Transportation
BY CODY THORN
Dove Road work in Southlake to finish by summer
Grapevine OKs $125K repairs contract Grapevine City Council approved a contract for $125,000 to O. Trevino Con- struction for concrete paving repairs at the intersection of Northwest Highway and Park Boulevard May 6. The gist The repairs will be done between 8 p.m.-5 a.m., nightly to help reduce impact to travel flow, according to city documents. Grapevine Marketing and Communications Manager Mona Quintanilla said no start date for the construction has been decided.
The Texas Department of Transportation resumed work on Dove Road in Southlake at the end of May. The details TxDOT is working with the contractor to expedite the finalization of the project on SH 114 and Dove Road, with an estimated substantial completion of this summer, a TxDOT official said in an email. The project includes turnaround lanes on Kirkwood Boulevard and Dove Road from SH 114. What happened? The announcement comes after Mayor Shawn McCaskill posted a letter addressed to State Sen. Kelly Hancock and State Rep. Giovanni Caprigilone on his Facebook page that expressed frustration with delays in the project. McCaskill wrote that the project started in Janu- ary 2021 with a completion date of December 2024.
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“The continued presence of traffic barrels, closed lanes and inactive construction zones reflects a lack of visible progress—issues that have become a significant source of frustration for our residents,” McCaskill wrote. McCaskill said the city committed $3 million to
the project. What else?
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According to the TxDOT website, the amount paid for the project as of May 20 is $40.7 million, which includes $30 million in construction.
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