froginaustin
Active Member
Did Fort Worth hire city planners away from Austin? Or god forbid the same engineering firm that improves Austin Streets?
I wouldn't wish that on Dallas.
WFAA: Year-long construction on University Drive in Fort Worth begins
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Did Fort Worth hire city planners away from Austin? Or god forbid the same engineering firm that improves Austin Streets?
I wouldn't wish that on Dallas.
Eight
Member
wait......you can work on streets after they have been built?
has someone told this to houston?
Big Frog II
Active Member
Hope they can fix the drainage on that street while they are at it.
WhatTheFrog
Active Member
Up here in far north FW, they start tearing up the streets as soon as they have been completed. It's ridiculous up here.
Brewing Frog- “We should kill people that what to make it safe for TCU students to walk/bike to the closest large business district to campus.”
Why exactly do you think there is little to no bike/pedestrian traffic in the area?
Do you think maybe that that infrastructure might suck except for along the drainage ditch…cough…Trinity River.
HToady
Full Member
I live a block from TCU and ride my bike frequently. There are so many bike and walking paths in the area, I can make it from TCU to the stockyards without ever getting on the road including accessing all of the shopping you mentioned. Even if they put a 3 foot wide bike lane on University Dr. I would never ride right next to cars going 50 mph...
Brog
Full Member
Doesn't our absolute fascination with bike lanes go back to a former mayor? Anyone who has to drive Hemphill street knows what bike lanes will do to traffic. Or go to Forest Park street which for years was two lanes in each direction. Or go down to the bike lanes on 7th street between University and downtown. I travel all those more than occasionally, and I've yet to see a bicyclist on any of them. Madness.
They put bike lanes on Oakland Blvd I guess to access Gateway Park. Shortly after putting them in they had to go back and redo it for some reason. I have seen one person on a bicycle use it.
Sweat Equity
Tier 1
I tried that once as a Freshman (way back when!). It is fun as can all be going North (basically coasting the entire way), but going South after a full meal and a night of drinking and then hitting that hill...walked the bike up and woke up 20hrs later.
Dogfrog
Active Member
And Trinity Trail is already fairly accessible to TCU from Rogers Rd. Hell, we ride our bikes to Colonial by Trinity Trail to Rogers.
I already avoid driving University and Hulen if possible.
Bizarro Frog
Active Member
Not sure how the construction on University will turn out but I live close to Forest Park Blvd and when it was 4 lanes it was insane. There were wrecks all time. People would race down the street ending up in people lawns, houses or knocking over light poles. Trying to cross over to the park was like Frogger on level 20. The bike lanes are not used a lot but at least it cut down on the insanity.
TCUdirtbag
Active Member
How dare you not allow uninformed complaints!
tcumaniac
Full Member
I office off of University in the West Bend shopping center, so this is going to suck.
Hope this isn't an attempt at the same plan that ruined the West 7th street area. The bike lanes and medians they unnecessarily added on 7th street has made that entire stretch miserable to attempt to drive down.
Hope this isn't an attempt at the same plan that ruined the West 7th street area. The bike lanes and medians they unnecessarily added on 7th street has made that entire stretch miserable to attempt to drive down.
Peacefrog
Degenerate
To be fair, that stretch of W 7th was pretty terrible before they changed it.
