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[Lowyn]

I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find a map of what streets Fort Worth has paved this year and what they plan to pave next year? Here's an example of Houston's page.

 

I think the Neighborhood Street Maintenance Page is what I'm looking for but all the planned projects have already been completed. I also know of the Street & Transportation Improvements page but the items aren't well organized or very precise. 

 

Is there another spot to find this information?

[360texas]

Some what off topic but still about street paving.

 

/ON

Wedgewood area. 3700 Wilkie Way block.

 

Prior years street repair was probably fixed every 5 - 8 years.  Read kept contractors busy and gainfully employed

 

Last street repair was different... City employed a Testing Lab that performed soils and asphalt compaction core testing.

 

Our 3700 block of Wilkie Way changed (Perhaps already in the original design) the repair design to include Soil Lime Stabilisation.  About 50% into the street repair contract a lime truck /trailer arrived and made several passes through the street area.

Followed by several passess of water truck and a steel wheeled vibrator compactor.  (Read lime entrainment breaks down the high expansive black clays)  Days followed by a lab tech doing soils nuclear testing.  Yes I talked with the lab tech about their work flow.  After finished subgrade compaction and asphalt paving core testing we had a well built street. Now after several years our street maintains its design with no repairs.  With one exception of one area around a sewer manhole which has over the years has experienced subgrade compaction failure ... read 10 x 10 square area around the manhole sunk about 6" +.  Other than this issue no asphalt paving appear to be failing.

 

Conclusion:  When doing street repair  the City should always consider in their contracts soils testing and lime stabilization techniques.  Streets last longer and reduces future repair costs.   IF soils and pavement issue occur.. workmanship warranties must be enacted to require the contractor to return to the site and make reparations at contractor expense and not the city.

 

Its just about doing business the correct way.

 

/OFF 

[360texas]

Well its been a month or so since I wrote about paving.  The City Water department today is out there placing a new concrete ring around the manhole top.

 

This is a good thing.

[Nitixope]

I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find a map of what streets Fort Worth has paved this year and what they plan to pave next year? 

 

Hope this helps.  There's a city contact on the last page if you want to email for an update.

 

http://fortworthtexa...438e59ccfca.pdf

 

http://fortworthtexa...ec8b862d981.pdf

[Doohickie]

Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting.

Looks like Risinger will soon connect between McCart and Crowley. That is a significant connection for my old neighborhood. McCart will soon run all the way into Crowley as well.

[John T Roberts]

Doohickie, I knew the city was working on Risinger Road between McCart and Crowley Road, but I didn't know they were planning to complete McCart into the City of Crowley.

[txbornviking]

 

I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find a map of what streets Fort Worth has paved this year and what they plan to pave next year? 

 

Hope this helps.  There's a city contact on the last page if you want to email for an update.

 

http://fortworthtexa...438e59ccfca.pdf

 

http://fortworthtexa...ec8b862d981.pdf

 

 

page 34 of the first link provides some details on improvements to university drive between the river and where it passes under chisholm trail. I'd not seen these before, so it should be interesting to follow

[Austin55]

 

 

I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find a map of what streets Fort Worth has paved this year and what they plan to pave next year? 

 

Hope this helps.  There's a city contact on the last page if you want to email for an update.

 

http://fortworthtexa...438e59ccfca.pdf

 

http://fortworthtexa...ec8b862d981.pdf

 

 

page 34 of the first link provides some details on improvements to university drive between the river and where it passes under chisholm trail. I'd not seen these before, so it should be interesting to follow

 

 

More details and discussion in link below

 

http://www.fortworth...ive#entry114440

[Doohickie]

Doohickie, I knew the city was working on Risinger Road between McCart and Crowley Road, but I didn't know they were planning to complete McCart into the City of Crowley.

Connections that should have been done 20 years ago.

[John T Roberts]

Doohickie, I agree.  Risinger should have been the first priority and McCart, second.  From the city documents, it appears they are treating it that way.  Of course, the completion of McCart is a much bigger project and will take longer. 

[RD Milhollin]

On topic with the title of this thread, but not the drift...

 

Fort Worth, and other Texas cities in general, should design new roads to be less wide than is currently the norm. When older, established roads are rebuilt they should be narrowed. This practice should be amended into the city's streets standards. The costs of building and maintaining roads are not going down, and the costs of building and maintaining narrower streets are correspondingly less than wider streets. Parking on only one side of the street should be the norm in residential neighborhoods. Commercial and mixed-use thoroughfares that are deemed possible rail or bus transit lines in the future should be preserved an appropriate width to accommodate those future forecast uses. Besides costs of materials and labor, a less obvious advantage would be the "traffic taming" aspect that narrower streets bring. Any new paving plan should bring newer, more cost-effective and safety conscious standards to the table.

[elpingüino]

Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting.

Looks like Risinger will soon connect between McCart and Crowley. That is a significant connection for my old neighborhood. McCart will soon run all the way into Crowley as well.

