Here is a picture that was sent to me by Matt P. He says he took it saturday morning. It appears that someone jumped the curb and smacked the wood fence just about 100 feet south of some Stop Morriss 6 signs. Luckily it was just a fence.
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Maybe the signs were distracting the driver and as a result he/she ran into the fence.
ReplyDeleteThe signs are after the crash site, so that is not possible.
ReplyDeleteIt was lucky it was just the fence. Maybe we should consider making Morriss a walking trail so no cars can jump the curb.
ReplyDeleteThis is nothing new. This one actually doesn't look that bad, thankfully.
ReplyDeleteThis happens all the time. I wish I knew how to get good statistics on this. Cars are always leaving the roadway and hitting fences or something. I'll bet it happens at least 6 or 7 times a year. That may seem pretty good given the number of cars that travel Morriss, but I think it is very scary given the number of pedestrians and children (not just in school zones at school times) that are on this road.
I feel for the homeowner's of that fence. The fence was not that old (less than a year maybe) and thankfully it wasn't worse than that. The Stop Morriss 6 signs are North of that(just outside the Arborwood Subdivision) - so no distraction there.
ReplyDeleteHow many vehicles leave the road on the median side of the street? No fence to damage, just grass. Now imagine the median being reduced to 6 foot wide. We'll probably see a significant increase in vehicular head-on collisions.
ReplyDeleteHere is another place that has no sidewalk. From my understanding, missing sidewalks will be added in but again it will be against the road with no buffer. I don't understand how our previous leaders allowed Morriss to be developed the way it has knowing that the road would be expanded to 6 lanes. They did do such a "great job" of planning for this future road expansion allowing 2 schools to be built, sidewalks with no buffers and really no place for a sidewalk to go at this point in time. Could the Town of Flower Mound be held liable if a pedistrain was injured along a sidewalk that has no buffer between road and sidewalk? Also is their a liability for the town allowing a road to be expanded with smaller lanes than what is required in the Master Plan?
ReplyDeleteI think we are at the point of needing a lawyer.
ReplyDeleteI think I got lost somewhere. Why would a lawyer be needed? Who would pay for it? If a lawsuit is filed against the Town, everyone has to pay and I don't want my money going towards that.
ReplyDeleteNo lawyer, but possibly a re-call election against the mayor to show people how serious we are about this. The attitude she has shown citizens "I'll cringe better next time" is pathetic at best. Why wait another year to vote her out, when she can do all the damage over the next 3 months.
ReplyDeleteThe mayor only votes in case of a 2-2 tie at council. What is the point in recalling the Mayor? Do you want the town to have to spend money on a nonsense recall election? Lawyer? come on...
ReplyDeleteSince the Mayor ran unopposed this isn't even a possibility, even if it hadn't been a year since the election in which she ran.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone see her fall asleep last night?
ReplyDeleteFlower Mound politics have always been lively. But this group has just gotten wierd. Over and over again they accuse everybody of violating Open Meetings, without one shread of evidence. But that is common. If you don't like something, it must have occurred "behind closed doors". But to make Mayor Jody Smith a villian is not only absurd, it is outragous. Recall election, come on! Hire a lawyer?! For What? The process is working. Your views are being heard again and again.. Who knows how many hearing we will end up having on this matter because a few dozen people who are upset.
ReplyDeleteA few dozen people are upset? People had to be turned away at the fire house when the first meeting was held and there were more than a "few dozen" there. Regardless, the "few dozen" people opposing this seems to far outnumber any show of support FOR this expansion and that should matter. That it doesn't is troubling.
ReplyDeleteWhat does this prove? That people in Flower Mound dont know how to drive? Really! I dont know where this took place, Morriss? Not a good article for this specific blog. It just shows that a 4 lane street is just as dangerous as a 6 lane street. One of the biggest arguments is that with 6 lanes the road will be unsafe for pedestrians and home owners. But you proved that Morriss is already an unsafe place to live by. Anyone who may have actually been for this expansion will see it as a road that's already unsafe, so any safety threat you give them will just be ignored.
ReplyDeleteOn 2499 alone I have seen morons crash into fences may they be 6 lanes, or 2 lanes. May the fence be 5 feet from the road, or 20 feet. Heck, almost every day I am reminded of that guy who was killed when he wrapped his car around a tree near Windsor. (2 lane road, 45mph speed limit, 20-30 ft from the road) Many times I am also reminded of the girl who was killed sitting in a wide curbed median much like Moriss', when 2499 was just 4 lanes (sagebrush).
All this proves is that most of the people here cant drive, have total disregard for the law, or both. This very same thing could have happened on a 20mph farm road. Dont get me wrong. I am against the Morriss expansions (for at least the next 5 or so years anyway) but I dont see how this threat will increase with 6 lanes. To use this event as reason to not expand the road is no different than that stupid law recently passed about having to reduce speed, or change lanes if an officer is stopped with his lights on. They passed it because so many officers were getting hurt/killed by other passing motorists. The event that finally lead to this new law was done so by a DRUNK driver, who was SPEEDING, and ILLEGALLY drove through a blocked off construction area where the officer should have been safe. Reckless driving, failure to yield, failure to control speed, etc!!! How many laws were broken? Had that law existed earlier, he would still be dead because MOST drivers dont care! Just like if Morriss were just a 2 laner, that fence still would have been hit. I bet you anything, that if the speed limit was lowered 10-20mph that fence would still have been hit... ..the only thing that would change however is that I would no longer drive on it.
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