TRANSPORTATION UPDATES Street repairs to begin in city BRIARWOOD
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Georgetown City Council awarded a $2 million construction contract to Cutler Repaving Inc. for work on the city’s 2022 street maintenance project at its May 24 meeting. According to the city, the project consists of furnishing and installing approximately 120,500 square yards of hot-in-place-recycled pavement and 78,000 linear feet of milling as well as the adjustment of water valves and manholes, tree pruning, tra c control and striping work. Milling and hot-in-place recycling, or HIPR, are processes that involve removing and rehabilitating deterio- rating pavement. HIPR is a repaving process that grinds up existing asphalt and combines the grindings with new fresh asphalt for a high-quality surface. The work is to be performed on streets located in the northwestern area of Old Town and in the neigh- borhoods of Rocky Hollow Estates,
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Southwestern Boulevard widening A project to widen Southwestern Bou- levard to ve lanes from Raintree Drive to SE Inner Loop in Georgetown is un- der design. Georgetown Assistant City Manager Nick Woolery said the project will include sidewalk improvements but not bike lanes. Timeline: 2023-24 Cost: TBD Funding source: 2015 city of Georgetown bonds
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Briarwood and portions of Reata Trails, according to city documents. City o cials said every three years, a special vehicle travels on streets and scores the quality of the roadway surface. Then, on an annual basis, the Georgetown Systems Engineering Department uses those scores to identify which streets need to be resur- faced or reconstructed. Construction is expected to begin in August or September.
ONGOING PROJECT
City Council awarded a contract to Cutler Repaving Inc. for street maintenance. (Courtesy city of Georgetown)
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ALL INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED AS OF JULY 6. NEWS OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE OR OTHER LOCAL TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS? EMAIL US AT GEONEWS COMMUNITYIMPACT.COM. Funding source: city of Georgetown, Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Williams Drive/Lakeway Drive inter- section improvement The southbound lane of Williams Drive at the Lakeway Drive/Bootys Crossing intersection will be closed from July 27-Aug. 5 for intersection improvements. Upgrades include new turn lanes, tra c signals, ramps, crosswalks and sidewalks. Timeline: summer 2022 Cost: $1.45 million
Georgetown closes FM 971 to work on road-widening project The city of Georgetown
access to Georgetown High School. The project is part of a larger road plan to connect FM 971 to Northwest Bou- levard. Construction on the widening began when the Northwest bridge was completed in August 2021. The city paid an estimated $4.4 million to widen the section of the
road under Texas Depart- ment of Transportation management. Construc- tion was originally approved as part of a 2008 Georgetown transporta- tion bond. The larger project, including improvements east of Gann, have not been funded at the state level.
closed a portion of FM 971, also known as Weir Road, the week of June 20-23 for a project to widen it. Once completed in late July, the roadway will be four lanes and will realign FM 971 from Gann Street to North Austin Avenue, allowing for a better ow of tra c and more direct
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