TxDOT Project Update

TYLER — The Texas Department of Transportation has announced that it expects to complete three projects by the end of this month, which would bring the total number of projects under construction to 18 across the Tyler District.

In Smith County, TxDOT announced contractor APAC-Texas, Inc., of Dallas, is scheduled to complete a $1.3 million repair-and-resurface contract on the westbound lanes of Interstate Highway 20 between State Highway 110 and the Van Zandt County Line. The project let to contract in August and began October 11. “We’ve made some huge improvements in our pavement on the Interstate in the past few years,” said TxDOT spokesman Larry Krantz. “This is one of the areas that we’d had on hold while we’ve gotten the other projects done. We’re very pleased that it will be open to traffic for the Thanksgiving holiday.”

Also in Smith County, contractor Simon Traylor & Sons, of Jacksonville, is scheduled to complete a $165,000 project to repair and resurface Cedar Camp Loop Road and campsite pads in Tyler State Park. The project let to contract in July and began in October.

In Rusk County, TxDOT contractor Encino Landscape, Inc., of Cleveland, Texas, is scheduled to complete a $75,000 Green Ribbon landscaping project to add shrubbery to traffic islands around the Henderson Star. The project let to contract in August and began in October. Green Ribbon projects are landscaping projects that target counties either in or close to non-attainment of air-quality standards.

Looking ahead to December, TxDOT has one project set to break ground. Contractor A.L. Helmcamp, Inc., of Buffalo, Texas, is scheduled to begin a $2.2 million project to add 3-foot shoulders to and resurface Farm Road 344 in Smith County between Farm Road 346 in Teaselville and U.S. Highway 69 in Bullard. The project let to contract in August.

TxDOT also plans to let three projects to contract in December. In Henderson County, TxDOT is planning an approximate $782,000 project to add shoulders to and resurface Farm Road 314 between the Van Zandt County Line south of Edom and Henderson County Road 3300, approximately one mile north of State Highway 31 in Brownsboro.

A second project will repair and resurface State Highway 31 from Farm Road 314 in Brownsboro to the east intersection with Farm Road 3204.

Finally, in Cherokee County, TxDOT is planning a combined $1.4 million project to add 3-foot shoulders to and resurface a portion of Farm Road 752 south of Farm Road 241 in Rusk, and the same on Farm Road 2137 between Farm Road 344 west of Bullard and Farm Road 855.