US 277 road from San Angelo to Sonora to be repaired in June

After received "hundreds" of complaints about US 277, the road from San Angelo to Sonora, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is planning to make repairs in the coming months.

Karen Threlkeld, San Angelo public information officer for TxDOT, said they began receiving complaints last fall about patchy spots and kicked up rocks. She said the main area of concern was between Christoval and Sonora.

"Those stretches of pavement have been paved or repaved in different sequences of time, so some of that pavement took the seal coat job better than others and absorbed the rock," Threlkeld said. "It held tight where other sections did not.

"Our crews went out and swept all the loose rock off and we put a a light seal coat on it to kind of stabilize the rock," she said. "But with the evenings being cooled over the winter, we weren't able to do anything such as repaving it."

Since the weather is warming up, the crews will be back out on the road in early June to repair spots on the road surface that have lost rock.

"They will be placing an overlay material to the road surface to fill in the voids," TxDOT said in an official statement. "Work is expected to take three weeks to complete, and the public can expect lane closures and pilot car operations as this work is completed.”

Political activist in Christoval, Greg Mauz, said the road has damaged thousands of vehicles and has caused drivers mental stress. He wrote an editorial in the Standard-Times in 2015 titled "U.S. 277 wasn't broke, TxDOT 'a**fixed' it for the worse."

Mauz said to the Standard-Times - "they have done it again," claiming the crews fixed the road in the past year for the worse. He said is awaiting repairs.

This article originally appeared on San Angelo Standard-Times: US 277 road from San Angelo to Sonora to be repaired in June