TxDOT Responsibilities

TxDOT is generally responsible for maintenance of
the following items on state routes
:
  • Pavement up to crossing surface panels on both sides of at-grade crossing. This includes pavement between multiple sets of railroad crossing panels.
  • Base material beneath subballast on at-grade crossing.
  • At-grade crossing
     design features such as guardrail, retaining walls, medians, curbs and sidewalks.
  • Signing, striping, raised pavement markers, delineators, and object markers (not including crossbuck signs) at the grade crossings.
  • Retroreflective tape on crossbuck signs.
  • Timing settings and maintenance of preempted traffic signals.
  • Inspection and maintenance of overpass structures, including drainage, fencing and DOT number stenciling.
  • Lighting and energy charges for lighting over a railroad track on an overpass.
  • Substructure (columns), guardrail, barriers, all roadway and sidewalk features and vertical clearance signs at underpasses.
  • Any pavement, curb and gutter, signs, lighting, or other features on railroad right of way not at an at-grade crossing.
District railroad coordinators should visit on system at-grade crossings to inspect the applicable items above as time permits. Typical issues may include:
  • Missing stop bars and approach striping.
  • Missing or incorrect railroad crossing pavement markings (should be adjacent to W10-1 Grade Crossing Advance Warning Sign).
  • Missing railroad crossing warning signs on both approaches and on parallel streets within 100
    feet
     of rail.
  • Nonreflective signs and pavement markings (must be inspected at night).
  • Pavement cracking due to truck loadings or humped crossing.
  • Broken or missing raised pavement markers, delineators, and object markers.