Work is about to begin on a $48.8-million project to add passing lanes to U.S. Highway 180 in Dawson and Gaines counties, according to an announcement from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Alternating passing lanes will be constructed every two miles along a 30-mile corridor between the cities of Lamesa and Seminole. “In addition to making roadway and drainage improvements, the project will widen segments of the roadway to add passing lanes along this busy energy sector corridor,” said Seve Sisneros, P.E., TxDOT Brownfield Area engineer and project manager. “The passing lanes, what TxDOT calls Super 2 or alternating passing lanes, will ...