March 2004

(San Antonio, Texas) – Zachry ended 2003 with a Spur 66 groundbreaking, heralding what will soon be the main entrance to the new $750 million Toyota truck plant on San Antonio’s South Side. The ZCC team will widen an almost two-mile stretch of Watson Road – an existing 20-foot wide county road that runs from Alamo Dragway outside Loop 410 – into a 57-foot-wide divided highway.

The scope of the $7.5 million Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) contract will consist primarily of 83,000 cubic yards of excavation and 52,000 cubic yards of embankment. The team will cement-stabilize the entire embankment with 1,800 tons of cement before covering it with 95,750 tons of asphalt.

The intersections of State Highway 16 and Spur 66, and Applewhite Road and Spur 66, which will feed into the Toyota plant, will be paved with 6,300 cubic yards of concrete. The crew will also be responsible for installing a 16-inch waterline and six-inch gas line stretching the entire 1.78-mile length of Spur 66, as well as constructing a five-by-two-foot box culvert at its intersection with SH 16. Three additional culvert structures will go underneath several private driveways providing landowner access. One last box culvert will be constructed to provide drainage at a shallow creek running through the middle of the spur road.

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