By Anton Riecher
More than $5 million in upgrades to State Highway 132 from Watson Road to Colonial Parkway is under consideration as part of a massive Texas Department of Transportation rural highway improvement project scheduled over the next four years.
Details of the proposed Rural Transportation Improvement Program (Rural Tip) covering 13 counties in TxDOT’s San Antonio District including Medina were presented during the Jan. 26 Medina County Commissioners Court meeting in Hondo.
“These are projects you can expect to go to contract in the near future,” TxDOT representative Clayton Ripps told commissioners.
The Rural TIP is a federally required document that prioritizes projects for funding, acting as a budget list for districts to address immediate community needs in rural areas. TxDot is accepting public comments on the proposed project list through April 10.
Slated to begin in February 2029, the State Highway 132 project includes mill and inlay, base repair and pavement markings from FM 471 to FM 463. The proposed price tag for the project is $5.041 million.
Of the 20 projects included in the proposal, five will immediately impact the immediate Devine-Lytle region. One of those projects, seal coating and pavement markings for FM 471 from FM 2790 to State Highway 132, will begin work this October. Estimated cost for that project is $484,326.
The next two projects on the local list will not begin work until October 2027. Both involve work on Interstate 35.
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