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State Highway Loop 88 (Loop 88) is a proposed state highway in Lubbock County, Texas, that will form a bypass around the city of Lubbock.The Loop 88 designation has been approved by local governments such as Lubbock, Texas while the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) builds the project, currently known as the Lubbock Outer Route.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is a governmental agency and its purpose is to "provide safe, effective, and efficient movement of people and goods" throughout the state. [1] Though the public face of the agency is generally associated with maintenance of the state's immense highway system, the agency is also responsible for ...
[3] [4] In 1921, Congress amended the Federal Aid to Roads Act of 1916 to require the states to take control of road design, construction, and maintenance of state highways by 1925. As a result, on January 1, 1924, the Texas Highway Department took full control of maintaining the state highways from the counties within which they resided.
The Texas Legislature created the Texas Highway Department in 1916 to administer federal highway construction and maintenance. In 1975, its responsibilities increased when the agency merged with the Texas Mass Transportation Commission, [3] resulting in the formation of the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation.
TxDOT said the permanent changes will begin just east of Russel Long Boulevard and end at FM 1541, just outside of the Canyon city limits. TxDOT reducing speed in 3 zones on SH 217 around Canyon ...
SH 1: 837.42: 1,347.70 State line at El Paso, Texas: State line at Texarkana, Texas: 1917: 1939 Replaced by Interstate 10, Interstate 20, and Interstate 30 a small portion inside the city of Dallas remained until 1952. SH 2 — — — — 1917: 1939 Became US 81: SH 3 — — — — 1917: 1952 Became SH 97 and US 90 Alt. SH 3
Also built into the construction contract was a provision that Zachry be charged for "lane rentals" by TxDOT for time they closed down traffic lanes—fees based on hourly assessments and the time of day the lane was closed. The fees ranged from $50 to a high of $110,000 for rush hours (equivalent to $81 to $180,000 in 2023 [1]). [6]
The NET RMA was established October 28, 2004 by a unanimous vote from the Texas Transportation Commission originally covering Smith and Gregg counties. [1] In June 2006, the NET RMA became the first RMA in Texas to expand beyond its original county members, adding Cherokee, Harrison, Rusk, and Upshur counties, bringing the total number of member counties to six.