Texas Department of Transportation

Tue September 05, 2017

Harvey Update: USDOT Continues to Provide Assistance to Texas, Louisiana

The Department of Transportation and all operating agencies continue to work closely with officials in Texas as well as FEMA and Department of Homeland Security to assess the destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey as they begin to move from rescue to the recovery process....

Tue August 15, 2017

TXDOT Announces Open Positions, Job Fair

The Texas Department of Transportation is hosting a career fair Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 200 E. Riverside Drive in Austin to help fill open positions in numerous fields within the agency....

Tue August 15, 2017

Granite Wins $855M Grand Parkway Project Contract

Granite Construction Incorporated announced that Grand Parkway Infrastructure LLC comprised of Granite Construction Company, Ferrovial Agroman U.S. Corp. and Webber LLC has been awarded the SH-99 Grand Parkway design-build contract for segments H, I-1, and I-2 by the Texas Department of Transportation....

Tue August 15, 2017

Federal Court Rules in Favor of Mobility Authority, TxDOT

The U.S. District Court in Austin issued a ruling in favor of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (Mobility Authority) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) on a lawsuit attempting to prevent the agencies from advancing three key mobility improvement projects in south Austin....

Chuck Harvey - Tue August 15, 2017

TxDOT's $158M 'Go-10' Project Adds New Lanes in El Paso

Interstate 10 in El Paso will add 5.75 mi. of collector-distributor lanes from North Mesa Street to Executive Center Boulevard as part of a $158-million project called “Go 10.”Go 10 is an infrastructure reconstruction of Interstate 10 on El Paso's Westside....

Tue July 18, 2017

TxDOT Makes Plans to Replace Two Bridges on U.S. 271

Two narrow bridges on U.S. 271 in northwest Titus County will be replaced over the next couple of years, according to plans approved in June by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). “We will be replacing the bridges crossing Ripley Creek and Ripley Creek Relief,” said Bill Compton, area engineer of TxDOT in Mount Pleasant....

Wed May 24, 2017

TxDOT Sets in Motion $264M Southern Gateway Project

North Texans will soon begin seeing improvements to one of the state's most congested roadways, due to the decision by the Texas Transportation Commission to select Pegasus Link Constructors as the design-build contractor for The Southern Gateway project....

Tue May 02, 2017

TxDOT Celebrates 100 Years of Service to Texans

The Texas Department of Transportation turned 100 years old on April 4, and celebrated with an employee event at its downtown Austin headquarters office located in the DeWitt Greer building at 125 E. 11th Street....

Kelsey Bradshaw - MySanAntonio - Thu April 06, 2017

Texas DOT Spends $809.2 Million For Bridge Replacement

Crews broke ground last week on the $809.2 million Harbor Bridge replacement project, a structure that, by 2020, will will be the new link from downtown Corpus Christi to North Beach and attractions like the U.S.S....

Jennifer Rupp - Thu February 02, 2017

I-35 Austin — A Small Piece of the Big Puzzle

Interstate 35 is a hot topic from north Texas to the Mexican Border. As the state continues to grow and traffic congestion increases, so do the number of accidents. The 50-year old highway currently carries 200,000 vehicles per day and saw 4,950 accidents in 2015....