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(8/22/2011) Keith Marvin - Re: Road Construction at Royal and BethelPage 1
From: Keith Marvin
To:Parsley, Kevin
CC:Griffin, Ken
Date: 6/6/2008 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Road Construction at Royal and Bethel
Mr. Parsley,
The lane closure on Royal Lane was intended as a safety measure so southbound traffic merges to the left lane prior to the
intersection. There is only one southbound lane south of Bethel Road, and it is the left lane.
We will evaluate this intersection and see if we can make some adjustments to allow more right turn traffic into the right
lane while still discouraging through traffic.
The jog in the road as traffic approaches the bridge is within the City of Grapevine. I will pass your concerns on to their
project manager.
We appreciate your patience throughout this project. We expect the contractor to begin the paving on the south half of the
road within the next few weeks. Final completion is expected by the end of the year.
Keith Marvin, P.E.
Project Engineer
(972) 304-3681
>>> Kevin Parsley <kluv76135@yahoo.com> 6/5/2008 9:21 PM >>>
To whom it may concern:
I just want to write and express my concern and
disastisfaction with what's going on with the road
construction at Royal and Bethel. I work for
Citifinancial and have to deal with that everyday to
get home. (Yes, I've tried Sandy Lake too, that can
take forever as well and that intersection at Sandy
Lake and 121 is too crazy itself). Anyay, it was bad
enough the way they had it organized when they were
working on the north side of Bethel. It got a little
better once they finished that. I've never seen a
construction area that was so confusing and so unsafe
and nothing made sense with how they were doing it.
It's better with the north side done, but what totally
doesn't make sense now is why that you have the right
hand lane on Royal shutdown as you approach Bethel.
This makes absolutely no sense. I see no work on the
road right there. We're allowed to make a right onto
Bethel from Royal so why close it off for that little
stretch. It's so frustrating waiting in a line of
cars that can be 30-40 deep and trying to abide by the
law only to watch people go down the right now and cut
through that businesses parking lot there on the
corner, or zig zag around the cones you have up.
What's the reason this little stretch is still shut
down? Just opening that up could ease tons of
congestion right in there. As I said I work at
Citifinancial and live in Saginaw and it at times can
take me an hour to get home, but sometimes 20 minutes
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of that can be spent waiting in the line where
everyone goes straight on Royal when all I need to do
is make a right onto Bethel.
I hear tons of people at work complaining about this
and I thought I'd be the one that would actually write
and find out what the deal is.
Please help us out, or at least sit a cop in that
parking lot everyday so we can at least laugh at the
people taking the shortcut and get some enjoyment out
of waiting in that line for no apparent reason.
Thanks!
P.S. Oh and I just remembered to that little curb
that juts out right around the middle of Bethel going
west seems a little unsafe too, you almost tend to go
into the other lane to navigate around that at times.
It sneaks up on you. Especially if you aren't aware
of that. The road is straight as can be then you come
up on a curb jutting out. Seems ripe for a bad head
on sometime to me.