DALLAS - The Texas Transportation Commission has added 15 projects to its list of highways covered by funding from Proposition 1.
Since passage of the constitutional amendment in November, the commission that supervises the Texas Department of Transportation has approved funding for 200 projects statewide.
The newest parcel of projects approved June 25 is expected to cost $239 million.
Proposition 1 commits up to $1.7 billion from the state's oil and gas revenues for major projects throughout the state. Nearly 80% of Texas voters approved the measure.
Final contract awards have already been entered into on 75 of the projects.
Proposition 1 funding will rehabilitate 800 miles of highways, provide nearly 500 miles of new highway lanes, replace or widen and rehabilitate 114 bridges and add nearly 160 miles of passing lanes on rural highways, according to TxDOT.
The project list was created with advice from Metropolitan Planning Organizations and TxDOT districts.
"Transportation concerns must be addressed in a manner that is both efficient and effective," TxDOT executive director Joe Weber said of the Prop. 1 mandate. "Our efforts continue to prove we hear and understand that message."
