Want to know how long a road in Mason County is, if it is blacktopped or graveled, and its official name?
The recently upgraded Mason County Road Inventory can provide all that information and more, according to Mason County Judge-Executive Joe Pfeffer.
The county tries to update the list periodically but it had been some time since it last received any attention, Pfeffer said.
In the interim, several roads had been closed or shortened. There were also some discrepancies in road names between BTADD, which keeps a list for 911 purposes, the state and the county, Pfeffer said. With the updated list, roads will have a common name across the board, he said.
“We’ve been working on it for a while,” he said. Now, the county has an accurate accounting of its roads, he said.
The inventory includes road names, their length, beginning and ending points, surface type, material used for paving, road width and the posted speed limit for the road.
In some cases, county Road Supervisor Joe Brown actually traveled roadways to record information for the inventory, including measurements, Pfeffer said.
Pfeffer’s assistant, Judy Burt, contributed by helping with research and by compiling the list, Pfeffer said.
The inventory was introduced during Tuesday’s fiscal court session. A first reading was held and a second reading, and approval, are expected at the commission’s March meeting.
