LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – Lubbock County commissioners unanimously approved a roadside project that has been in talks for decades during today’s meeting.
The conversation centers around stop signs in a growing neighborhood near S. Indiana Ave. As hundreds of families build their lives in the Hub City, Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish said it’s the top priority for area leaders to protect them.
He said step one will be to fund and put up the signs slowing down traffic near Joliet Ave. and 150th St., especially since this will save lives.
“When we talk about the cost of stop signs and those type of traffic controllers, those type of costs are negligible based on the cost of an injured child or an injured parent,” Parrish said. “It’s absolutely imperative we look at public safety first. We’ll find the cost, but that cost is small compared to the cost of a human life.”
A man who has lived in the area for over a decade and has watched it grow is applauding commissioners. He’s glad change is finally happening and is confident it will happen quickly.
“I’m sure it will happen. I was there. I saw the vote and it was unanimous,” Robert Grimes, who lives in the Indiana South Neighborhood, said. “The county is watching out for the citizens, and that’s what we’re asking for. There’s lots of neighborhood children out there and people race up and down Joliet like a race track. So, now we’re gonna have some stop signs to keep us all safer.”
A timeline for when the signs would be put up was not given in today’s meeting, but Judge Parrish is promising to meet with county employees to make it a quick process.
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