A Path for Removing the Medians on Texas Avenue
We The People...
By placing a Charter Amendment on the November ballot, the citizens of Bryan can vote on removing the medians. In order to achieve this goal, we need 2,500 signatures collected one at a time on a paper petition. This can not be done online.
The petitions were turned in Tuesday June 30th, at 11am. It will take the City Secretary awhile to verify that we have enough. The minimum is 2,303. We turned in over 2,750.
The next step is for the council to be notified and for the council to order the election.
Many thanks to all those who circulated petitions and many thanks to all those citizens who took time to sign so that their voices could be heard.
We will update this website as further developments in the process occur.
Check the website for more dates and times.
Website: http://www.bcsmedianssurvey.org
EMAIL: RemoveTheMedians@Gmail.com
PHONE: (979) 589-2920 (landline—does not text) or (979) 402-9670
Texas Avenue Medians were "Never About Safety"
In a bit of a surprise revelation, the BCS Medians Survey Team has learned that the Texas Avenue Median Project was originally envisioned as a "beautification project". Safety was never the driving factor!
During a recent drive along with TxDOT's District Engineer, he mentioned that the City of Bryan wanted to beautify the Texas Avenue corridor. He also admitted that many sections of Texas Avenue were too narrow and didn't really warrant medians. During a recent City Council meeting, Bryan City Manager, Keen Register, confirmed that "the project began as a request from the City to make Texas Avenue in Bryan look like it does in College Station."
Seems a little disingenuous considering that TxDOT cited safety concerns in their virtual public meeting, and that TxDOT applied for and received safety funds to construct the project.
