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not to mention the roads are in no way able to handle that amount of traffic. talk about an area that grew way too fast for the infastructure in place....
I wish they would stop building houses out here! Can you say WAY OVER CROWDED?? Its not only homes but the commercial construction is going nuts also.
I think it might be time to move.
not to mention the roads are in no way able to handle that amount of traffic. talk about an area that grew way too fast for the infastructure in place....
Yep..I think the poor road planning is what irritates me the most. They just build and build without doing anything about the roads. They cannot handle the traffic using them day and night.
The city and Bexar Met failed miserably to keep pace with the growth. And exactly who in thre is going to lease all that strip mall space going up? Do we really need two CVS pharmacies within a mile and a half of each other? How many "sub shops" does one area need? And exactly who in the is going to go to the "speciality" clothes stores?
Try going up Stone Oak Parkway or down Blanco to Huebner after 5:00. It's worse than a ing joke. Someone at TxDOT needs to be beat in the haed with a #3 wood and take a remedial course in synchronizing traffic lights.
Good to see I am not the only one who notices all these OBVIOUS problems.
PLEASE don't get me started on BexarMet! haha
Did you get your latest "area news" rag? Seems Bexar Met had a meeting with the folks over at Champions Ridge area to say they were going to put up a new water tower and all the golf course viewing homeowners immediately screamed foul and said it'll up their property values.
ya but in their defense, the growth of the area, probably was far greater than any projections they ever dreamed of.
does it excuse them fully, not at all. But still, you have to recall that htis area was mostly rural by and large and then exploded with growth...its hard to catch up and bring it up to where it should be....though they should be much further along with where they are.
you cant simply have an area absolutely exploding with growth and expect the roads to be able to handle it overnight, unless you are in a pre planned community, which you arent dealing with here.
BexarMet though is one of hte most poorly run utilities in the state.
Not shocking they are ing around and not doing things correctly.
I'm not too sure about that Das. I grew up at Bitters/Heimer in the 70's/80's and Stone Oak was platted and roads built back in the early 80's and then the S&L crisis/oil market crash/Real Estate crash came along and everything came to a screeching halt for a while. , when I was in high school, Stone Oak was one of the many drinking areas we had on the weekends.
I digress, but what I'm saying is that the city knew what was planned for Stone Oak, they just didn't act on it quick enough.
There is NO reason Blanco should not be in the process of being widened right now. , let the developers kick in some funds to do the roads. As for Stone Oak Parkway, thats screwed! They have build that up so much there really isn't any room to widen it.
This also leads me to another "great" idea. Lets take one of, if not the busiest highway intersection in the city and overbuild it. Forget leaving room for some type of 1604/281 interchange, we need more shopping centers and restaurants damnit!
, when I was in high school, Stone Oak was one of the many drinking areas we had on the weekends.
'dem hills were pretty fun.
But they just finished doing exactly that a couple of three years ago. Granted, they started back in 1986 when I graduated HS, but who's counting?
Simply widening Blanco to 4 lanes from 1604 to Wilderness Oak would solve most of the traffic problems on that road.
well thats where there is no planning done, the same was done at 410/281 as a prime example.
yet on the other side of town you have one of the best interchanges in the city.
San Antonio also wasnt going through any real explosions of growth at that time, to many this was just something to happen many years from then and something not to be worried about, you can fault them for not thinking ahead, but thats been done on virtually everything in this city, and you nailed it....Stone Oak was an area to go to get away from things out of the city where people wouldnt bother you. Why build up roads for an area that doesnt need them? The growth still came at a pace far greater than ever anticipated.
The interchange for 1604 and 281 was going to be built as part of the plans for a future tollway. The interchange would have been done around 2009, while the 1604 toll road was planned to finish around 2012. That means, we would have had three years (at least) of interchange on 1604 and 281 without any tolls, not to mention that the area on 281 from 1604 to Borgflield was also going to be widened and have frontage roads to get rid of the lights at Evans, Stone Oak Parkway, Encino Rio, and Borgfield respectively. However, because we have a bunch of crying pussies running around this town, construction was halted because the community came together and decided that TxDot didn't do a proper "environmental impact study", which they didn't, but still, who the cares. Everyone seems fine with building malls and subdivisions (of which they have no control over) on top of the aquafer but God forbid we fix the traffic issue. Anyway, thanks to said pussies, don't plan on this stretch of highway, or 1604 and 281 interchange to be fixed until the middle of the next decade. ENJOY IT RESIDENTS.
Not likely to happen, especially over an existing public roadway.
The city could widen stone oak via emminent domain easily, but that would require funds, foresight and planning.
We also need to finish some other projects first.
Which interchange?
well the EIS is sorta required before doing this type of thing, you can maybe get away with not doing one on private development, not happening on public domain.
There is a reason the EIS is required you know....
410/281 southside
Gotta build a new bridge at Panther Springs Creek. That means an environmental impact study (creek runs when it rains enough every 100 years or so, that makes it a wetland) which will only take about three years. Then you have to build the road, which will take about 4-5 years more. Oh yea, there's cedar that'll need to be cut down meaning the golden-cheeked warbler will be displaced. Gonna have to stop the construction and fight a lawsuit which will mean another delay of a couple of years.
You're right though, going to four lanes would solve a bunch of problem, but that's a rational fix in an irrational world.
I saw no problem with the toll roads either. If I lived out 281, I sure as would have gladly paid the toll to avoid that mess.
If they won't do the toll road, why not build some damn overpasses at the intersections you mentioned? Those are the causes of the damn traffic in the first place.
THey did do an EIS, just not a very good one. It was another of TXdot's lapse of judgments. TxDot is one of the dumbest organizations in the country, not to mention one of the laziest as well. Here we have a 3 mile span of road that is going to be one of the hottest subjects in town once construction starts, you'd think they'd pay attention to as many details as they could up front rather then waiting for the public, which of course they were going to find out, to notice the terrible job they did on the EIS. They nearly left out the topic of the Aquafer on it.
Having said that, you seem like a reasonable guy, you know as well as I know that construction on that road would have gotten rid of congestion in the area, thus reducing pollution from vehicles, and there would have been every single control you'd think of in order to keep ANYTHING from even potentially damaging the aquafer. Unlike the home builders in the area who I've actually seen discard "empty" paint cans into creeks and drainage ditches.
Agreed, but not a whole lot of traffic in the area either.......but yes, you are right.
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