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Published on: 12/21/2008
Last Visited: 12/21/2008
Aaron Nathan, the Kimley-Horn representative, showed the commissioners a map of the current road systems color-coded for traffic volumes.
U.S. 81/287 sees the largest flow of traffic with more than 17,000 vehicles each day.
Roads such as U.S. 380, Farm Road 51 and Texas 114 see between 4,000 and 17,000 vehicles per day, and the smaller roadways, Farm Roads 730, 2123 and 920, see less than 4,000 vehicles per day.
"The idea will be for us to take this map to the public, show them the areas we see as possibly hazardous, and ask them for their input on areas they believe to be troublesome or crowded," Nathan said.
"The fact of the matter is that we can only be on the roads so often, but the people that live here and drive every -day will have a much better idea of where the bad spots are in the county."
Nathan said the next step for Kimley-Horn will be to hold a meeting in each of the four county precincts in to get public input on where the nasty intersections, roads, turns and accident-prone areas are.
Nathan said they are planning the meetings for January, but the dates have not been confirmed.
Nathan then presented the commissioners with a rough-draft map of potential roadway changes and expansions that may result from the thoroughfare plan.
"This map is just a first-time draft of some ideas we had looking at the traffic numbers," Nathan said.