PROJECT WEBSITE: FM 407 Project

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Surface Transportation

CATEGORY
Project Category DOT Projects

LEAD AGENCY
Texas

Description:

RECONSTRUCT AND WIDEN 2 TO 4 LANE ROADWAY (6 LANE ULTIMATE): The limits of all activities will extend for a total of 11.5 miles along FM 407 and on new location, from approximately 0.38 miles west of Bill Cook Road to 0.11 miles east of FM 1830 in Denton County, Texas. Activities would also include improvements along FM 156 from approximately 0.23 miles north to 0.17 miles south of 12th Street. The project will require the acquisition of approximately 70 feet of additional right-of-way, resulting in a new typical right-of-way width of approximately 150 feet that varies between 142 and 182 feet wide. 

The proposed project would primarily take place along the existing FM 407 with additional right-of-way acquisition on either side of the road beginning approximately 0.38 miles west of Bill Cook Road and would include two new bridges over Trail Cre one TX 54 I-Girder bridge spanning 140 feet and one TX 40 and TX 62 I-Girder bridge spanning 266 feet. Both bridges would include three 12-foot-wide travel lanes in each direction separated by an 18-foot-wide raised curbed median with 2-foot shoulders, a 1-foot outside rail barrier adjacent to a 10-foot outside, curbed shared-use path on one side of the bridge, and a 1-foot outside rail barrier on the opposite side of the bridge adjacent to a 6-foot outside, curbed sidewalk.

From approximately 850 feet west of Boss Range Road, the proposed project would realign FM 407 north/northeastward through agricultural fields, intersecting W 7th Street, and turning due east to be parallel to 12th Street. Boss Range Road would be extended north approximately 500 feet to intersect the realigned FM 407. The 12th Street intersection with FM 156 would be removed and the proposed project would include one TX 40 and TX 54 I-Girder bridge spanning 420 feet over the BNSF Railway and FM 156.  This bridge would include three 12-foot-wide travel lanes in each direction separated by an 18-foot-wide raised curbed median with 2-foot shoulders, a 1-foot outside rail barrier adjacent to a 10-foot outside shared-use path on one side of the bridge, and a 1-foot outside rail barrier on the opposite side of the bridge.  Jughandle-shaped access ramps are proposed to connect FM 407 to FM 156 and be supported by earthen embankments and bridges. These ramp bridges would include one 12-foot-wide lane in each direction with a 2-foot shoulder. The proposed FM 156 would include two 12-foot travel lanes in either direction with a 12- to 24-foot-wide raised median and one 5-foot-wide sidewalk on the west side. FM 407 and FM 156 drainage would primarily be conveyed through curb and gutter.

The proposed project alignment would continue east on a new location alignment and bridge over Denton Creek via one TX 54 I-Girder bridge composed of three 12-foot-wide travel lanes in each direction separated by an 18-foot-wide raised curbed median with 2-foot shoulders, a 1-foot outside rail barrier adjacent to a 10-foot outside shared-use path on one side of the bridge, and a 1-foot outside rail barrier on the opposite side of the bridge amounting to a total maximum bridge length of 2,184 feet.