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TxDOT: Working For You – February 15, 2008

Posted: February 15th, 2008, 9:59pm PST

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TxDOT's Longview Maintenance Section works with an "Asphalt Zipper" mounted on the bucket of an articulated loader. The Zipper, a smaller mill machine, grinds up a narrow segment of pavement as part of a mill-and-inlay operation. Because of the narrower cut, a Bobcat loader pushes a smaller laydown machine for the hot-mix inlay.
"Seeing the Bigger Funding Picture" – Week of February 18, 2008

Posted: February 15th, 2008, 9:59pm PST

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While last week's hearing in front of the state Senate Finance Committee wasn't the most comfortable way for TxDOT's administration to spend an afternoon, the hearing did serve to narrow the conversation about transportation and future funding for transportation. At issue at one point was TxDOT's "lost billion dollars," which was the result of a mathematical error in a fiscal-year projection. In other words, we counted one of our eggs twice. The feel of the hearing was one of two friends disagreeing, and finding out over a heated discussion that it was a miscommunication that started the whole thing in the first place. And, as Chris Lippincott of TxDOT's Government and Public Affairs Division in Austin told me, there is a silver lining. Also, a quick look Tyler District projects that have been affected by funding shortfalls.

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