The Texas Department of Transportation has approved plans to add left-turn lanes to two highways in the area scheduled for new school construction. ‘We will be widening the roadways slightly to construct turn lanes on Farm to Market roads 1297 and 2148 where two local school districts are planning to build new schools. This should help to reduce the number of rear-end collisions at these locations by getting the vehicles needing to turn out of the main traffic lanes’ said Kenny Icenhower, area engineer for TxDOT in Texarkana, whose office is supervising the work. On FM 1297, more c...

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