{"id":262607,"date":"2026-04-23T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262607\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:25:09","slug":"county-approves-shift-to-longer-lasting-road-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262607\/","title":{"rendered":"County approves shift to longer-lasting road material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/princetonherald.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"a7c9c2d0d4e7c4d4cac2c3cec6d3c2dfc6d489c4c8ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collin County commissioners on Monday approved a proposal to upgrade the county road improvement plan, using a hot mix formula that public works officials say will extend the lifespan of county road work.<\/p>\n<p>The vote to upgrade the county road plan was unanimous, although County Judge Chris Hill noted that Commissioners Court will have to sign a court order formalizing the change once it is prepared.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners received an update on the county maintenance plan from Public Works Director Jon Kleinhecksel.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, stay informed and support your local community newspaper \u2014 subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Princeton-Herald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Princeton Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By John Kanelis[email\u00a0protected] Collin County commissioners on Monday approved a proposal to upgrade the county road improvement plan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-262607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}