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[ZLoth]

Anyone know when the US-75 Construction in Sherman, TX will be completed? TXDot website doesn't list anything, and there isn't a dedicated website.

[Road Hog]

Anyone know when the US-75 Construction in Sherman, TX will be completed? TXDot website doesn't list anything, and there isn't a dedicated website.

Construction is well underway and it's a mess. It'll be mid-2024 before it's finished.

[ZLoth]

Construction is well underway and it's a mess. It'll be mid-2024 before it's finished.

Yup, drove through there yesterday. One of two major construction projects on that highway that I had to drive through with patience.

[Chris]

TxDOT has a statewide 'project tracker' which features some info on projects, including those without a dedicated website: https://apps3.txdot.gov/apps-cq/project_tracker/

In case of US 75 in Sherman, the estimated completion date is 'TBD', so that doesn't help much.

[Bobby5280]

When the US-75 project in Sherman is finished it apparently will feature 3 lanes in each direction. It's too bad they're not widening it to four lanes for each direction. I think that location will need the added capacity in the not so distant future. They may even be forced to do some serious business relocation work on the corners of that volleyball interchange with US-82 in order to start adding flyover ramps in phases.

Will US-75 be widened up thru Denison? The Grayson County Toll Road (which leads into the Dallas North Tollway) will eventually be extended to US-75 on the North side of Denison.

[Road Hog]

When the US-75 project in Sherman is finished it apparently will feature 3 lanes in each direction. It's too bad they're not widening it to four lanes for each direction. I think that location will need the added capacity in the not so distant future. They may even be forced to do some serious business relocation work on the corners of that volleyball interchange with US-82 in order to start adding flyover ramps in phases.

Will US-75 be widened up thru Denison? The Grayson County Toll Road (which leads into the Dallas North Tollway) will eventually be extended to US-75 on the North side of Denison.

The Toll Road is probably 25-30 years away from build-out. They haven't even finished at US 380 yet.

TxDOT will look at expanding 75 to 6 lanes to the Red River once traffic justifies it.

[Bobby5280]

A lot more is being done than simply stopping the DNT at US-380. In the near future the DNT will be extended up to FM-428. A second pair of frontage road lanes was added to Dallas Parkway up to FM-428 a few years ago. Work is underway to extend Dallas Parkway and future DNT ROW from FM-428 up to FM-121. From there the Grayson County Toll Road would take over the rest of the way to US-75 in Denison. The DNT probably would have been built past FM-428 already if not for the need to add more lanes farther South.

Construction on the Grayson County Toll Road from Gunter on Northward could potentially go much faster than DNT projects since there isn't as much residential and commercial development in the highway's path -at least for the time being. To save money and secure ROW faster they could just build the highway initially as a limited access Super 2 and then add in the second roadway later.

TxDOT will look at expanding 75 to 6 lanes to the Red River once traffic justifies it.

It doesn't already? There's a ridiculous amount of semi truck traffic on that highway. The Choctaw Casino & Resort South of Durant is drawing more traffic. There is been a hell of a lot of expansion at that casino complex in the last few years.

[Road Hog]

When TxDOT extended SH 289 to Pottsboro a decade ago, they preserved a wide ROW for the Grayson County Tollway starting just south of SH 56 in Southmayd and continuing north past US 82. I'm not sure how far north, because the Tollway will eventually have to bypass Perrin Field to either the north or south. Future tolls will be used to pay off the ROW purchase. The Tollway will eventually subsume SH 289 in this section. That was smart.

[Bobby5280]

According to this overall project map, the "recommended preferred alignment" of the Grayson County Tollway won't overlap TX-289 at all.
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/par/grayson_tollway/gct_route/overall_map.pdf

Some portions of TX-289 from Celina up to Pottsboro do have room for possible expansion to a 4-lane divided freeway. But much of it will consist as a suburban surface arterial.

[Road Hog]

According to this overall project map, the "recommended preferred alignment" of the Grayson County Tollway won't overlap TX-289 at all.
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/par/grayson_tollway/gct_route/overall_map.pdf

Some portions of TX-289 from Celina up to Pottsboro do have room for possible expansion to a 4-lane divided freeway. But much of it will consist as a suburban surface arterial.

That's interesting. The map dates from August 2011, so it could have been superseded. I just know I drive SH 289 on a regular basis and the ROW is there all the way up to US 82. I also seem to recall in local media Grayson County Commissioners approving "pass-through tolling" to pay for extending 289. So there's a disconnect somewhere among agencies.

[Bobby5280]

I think that's still the latest map for the Grayson County Tollway preferred alignment. I tried looking around to find any new updates to the alignment. The Denison, TX ABC affiliate (KTEN) posted this article a couple or so weeks ago and it includes an image of that PDF map from 2011:
https://www.kten.com/story/47424248/dallas-north-tollway-takes-aim-at-grayson-county

That Grayson County Tollway study web site had an older PDF from 2010 showing various alignment possibilities. It did show one alignment overlapping TX-289 in a blue line:
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/par/grayson_tollway/alternative_alignments.pdf