You had best listen to the guy in the swamp (Like MP 4.1 , end of CTC Galveston Sub, SP/GH&H junction connections even…) The ATSF standard station sign gave it away early.
Almost…they had one side done, dropped the outbound bridge, funneled all the traffic on to the one side, and dropped the inbound old bridge a few months ago…it has been about 6 months since I have had time to go fishing…I head out to Bolivar and the North Jetty, so the only way to get there in any decent time is to drive into Galveston, then cross back onto the mainland via the ferry.
So I have not been across the new causeway in a while…funny, the really old one still does what it was built to do just fine!
I doubt they will ever “finish” the Gulf Freeway, they have been working on some part of it since I was a little, little kid…sorta a lifetime long project for Williams Brothers construction![;)]