Road & Highway Crossings in Greater San Antonio
The standard crossing here is 80 to 400 feet under someone's pavement: the city's streets, eight counties' roads, or TxDOT's corridors through the utility-installation process under the state accommodation rules. We prepare the package for the authority that owns your pavement and pothole everything the locates claim — plus the odd abandoned line the paint forgot.
Pricing tracks the escarpment: a Loop 1604 crossing on the north side is limestone work, a Highway 90 crossing toward Castroville may be clay, and quotes that blend the two are wrong in both directions. Ours name the ground and price it as what it is.
For homeowners, the standing straight talk: open ground on your own property trenches cheaper than it bores — we'll say so on the first call. Where a public road forces the crossing, real projects start at a $10,000 minimum; a rig, crew, locates, and traffic control have a floor, and limestone doesn't lower it.
Straight answers
Are north-side crossings always rock jobs?
Usually, and honestly quoted as such. Depth to competent limestone varies, but north of the escarpment we plan rock tooling by default and let probe or geotech data sharpen the number rather than gambling your schedule on a soft assumption.
Do you bore under the loops and interstates?
Yes — TxDOT corridors run on the state permit process with the bore plan attached, cover to the accommodation standard, and district review time built into the schedule we quote.