Williamson County Celebrates Mays Street Work Groundbreaking

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS — Officials with Williamson County joined those from Round Rock on Monday in breaking ground on the extension of North Mays Street from Paloma Drive to Oakmont Drive.

While less than a mile in length, the road extension is a key project that incorporates construction of two lanes and a four-lane divided roadway. In that regard, the street elongation is nothing short of amazing, Precinct 1 Commissioner Terry Cook said.

“This amazing project will help reduce traffic on I-35 and give people a new route from Round Rock to the Georgetown area,” Cook said. “This is a project that shows yet again how our county enjoys working with our cities, and we’re working together to fund and get this project done.”

The design engineer on the project is LJA and the contract is Capital Excavation. The project is anticipated to be completed in the spring of 2020.

In his own praise of the project, Round Rock Mayor Craig Morgan focused on the inter-municipality partnership that made it possible: “Partnerships like this are a great opportunity to maximize tax dollars for the benefit of our citizens. This is a project that will connect motorists from Hester’s Crossing in Round Rock to Westinghouse in Georgetown, which helps us achieve our goal of offering residents more north-south corridors through our city.”

The current awarded budget is $10,775,835.75 with the city contributing 24 percent of the construction costs at $2,586,200.50, but not to exceed $3,800,000, and the county contributing the remainder through voter approved road bonds, officials said.

For updates on county road bond funded projects, visit www.roadbond.org.

Photo courtesy of Williamson County

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