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"The Thanksgiving Holiday" – Week of November 24, 2008
It's a pretty light week this week around TxDOT, and our offices will be closed on Thursday and Friday to observe the holiday. We'll open for regular business again on Monday, December 1. Still, TxDOT maintenance forces will be on call 24 hours per day throughout the holiday weekend in the event they're needed to respond to an emergency. As you and thousands of your closest friends get ready to travel this week, be aware of the speed limit reductions and lane closures or detours on a few ar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – November 21, 2008TxDOTs South Tyler Maintenance Section and the district's mill-and-inlay crew begin a typical Monday working on Loop 323 in Tyler. The crews are milling up 4 inches of pavement in the outside lane and will be replacing it with fresh hot mix. Heavy traffic makes for slow progress.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Best of TxDOT: Working For You – Resurfacing US 69 near BullardTxDOT's South Tyler Maintenance Section overlays part of US 69 near Bullard with fresh hot mix. The work is part of an ongoing mill-and-inlay operations on US 69 and Loop 323 in Tyler. Dump trucks deliver the fresh hot mix, which is applied by the 'laydown machine.' Crews walk next to the equipment as it moves to ensure a good finished product.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Another Notch In The Loop" – Week of November 17, 2008In Tyler, TxDOT has two resurfacing operations scheduled to either resume or begin on Monday. The first is the continuing overlay and resurfacing operations in the Troup and the Loop area. The second is a mill-and-inlay operation beginning on West Loop 323 at SH 64 and proceeding southwest throughout the week and ending at Copeland Road. Also: various projectsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – November 7, 2008TxDOT's Dave Reed, of the Tyler District Special Jobs Crew, applies a fog seal to FM 17 north of Canton in Van Zandt County. Fog Sealing calls for a light coat of asphaltic oil to be sprayed on aging pavement as a preventative measure against water penetrating the surface. Application is quick, curing takes a little longer.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"A Mad Dash To The Finish" – Week of November 10, 2008Beginning Monday, construction crews are scheduled to begin resurfacing operations on portions of the "Troup and the Loop" median job. The crews will be applying a hot mix surface in the areas of the job on South Loop 323 where the medians have been completed: between Copeland and Paluxy (FM 756) on the west end, and between the railroad tracks and SH 64 (Fifth Street) on the east end.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – October 31, 2008TxDOT's Doug Gilley, from the Mineola Maintenance Section, works to regrade the roads inside the Sabine River Bottom Wildlife Management Area as part of an inter-agency agreement with Texas Parks and Wildlife. TxDOT originally built the road in the 1990s, and maintains it for the park service.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Oh, To Be 17 Again ... FM 17, That Is" – Week of November 3, 2008Uptates on three projects on or near FM 17 in Van Zandt County, as well as other projects around the Tyler District.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – October 24, 2008A contract track-hoe works to demolish the deck of the SH 64 overpass at SH 135 near Arp. The overpass, built in the late 1920's, was struck repeatedly in the past few years by ever-increasing numbers of tall loads. The demolition will be followed by the construction of a structure with greater clearance.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Watch For Fog" – Week of October 27, 2008Beginning Monday In Wood County, TxDOT maintenance crews are scheduled to apply a fog seal to FM 564, or the Mineola Loop, between FM 1801 and US 69, and on FM 49, between FM 564 and US 80. The process should last approximately two weeks. Fog sealing is a preventative-maintenance measure designed to seal water out of a roadway's surface. The process calls for spraying a light coat of asphaltic oil on the roadway surface, then allowing it to cure before reopening the treated lanes to traffic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Back In The Loop" – Week of October 20, 2008Beginning as early as Wednesday morning, TxDOT maintenance crews are scheduled to perform pavement rehabilitation work on in various locations on Loop 323 in Tyler between SH 64 west and Copeland Road on the southeast Loop. Daytime lane closures reducing traffic to one lane will be in effect while the work is in progress. Motorists should seek alternate routes if possible to avoid delays, and be on the lookout for heavy trucks entering and leaving the work area.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working for You – Building US 69 Overpass in BullardTxDOT construction contractor Knife River works to construct an overpass at the intersection of US 69 and FM 344 in Bullard. US 69 will go over FM 344. Crews are drilling shafts for the bridge columns and removing pavement for the ramps. The project is scheduled for completion in 2010.