Southbound 2499 - let's open it up!

TxDOT crews were moving their front-lines farther north on FM2499 this weekend. They were cutting concrete north of Sagebrush, and now FM1171 is in sight. It's progress as promised, and it hasn't been a nightmare as I feared.

I thought by now they would have opened up the new lanes of FM2499 that were first built, between FM3040 and Spinks, but they haven't. Granted, they're not completely done with the medians, but it seems they'd only need a day to fix everything up down there. I understand why they might not want to open the northbound lanes -- it might be more of a pain at the FM3040 to have to funnel 3 open lanes down to 2 (or less) with the ongoing construction just to the north. But there's no reason I can see why they won't open the southbound lanes of FM2499, those that flow south past Spinks where it's already 3 lanes each side.