you know, don't count on it.

Via blogHouston, what is it with on-ramps along the new Spur 527? First there was Deathramp 527, a.k.a. the on-ramp from Milam and Alabama, which spits drivers out onto the spur from behind a wall that gives them almost no visibility when merging, and now there's the Blodgett ramp a little down the road, which was apparently so poorly designed that it will be closed to everyone but emergency vehicles from now on.

Houston's getting some help from small towns in its hurricane evacuation plan by linking regional traffic cameras to the TranStar traffic management system. Feeds from the little towns will factor into the regional evacuation plan in case we have to leave town again — allowing evacuees to see where traffic backups are and letting officials keep an eye on contraflow lanes, recommended detours and other plans.

Good news: You'll have time to get closer to your car this weekend, thanks to more freeway closures beginning tonight. Here's the skinny: • The Katy Freeway will close between Washington and Silber from 9 p.m. today until 5 a.m. Monday so construction crews can move in beams for new ramps as part of the freeway widening project. Several entrance and exit ramps at the Katy/West Loop interchange will also be closed at various times...

Houstonist was interested in a section of Rad Sallee's "Move It!" column in the Chron yesterday that dealt with the new Spur 527 — specifically, the entrance ramp to the southbound spur from Milam between Alabama and Richmond. We were excited when the new lanes of the spur opened last week, but one of the first things we noticed was that the barrier wall on the side of the freeway is much higher than before,...