I-20 East Texas Corridor - Smith County
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is developing preliminary plans to widen and reconstruct the I-20 corridor throughout East Texas (ETX) in the Tyler District. The I-20 ETX corridor expansion would widen and reconstruct mainlanes, develop continuous one-way frontage roads, reconstruct entrance and exit ramps, replace mainlane and frontage road bridges.
The Smith County segment comprises 35-miles of the I-20 ETX corridor – extending from the Van Zandt Co. line (near CR 426), east to the Gregg Co. line (near CR 3111).
Smith Co. population increased 11.3% between 2010 and 2020, from 209,714 to 233,479 respectively.
Smith Co. I-20 ETX segment includes:
- 34,891 Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT)
- 33% trucks
- 1,260,622 vehicle miles traveled
- 145 mainlane miles (center-lane mileage multiplied by the number of lanes)
- 40 frontage road miles
- 17 interchanges
- 45 bridges
Safety analysis
- 2,496 crashes
- 31 fatal crashes
- 666 commercial motor vehicle (CMV) crashes
- 5 pedestrian crashes
- 71 crashes involving distracted driver
- 5 crashes hitting top of underpass, pier/support or overhead sign
Source: 2015 - 2020 TxDOT Crash Records Information System (C.R.I.S). Data includes mainlanes only.
https://cris.dot.state.tx.us/public/Query/app/hom
Smith County I-20 projects
- I-20 Smith County (Prelimary Schematic 2020)
- I-20 Lindale from Harvey Rd. (CR 433) east to US 69