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....
TxDOT - Tue November 01, 2022
Texas Project With More Than 130 Mi. of Cable Barrier Pays Off
A recent review of four TxDOT districts shows the success of more than 130 mi. of new cable barriers. The cable barriers were installed in Lufkin, Pharr, Waco and Fort Worth using part of the $600 million Road To Zero funds allocated by the Texas Transportation Commission in 2019....
TxDOT - Tue November 01, 2022
TxDOT's Eddie Valtier Receives Dewitt C. Greer Award
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) El Paso District Deputy District Engineer Eddie Valtier was recently recognized with the Dewitt C. Greer Award. The recognition is awarded to one recipient every year and is one of the "Big 5 Awards" presented by TxDOT and administered by Texas A&M University at the annual Texas Transportation Short Course....
TxDOT - Tue November 01, 2022
TxDOT Appoints Several People to New Roles at Department
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has announced that Ceason Clemens has been named Dallas District engineer. Effective Oct. 1, Clemens will oversee the planning, designing, building, operation and maintenance of the state transportation system for the seven-county Dallas District....
TxDOT - Tue October 04, 2022
Contractor, TxDOT Work to Continue Harbor Project
TxDOT has recently had productive communications with Flatiron Dragados LLC (FDLLC) and its parent company, ACS Group, regarding concerns over the construction on the Texas Harbor Bridge project. Those discussions have taken a new direction and tone since TxDOT issued a notice of default on Aug....