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"The End Is In Sight" – Week of October 13, 2008It's not over yet, but crews are entering the final phases of the Troup and the Loop project in Tyler. Beginning Monday, construction crews are scheduled to apply a seal coat on South Loop 323 in the construction area, which runs between Copeland Road and SH 64 East (Fifth Street). The work is in preparation for the final resurfacing phase of the project, which will occur after the construction of the medians on Loop 323 and SH 110 is complete. Daytime lane closures will be in effect while ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – TxDOT Combats West Texas FloodingTexas Department of Transportation maintenance crews from the El Paso District combat catastrophic flooding near Presidio caused by the emergency release of water from Mexican dams along the Rio Grande. The flood waters are receding, but several roads near Big Bend remain under water or damaged to the point of impassability.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Best of TxDOT: Working For You – October 3, 2008TxDOT's Mineola Maintenance Section and the Tyler District Mill-and-Inlay crew work to repair the pavement on FM 14 in Wood County. Mill-and-Inlay is a two-step process of grinding up the old pavement and replacing it with fresh hot mix.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"The Arp Bridge Is Coming Down" – Week of October 6, 2008In eastern Smith County, construction crews will be enacting a detour on Monday for the SH 64/SH 135 overpass replacement project near Arp. The project includes demolishing the functionally obsolete overpass at that location and replacing it with a new one that will allow for better clearance for traffic on SH 135. The standard clearance for an overpass is 16 feet, 6 inches found on the Interstate system, while the existing structure, built 80 years ago, has 13 feet, 10 inches of clearance. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Before And After" – Week of September 29, 2008Each year, the Tarrant Regional Water District, the operators of Cedar Creek Reservoir in Henderson County, holds a clean-up event for the reservoir and the surrounding communities in conjunction with TxDOT's "Don't Mess With Texas" program. This year's event is from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, September 27. To find out more, I spoke with Mark Olson, the TRWD's Water Conservation Coordinator. To get involved or to find out more, call 903-432-2814 or log on to www.trwd.com. Also this week in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – September 26, 2008TxDOT's Canton Maintenance Section and the Tyler District mill-and-inlay crew work on Interstate 20's frontage roads and ramps near FM 314 in Van Zandt County. The mill machine grinds up old pavement and shoots it into waiting dump trucks, while a hot mix crew follows behind laying fresh hot mix.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Working The Frontage Roads – Week of September 22, 2008Now that Hurricane Ike has passed and the fallen trees have largely been removed from East Texas roadways, it's time to get back into our weekly routines. In Van Zandt County, TxDOT maintenance crews are scheduled to begin two weeks of work on Interstate 20, its corresponding frontage roads and on- and off-ramps near FM 314 in Van Zandt County. Daytime lane closures will be possible on I-20, the ramps, the frontage roads, and on FM 314 while this work is in progress. Motorists are encourage ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – Cleaning Up After IkeTxDOT's Rusk Maintenance Section works to clear storm debris from Tropical Storm Ike on FM 839 in Cherokee County. TxDOT crews cut fallen trees into manageable sizes so they can be pushed off the road. Contract crews will finish the removal process.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Preparing For Hurricane Ike" Hurricane Ike needs no introduction, but this week's interviewee might. When evaculanes are opened, or when contraflow is enacted, Toribio Garza, the deputy director of TxDOT's maintenance division, is the man who sets those plans in motion. I spoke with Toribio on Wednesday morning to get the latest on TxDOT's work to help Corpus Christi residents evacuate ahead of Friday's predicted landfall. Keep current with TxDOT's plans foro Hurricane Ike by downloading the twice-daily or as-necessary ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"The Best One-Seventh Money Can Buy" – Week of June 16, 2008Each year, the Tyler District uses maintenance process called district-wide seal coat to extend the life of approximately one-seventh of our existing roadways in the eight counties we serve. The process calls for shooting hot asphalt oil on the surface of an existing road, then spreading a thin layer of rock designed to improve traction. The oil has two purposes: first, to seal water out of the surface, and second to help the rock spread over it to stick. Seal coating can help extend the li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – June 13, 2008TxDOT's Longview Maintenance Section and the Tyler District's Mill Crew perform mill-and-inlay operations on Interstate 20 in Gregg County near Liberty City. The work is made more dangerous with the speed and proximity of the passing vehicles, and with having to change the worn-out teeth on the mill machine in the work zone.