TxDOT Ends Program That Converts Paved Roads to Gravel
![Before and after images of of the frontage road on I-37 in Live Oak County. The Texas Department of Transportation converted the badly-damaged asphalt road to an unpaved road the week of August 19, 2013.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141031024129im_/https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.texastribune.org/media/images/2013/08/21/BeforeAfter_1_jpg_312x176_crop_q100.jpg)
The Texas Department of Transportation has ended its controversial program aimed at converting some badly damaged paved roads to gravel, more than a year after the launch of the initiative drew national attention to the agency's budget troubles.
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