A reopening of the Lamberth Street overpass over US 75 in Sherman has not been confirmed by a primary-source notice in the records reviewed for this report, though City of Sherman posts in June 2026 said TxDOT closures on US 75 were tied to paving the Lamberth Road bridge deck. For Cooke County drivers who use Sherman and Denison routes across Texoma, the bridge work is one piece of a larger TxDOT rebuild meant to carry heavier North Texas traffic.
TxDOT describes the US 75 project as a long-term set of transportation and traffic-operation improvements on US 75 and US 82 in Sherman and Denison. The agency lists safety, congestion, traffic operations, drainage and roadway condition as the reasons for the work.
The public record reviewed here does not include a TxDOT, DriveTexas or City of Sherman notice saying vehicle traffic has resumed on the Lamberth crossing. The confirmed local record is narrower: Sherman said in June that TxDOT planned an overnight southbound US 75 closure so crews could pave the bridge deck.
TxDOT's 2018 project materials placed the broader work between FM 1417 and FM 120, with US 82 interchange improvements included. The agency's timeline shows schematic and environmental work began in 2017, with the first public meeting held in Sherman in March 2018.
The long-range design calls for US 75 to be rebuilt with added main lanes, continuous frontage roads and U-turns, according to TxDOT. The agency says ramps, bridges, retaining walls, drainage and interchanges would be rebuilt where needed.
The Grayson County Metropolitan Planning Organization's transportation plan shows how the work fits the local road network. The MPO says US 75 runs north and south through the Sherman-Denison area, while US 82 crosses it east and west, dividing the urban area into quadrants.
For Sherman, the MPO lists a nearly $99 million construction phase on US 75 from US 82 to SH 91 to widen the highway from four lanes to six. The same MPO plan also lists construction phases in Denison and Van Alstyne, showing the US 75 rebuild extends beyond a single bridge or interchange.
The MPO also points to safety and pavement condition as part of the case for the Sherman work. Its plan says the US 75 segment from US 82 to SH 91 had fatal and incapacitating-injury crashes over a five-year review period and had the worst-rated pavement section in TxDOT's Paris District.
Federal bridge data puts the local bridge work inside a wider infrastructure picture. FHWA's 2025 bridge inventory counted hundreds of Texas bridges in poor condition, and FHWA says its bridge program funds replacement, rehabilitation, preservation, protection and construction work.
TxDOT says its Unified Transportation Program is updated each year, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission and used as a 10-year roadmap for assigning funding to transportation projects. For drivers, the near-term record is lane and highway closures tied to construction; the long-term plan, according to TxDOT, is added capacity and rebuilt road elements on one of Texoma's main corridors.
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