On January 18, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the safety improvements to SH 29 at Jack Nicklaus and Park Place.  Williamson County will be adding deceleration lanes along SH 29 at the Cimarron Hills and San Gabriel Overlook subdivisions.  These deceleration lanes will allow for safer turning movements into the subdivisions.  The design engineer for the project is Chiang, Patel & Yerby, Inc. and the contractor is Wolff Construction.  The construction cost is $420 thousand and is estimated to be completed in seven months. 

The ribbon cutting for CR 104 Phase 2 was held May 26, 2011.  CR 104 runs just east of Georgetown East View High School and intersects with both SH 29 and SH 130.  Improvements to the road included reconstruction of  CR 104 to accommodate two driving lanes with a center turn lane and shoulders and reconstruction of two bridges.  The construction cost was $2.3 million and was completed ahead of schedule in just nine months.

Federal, state and local officials kicked off the new State Highway 195 project on April 27 in Florence.  Commissioner Valerie Covey and US Congressman John Carter, along with representatives from Fort Hood, the Texas Department of Transportation, and the City of Florence broke ground on the $39-million job that will rebuild the existing four-lane highway into a four-lane divided section from the Bell/Williamson County line to just south of County Road 233, a distance of about seven miles.

This is the first of three SH 195 corridor expansion projects that are designed to enhance safety and improve mobility to the traveling public. Construction on the first phase of the project is expected to take about 36 months.

When the remaining projects are completed, SH 195 will be upgraded to a four-lane divided facility with a grassy median all the way from Interstate 35 to the Bell County Line. Approximately 10-thousand vehicles a day use SH 195 in the Florence area, much of which is coming or going to Fort Hood, the largest Army post in the United States.