Those who live in Dallas’ Kessler Park are considering changes at one of the neighborhood’s most crash-prone intersections.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday night, a meeting was held at Kidd Springs Recreation Center to discuss what can be done at West Colorado Boulevard at Tyler Street\/Sylvan Avenue. The city reports that nearly 50 crashes have occurred there from 2020 to 2024.<\/p>\n
Longtime resident voices concern<\/p>\n
Elmer Powell has lived across from the intersection since the 1970s and says traffic has gotten out of control.<\/p>\n
“Traffic is probably 10xs what it was over the years, it’s growing tremendously,” he said.<\/p>\n
He says speeding is the real issue. In just the past three years, three cars have crashed into his yard.<\/p>\n
“They usually hit the embankment and jump up in the air and land on the yard,” he said.<\/p>\n
City reviews roundabout proposal<\/p>\n
Tuesday night, Powell joined his neighbors as city leaders reviewed a proposal aimed at making the area safer.<\/p>\n
“This is an extremely dangerous intersection,” District 1 City Councilman Chad West said. “As I mentioned earlier on, this is the one intersection I’ve actually had an accident personally at.”<\/p>\n
Close to 200 residents voted on three design options, and about 60% chose a “peanut roundabout,” which would be funded by the 2024 bond.<\/p>\n
Parking concerns raised by residents<\/p>\n
Not everyone was on board. One resident said the proposal eliminates her parking lane.<\/p>\n
“We wouldn’t be able to back out on a complicated curve on the street that blocks our vision already,” Keer Tanchek said.<\/p>\n
“Those engineers need to sit down and talk to those people individually and try to work through those problems,” West said.<\/p>\n
Recent crashes heighten urgency<\/p>\n
Nearby, several serious crashes in recent months have neighbors worried.<\/p>\n
This included a deadly pedestrian accident on West Davis last Sunday and a chain-reaction crash at Davis and Tyler Street that sent several people to the hospital last July.<\/p>\n
Back in May, a car tore through a roundabout and into a townhome at a roundabout on Tyler near Winston Street.<\/p>\n
Some oppose proposed intersection changes<\/p>\n
As for the project near Powell’s home, he says he’s against the changes. With the current design, he won’t be able to turn left out of his neighborhood.<\/p>\n
“I think the intersection functions, it’s the speed,” he said. “The only thing that’s going to solve the problem is having some type of red light on Tyler and Sylvan.”<\/p>\n
The city says a final design of the project should be complete by next fall, with construction expected to begin in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those who live in Dallas’ Kessler Park are considering changes at one of the neighborhood’s most crash-prone intersections.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,430,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-4193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-north-texas","12":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}