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By Jennifer RuppCEG CORRESPONDENT

MoPac is one of Austin’s mostimportant arteries, serving as a keyroute to downtown and pointsbeyond. As a primary alternative toInterstate 35, MoPac carries morethan 180,000 cars and trucks eachday. By 2030, MoPac is projectedto serve more than 320,000 cars aday. The MoPac Improvement

Project will give drivers the optionto bypass congestion on the 11-mi.(18 km) stretch of MoPac betweenParmer Lane and Cesar ChavezStreet and get to their destinationwithout delay. As Austin’s primary north-south

route alternative to I-35, MoPachas long been identified as a heav-ily congested corridor in need oftraffic solutions. In fact, additionalHigh Occupancy Vehicle (HOV)or Express Lanes on MoPac havebeen included in the Capital AreaMetropolitan PlanningOrganizations (CAMPO) LongRange Transportation Plan since1994. In 2010, after decades of debate

about how to improve MoPac, the

Central Texas Regional MobilityAuthority partnered with the TexasDepartment of Transportation toconduct a federal Environmental

Assessment of the corridor. Overtwo years the project team helddozens of community meetingsand analyzed a wide range of

issues including roadway noise,historical properties and bicycleand pedestrian needs. The projectteam had limited options given a

community desire not to acquireadditional land, take any homes orbusinesses or build any elevatedstructures. Given these constraintsit was determined that ExpressLanes were the best option toimprove mobility in the corridorand meet the need and purpose ofthe project. In August 2012 the Federal

Highway Administration complet-ed its review of the EnvironmentalAssessment and determined thatconstruction could proceed. In fall2012 the Central Texas RegionalMobility Authority solicited pro-posals from companies to designand build the project and after scor-ing the proposals, selected CH2MHILL to complete the job. CH2M HILL is an international

engineering and construction firmheadquartered in Englewood,Colo. The firm was among seventhat competed for the right todesign and construct the MoPacImprovement Project. CH2MHILL was hired following anextensive competitive reviewprocess.The MoPac Improvement

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STRAWN, Texas (AP) BankheadHighway may be the most important roadmany Texans have never heard of.The coast-to-coast highway, which con-

nected Washington, D.C., to San Diego —and stretched 850 mi. (1,368 km) throughTexas, from Texarkana to El Paso — wasvital to the development of not only major

cities such as Fort Worth and Arlington, butalso smaller places such as Strawn that blos-somed during the state’s oil, coal and rail-road booms.It all began 100 years ago, when Congress

approved funding for Bankhead Highway.Much of the road is still on the ground today,although it is known by many other names invarious cities.Only a handful of places, including Aledo

and Weatherford, still call it Bankhead

Highway or Bankhead Drive on street signs.In other cities, it was (and sometimes still is)known as U.S. 80, U.S. 67 or Texas 1. Inwest Fort Worth, it is Camp BowieBoulevard. In Arlington, it’s Division Street.To celebrate the centennial of Bankhead

Highway, a convoy of nearly 50 antique carsretraced the routes through Texas, makingstops in Arlington and Fort Worth beforepassing through Weatherford, Mineral Wellsand Strawn, where the drivers were to enjoy

a picnic before heading to Abilene.Often, the stretches of old Bankhead

Highway run parallel to modern highwayssuch as Texas 180 and U.S. 180, or inter-states such as I-20. The interstate system,which now serves as the preferred route formost cars traversing Texas, has nearly ban-ished Bankhead Highway to antiquity.“Bankhead Highway needs to be for

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Trophy Tractor Hosts Customer Appreciation, Fundraiser

Trophy Tractor Inc. recentlyheld its second annual CustomerAppreciation/Charity Crawfishand Shrimp Boil. Rain had plaguedthe North Texas area all week, andit looked like there might be a

break in the weather. Just beforethe gala, the rains returned, buteveryone pitched in to help movethe festivities indoors. When it comes to the Charity

