County to improve 621 and Staples Road
Staff Reports
HAYS COUNTY — Phase I road construction on FM 621/Staples Road in Hays County began recently and is slated to be completed later this year. The project limits will stretch about 1.5 miles and run from northwest of De Zavala Drive to southeast of Picasso Drive.
During the project, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) will complete several road enhancements and safety additions including:
- pavement widening,
- curve realignment,
- shoulder improvements,
- addition of a continuous center turn lane,
- drainage, and
- traffic signal improvements.
The project also includes construction of a sidewalk between De Zavala Drive and Hilltop Drive. The map shows the project location.
“These road improvements will help alleviate traffic and improve the safety along this route for not only drivers but also pedestrians,” said Hays County Commissioner Debbie Ingalsbe, Pct. 1. “We’re excited to see how this project will help the area and are looking forward these needed safety improvements.”
Ingalsbe said the project, valued at $2,961,992.44, is being funded through the Hays County 2016 Road Bonds, Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO)-awarded Federal funds, and TxDOT Highway Safety Improvement Funds. The project timeline has the work ending this coming summer, weather and other issues permitting.
Drivers in the area are cautioned to slow down, follow posted signage and flagger instructions, and allow additional drive time. Finding alternate routes may also be helpful.
For any questions regarding the project, please contact the Hays County Transportation Department at 512-393-7385.
Can we just stop with the mess downtown? Pull up all the pachinko parlor-style lime-green bollards and all the dead armadillo bumpers.
It has become dangerous. I have been swiped across by someone turning left from the center lane of LBJ and it happened again to someone else just a couple of days ago. Those I think were semi-honest mistakes. Maybe the driver didn’t realize it had become a 3-lane, one way. But that dumbassery doesn’t end. It’s a free-for-all.
Stop the idiotic “bike lane” BS. Open it back up. It was safer before we started focusing on safety.
I wait in the bicycle lane for the green light on LBJ, and upon proceeding forward,
the vehicle in the lane to my right will turn left in front of me onto Hopkins, or at
other times with me having to jump off my bike because I’m gonna get hit.
But if that’s not enough, the light at the same time also tells pedestrians to begin
crossing, so if either the person on the bike doesn’t see the pedestrians the same
as the person in the car do not see the guy on the bike, it becomes full chaos.
Law defines this as criminal negligence. Namely an occurrence which does NOT
“just happen”, but which is reasonablly foreseeable under the circumstance, and whose
underlying factors do NOT “just happen” but are calculated to occur exactly as planned.
Pretty hard words for the City of San Marcos, but one should understand that when
it comes the ruling elite who control our city, they are absolutely fearless due to years
of doing whatever they want—the law be damned—due in large part to a “police department”
which out of fear rides for the city’s maverick brand, and NOT the law.
In the event this small example of public safety as an orphan does not provide the reader
with an immediate solution under the law, then just what part of criminal negligence do
you not understand? City attorney Michael Cosentino is their go-to man, their mechanic.
Were he arrested and charged, there’s no telling the amount of officers who’d come forward.
So we agree that the mess they’ve created in the square has done nothing to improve safety? But instead has just added an eyesore and distraction in a heavily trafficked area.