"I am confident that the urgency of the situation was conveyed by the passion of over 200 people who attended the meeting."
Stretch of road lies betweenHwy 290 and Hamilton Pool Rd
Note: The letter from Rep. Isaac was received earlier today. Here's more background from KVUE.com Austin | By Andrew Horansky and photojournalist Robert McMurrey | TxDOT Ponders Compromise (Tues Feb 7, 2012) – Last summer Christy Vickrey lost her friend, a Bee Cave elementary teacher, in a head-on collision near Dripping Springs. A cross still marks the spot. The accident happened along Ranch Road 12. It is a road that Vickrey said went from bad to worse.
Letter to the editor:
Although Dripping Springs is a growing community, it's still the kind of tight-knit place where we know our neighbors and look out for one another. This was never more evident than at the Ranch Road 12 town hall meeting this week. Although the re-pavement of this road has affected us personally in different ways through decreased property value or slumping business sales, we all share the same basic concern for the community's safety.Soon after the re-pavement, I met with TXDOT officials in November to share my constituent’s concerns about the new road. Although we were assured that using chip seal was the sound financial decision and that noise and gravel levels would abate, we are still dealing with the same issues four months later. I knew that TXDOT needed to hear directly from the local residents about how the re-pavement has affected their lives in order to understand the importance of this issue and was happy that they accepted my invitation to attend our town hall meeting.
I am confident that the urgency of the situation was conveyed by the passion of over 200 people who attended the meeting. Thank you for taking the time for your voice to be heard. For those of you who might have left early, our District Engineer, Carlos Lopez, was able to make the last part of the meeting and hear our concerns firsthand.
We have been told that TXDOT will have a new plan for how to proceed within two weeks, and I will distribute that information as soon as I receive it. If you weren't able to make the meeting or haven't already contacted my office about RR 12, please email me at Jason.Isaac@house.state.tx.us so that I can keep you updated on the progress.
Simple repairs to a job that was poorly done will not solve the problem. Although I don't have any direct influence over the decision TXDOT will make, I have strongly expressed the need for a hot mix overlay on the road to them. I am hopeful that our plea will be seriously considered.
Jason Isaac State
Representative House
District 45
8 comments:
That surface is used on thousands of miles of Texas roads. It isnt dangerous and it is so much less expensive as the hot laid material. You Dripping Springs newcomers need to get real
I just can't understand what part of RR12 they are talking about. I have driven it many times and I find is just fine. I hope we are not going to start paving every road where someone gets killed. That would bankrupt TxDot and the taxpayers. Most of the time it is the driver's fault any way, not the road!
You people have no idea between a cold mix and hot mix.
TxDOT did the same thing 4 years ago on FM 1826 and heavy trucks caused smearing and damage to the roadway. Still, the community had to fight TxDOT for almost 1 year before it took money from another proposed Hays County roadway to resurface FM 1826.
Residents paid twice to have the road resurfaced correctly. TxDOT knows better but continues its shoddy work in the name of saving road dollars.
"Penny-wise and pound foolish."
A cold mix is fine for a country road that isn't used much by heavily laden trucks and excess traffic.
A hot mix is better in residential districts and well-traveled roads. It creates quieter roadways and ones that do not need repair as often.
All this is basic roadways 101.
Some people quoted in the Feb. 11 Austin A-S seem to agree with Heavy Construction Engineer (page B2).
TxDOT will come up with a plan by Feb. 21 to "fix" RR 12 between 290 and Hamilton Pool Road.
hey "engineer"-----you aint one! Cold mix is used to patch potholes. the surface placed on rr12 is a chip seal, also called squirt top. chipseal surface is used all over the US on main roadways and has an excellent reputation. you are officially discreditied---better change your username. dont give me any backtalk--i worked for txdot back in the goodolddays---iknow pavements
former TxDOT Anon:
chip seal's rep is in question. did you look at the seal job they did on FM 1826, as per Engineer's note here? It smeared and it sucked! So, I don't know what you're talking about.
FM 1826 was a cold seal not a chip seal. The Engineer was not wrong. If you had seen that roadway after that ridiculous job, you would know this.
You are a former TxDOT employee? Maybe that's why we have so many problems in addition to the ongoing mismanagement of that Perry puppet agency.
Using a "cold" mix for pot holes also is poorly conceived. It lasts for 1 or 2 months depending on the amount of traffic and weight carrying vehicles and then must be refilled. What a waste of money and manpower. Plus, the county or state will get a few more lawsuits when a vehicle goes into one of those pot holes awaiting a "cold" mix fix and gets damaged.
"Stupid is as stupid does..."
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