Improving safety on Westheimer (and it's not about towing cars)
According to KHOU-11, left-turn cut-thrus are being eliminated on a section of Westheimer:
Westheimer's numbers help tell the story. They show the eastern section -- from the Loop to the Beltway -- had 2.5 times the number of wrecks per mile as the state average.
Even so, an improvement project under way since last summer was never about safety -- it was about mobility. Texans, it seems, don't mind dying. they just want to do it in a hurry.
The state, though, now believes it's found ways to speed up traffic and make it safer by getting rid of the cut-thrus.
"They're called conflict points," said John Bobo, who ran a study of Westheimer's problems.
He said the cut-thrus are the worst of the problems. They are the openings in the median for left-hand turns or U-turns. They often cause cars to back up into traffic which leads to collisions when people try to get past.
Most of those cut-thru's will now be disappearing and, some say, not a minute too soon.
The project is expected to be completed by the summer.
At least it's not a project to make Westheimer one-way.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 01/25/05 10:43 AM | Print |
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