News 4 San Antonio - Tue November 02, 2021
TxDOT Invests $3.6M for San Antonio Job to Improve Safety
One of San Antonio's busiest corridors is getting a multi-million dollar improvement to help keep pedestrians safe. In September, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) gave a press conference on the Northwest side with the steps being taken to protect people walking or biking to bus stops on Bandera Road....
CEG - Tue November 02, 2021
Contractors Begin U.S. 87 Bridge Project in Lubbock County, Texas
TxDOT is set to begin work on a project that will improve safety and mobility along U.S. 87 in southern Lubbock County. The $21.6 million project will reconstruct the U.S. 87/FM 41 intersection by building a new U.S....
TxDOT - Tue November 02, 2021
Jones Brothers Dirt & Paving Begins Highway 191 Job
Work has begun on a project to "reverse" (relocate) ramps, add some auxiliary lanes and rehabilitate some roadway on Highway 191 and West Loop 250. Jones Brothers Dirt & Paving of Odessa won the project with a low bid of a little more than $18.2 million....
TxDOT - Tue October 05, 2021
Contractors Will Have Busy Fall Season Upgrading Roads
TxDOT officials recently announced that a project to resurface the pavement on U.S. 271 in Red River County has commenced. The contractor, Richard Drake Construction Company LP, was granted 96 working days, weather permitting, to complete this project valued at more than $4.5 million....
TxDOT - Tue October 05, 2021
TxDOT Awards Atlas $8M Contract for Odessa Jobs
Atlas Technical Consultants Inc., a leading infrastructure and environmental services provider, announced the award of an $8 million contract from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for construction engineering and inspection (CEI) services....
TxDOT - Tue October 05, 2021
Texas Transportation Commission Approves 10-Year Plan
The Texas Transportation Commission recently unanimously approved TxDOT's 10-year plan retaining allocations for funding the I-45 improvement project in Houston. The project, commonly known as the North Houston Highway Improvement Project, or NHHIP, is supported by the majority of people who commented during the Unified Transportation Program's (UTP) public comment period....
AASHTO - Wed September 22, 2021
Seven Western Departments of Transportation Win Awards
Seven state departments of transportation in Arizona, California, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas and Utah earned regional recognition in the 2021 America's Transportation Awards competition for projects providing safer access to kids walking to school, removing a highway to reconnect a community and creating a better way to inform motorists about weather events to save lives, among others....
TxDOT - Tue September 07, 2021
TxDOT Names Barth Second Deputy
The Texas Department of Transportation recently announced the selection of Brian Barth as the department's second deputy executive director. Barth assumed his new role on Aug. 1 and will serve alongside Deputy Executive Director Brandye Hendrickson, who joined TxDOT on July 19....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue September 07, 2021
TxDOT Makes Effort to Hire More Women in Prominent Roles
Being one of the largest and most influential departments of transportation in the country, what the Texas Department of Transportation does has an impact on other agencies. This is certainly the case in terms of the hiring of women to assume positions of authority and responsibility, and implementing measures to ensure that women feel welcome within the ranks of TxDOT....
Bloomberg - Tue September 07, 2021
Permian Basin Will Receive $844M Boost Toward Recovery
The region at the heart of the once-booming U.S. shale industry is signaling confidence in a nascent recovery after the pandemic crushed demand and curtailed oil and gas drilling. The Permian Basin has grown over the past decade to produce more oil than Iraq....