If any of you have driven from Chisholm Trail into Crowley, you may have noticed a southern leg of Hulen St. that will eventually connect to Hulen in Fort Worth.
https://maps.app.goo...mrYmGhy8QkVNiZ9

There's another leg of Hulen in Burleson that could eventually connect as well.
https://maps.app.goo...YK3AG4P5JpdYPL9

[Doohickie]

Yeah, I noticed that part in Burleson (almost Joshua) years ago when my son's piano teacher was in Joshua, it goes all the way out to Route 174. The two segments you linked are only separated by less than 3/4 of a mile.

 

And the intersection of Hulen and 1187 is only 1.4 mi south of the extension of Hulen labeled as West Cleburne Road (although a straight shot would take it right through residential lots on Longhorn Trail and Colt Lane... it would probably need to be routed a bit further west.

[John T Roberts]

If you can stand the pain of going through the City's Zoning Map site, there is a button to click that will show the Master Thoroughfare Plan.  If you zoom in, you can see the future alignment of Hulen Street.

[txbornviking]

If you can stand the pain of going through the City's Zoning Map site, there is a button to click that will show the Master Thoroughfare Plan.  If you zoom in, you can see the future alignment of Hulen Street.

 

this would have to make Hulen the longest street in Ft. Worth right? possibly even all of tarrant county?

[Austin55]

 

If you can stand the pain of going through the City's Zoning Map site, there is a button to click that will show the Master Thoroughfare Plan.  If you zoom in, you can see the future alignment of Hulen Street.

 

this would have to make Hulen the longest street in Ft. Worth right? possibly even all of tarrant county?

 

Fascinating question. One that's always interested me is starting at Henderson in downtown, 3rd street becomes 4th, then 1st, then Randoll Mill, then Eastchase, then Green Oaks, then Kingswood until it ends in Grand Prairie. 

[Nitixope]

 

 

If you can stand the pain of going through the City's Zoning Map site, there is a button to click that will show the Master Thoroughfare Plan.  If you zoom in, you can see the future alignment of Hulen Street.

 

this would have to make Hulen the longest street in Ft. Worth right? possibly even all of tarrant county?

 

Fascinating question. One that's always interested me is starting at Henderson in downtown, 3rd street becomes 4th, then 1st, then Randoll Mill, then Eastchase, then Green Oaks, then Kingswood until it ends in Grand Prairie. 

 

Austin55, you forgot to include Dottie Lynn Parkway between Eastchase and Green Oaks Blvd.  Interesting question to ask / answer, how about Business 287, that's a good stretch of cross-county road from Mansfield up to Avondale.

[elpingüino]

 

 

If you can stand the pain of going through the City's Zoning Map site, there is a button to click that will show the Master Thoroughfare Plan.  If you zoom in, you can see the future alignment of Hulen Street.

 
this would have to make Hulen the longest street in Ft. Worth right? possibly even all of tarrant county?
 

Fascinating question. One that's always interested me is starting at Henderson in downtown, 3rd street becomes 4th, then 1st, then Randoll Mill, then Eastchase, then Green Oaks, then Kingswood until it ends in Grand Prairie. 
 

Austin55, you forgot to include Dottie Lynn Parkway between Eastchase and Green Oaks Blvd.  Interesting question to ask / answer, how about Business 287, that's a good stretch of cross-county road from Mansfield up to Avondale.

Beach Street/Alta Vista is a contender. It's 18 miles from just north of 287 all the way past 170.

[Doohickie]

Route 183 is about 19 miles long from where it breaks off from I-20 near Hulen Mall as Southwest Blvd, then Altamere, White Settlement Road, River Oaks Blvd., Ephriham Avenue, 28th Street, to Midway Road before merging into the Airport Freeway. 

[Doohickie]

 

I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find a map of what streets Fort Worth has paved this year and what they plan to pave next year? 

 

Hope this helps.  There's a city contact on the last page if you want to email for an update.

 

http://fortworthtexa...438e59ccfca.pdf

 

http://fortworthtexa...ec8b862d981.pdf

 

....and those links don't work anymore.    I went to check something and they didn't work.  Apparently Ft Worth is revamping their website so a lot of the links are/will be broken.

[Nitixope]

If all else fails I think I saved the PDFs and can convert them to image. Will check tomorrow.

[Nitixope]

https://www.tdlr.tex.../TABS2022018030

 

PROJECT

Project Name: 2022 Downtown Resurfacing Project

Project Number: TABS2022018030

Facility Name: City of Fort Worth ROW

Location Address: Various Locations, Downtown Fort Worth

Fort Worth, TX 76102

Location County: Tarrant

Start Date: 5/9/2022

Completion Date: 2/1/2023

Estimated Cost: $868,800

Type of Work: Renovation/Alteration

Type of Funds: This project involves public funds, public land, or is a Federally funded roadway project.

Scope of Work: Construction and/or rehabilitation of sidewalks (22,000 sf) and ramps (20,000 sf) in downtown Fort Worth in conjunction with the resurfacing project.

Square Footage: 42,000 ft 2

Are the private funds provided by the tenant? No

Current Status: Project Registered

 

OWNER

Owner Name:

City of Fort Worth

Owner Address:

200 Texas St

Fort Worth, Texas 76102

 

TENANT

Not Assigned

 

DESIGN FIRM

Not Assigned