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DCTA ADDS NEW COO
The Denton County Transportation Authority has named a new chief operating o cer and lled three other open positions, o cials announced in a release.
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for how to travel.” The Dallas-Fort Worth area accounted for 37 of the top 100 busiest roadways, which is up from 34 in 2021. Other roads listed in the report from Denton County were Loop 288 from US 380 to I-35E, ranking as the 66th busiest road in the state; Hwy. 114 from I-35W to FM 1938, ranked at 73; and US 380 from US 377 to Buckner Boulevard, coming in as the 89th busiest road in the state.
grow on Denton County roadways, according to a report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Four of the 100 busiest roadways in Texas are in the county, and I-35E from Business 121 to I-635 is the county’s busiest road at No. 36—up six spots from its previous ranking—with more than 226,000 hours of delays and $43.6 million lost due to congestion. The annual report showed delays on the state’s roadways and streets growing in 2021. It rates the 100 busiest segments of roadways in the state with a study looking at conges- tion and the delay it costs in terms of time spent stuck in gridlock. There were 1,860 roadways in 23 urban areas that were reviewed during the study, funded by the Texas Department of Transpor- tation. The study looked at how much longer drivers were on the road in tra c jams compared to
inancial impact. According to the report, a total of $3.8 billion was lost between wasted fuel and lost time in 2021. Truck congestion costs were $620 million. The 2021 numbers showed an increase, but the report stated COVID-19 e ects still had conditions below the prepandemic congestion. O cials with the transportation institute emphasized tra c will eventually return to familiar inten- sity as the state’s population grows and its economy recovers, according to a press release. “Tra c congestion isn’t just a big-city problem, and that problem is almost sure to get worse as our population surges by almost 20 mil- lion in the next 25 years,” said David Schrank, the TTI’s lead researcher on the annual study. “We need to add capacity, operate the system e ciently and give people options
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Maurice Bell joined as COO, while Sherrelle Evans-Jones was named chief nancial o cer. Bracey Goodwin IV was named director of safety and compliance, and David Magaña was named the DCTA director of marketing and communications. “It’s exciting that we have retained talented, bright and experienced leaders for our team, each of whom bring a wide variety of expertise that will keep DCTA moving forward,” DCTA CEO Paul Cristina said in the release. “With these key leaders now in place, we can better focus our organization on the future and improving mobility solutions.”
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