Ranch Road 12 road construction to end soon

The construction causing delays on Ranch Road 12 in Wimberley will soon be coming to a close while other construction projects around town will continue in less invasive manners.
Skidabrader, a pavement and surface technology company, has been using a process called Shot-blasting to clean the roadway and make the pavement easier for tires to grip. They are contractors hired by the Texas Department of Transportation.
“You take a steel shot and you blast it just like sand blasting,” John Michael Jiles, superintendent for Skidabrader, said. “We are not actually eating the road up. It is more like cleaning the road and taking a little bit of the surface around it so it gives you more traction with the aggregate (roadway.)”
The process takes a layer off the top of the roadway to make it safer to drive on.
“Say you are coming over the hill and coming up to the red light, if it is raining you might slide because it is slick and rear end somebody,” Jiles said. “Now you’ll have traction because the water is shedding off the road but your tires are above the road because the water is going between the aggregate.”
The company has already finished many of the main roads throughout the Wimberley Valley. During the process, one lane of road is closed to traffic. 
On Thursday, the crew will continue from the intersection of Ranch Road 12 and FM 3237 through the Wimberley Square and stay on Ranch Road 12 headed north through the rest of Wimberley. 
Jiles said that he is hopeful they will be finished by Friday but may have to come back on Monday, Oct. 17 if they are not able to finish this week.
Other construction will continue around Wimberley. At the intersection of FM 3237 and Ranch Road 12, the Wimberley Water Supply Company is moving a water line to clear the way for a future roadway expansion that will add a long-awaited turn lane at the traffic signal. That construction should not impact traffic over the next few months except for two nights. One night, a cut across FM 3237 will reroute traffic to Old Kyle Road for a few hours. That could occur as soon as next week. Later in the project, a cut across Ranch Road 12 will close one lane of traffic at a time. That construction will also occur at night.
Additionally, construction continues for an additional lane and traffic signal at the intersection of FM 3237 and Winters Mill. It is expected to be completed in early 2023.