Crawfish/Shrimp Boil, Jeff Miller,

owner of Trophy Tractor is estab-lishing a tradition of not allowinganyone to out-bid him. “Dealing with the Irving Cares

personnel and Teddie Story, chiefexecutive officer, has become quite

a treat for us and serves a greatcause,” said Miller. “We plan oncontinuing the tradition.”The chefs for the

Crawfish/Shrimp Boil were Chrisand Kim Arrington of Irving,

Texas. Also as a very special treatfor this year, Trophy Tractor invit-ed the Parker McCollum Band toentertain customers with contem-porary country music

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(L-R) are Lori Bunger, consultant Trophy Tractor; Maxx Miller; Jeff Miller, ownerTrophy Tractor; LouAnn Norris, Trophy Tractor; and Teddie Story of Irving Cares.

The Parker McCollum Band keeps the party going with upbeat country music.

Diverging Diamond Intersection...

TxDOT Celebrates Success of New, Innovative Design The Texas Department of Transportation,

in cooperation with officials from the city ofRound Rock and Williamson County, cele-brated the full project completion of the I-35and RM 1431/University Boulevard diverg-ing diamond intersection project. Moreimportantly, they celebrated the fact that thenew innovative intersection is workingextremely well.Citizens have been driving in this new

configuration since November 2015. Sincethen, TxDOT has had the opportunity to runsome metrics on how the area’s first diverg-ing diamond intersection is performing, andthe results are promising.“While this innovative intersection design

was initially confusing to some motorists, theimprovement to traffic flow here has beenstraightforward: It works,” Mayor AlanMcGraw said. “It’s rare indeed when you cansay that traffic volume has increased but traveltimes have actually decreased, and by a signifi-cant amount. But that’s the case with the diverg-ing diamond intersection, the latest successfulpartnership between the city and TxDOT.”Despite a 45 percent increase in traffic

volume at this intersection over the last four

years, it is already yielding a 13 percentreduction in morning travel times and a 44-58 percent decrease in afternoon traveltimes.* This means that even though a lot

more cars are traveling through this area,they are getting through one of RoundRock’s most congested intersections muchquicker than before.

This significant travel time decreasedirectly benefits motorists who live and trav-el in the area and use the I-35 corridor.“People thought we were crazy when we

first proposed this idea, but now that theproject is complete, the proof is in the pud-ding,” said Terry McCoy, Austin Districtengineer. “The Austin District will continueto pull out all the stops to find cost effectiveand innovative ways to deal with theregion’s growing congestion. Recognizingthat innovative intersections may require aperiod of adjustment for drivers, they areproving their worth.”Work on the $6.6 million project included

the construction of a diverging diamondintersection, as well as a number of otherimprovements, including an intersectionbypass road, ramp improvements and addi-tional sidewalks for pedestrians and cyclists.The contractor for the project is Capital

Excavation.*Travel time data and throughput results

analysis performed by HDR Inc.(This story also can be found on

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TxDOT has had the opportunity to run some metrics on how the area’s firstdiverging diamond intersection is performing, and the results are promising.


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Organizer Hopes to SparkInterest in Bankhead Hwy.for Oklahoma and Missouri,” Dale Truitt,who organized the 500-mi. (804.6 km) tourof Bankhead Highway from Texarkana toOdessa, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.The caravan of cars from the AntiqueAmerican Independent AutomobileAssociation included a 1911 Dodge, a 1915Packard and several Ford Model Ts.“It’s just time we get on it,” Truitt said.

“This tour is going to be the kickoff of hope-fully more interest in Bankhead Highway.”In the tiny city of Strawn, about 80 mi.

