BRINE/SALT SPRAY ROUTES
NTE Express & LBJ Express Concessions
SUMMARY
Total number of treated highway miles:
200.00 miles LBJ Brine Routes
400.00 miles NTE Brine/Salt Routes
Range of trucks capacity:
8006: 46.50 miles, 8025: 73.00 miles, Large PKP: 18.00 miles,
Medium PKP: 11.75 miles, Small PKP: 7.00 miles
Total number of routes:
NTE: 20 Salt Routes, 25 Brine Routes
LBJ: 12 Brine Routes
The North Tarrant Express and the Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) Expressway corridors have been one of the most congested in the United States. Drivers have been choosing the new managed lanes since the NTE and LBJ facilities opened in 2014 and 2015 respectively because it offers faster, safer and more reliable travel.
As part of their maintenance operations NTE Express and LBJ Express asked AZIERTA for the creation of winter routes to treat their entire concessions with brine and salt as a preventive measure.
The design dealt with the complexity of numerous lanes of different categories, Managed Lanes (ML), General Purpose Lanes (GP) and Frontage Lanes (FR) and tried to create the most efficient number of routes while keep them as simple and visual as possible for the drivers to follow them.