Transportation
BY CODY THORN
Residents discuss transportation issues in District 10 Fort Worth City Council member Alan Blaylock, who represents District 10, held a transportation workshop Dec. 12 at Truett Wilson Middle School in Haslet. Moving a Million Master Transportation Plan types
2 city bridges to be rehabbed During the lone December Fort Worth City Council meeting, the board approved a con- tract with Roy Jorgensen Associates, Inc. for $872,726.50 for nine rehabilitation projects throughout town. Two of those projects are bridges in northeast Fort Worth. In a nutshell According to city documents, the bridge work is from the Pay-go Contract Street Maintenance Program for fiscal year 2024-25. Work started in January and will finish in July. The repair locations are: • A bridge on Westport Parkway over Henrietta Creek in District 10 • A bridge on North Tarrant Parkway over the tributary of Whites Branch in District 4
Officials from Fort Worth, Tarrant County, the Texas Department of Transportation, the city of Haslet and Clevon talked with local residents at the Northwest ISD school. Breaking it down The city of Fort Worth is looking at the Moving a Million Master Transportation Plan, a comprehen- sive long-range initiative, which city documents state will be used by transportation planners to build a safe and effective multimodal network. Blaylock said it is important for the city to keep up with expected growth in terms of planning for roads, but also funding for those roads. He pinpointed to work with North Central Texas Council of Governments to help get funding to build overpasses over railroad tracks in District
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10 to help eliminate traffic congestion caused by trains passing through Fort Worth. “We will keep fighting for these dollars from every possible source,” Blaylock said. What else? The city of Fort Worth plans to add 4,706 total lane miles by 2045, which is a 36% increase from the 2024 total, according to city documents.
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