(129 km) west of downtown Fort Worth, atwo-story building is still brightly paintedwith a sign that reads “Bankhead Hotel &Apts.” The building has sat vacant fordecades, as Strawn entered into a slow,steady economic and population declinelinked to the area’s oil and coal production,but the hotel is still a well-known local land-mark and one of the few structures in Texasthat uses the iconic Bankhead name.Strawn’s little piece of Bankhead

Highway is now known alternatively asTexas 16 or Front Street — a rather nonde-script road in a city with no red lights otherthan at railroad crossings. But a block of theroadway in the city center, directly outsidethe Bankhead Hotel, still features the origi-nal Bankhead Highway red bricks made at anow-closed factory in nearby Thurber.“We’re very proud of those bricks,” said

Danny Miller, who grew up in Strawn and isnow city secretary. “Many people who livedhere helped make those bricks, and we’vestill got them right in our downtown.”But more than just that Texas connection,

Bankhead Highway was one of the firstcoast-to-coast roads in the United States,starting at the Zero Milestone on the WhiteHouse South Lawn in Washington and end-ing near the Pacific Ocean in San Diego.And, after years of being all but ignored

by history — to the point where manymotorists today probably know little or noth-ing about it — Bankhead Highway is nowthe subject of a cultural reawakening ofsorts. And that renaissance includes severalcar shows and other events that were held inFort Worth and several West Texas commu-nities.“Bankhead Highway was the nation’s first

all-weather, cross-country highway,” saidDan Smith of Fort Worth, a retired meteorol-ogist who wrote the book The BankheadHighway in Texas, published in 2013. “TheLincoln Highway was first, but you couldn’tuse it all year because it went up through thenorthern U.S. and through the mountains outwest, and that made the roads impassable.

Bankhead Highway went all across thecountry through the South, and you couldrely on it all year around.”The highway was named after Sen. John

H. Bankhead of Alabama, a strong advocateof building a coast-to-coast highway in thepre-World War I years.The road was commissioned a year before

Texas even formed its highway department,an agency that became the TexasDepartment of Transportation. The depart-ment and the Texas Historical Commissionhave worked together in recent years to mapBankhead Highway and catalog severalthousand adjacent attractions.

The road wasn’t built for military purpos-es, although many members of Congresssupported the project for its ability to movepeople and equipment from one coast toanother. As the U.S. entered World War I andlater World War II, the need for troop move-ment to respond to a potential enemy inva-sion became paramount.But in the cities on Bankhead Highway,

the real value was the ability to bring intourists and other visitors, and to more easi-ly connect with the rest of the country.In Strawn, Bankhead Highway harks back

to a time when the city was at least fourtimes its current population of about 600 res-idents.“The Bankhead came through in the early

‘20s at a time before there were interstates oranything like that,” said Miller. “It was veryimportant to the economy of Strawn. Manybusinesses thrived catering to the traffic thatpassed through. It was a big deal having amajor highway coming through a little townlike this.”For more information, visit

http://www.star-telegram.com.(This story also can be found on

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“This tour is going to be the kickoff ofhopefully more interestin Bankhead Highway.”

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Star State, Crockett Sand andGravel has a long history as a lead-ing provider of high-quality sandand gravel products to concreteplants, construction projects andeven homeowners who purchase aload of sand for landscaping proj-ects.According to a company offi-

cial, four key ingredients havebeen critical to the organization’slong-term accomplishments —including the use of Doosan equip-ment.

Meeting CustomerExpectations

Originally founded as HolseyBrothers Sand & Gravel in 1951,Barry and Lee Holsey developed asolid reputation for consistentlymeeting specifications and fulfill-ing obligations on every job. Theirquarry and production facilities ona 2,000-acre Trinity River siteallowed the company to achievepreferred supplier status for someof the largest construction projectsin Texas.The brothers provided 1.8 mil-

lion tons of state-approved materi-al for the construction of theDallas-Fort Worth InternationalAirport. They were a supplier ofchoice for materials in the buildingof I-35 and I-45 interstate high-ways. When a major energypipeline was constructed nearCorrigan, Texas, the companydelivered 117,000 cubic yards ofselect fill.

