{"id":207156,"date":"2012-08-17T09:40:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=207156"},"modified":"2012-08-18T07:58:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T12:58:49","slug":"weather-delayed-loop-323-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=207156","title":{"rendered":"Drivers Urged to Avoid Part of Loop 323"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=207239\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-207239\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/08\/thumb_TxDot1-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_TxDot\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-207239\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; The Tyler Police Department and TxDOT are urging all drivers to avoid West Loop 323 from State Highway 155 south to West Front Street.   This portion of the Loop is undergoing storm-related cleanup, and only one northbound lane of traffic was open at last report. According to TxDOT, a stray thunderstorm early Friday morning delivered heavy rainfall on freshly-shot seal coat, washing it away before it had a chance to cure, causing the rock to come loose.   Police say all southbound lanes are open.  <\/p>\n<p>Motorists whose vehicles were damaged by this incident should contact Carol Stone with Big Creek Construction at (979) 200-9379.   Meanwhile, TxDOT&#8217;s Larry Krantz urged motorists to be thinking about alternate routes for their evening trips, with the temporary repairs possibly remaining in progress into Friday night.  \u201cOur main goal is to get everything back open and up to proper safety standards,\u201d Krantz said. \u201cBut we won\u2019t be sacrificing safety for speed.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Big Creek Construction says it is planning to re-apply the seal coat during daylight operations when the weather allows, which will likely be early next week. That will mean additional lane closures, but only for one day while the work is in progress.  &#8220;We&#8217;re hoping to have this done by Monday or Tuesday, but we\u2019ve just been reminded, Mother Nature is in control of things for the moment,&#8221; Krantz said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be absolutely sure we have the conditions we need before go.\u201d  Crews have also been instructed not to begin setting lane closures before 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>After the daytime work is completed, crews will resume nighttime operations, which call for work to be done between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. Sunday-Thursday.  \u201cThere will obviously be some inconvenience involved in correcting this,\u201d Krantz said. \u201cTo minimize that, we\u2019re asking folks to seek an alternate route of they can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Tyler Police Department and TxDOT are urging all drivers to avoid West Loop 323 from State Highway 155 south to West Front Street. This portion of the Loop is undergoing storm-related cleanup, and only one northbound lane of traffic was open at last report. According to TxDOT, a stray thunderstorm early Friday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=207156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drivers Urged to Avoid Part of Loop 323<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 09:35:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207156"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207318,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207156\/revisions\/207318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}