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The Dallas City Council approved a contract with a consultant to complete a traffic corridor study for Abrams Road.
Lee Engineering has been hired to provide the traffic study of Abrams Road, bounded by Northwest Highway and Richmond Avenue. The council also tasked the consultant with completing a traffic study for Esperanza Road from Spring Valley Road to North Central Expressway Southbound Service Road.
These streets “have a disproportionately high rate of vehicle crashes and are high priority roadways that could benefit from engineering safety evaluations to identify improvements that may reduce the number of severe crashes along these corridors,” according to a resolution. The traffic studies will also help move the city toward its Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic-related deaths and reducing severe injuries from crashes by 2030.
District 14 City Council member Paul Ridley said at the Aug. 9 council meeting that he hopes the study will produce recommendations that will address concerns about traffic flow along Abrams Road.
“This is something that has been long sought by residents of District 14 because of concerns about speeding and traffic control along the Abrams avenue corridor in East Dallas,” Ridley said.
The city is also working on a corridor study of Gaston Avenue. See the latest updates here.
