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A city program meant to ease the effect of lengthy construction projects on nearby small businesses aren’t easing those businesses’ concerns, and their reactions range from underwhelmed to acidic.
After a meeting Thursday with the heads of the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas Transportation Commission, Mayor Ron Nirenberg said in an emailed statement “We learned today that TxDOT’s priority is not improving traffic flow and mitigating congestion, it’s all about six lanes of asphalt, regardless of capacity.”
Top City of San Antonio executives think they may have a way to get the city’s plan to redevelop Broadway Avenue back up and running while still following through with a “complete street” vision. But the Texas Department of Transportation doesn’t appear eager to bend on its insistence to keep all six lanes of traffic.
Fiesta’s two centerpiece parades, the Battle of Flowers and Fiesta Flambeau, are taking a different route this year, down Main Street. That has brought a flood of parade-goers into the surrounding neighborhoods, whose streets are clogged with cars.
The members of the Texas Transportation Commission, which oversees TxDOT, voted Thursday to stop a long-planned hand-off of a 2.2 mile section of State Loop 368 between Burr Road and I-35, which overlaps with Broadway Avenue.
More than seven years after TxDOT said they would give the city of San Antonio control of a 2.2-mile stretch of Broadway Avenue, the state is set to cancel the transfer.
