Safety features will be added or enhanced along eight highways in Northeast Texas during the next four years, according to Texas Department of Transportation plans approved in this month.
"We are looking at installing additional safety features on culverts and drainage structures along several sections of highways in Bowie and Cass counties," said Paul Wong, area engineer for TxDOT in Texarkana.
CDM Holdings of New Boston was awarded the contract for the construction on these projects with a bid of $1.5 million.
Work on the projects should begin in June and take about four years to complete, Wong said.
Stretches of highway scheduled to receive the improvements are:
BOWIE
- 6.8 miles of Farm to Market Road 991 from U.S. Highway 67 West to U.S. 67 East
- 1.9 miles of FM 991 from U.S. 67 in Redwater southward
- 7.6 miles of FM 44 from the Red River County line to U.S. Highway 259
- 14.1 miles of FM 990 from FM 1840 to U.S. 67
- 8.9 miles of state Highway 98 from U.S. Highway 82 to U.S. 67
- 3.7 miles of FM 3096 from U.S. 67 northward
CASS
- 6.9 miles of state Highway 49 from state Highway 11 to state Highway 155
- 7.8 miles of FM 161 from the Morris County line to FM 130
- 3.3 miles of FM 2791 from state Highway 77 to FM 96