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"And Then, There Was One" – Week of June 9, 2008We're headed back to Lindale this week for a public meeting to discuss the final recommended preferred route for the Loop 49/US 69 relief route around Lindale. The event, to be held Tuesday, June 10 at the First United Methodist Church of Lindale, kicks off at 4 p.m. with an open house, followed by a formal presentation at 6 p.m. Public participation and input are strongly encouraged. Also this week: Various projects in the Tyler DistrictListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Special Edition: TxDOT's Sunset ReviewAs you've doubtless heard, the Texas Department of Transportation is up for Sunset Review from the state legislature. Like all state agencies in Texas, TxDOT is reviewed through the sunset process at least every 12 years. The Sunset process is designed to periodically determine whether a given governmental agency is performing the tasks it is assigned, and whether or not those tasks are still legislative priorities. As a result, each sunset report ultimately includes a recommendation to a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – June 6, 2008TxDOT's Palestine Maintenance Section shows off one of its newest maintainers at a career day at A.M. Story Elementary School in Palestine. The crewmen demonstrated how a maintainer works and how it's used. Then, the students were allowed to climb in and see the view from the cab.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"See Them While You Can" – Week of June 2, 2008TxDOT's annual mowing season, which mows the shoulders and rights of way throughout the Tyler District, begins Monday. Unfortunately for wildflower lovers, this means that the wildflowers on the sides of the road also get mowed. Oddly enough, moving the flowers this time of year, right as they begin to drop seeds, is the best time to mow them. The mowing process helps spread the seeds around the area, and will all the rain we've been getting, that helps ensure an even more robust crop next ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – May 30, 2008TxDOT's Mill-and-Inlay Crew works with the Canton Maintenance Section to repair the surface of SH 64 south of Wills Point. Mill-and-Inlay is a two-part operation, with the mill grinding up the old pavement, and the hot mix crew following behind and putting down a new surface.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Well, At Least The Scenery Will Be Nice" – Week of May 26, 2008 The Tyler District Mill-and-Inlay crew is scheduled to complete its work on US 287 in and around Elkhart this week, and from there, the crew will head for SH 198 in Henderson County on the eastern shore of Cedar Creek Lake. The work calls for 5 to 7 days worth of mill and inlay work in various locations between Malakoff and Gun Barrel City, in addition to a few days of crews only laying down fresh hot mix in the area. Daytime lane closures will be in effect while the work is in progress, an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Memorial Day Special: A Look Back At The Construction Of The Burma RoadFrom the TxDOT Statewide Podcast, found at www.keeptexasmoving.com: During World War II, American and British engineers and soldiers, and more than 200,000 Chinese laborers in the little-known China-Burma-India Theater, created a modern engineering marvel, maybe even a miracle, with the construction of what became known as the Burma Road. Now, with Memorial Day just around the corner, and with the ongoing relief situation in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, the time seemed right to blow th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – May 23, 2008TxDOT's Special Jobs Crew and the Mineola Maintenance Section work together to seal coat FM 288 on the west shore of Lake Fork near Quitman. The distributor truck will need to be refilled several times during the day.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"It's That Time Again" – Week of May 19, 2008Working on the Interstate is a lot like painting the Golden Gate Bridge: get to one end and head back the other direction. The work is never done. This week in Van Zandt County, two separate projects are scheduled to kick off this week on I-20, including one to extend the median barrier west from SH 64 to the Kaufman County Line, and the other to begin pavement rehabilitation between SH 19 and SH 64. Both are scheduled to begin on Monday, weather permitting, and each will require daytime l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – May 16, 2008TxDOT's North Tyler Maintenance Section responds to an 18-wheeler wreck at the intersection of I-20 and US 69 near Lindale. The 18-wheeler, hauling cantaloupe, drove off the westbound side and down the embankment, but a concrete barrier kept his rig out of traffic. No fatalities were reported in spite of the rig catching fire.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Staying Within The Lines" – Week of May 12, 2008Just a few project updates this week, beginning with work scheduled for Interstate 20 in Van Zandt County, where striping crews are scheduled to be at work today between SH 19 and the Turner-Hayden on/off ramps. Daytime lane closures will be in effect while the work is in progress. As a rule, the closures are planned for the eastbound lanes in the morning, and the westbound lanes in the afternoon. Also this week, thanks to you, TxDOT podcasts receive record numbers of hits and views.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – May 9, 2008TxDOT's Mineola Maintenance Section works to repair a base failure, or pothole, on FM 14 north of Hawkins in Wood County. A Gradall digs out the damaged pavement, then a maintainer blades in the fresh material. The process takes less than two hours.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Hey, Buddy, Need A Ride? – Week of May 5, 2008As gasoline prices continue to reach all-time highs, many of us are reevaluating our finances, especially as they relate to our driving habits. Some of us are considering carpooling, and combining several errands into one trip. Still others are using public transit options more and more frequently. That's music to our ears at TxDOT, where we play a big role in making sure that public transit through agencies such as the East Texas Council of Governments, or ETCOG, keeps rolling. To find out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – May 2, 2008TxDOT's North Tyler Maintenance Section and the Special Jobs Crew apply an 'edge seal' to the shoulders of FM 16 near Winona. Edge seal helps preserve the edges of the pavement, which is the weakest part of any roadway, by sealing water out. The work is often done after crews have worked to repair the edges.