Valuable Resources inGround

After the brothers went theirseparate ways, Crockett Sand andGravel was established at a newsite along the Trinity River. Thecompany was up and running inlate 1998 when Barry’s son, Lee,opened a new plant. For the past 17years, the river-bottom land hasproduced a variety of products,

including pea gravel and sand forconcrete plants and championshipgolf courses.“Everything we take out of the

ground gets made into something,”said Stuart Perry, gravel pit fore-man and one of the firm’s 13 onsiteemployees. “We strip and loadarticulated dump trucks with adragline and transport the materialtwo miles to our plants. Typically,we produce the same amount ofproduct each day and stockpile itaround our property.”At times, the company has had

as much as 80,000 tons on hand.Last May, however, the stockpiledtotal dropped to 2,000 tons becauseof a temporary spike in business.“The Trinity River flooded andmost of the other gravel pitsaround here were shut down,”Perry said. “We have a leveearound our location, as do the oth-ers, but ours was tall enough tohold the water back. That’s theclosest we’ve ever come to run-ning out.”Within the last year, plant capac-

ity was increased to 3,500 tons perday. Sand is delivered every day to13 concrete plants by the compa-ny’s fleet of 23 trucks, each with

acapacity of 27 tons. Before theplant expansion, Crockett Sandand Gravel sold 20,000 to 30,000tons per month. Now the monthlyaverage is around 50,000 tons,reaching as high as 70,000 tons attimes.“Today we are digging down

about 25 feet,” Perry said. “Withabout 600 acres of sand and gravelremaining at this location, weshould be able to meet thedemands of our customers foryears to come.”

Loyal CustomersConcrete plants, construction

firms and others have come to relyon Crockett Sand and Gravel foron-time delivery of quality prod-ucts.Two current highway projects in

the Lufkin, Texas, area are typicalof what the company provides toits customers. Webber, the largestheavy-highway construction com-pany in Texas, is building a pair ofnew interchanges along U.S.Highway 59. The multi-year proj-ect receives loads of concrete sandand stabilized sand from Crockettalmost every day. For the largest ofTexas Timberjack sales specialist Charles Bailey (L) and Stuart

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Crockett Chooses Doosan to Keep Up With Demandthe jobs, at the intersection of U.S.Highways 59 and 287, the compa-ny has delivered 30,000 to 40,000tons of concrete sand — an aggre-gate sand usually composed ofgneiss, trap rock limestone or gran-ite — and about 12,000 tons of sta-bilized material. Some of the sandgoes directly to a portable concreteplant while other loads are usedbehind retaining walls.

Leading-Edge EquipmentFrom its first manual dragline to

today’s automated excavationequipment and methods, CrockettSand and Gravel has regularlymade investments to meet jobspecifications and deliver qualityproducts.

To keep up with the businessthat operates nonstop from 6 a.m.to 5 p.m., equipment needs to bereliable, productive and operator-friendly. A Doosan DA40 articulat-ed dump truck (ADT), andDL250-5 and DL450-3 wheelloaders fit the needs of the compa-ny perfectly.

The DA40 is one of five haulingunits that transport sand and gravelfrom the quarry to the plantthroughout the day.

“Everything on the Doosanmodel is a little better than what weare used to in our other fourtrucks,” Perry said. “The ride issmoother, the cab is more comfort-able, visibility is better and fuelefficiency is superior. The DA40saves a gallon of fuel an hour com-pared to the other trucks. Over an11- or 12-hour day, that’s signifi-cant.”

The DA40, with a rated payloadof 88,000 pounds, has a flexibleand agile free-swinging gear-driv-en tandem bogey and front-mount-ed turning ring that allows all sixwheels to maintain maximumground contact, enabling the truckto work productively in off-roadsituations.

While the ADT is hauling mate-rials to the plant all day, theDL450-3 is in the quarry loadingthe trucks with a 6-cubic-yardbucket. The 354-net-horsepowerwheel loader has the outstanding

traction and lifting power nec-essary to efficiently keep pro-duction moving.

