{"id":158967,"date":"2026-02-10T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158967\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:53:07","slug":"schertz-city-council-authorizes-letter-of-support-for-txdot-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158967\/","title":{"rendered":"Schertz City Council authorizes letter of support for TxDOT project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn a 6-1 vote on Feb. 3, Schertz City Council authorized its city manager to provide a letter of support for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txdot.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Department of Transportation<\/a> transportation project.<\/p>\n<p>Council member Allison Heyward was the lone dissenting vote.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward said she was not in support of the project because residents had voiced concerns to her about the potential traffic impacts the project would have on Schertz Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>The project is for the construction of a grade-separated crossing at FM 3009 over FM 78 and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. This would create a direct connection between FM 3009 and FM 78, without the delay caused by rail traffic, <a href=\"https:\/\/public.destinyhosted.com\/agenda_publish.cfm?id=72437&amp;mt=ALL&amp;get_month=2&amp;get_year=2026&amp;dsp=agm&amp;seq=4681&amp;rev=0&amp;ag=932&amp;ln=21483&amp;nseq=4664&amp;nrev=0&amp;pseq=4653&amp;prev=0#ReturnTo21483\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agenda documents state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What it means<\/p>\n<p>The letter of support will be included in TxDOT\u2019s application for a railroad grant that will help fund the project.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion<\/p>\n<p>Council member Michelle Watson suggested changing the timing of the traffic lights.<\/p>\n<p>Council member Paul Macaluso said doing nothing was not the answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a bad situation already,\u201d Macaluso said. \u201cI think that realistically we have to look at things 10, 20 years down the road.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a 6-1 vote on Feb. 3, Schertz City Council authorized its city manager to provide a letter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[698,11849,65320,65321,2507,82,84,83,52506,9237,840,271,65319],"class_list":["post-158967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-bexar-county","tag-comal-county","tag-fm-3009","tag-fm-78","tag-guadalupe-county","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-schertz-city-council","tag-texas-department-of-transportation","tag-transportation","tag-txdot","tag-union-pacific-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}