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Making Old Jacksonville New – Week of April 28, 2008Beginning Monday, TxDOT maintenance crews are scheduled to begin resurfacing FM 2493 (Old Jacksonville Highway) between FM 2813 in Gresham and FM 346 in Flint. Weather permitting, the project is scheduled to last five days. Daytime lane closures will be in effect after 8 a.m. to allow for rush-hour traffic, but may be in place until sunset as the crew tries to complete the job in as few days as possible. Motorists are encouraged to seek alternate routes if possible to avoid delays. Meanwhil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – April 25, 2008TxDOT's Rusk Maintenance Section rebuilds the inside edge of a curve on FM 839 near New Salem in Cherokee County. Crews dug out the failing edge and the area around it, back-filled it with hot mix and rolled it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Troup and the Loop Revisited" – Week of April 21, 2008As I've said in recent episodes, when the weather warms up, so does our work schedule, and the one big project that's been on hold since last year is back under way this week. In Tyler, construction crews are scheduled to return this week to work on the intersection of SH 110 and SE Loop 323, also known as Troup and the Loop, to pick up where the project left off last fall. Also, work scheduled for SH 110 in Whitehouse, a look at this week's mill-and-inlay and seal coat schedules, and a l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – April 18, 2008TxDOT's Henderson Maintenance Section and the Tyler District's Special Jobs Crew perform mill-and-inlay operations on US 259 north of Henderson. The mill machine grinds up worn pavement and shoots it into dump trucks, while fresh hot mix is being laid down in its wake.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Wet, Dry, and Everything In Between" – Week of April 14, 2008At TxDOT, we spend a lot of time and money trying to keep water out of our roadways. We use operations like edge seal, seal coat, and hot mixing to waterproof a roadway's surface, which will help prolong the life of the pavement. When I started this podcast program two years ago, we were in the middle of a multi-year drought. When I conducted the following interview with Mike Reagan, the Tyler District's Maintenance Superintendent, it was one of my first for the podcast. Since it's been rai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – April 11, 2008TxDOT's Canton Maintenance Section takes a detour from working on the highways to make sure Lake Tawakoni State Park's roads are in good shape before the spring and summer weather brings guests by the thousands. Hot mix is laid with a maintainer and rolled with rollers before being swept clean.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
"Bottleneck in Bullard" – Week of April 7, 2008Before taking a look at the seal coat and Mill and inlay operations scheduled for this week, I wanted to take a minute to talk about the overpass construction on US 69 at FM 344 in Bullard. In Bullard, Construction crews have reduced US 69 to one lane in each direction around the FM 344 intersection so they can begin construction on temporary lanes for traffic during the construction of the overpass at that intersection. Construction of the temporary lanes will take approximately two weeks, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – April 4, 2008TxDOT's Jacksonville Maintenance Section overlays part of SH 42 south of Price. Adhesive oil is sprayed on the existing pavement, then LRA, a surface material applied cold is spread and rolled. The process is ideal for working in cold weather.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The TxDOT Tornado – Week of March 31, 2008This week, as last week, and like many of the weeks to come as the weather heats up, this podcast will focus more on where work is scheduled to take place, and less on the stories behind the folks doing the work. I've gotten some good feedback from listeners on the winter podcast episodes, featuring sign technician Chris Tatum's crazy day, Canton MTCE supervisor Mark McClanahan's experiences while working on an icy interstate, and hearing from Tyler District mill crew's Marlin Cooper, "The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – March 28, 2008TxDOT's Special Jobs Crew applies a fog seal to FM 2493 south of Tyler. A fog seal is designed to seal water out of a surface with a light coat of oil to prevent the surface of the road from deteriorating. The sealant is sprayed through nozzles attached to the back of the tank truck and allowed to dry before traffic is allowed to drive on it.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Road Work Ahead – Week of March 24, 2008We're keeping it short and sweet this week, since I have three specific areas where work will be in progress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TxDOT: Working For You – March 21, 2008TxDOT's Longview Maintenance Section, along with help from the Tyler District's Special Jobs Crew, works to clear storm debris from FM 850 just east of New London. Heavy rain and wind overnight caused some trees to fall on and next to the roadway. Cleanup took less than a day.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |
