{"id":366331,"date":"2026-07-09T04:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366331\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:03:11","slug":"dripping-springs-selects-contractor-for-old-fitzhugh-road-improvements-southwest-austin-dripping-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366331\/","title":{"rendered":"Dripping Springs selects contractor for Old Fitzhugh Road improvements | Southwest Austin &#8211; Dripping Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents and business owners may soon have to adjust commutes as the city makes progress on the <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/southwest-austin-dripping-springs\/government\/9m-old-fitzhugh-road-improvement-project-makes-headway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Old Fitzhugh Road <\/a>improvement project in downtown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drippingspringstx.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dripping Springs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Latest update<\/p>\n<p>Dripping Springs City Council selected <a href=\"https:\/\/lonestarsitework.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lone Star Sitework LLC<\/a> to reconstruct Old Fitzhugh Road at a July 7 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Work will include improvements to:<\/p>\n<p>Asphalt pavementDrainageWaterlinesPedestrian amenitiesIlluminationLandscapingThe project went out to bid in May, and five companies submitted bids. Lone Star Sitework submitted the lowest bid at $5.03 million. City officials included a 25% contingency in the contract, bringing the total to $6.29 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents and business owners may soon have to adjust commutes as the city makes progress on the Old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,4170,2427,75328,98178,9237,53663],"class_list":["post-366331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dripping-springs","tag-hays-county","tag-mercer-street","tag-old-fitzhugh-road","tag-texas-department-of-transportation","tag-tirz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366331","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=366331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}