TxDOT - Tue January 24, 2023
Officials Advance Houston's Multi-Billion-Dollar I-45 Project
After almost two years of discussion and negotiation, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has announced that it has reached common ground with city of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County officials, which will help advance the I-45 North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP)....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed January 11, 2023
PLC Delivers Dallas Highway Project
If you've taken a drive through Dallas recently, you may have noticed something different about Interstate 35: it's wider. Pegasus Link Constructors, which brought together Balfour Beatty U.S....
TxDOT - Tue December 27, 2022
Multiple Construction Jobs Under Way in Odessa District
A $36.6 million project to add passing lanes and to rehabilitate approximately 10 mi. of Highway 302 in Loving County is under way. The project stretches from the just west of FM 1933 in Mentone to just east of Purple Cattle Guard Road....
TxDOT - Tue December 27, 2022
Texas Clear Lanes Initiative Reaches Pre-Pandemic Level
COVID-19's effects on Texas traffic levels lingered throughout 2021, with delays on the state's most congested roadways growing but still below pre-pandemic gridlock conditions, according to a new study performed by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)....
TxDOT - Tue December 27, 2022
TxDOT Invests $250M for New Transportation Alternatives
As Texas strives to reduce the rising number of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities, TxDOT is making available approximately $250 million for its 2023 Transportation Alternatives Call for Projects. The federal funding will go towards sidewalks, bike lanes, shared-use paths and other projects to enhance walking and biking transportation across the state....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue December 27, 2022
Officials Celebrate Billion Dollars Worth of Projects in Texas
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), which is overseeing a major multi-billion dollar expansion of the state's highway network via road and bridge construction, officially launched a new highway project in the Fort Worth/Dallas area (Tarrant County) and marked the completion of another....
Gilmer Mirror - Tue November 29, 2022
University of Texas Professor Will Enhance Highway Asphalt
Mena Souliman, associate professor and the Ronald D. Brazzel Endowed Professor of Civil Engineering of The University of Texas at Tyler, has received a nearly $600,000 Texas Department of Transportation grant to enhance the asphalt currently being used in highway/road resurfacing projects for improved wet-weather driving....
TxDOT - Tue November 29, 2022
TxDOT Employees Save Woman, Receive Extra Mile Award
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) awarded the Extra Mile Awards at their annual Texas Transportation Short Course in College Station. The Extra Mile Award recognizes employees who have acted heroically to help a fellow Texan in need....
TxDOT - Tue November 29, 2022
TxDOT, Contractor Take Steps to Resume Harbor Bridge
TxDOT and Flatiron Dragados LLC (FDLLC) have executed a signed letter agreement that establishes the legal framework for resolving the safety issues identified in the design of the New Harbor Bridge Project....
gov.texas.gov - Tue November 01, 2022
Gov. Abbott, Officials Break Ground On Loop 1604 Project
Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Transportation Commission Chairman J. Bruce Bugg, Jr. celebrated the groundbreaking for Segment 2 of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Loop 1604 North Expansion project in San Antonio on Oct....
