The city of Bee Cave is planning to build a road between Palermo Drive and the Shops at the Galleria as an alternative to Hwy. 71. The project includes recon guring the intersection of Hamilton Pool Road and Hwy. 71, and a roundabout on the southwest collector. Collector roads divert travel away from main roadways to reduce tra c.
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adoption, council also has to decide how to prioritize and fund the project, Garza said. Because the project is in the begin- ning stages of a feasibility study, which identi es the need and presents it to the public, Garza said there is no set timeline for construction. “We are dealing with growth pres- sure,” he said. “[Hwy. 71] is really designed for regional trips. Local juris- dictions [should] build city roads for local trips.” The Hamilton Pool Road extension that council may approve will cost $10.67 million, said Brock Miller, the project manager for Rodriguez Trans- portation Group. Travel times on Hwy. 71 from Pal- ermo Drive to RM 2244, or Bee Caves Road, are projected to improve by 7-10 minutes during peak travel periods when the entire project area is fully built out, Miller said.
Drive, Spanish Oaks Boulevard and Shops Parkway. This alternative, referred to in the study as Option 2, will realign Ham- ilton Pool Road beginning near the Acton Academy Bee Cave at 14532 Hamilton Pool Road, Austin, and end- ing at Hwy. 71. In addition, the project will include a new roundabout just northwest of Acton Academy Bee Cave and two new signalized intersections that will be installed on Hamilton Pool Road. One intersection will be across the road from the Acton Academy Bee Cave, and the other will be near Twin Acres Drive. The intersection near Twin Acres Drive will connect Hamilton Pool Road with Great Divide Drive and end at Shops Parkway. The entire project study area from Palermo Drive to the Shops Parkway is around 3.19 miles in length, Miller said.
In May, the city authorized engi- neering rm Rodriguez Transporta- tion Group to conduct a study on the feasibility and impacts of a new road connecting Hamilton Pool Road with Bee Caves Road near the Shops at the Galleria. Council voted to accept the results of the study Jan. 25 and instructed city sta to amend the city’s existing thoroughfare plan to re ect one of the study’s potential road realignment options. Realigning the road Rodriguez Transportation Group cre- ated multiple roadway options using tra c impact analysis to calculate daily a.m. and p.m. peak travel time totals, according to city documents. Ultimately, the option the engineer- ing rm recommended will connect a proposed southwest collector road to a road that runs through Great Divide
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Hamilton Pool Road extension to the thoroughfare plan, which is a long- range planning tool the city uses to look ahead and identify locations and types of roadways needed to meet growth projections in the future, according to city documents. The road extension is one of three road segments intended to increase connectivity in the area, combined with a southwest collector road, which diverts tra c from major roads, along Hwy. 71 to the west and an additional road parallel to Hwy. 71 to the east. All three projects total $33.1 million. The road extension will take three to ve years to complete once started, but the timeline for the remainder of the project will depend upon outside developers, Bee Cave City Manager Clint Garza said. Following the road extension’s
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