TxDOT Lists Overnight Closures for Southbound US 75 Frontage Road, Exit 60 Ramp in Sherman

By GvilleTX Newsroom

The Texas Department of Transportation listed full overnight closures on a stretch of the southbound US 75 frontage road in Sherman and on the southbound Exit 60 ramp to Texoma Parkway for two nights, according to a traffic alert from the agency's Paris District. TxDOT filed the notice as a Grayson County alert, in the Sherman/Grayson County US 75 corridor, part of the Texoma region of North Texas.

The alert described the closed frontage-road segment as running between Taylor Street and SH 91, which it also identified as Texoma Parkway, and said the southbound Exit 60 ramp to that route was closed in full. TxDOT listed both closures from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. on the nights of Aug. 18-19 and Aug. 19-20, 2026.

The work falls inside TxDOT's long-term project on US 75 and US 82 through Sherman and Denison. The agency says the project is meant to improve safety, congestion, traffic operations, drainage and roadway deficiencies, and that the corridor plan adds main lanes, continuous frontage roads and U-turns, with ramps, bridges, retaining walls, storm drainage and interchanges rebuilt as needed.

That plan has been on the table for years. At a 2019 TxDOT public hearing, the broader proposal from FM 1417 to FM 120 was put at about 12.7 miles, starting with the US 75/US 82 interchange and a widening from four lanes to six between FM 1417 and SH 91. The hearing record listed about 1.3 acres of new right of way and 0.6 acre of permanent and temporary easements, with no residential or non-residential displacements. At a 2020 TxDOT open house, proposed improvements also included continuous frontage roads, U-turn lanes, a reconstructed South Travis Street bridge and a shift of US 75 lanes between Lamar and Washington out of the 100-year floodplain.

A Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation record for the US 82-to-SH 91 segment lists an estimated cost of $127 million. The Grayson County MPO's adopted 2050 plan puts the same widening at $126.70 million in construction cost and $147.80 million in total year-of-expenditure cost, and schedules it for fiscal 2025 through 2028.

Regional planning records have identified US 75 as a pressure point in Grayson County. The county's Safety and Operations Strategic Plan reports that traffic counts at TxDOT stations countywide rose nearly 20 percent between 2017 and 2021, and it names US 75 among the county's highest-ranking bottlenecks. The same plan reports crashes trending upward from 2017 through 2021 and peaking that final year, with high-crash segments on US 75, US 82, SH 91 and other state routes. The plan also reported population growth in Grayson County, estimating the county passed 139,000 residents in 2021, more than 15.1 percent above 2010, against 7.3 percent nationally and 17 percent statewide over the same period.

The safety plan lists cameras, dynamic message signs, flood detection and communications equipment along US 75 and other state highways among its next steps, with the TxDOT Paris District as lead agency.