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Granite construction has cemented a contract with Texas Dot to improve one of the historic “Market Farm” roads.

The $ 80 million infrastructure project to Farm to Market Road 548 near Forney It will transform the existing asphalt into a paved concrete driveway while traveling lanes and drainage updates, according to a statement by Granite News. The project’s funding will come from the State.

The reach is extended from the 80’s to the Windmill Farms Boulevard and includes more than 200,000 square yards of 10 -inch thick concrete pavement and more than 40,000 linear feet again drainage of storms.

Change and enlargement will increase traffic capacity to help relieve Fast Growth Forny congestion, about half an hour in eastern Dallas, particularly in its most busy trade section in the city center, according to the statement.

Farm -to -market roads, which grew throughout the country in rural areas in the mid -twentieth century to bring food to population centers, are especially emblematic of Texas.

In the 1980’s, more than half the miles of the State Road (41,000 of 73,000) adapted to the category, According to Texas monthly magazineThat he wrote “The Farm to Market road is in Texas what is the motorway in California”.

The state established specific funding for the road network in 1949 and contributes money today through a fuel tax and its road transport funds. Farm -to -market roads also benefit from the Federal Fund administered by the Texas Dot.

But over the years, Texas’s population growth has touched this Straight -ight network and liabilities that often fit, without classifying, in the existing part of the Earth, according to Texas Monthly. FM 548, for example, was originally opened in 1945 as a two -lane rural road.

For this reason, Granite said that the project would contribute to the growth and development of Forny and Kaufman County, supporting the economic expansion of the area.

Construction is expected to begin in July and end in March 2027.