Mistletoe Heights Traffic Committee Meeting
2012-February
The Mistletoe Heights traffic committee will meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 7 in the offices at Fort Worth South, 1606 Mistletoe Blvd. at Eighth Avenue.
The committee will discuss a proposal being floated by the Berkeley neighborhood association and others to put Forest Park Boulevard on a “road diet” between Rosedale and Park Hill.
The road diet would narrow Forest Park to one car lane in either direction, plus a center turn lane, and bike lanes on both sides of the road. The Berkeley association believes the road diet would slow traffic on Forest Park, reduce the numbers of accidents, force non-resident commuters using Forest Park as cut-through to go elsewhere, and better link our neighborhoods to the city’s bike trail network.
The Berkeley Place Association recently voted to adopt this resolution, and is asking the Mistletoe Heights association to consider it:
“The BPA stands in favor of the implementation of a “road diet” on Forest Park Boulevard. Specifically, the BPA asks the City of Fort Worth to reduce Forest Park Boulevard from a 4-lane street down to a 2-lane boulevard, with a central turn lane and north- bound and southbound dedicated bike lanes on the sides. The road diet should be accomplished by re-striping Forest Park Boulevard from Park Hill on the southern end to Rosedale on the northern end. The BPA also requests that the City of Fort Worth include safe crossing striping and signage where appropriate along the boulevard, including but not limited to the installation of warnings at the crossing points for Tillery Park.”
This item is also scheduled for discussion at the Mistletoe Heights association’s regularly scheduled quarterly meeting, 7 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 21 at Jeff Davis’ home, 2325 Mistletoe Drive.
Please contact Scott Nishimura, Mistletoe Heights traffic committee chairman, 817-913-8671, julieandscott91@att.net, for more info or to join the traffic committee.