TxDOT - Tue January 24, 2023
TxDOT Drivers Compete in Truck Roadeo Competition
Focused and determined to win, 52 of TxDOT's best drivers gathered at the North Travis County Area Office in North Austin to decide the title of 2022 State Truck Roadeo Champion. The goal of the Occupational Safety Division's State Truck Roadeo program is to establish safe vehicle operation and effective pre-trip inspections to reduce vehicle incidents....
TxDOT - Tue January 24, 2023
TxDOT Promotes Several Employees to New Positions
Trent Thomas: New Director of Government Affairs DivisionTrent Thomas was appointed the director of the government affairs division. Thomas will direct and coordinate the department's federal and state government relations and legislative activities in this role....
TxDOT - Tue January 24, 2023
Joint Venture Will Resume Texas Harbor Bridge Project
The Texas Department of Transportation recently announced that work will resume on the new Harbor Bridge's main spans. "The resumption of work on the main spans is positive news because it indicates construction progress is now under way on the project's cable-stayed portion of the bridge," said TxDOT Corpus Christi District Engineer Valente Olivarez Jr....
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....
