There are several potholes on SB FM 2154 (Wellborn Rd) between Duck Haven and Millican Reserve. Should these be reported to Brazos or Grimes County, or TxDOT? These things are huge, can and will cause damage.
75AG said:
There are several potholes on SB FM 2154 (Wellborn Rd) between Duck Haven and Millican Reserve. Should these be reported to Brazos or Grimes County, or TxDOT? These things are huge, can and will cause damage.
EBrazosAg said:
Fitch between Carter Creek and 30 is a mess. CoCS seems unlikely to be motivated to fix until it starts breaking axles on their garbage trucks.
The OSR repaving job was criminal it was so bad. There's either a lot of graft at TxDOT to allow such bad work on a state highway, or utter incompetence.histag10 said:
Have seen 2 blowouts on OSR east of 6 in the past week or so. One pothole was so bad on one of those new bridges they put in that if there was oncoming traffic, you had to come to a complete stop and wait to be able to cross into the opposite lane to avoid damage to your vehicle.
They "filled" some of them this week, but they are already digging out again.
Gotta love the fact that we spent 3 years and God knows how much money for a road that is worse than it was before.
techno-ag said:
The OSR repaving job was criminal it was so bad. There's either a lot of graft at TxDOT to allow such bad work on a state highway, or utter incompetence.
EBrazosAg said:
Who was the GC on the project? That may explain a lot ….
Knife River bought FM Young out of Waco more than a few years ago. FM Young was a large company, but the Youngs had no children to leave the business to.histag10 said:EBrazosAg said:
Who was the GC on the project? That may explain a lot ….
Knife River. We were surprised to see them down here. They are a north dakota/montana company that did a lot of the road work in Mt and ND when we lived there. Up there, road work pretty much has to be done inside of 6 months because of weather, so the roads are always *****
AgProgrammer said:
It's a mess all the way to the Twin Oaks Landfill. Fitch to 30 and then 30 to the landfill has developed a ton of rapidly deteriorating holes after the big freeze and now the big rain last week. The weather combined with the constant flow of heavy garbage trucks is wreaking havoc on that whole stretch. We've been getting peppered with rocks non stop for the past several weeks because there are so many potholes just giving it up.
EMY92 said:Knife River bought FM Young out of Waco more than a few years ago. FM Young was a large company, but the Youngs had no children to leave the business to.histag10 said:EBrazosAg said:
Who was the GC on the project? That may explain a lot ….
Knife River. We were surprised to see them down here. They are a north dakota/montana company that did a lot of the road work in Mt and ND when we lived there. Up there, road work pretty much has to be done inside of 6 months because of weather, so the roads are always *****
Knife River has had a presence here for at least a decade in road construction and concrete supply. Likely longer than that, that's just how long I've been here.histag10 said:EMY92 said:Knife River bought FM Young out of Waco more than a few years ago. FM Young was a large company, but the Youngs had no children to leave the business to.histag10 said:EBrazosAg said:
Who was the GC on the project? That may explain a lot ….
Knife River. We were surprised to see them down here. They are a north dakota/montana company that did a lot of the road work in Mt and ND when we lived there. Up there, road work pretty much has to be done inside of 6 months because of weather, so the roads are always *****
Hmm. Weird. Until this past year, they were owned by Montana-Dakota Utilities. Looks like they came to Texas around 2002. I had no idea lol, guess I never really saw or noticed them until after we moved back, because we would see them EVERYWHERE up there.