TXDOT to light up interstate in Seguin
3 Dec 2020
City of Seguin, news
Seguin, TX, USA / Seguin Today
Darren Dunn
(Seguin) — Seguin is getting some additional lighting along Interstate 10. The Seguin City Council on Tuesday approved a plan that will allow the Texas Department of Transportation to proceed with a plan to add lighting along the interstate inside the city.
City Attorney Andy Quittner explained the highway project to the council. He says TXDOT will install all of the lighting, but then it will be up to the city to maintain it.
“They will build the initial structure but afterwards, they expect the cities to maintain and of course, pay for the electricity to run the lights. So, this will be split a little bit with GVEC as far as the electricity because part of it is in their service territory so we will have a separate agreement with them to cover the cost of electricity for those poles. But the maintenance part is all of them,” said Quittner.
Assistant City Manager Rick Cortes says the lighting project is part of a much bigger plan to expand the interstate to three lanes each way in Seguin. Cortes says that the highway expansion will make a big difference along I-10, and so will this lighting project. He says the lights will illuminate the highway itself, and the underpasses along this stretch of the interstate.
“The scope of the project is from 464 to 123 Bypass. It’s going to be continuous lighting, illumination down the center barrier. This is all part of the expansion that will be coming in in a few years. The center barrier will be at an area of 250 feet. There’s going to safety lighting at every entrance and every exit and like Andy said, there will be illumination underneath all the overpasses. We think it’s going to provide additional safety for our police, fire personnel when they are out there during the night doing accidents. TxDOT is going to pay for all the infrastructure. We will pay for the maintenance and upkeep for that,” said Cortes.
Councilwoman Penny Wallace says the lighting project is good news for the city.
‘This is great. I mean not just for safety, but I think to highlight where Seguin is,” said Wallace.
Cortes says the construction plans for the highway expansion project are about 60 percent complete, and he expects that work to get started sometime in 2021. It should take about three years to complete the entire highway project.
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