In comparing the DL450-3with older Doosan wheel load-ers, Perry said there are someimportant differences.

“The DL450-3 is a greatmachine,” he said. “It’s a wholelot more user-friendly, mucheasier to work on and maintain,and has a cab where theergonomics are vastlyimproved.” For Crockett Sandand Gravel, using top-of-the-line equipment allows the com-pany to keep up with customerdemand and make on-timedeliveries every day.

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The DA40 is one of five hauling units that transportsand and gravel from the quarry to the plantthroughout the day.

The DA40 saves a gallon of fuel an hourcompared to the other trucks.

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Customers, Trophy Raise Money for Irving Cares

More than 80 Trophy Tractor customers attended theevent at the Grand Prairie, Texas, location to enjoy 150pounds of fresh crawfish and copious amounts of shrimp,along with new potatoes, corn on the cob and sausage — aSouthern tradition. “My entire company really gets a thrill out of serving a just

cause with the charity auction and simply giving our cus-tomers and friends good reason to kick-back on a Fridayevening after a hard week’s work,” said Miller.

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FAE USA Signs Ag-Power Inc. asExclusive Dealer for North TexasFAE USA Inc., manufacturer, engi-

neer and distributor of mulching, stabi-lization, reclamation and rock-grindingequipment, has reached an agreementwith Ag-Power Inc. to become the soleFAE construction dealer in NorthTexas, West Louisiana and SouthwestArkansas.This newly-formed alliance will

allow Ag-Power Inc. and FAE USA toconsolidate their position in the grow-ing construction sector in the Lone Starstate and neighboring areas. Ag-PowerInc. is now the exclusive FAE con-struction dealer of the following maincities and surrounding counties:• Texas: Dallas-Ft. Worth, Wichita

Falls, Waco, Tyler, Longview, Paris,Texarkana, Hillsboro, Belton, Killeen-Fort Hood and Temple. • Arkansas: Lafayette, Little River,

Miller, Sevier, Howard, Hempstead,Nevada, Columbia, Union, Ouachita,Clark, Pike and Polk counties.• Louisiana: Caddo, Bossier,

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attachments, which perform soil stabi-lization, asphalt grinding and stonecrushing from 20 in. (50.8 cm) rockdown to pulverization, simultaneously. The main sectors of FAE machines

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formance of FAE attachments sincethey are PTO-driven. The attachmentsrequire a tractor with a PTO, IVT/AVTgear, three-point hitch and the allottedhorsepower. The large footprint andwell-known reputation of Ag-PowerInc. makes it the perfect partner to tack-le one of the fastest-growing construc-

tion markets in the country, accordingto the companies.Giorgio Carera, CEO of FAE USA,

and Brad Gersten, GM of Ag-PowerInc., are both very excited about thisnew partnership and see enormouspotential in this territory. As part of the agreement, Ag-Power

Inc. will be stocking machine invento-ry, parts and will provide service to allFAE machines sold in the territory.For more information, visit

http://www.fae-group.com/us andhttp://www.ag-power.com/.

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As part of the agreement, Ag-Power Inc. will be stocking machine inventory and parts and will provide serviceto all FAE machines sold in the territory.

This newly-formed alliance will allow Ag-Power Inc. and FAE USA to con-solidate their position in the growing construction sector in the Lone Starstate and neighboring areas.


