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Rockwall County to seek new outer loop alignments after suspension of engineering work
Summary
County commissioners told the Road Consortium they suspended the county's outer loop engineering contract for up to 90 days, will develop alternate southern alignments and seek traffic and feasibility analysis from the regional council of governments.
Rockwall County commissioners and staff told the Rockwall County Road Consortium they will pursue additional alignments for the regional outer loop and have paused county-funded engineering work while they study options and consult the North Central Texas Council of Governments.
Commissioner Lichtine said the county removed two related items from a Jan. 14 commissioners court agenda after the council of governments' general counsel asked the court not to consider them, and the court instead voted to suspend the county's engineering contract for the outer loop for up to 90 days pursuant to the contract's terms. "It was a very good move," Lichtine said of the suspension, which he said preserved the county's ability to align its objectives with the consultant's work.
The suspension gives the county time to develop and submit alternate southern alignments to the Regional Transportation Council for traffic projections and viability analysis, Michael…
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