The Victoria Police Department is out in full force looking specifically for red-light runners and citations are being handed out faster than you can say, "Go."
Anyone who drives Navarro knows what a headache it can be. The heavy traffic combined with a shared center/left-turn lane can be a recipe for disaster. If it's not two vehicles coming from opposite directions both trying to use the center lane to turn at the same time, then it's some bozo using the lane as a freeway on-ramp, which is illegal, by the way...
Bootfest gets underway this weekend in Victoria, and with large crowds expected both Friday and Saturday, the city of has announced that some streets will be closed, and the city will be running special shuttle buses so you won't have top worry about downtown parking...
We've seen numerous cases of pedestrians getting hit by cars here in Victoria lately, some resulting in fatalities. In order to improve safety for people walking or riding bicycles, the City of Victoria has asked the state for money specifically for projects specifically along Navarro and Houston Highway...
After some 20 months of construction, the new lanes of Loop 463 (aka Zac Lentz Parkway) will open at approximately 8:30am today (4/16/13). According to a TDOT press release, the newly-constructed west-bound main lanes of the Loop will open to traffic and the frontage roads will remain open as normal, except for at the Salem Road intersections, where traffic will be required to stop. The lane-switc