Variable Toll Lanes Part of Plan to Ease MoPac Congestion

one Express Lane in each direc-tion. South of RM 2222 most ofthe construction work will occuralong the right hand side of theroad adjacent to nearby homes andbusinesses (No additional propertywill be acquired). North of RM2222, the new lanes will be con-structed in the middle of the exist-ing highway. Bicycle and pedestri-an improvements will be con-structed at cross streets and on por-tions of the frontage roads. During construction, work will

occur around the clock, but laneclosures on MoPac will be limitedto overnight hours (9 p.m. to 5a.m.) except Sundays, when lane

closures may start at 5 p.m. Laneclosures will be limited to avoidimpacts to traffic during the day.Frontage road lanes may be closedat limited times during the day.Despite these restrictions and aconcerted effort to keep trafficmoving, drivers should still antici-pate construction-related slow-downs once construction begins. Subcontractors working with

CH2M include Jordan FosterConstruction of Austin for excava-tion and construction of the undercrossings; Lane Construction(Dallas office) for bridge widen-ing, and Aaron ConcreteConstruction, also of Austin, forthe shared use path, intersection

ramps, and sidewalks. The contract was executed in

April 2013. The northbound andsouthbound sections between RM2222-183 will be completed inJune. Full completion is scheduledby the end of 2016. To help expe-dite construction and reduce proj-ect delays due to weather, theMobility Authority has been work-ing with the project contractor toexpand the times at which lane clo-sures are allowed. The MobilityAuthority has also been permittingthe construction contractor to tem-porarily close some cross streetsand/or ramps. To help keep trafficmoving during construction, a

Community Benefits• To improve livability along MoPac, approximately 7 mi.

(11.2 km) of sound walls will be constructed at a cost of $20 mil-lion. • More than $5 million in bicycle and pedestrian improve-

ments are planned in the corridor.• More than $3 million will be spent to improve the visual

appearance of the corridor through special architectural features,colorization of concrete structures and enhanced landscaping.• The express lanes will give transit buses, vanpools, emer-

gency vehicles and individual drivers the ability to bypass con-gestion on the 11-mi. stretch of MoPac between Parmer Lane andCesar Chavez Street.

MOPAC from page 1

Bicycle and pedestrian bridge deck construction at Union Pacific Crossing.

Excavation for Northbound Express Lane Underpass.Sound wall 17 along the Cesar Chevez/6th Street Northboundentrance ramp.

see MOPAC page 20

New Express Lanes taking shape north of Far West Blvd.


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Sound Barriers Will Improve Livability Along MoPacHow Variable Toll Pricing Works

• To ensure the Express Lanes remain free flowing, variable tolls are used tomanage the number of vehicles entering the lanes at any given time.

• When traffic is heavy and demand for the Express Lanes is high, toll ratesincrease. When demand is low, toll rates go down.

• Changeable electronic signs display the current rates in real time, so driv-ers know the price before deciding whether to enter the lanes.

• Once you are in the lanes, the price you saw on the signs is the price youare guaranteed to pay. Drivers entering after you or at different locations maypay a different rate

• Initial toll rates could range from $0.25 to $4.00 per trip but could behigher if demand is greater than projected.

• Tolls paid by users will be the source of money to repay the funds used tofinance the project, including the sound walls and bicycle/pedestrian improve-ments.

Concrete paving on floor of Southbound Express Lane Underpass.

courtesy vehicle will be patrolling along the MoPac corridor(between Cesar Chavez Street and Parmer Lane) providingfree roadside assistance. Following a new trend in major cities across the United

States, the MoPac Expressway will be implementing“Variable Toll Express Lanes”. Express Lanes are usuallyreserved for public transit buses, registered van pools andemergency vehicles to provide a reliable, uncongested, non-

stop, toll free route to their destination. As these vehicles willnot use up all of the space in the Express Lanes, individualdrivers will be permitted to use the lane if they choose to. Tokeep the Express Lanes from becoming congested, individ-ual drivers are charged a variable toll that increases whentraffic is heavy and goes down when traffic is light. The pri-mary goal is not to generate revenue, but to keep the ExpressLane free flowing as much as possible.The MoPac Improvement Project is a Central Texas

Regional Mobility Authority (Mobility Authority) projectand has been developed in partnership with a number ofother government agencies in Central Texas including theTexas Department of Transportation, the City of Austin andCapital Metro. For more information, visit www.mopacexpress.com.(This story also can be found on Construction

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