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Nebraska Department of Roads Releases Highway Plan

By Matthew Leaf

07/15/2013

(KTNC) - The Nebraska Department of Roads released its surface transportation program for fiscal year 2014 last week. The program is published at $431 million with funding from state and federal highway user taxes and fees.
A total of 139 new projects will be let to contract on the State Highway System during the fiscal year from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014.
Some local projects that will be contracted in the next year include resurfacing Highway 73 from Falls City south to the Kansas State Line; resurfacing Highway 136 in and east of Auburn; rehabbing a bridge over the Dry Branch Creek on Highway 8 east of Pawnee City; paving 10-and-a-half miles of Highway 75 south of Union in Otoe County; and removing the old Rulo Bridge.
Projects will be contracted, but may not be completed within the fiscal year.
Projects on the five-year program include:
-Milling and resurfacing Highway 8 between Falls City and Highway 75;
-Resurfacing and bridge repair on Highway 62 between Highways 67 and 75 in Richardson County;
-Milling and resurfacing Highway 67 in Richardson and Nemaha County;
-Resurfacing three-miles of Highway 73 in and north of Falls City;
-Concrete repair on approximately five miles of Highway 50 north of Tecumseh;
-Work on Highway 4 in Table Rock;
-And repairing the Highway 105 Bridge over the Big Nemaha River in Humboldt.
The fiscal year 2014 program is the first to include projects funded with the Build Nebraska Act. Those projects include construction of the Wahoo Bypass, a new railroad viaduct that comprises the second phase of the Kearney Bypass, and projects to add auxiliary lanes to ease traffic congestion on the Interstate system in Omaha.
The Nebraska Surface Transportation is available online at www.transportation.nebraska.gov/hwy-pgm.

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