{"id":14391,"date":"2023-01-26T17:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T23:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=14391"},"modified":"2023-01-26T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T23:26:30","slug":"its-a-race-to-the-rodeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=14391","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Race to the Rodeo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Road Work on Hwy 100, Will it be Finished in Time for the Biggest Little Rodeo in Texas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A race to the finish line as Los Fresnos gets ready to ramp up for their 33rd Annual Rodeo beginning February 17th through the 19th.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Emilio Flores
Los Fresnos News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Fresnos has been battling the infamous State Highway 100\/Ocean Boulevard construction since May of 2021. Los Fresnos News covered the road work, and its impact on local businesses back on September 13, 2021. The story was titled, \u201cRough Road Ahead, Businesses Struggle through Construction on Highway 100\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Back in September of 2021, TxDot was already wrestling with some slowdowns but trying to meet the 11 Month deadline that was originally projected to take. City Manager, Mark Milum does share that at the beginning of the project they tried using a different base material that was imported from the San Antonio area. This caused a slow start-up, TxDot later decided to switch back to what they normally use, no more real detail that we could find on that, just that it was a slowdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Another was just the supply shortage, \u201cbecause of covid, even today, there\u2019s still supplies shortage with different things.\u201d and the lack of workers. Milum also shares that this project isn\u2019t the only one, \u201cEarly on, and we didn\u2019t really see it, they were pulling him[Contractor] to do other work because TxDOT\u2019s fiscal year runs from September to August,\u201d Milum explains, \u201cAnd so by July they had this money that they were gonna lose if they don\u2019t expend it by August 31st.\u201d Milum says that this project didn\u2019t fall into the category. For other projects, they don\u2019t finish they lose that project altogether. And so, TxDOT workers get pulled to other jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cIt becomes very confusing and frustrating for us for our businesses and streets\u201d Mark Milum shares in reference to the lack of workers TxDot has had and the slow workings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cOne of the problems that has happened is people go around,\u201d Milum explains it\u2019s damaged the back road as well with the larger vehicles taking alternative routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Mark Milum says, \u201cOur streets have been beaten up and we are ready to do some improvement on those streets, but we can\u2019t do it until this is finished.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Milum shares that as of January 16th, TxDOT says they will be finished on February 15th, which is just a few days before the Rodeo. He says they are going to be working very hard to meet that deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe have told them that if they don\u2019t it\u2019s going to be very\u2026 You know, a bad thing for Los Fresnos.\u201d He says it would be bad for the Rodeo, but says \u201cIt would be bad for our community as a whole because there\u2019s so much traffic already\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


So, just as Larry Cantu is praying for good weather, Milum hopes for good weather. \u201cDry weather \u2018til (and through) the Rodeo!\u201d Milum says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


City Manager highlights the positive, saying the good news is these roads should last for a good long while and hopes the big event coming will speed up the process and push to get this project finally finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Road Work on Hwy 100, Will it be Finished in Time for the Biggest Little Rodeo in Texas? Emilio FloresLos Fresnos News Los Fresnos has been battling the infamous State Highway 100\/Ocean Boulevard construction since May of 2021. Los Fresnos News covered the road work, and its impact on local businesses back on September 13, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[21,67,9,113,84],"class_list":["post-14391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-city-of-los-fresnos","tag-featured","tag-latest","tag-local","tag-rodeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14394,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14391\/revisions\/14394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}