The Texas Transportation Commission approved the state’s Department of Transportation’s 10-year transportation plan, which includes more than $77 billion dedicated to improving safety, addressing congestion and connectivity, and preserving roadways for Texas drivers.
The 10-year plan, called the 2020 Unified Transportation Program (UTP), contains more than $4 billion for safety improvements, including an extra $600 million for the next two years to help accelerate additional safety measures to reduce crashes and eliminate fatalities from roadways by 2050.
Many of these improvements will widen roads, improve median barriers and bridges, upgrade guardrails, provide intersection improvements, such as upgraded traffic signals and signage, and make safety improvements for bicyclists and pedestrians.
The plan includes more than $600 million committed to fund transportation improvements in the state’s bustling Permian Basin energy sector, to add to other funding
