Joe Jancsurak – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Tue November 30, 2021
Odessa-Based Jones Brothers Dirt & Paving Reconstructs Highway 191, Loop 250
Regional business booms bring prosperity and problems: more jobs mean more people, and more people mean more congested-related issues. With a 2020 population of 129,928, Odessa's population has increased by 30.1 percent since 2010 when its population was 99,940....
TxDOT - Mon November 29, 2021
TxDOT's El Paso District Wins Inaugural Seal Coat Award
TxDOT's El Paso District was selected as the winner of the inaugural Jon A. Epps Seal Coat Award for Region 2, for fiscal year 2020, from the Texas Asphalt Pavement Association. TxDOT partnered with Cox Paving and team representatives accepted the award at the TXAPA 46th annual meeting from Sept....
TxDOT - Tue November 02, 2021
Big Creek Construction, Texas Materials Finish U.S. 290 Jobs
Big Creek Construction and Texas Materials recently wrapped up two construction projects along U.S. 290 in Lee and Midland counties. The jobs — part of the overall U.S. 290 East Widening Project — were more than two years in the making when county officials recently celebrated the completion of these projects....
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....
