Construction is scheduled to start in early August on $720,000 in improvements to the Trinity Railway Express crossing at Riverside Drive.<\/p>\n
Improvements include new medians, paving, sidewalks, curb ramps, signage, railroad pedestrian crossings and striping.<\/p>\n
Work is projected to start Aug. 10 and be finished by December or early January, depending on weather, the city said.<\/p>\n
The project was approved by voters in the city\u2019s 2018 bond program and federal money.<\/p>\n
The project also includes pedestrian \u201cswing\u201d gates that are designed to provide escape routes near the train tracks.<\/p>\n
City staff gave an update to residents in the area on Aug. 5 during a preconstruction meeting.<\/p>\n
Riverside Drive at TRE Crossing
Preconstruction Meeting<\/p>\n
Documenter: Tiffany Toru Johnson<\/p>\n
Date: Aug. 5, 2026<\/p>\n
Learn more about this project by clicking here<\/a>. Questions concerning the project can be submitted to project manager Paul Clutts at paul.clutts@fortworthtexas.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tiffany Toru Johnson is a member of the Fort Worth Report Documenters<\/a> crew. Scott Nishimura, senior editor of government accountability for the Report, contributed reporting. If you believe anything in this account is inaccurate, please email us at news@fortworthreport.org<\/a> with \u201cCorrection Request\u201d in the subject line.<\/p>\n This <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/08\/08\/pedestrian-gates-improvements-coming-to-trinity-railway-express-riverside-drive-crossing\/”>article<\/a> first appeared on <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org”>Fort Worth Report<\/a> and is republished here under a <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/”>Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<img src=”https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fortworthreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cropped-favicon.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1″ style=”width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;”><\/p>\n <img id=”republication-tracker-tool-source” src=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/?republication-pixel=true&post=714235&ga4=2820184429″ style=”width:1px;height:1px;”><script> PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: “https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/08\/08\/pedestrian-gates-improvements-coming-to-trinity-railway-express-riverside-drive-crossing\/”, urlref: window.location.href }); } } <\/script> <script id=”parsely-cfg” src=”\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/fortworthreport.org\/p.js”><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by The FWR Staff, Fort Worth Report August 8, 2026 Construction is scheduled to start in early August…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8219,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-401991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-documenters","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401991","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=401991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}