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Andrews County Residents Don't Want Reliever Route to Run Through Their Neighborhood 11/17/09
CBS 7 News
November 17, 2009
Andrews City officials are working hard to re-route truck traffic around the city, but they're meeting some resistance from residents near the road where they'll construct the new route.
There are dozens of homes on or around County Road 2500 North of Andrews, and most of the people there don't want a reliever route on their road, as the City has planned.
"If I wanted to build my house on the highway, that's what I would have done. That's fine for people that want to do that, but we chose to live in the country, and so did all the other people, Count Road 2500 resident Cindy Cavett said.
The quiet country road doesn't allow truck traffic today, but the City, which has over 1,000 trucks go through town every day, needs to send those trucks somewhere.
"I understand we do need a reliever route, but we would like it further out, a little bit north of Andrews, where there are no homes, Cavett said.
They anticipate the route to bring about unwanted noise, create a dangerous roadway where children sometimes play, and intrude on their property.
"Where I live, the road will be right up against my fence line, Cavett said.
Residents say a circle painted in the road marks the center of the street the point from which the City will have to build the road 60 feet out in each direction. That means these fences are going to have to be pushed back even further.
"It's an issue where you have the City's growth pattern is meeting up with some of the County's residents, and ultimately, that County road is going to become an expanded roadway one way or the other, Andrews City Manager Glenn Hackler said.
The City says they do have plans to control the speed around the County Road 2500 neighborhoods.
"Actually plan it to have curb and gutter on it, which naturally slows down traffic, and constricts it a little bit, Hackler said.
But as far as moving it out or taking alternate routes goes the money's just not there.
"Extending it further out is significantly more money to the City in a route that we're already having trouble finding all the funds to pay for, Hackler said.
