Northeast Texas Roadways to be Resurfaced
Some Northeast Texas Roadways will be getting new surfaces next year.
About 185 miles of Northeast Texas highways will receive new surfaces during the summer of 2015 with a contract awarded in September by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).
The Texas Transportation Commission approved a bid of $7.4 million from Missouri Petroleum Products Company out of Mountain View, Mo. to seal coat highways in nine counties located within the Atlanta District.
"Seal coating a highway involves placing a layer of hot asphalt over the old pavement and then covering it with crushed stone," said Robert H. Ratcliff, District Engineer inAtlanta. "This is a relatively inexpensive process that makes the roadway surface watertight and improves skid resistance."
In an effort to help keep used tires off Texas landscapes, the district is requiring that about half of the asphalt used to be mixed with "crumb rubber" made from grinding up old tires.
"Using crumb rubber in our asphalt has proved to be an excellent process for seal coating our highways. The rock is less likely to pull loose, there are fewer occurrences of the asphalt bleeding through the rock, it can be used at lower temperatures and on a wider variety of surfaces," Ratcliff said.
The following highways are scheduled to be resurfaced during the summer of 2015:
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SEAL COATING CONTRACT FOR 2015
COUNTY |
HIGHWAY |
LIMITS |
MILES |
BOWIE |
SH 8 |
FROM: ARKANSAS STATE LINE TO: IH 30 | 6.6 |
BOWIE |
US 259 |
FROM: 0.3 MILE SOUTH OF FM 44 TO: MORRIS COUNTY LINE |
12.5 |
BOWIE |
IH 369 NB FRONTAGE |
FROM: SH 93 TO: US 82 |
2.9 |
BOWIE |
IH 369 SB FRONTAGE |
FROM: SH 93 TO: US 82 |
2.9 |
BOWIE |
FM 992 |
FROM: FM 44 SOUTH TO: US 82 |
2.3 |
BOWIE |
FM 989 |
FROM: FM 2516 TO: US 59 |
2.9 |
CAMP |
SH 11 |
FROM: US 271 TO: 0.9 MILE EAST OF US 271 |
0.9 |
CASS |
SH 77 |
FROM: FM 1841 TO: 0.5 MILE EAST OF FM 1635 |
3.9 |
CASS |
SH 155 |
FROM: SH 49 TO: MARION COUNTY LINE |
3.9 |
HARRISON |
SH 43 |
FROM: FM 2682 TO: US 59 |
10.6 |
HARRISON |
FM 31 |
FROM: 0.1 MILE NORTH OF IH 20 TO: FM 2625 |
4.8 |
HARRISON |
FM 1997 |
FROM: FM 3001 TO: LOOP 390 |
6.6 |
HARRISON |
FM 2625 |
FROM: FM 31 TO: FM 9 |
8.6 |
MARION |
FM 2208 |
FROM: FM 134 TO: HARRISON COUNTY LINE |
8.4 |
MARION |
SH 155 |
FROM: CASS COUNTY LINE TO: UPSHUR COUNTY LINE |
5.3 |
MARION |
FM 729 |
FROM: SH 155 TO: SH 49 |
17.3 |
MORRIS |
US 67 |
FROM: US 259 TO: TITUS COUNTY LINE |
4.7 |
MORRIS |
US 259 |
FROM: BOWIE COUNTY LINE TO: IH 30 |
0.8 |
MORRIS |
SH 49 |
FROM: US 259 TO: 0.2 MILE EAST OF FM 144 SOUTH |
5.2 |
PANOLA |
SPUR 572 |
FROM: SH 149 TO: BUS 59 D |
1.2 |
PANOLA |
FM 999 |
FROM: FM 10 TO: US 59 |
5.2 |
PANOLA |
SH 315 |
FROM: FM 1970 TO: RUSK COUNTY LINE |
9.0 |
PANOLA |
FM 123 |
FROM: FM 31 NORTH TO: US 79 |
3.0 |
PANOLA |
FM 959 |
FROM: SH 149 TO: US 79 |
4.1 |
TITUS |
US 67 |
FROM: FM 1402 TO: MORRIS COUNTY LINE |
8.0 |
UPSHUR |
US 80 |
FROM: WOOD COUNTY LINE TO: SH 155 SOUTH |
1.6 |
UPSHUR |
US 259 |
FROM: MEDLIN CREEK TO: 0.5 MILE SOUTH OF SH 155 |
1.7 |
UPSHUR |
US 259 |
FROM: SH 154 TO: 0.5 MILE SOUTH OF FM 3245 |
1.4 |
UPSHUR |
SH 154 |
FROM: WOOD COUNTY LINE TO: 0.2 MILE WEST OF FM 1795 |
6.1 |
UPSHUR |
SH 154 |
FROM: FM 1650 TO: 0.7 MILE WEST OF SH 154 |
6.7 |
UPSHUR |
SH 155 |
FROM: FM 1404 TO: 0.5 MILE NORTH OF UPRR |
3.1 |
UPSHUR |
FM 2088 |
FROM: WOOD COUNTY LINE TO: US 271 |
13.2 |
UPSHUR |
SH 300 |
FROM: US 271 TO: 3.0 MILES NORTH OF FM 726 |
5.3 |
UPSHUR |
FM 726 |
FROM: SH 300 TO: FM 1650 |
4.0 |