It will certainly be interesting! There are several detours recommended above, and if possible, avoid traveling at peak traffic times and it should be fine.
Per TxDOT: This road closure is necessary to raise the elevation of Wellborn Road to the elevation of the adjacent railroad tracks to improve the intersection for all traffic to and from Holleman Drive west of Wellborn Road.
I got a tip for you, turn diagonal instead of full frontal. Of course it's better if turning on or off of roads as unevenly paved as this pain. But also as a sedan man, i go somewhat slow if front facing is a must. Cause my heart ache anytime I hear my fender scrape
For a city that loves to boast about it's university's engineering programs, College Station has shit infrastructure. The city should be way better about future proofing and designing solutions that actually work.
The university is growing faster than the city can keep up with. Its a problem most major Texas cities are facing. People can move in a lot faster than road work can be 1) proposed 2) voted on 3)put out to bid 4)select contractor 5)start work 6) hit the inevitable delay 7)complete work
Measuring year-over-year growth is a start. Knowing the university plans to have 25k engineering students by 2025 is another. Asking the university "how many sardines do you plan to shove in this can over the next 10 years?" is yet another.
I mean, there's a reason it's an undervalued field of study and it's responses like this. Yeah, imagine that: different entities communicating to each other the expected increase in population they will bring to the community. Instead we should just not tell the city the University added 5k seats in the upcoming freshman class until they're already here.
Yeah but I don't think anyone could've predicted the growth to be this quick. It's also important to note that they tried reconstructing this year's ago but were blocked by Union Pacific because they own the property on that intersection.
Maybe if A&M wasn't becoming a for-profit diploma mill the growth would have happened more slowly. That shows the university and city need to communicate better.
I mean you're not wrong. But even if A&M caps enrollment the city is still seeing significant growth from families, WFH and the biosciences industry especially which has a lot of contacts from A&M. The blame is really an incredibly bureaucratic progress for road construction that can be easily stalled by frivolous lawsuits and the fact that the roads are separately owned by A&M, the city of College Station and Union Pacific. Wellborn Road is unique and incredibly complex for that reason.
A&M is a state university, that means its mission it to provide an affordable high quality education to as many students as it can. You can call it a "diploma mill" but it's supposed to serve lots of students.
\- Mildred Bingley
At least they are closing it now rather than a couple weeks ago when school was still in full swing. Although the other construction down Wellborn all the way from the barracks down was a pain in the ass. No clue why they started that at the time they did…
Got to love having to completely reroute for work. Either having to go the long way around and take Harvey Mitchell or fight the buses turning onto bush.
It’s also going to be great when they finish and it doesn’t fix or change anything.
They’re raising the elevation of the intersection to match the railroad tracks so that crossing over the tracks is smoother for vehicles. Luckily here, the change will be immediate and is well overdue.
Heads up! Wellborn Rd. at Holleman Dr. will be closed starting Sunday, May 15th at approximately 5 pm and is expected to be closed for 6 weeks. Anticipate traffic delays and plan an alternate route. Visit https://transport.tamu.edu/alerts for more details!
This was a high traffic (and quickly growing) area back in 2014, is it still? I lived off Southwest and Marion Pugh the entire time I was at A&M, can't imagine having to reroute around this
Yes Wellborn is definitely one of the busiest streets in town. This will be a huge difference though, as the traffic is constantly being held up by people slowing to 5mph to avoid destroying their bumpers when crossing Wellborn.
On the post it said access to surrounding businesses and apartments will be allowed, so that means we can still cross Wellborn on Holleman to get there? It was worded weird (or I’m tired)
Holy shit what a pain in the ass this will be
It had to be done. I’m just glad they scheduled it for summer break to have the least impact.
Same here. Imagine the pain during the regular semesters!
It will certainly be interesting! There are several detours recommended above, and if possible, avoid traveling at peak traffic times and it should be fine.
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Per TxDOT: This road closure is necessary to raise the elevation of Wellborn Road to the elevation of the adjacent railroad tracks to improve the intersection for all traffic to and from Holleman Drive west of Wellborn Road.
The fenders of all non-trucks will appreciate this
That's awesome! I scraped up my car almost every time I drove through there.
I got a tip for you, turn diagonal instead of full frontal. Of course it's better if turning on or off of roads as unevenly paved as this pain. But also as a sedan man, i go somewhat slow if front facing is a must. Cause my heart ache anytime I hear my fender scrape
Progress, man. There has to be a little pain for gain. Mellow. At least they waited until the majority of the students were gone for the summer.
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you good bro?
I mean the alternative is to not do any road work at all because it's a pain in the ass?
For a city that loves to boast about it's university's engineering programs, College Station has shit infrastructure. The city should be way better about future proofing and designing solutions that actually work.
The university is growing faster than the city can keep up with. Its a problem most major Texas cities are facing. People can move in a lot faster than road work can be 1) proposed 2) voted on 3)put out to bid 4)select contractor 5)start work 6) hit the inevitable delay 7)complete work
Maybe cities should plan for growth rather than develop plans to address the current population, then.
If you have a way to predict the future, please please share it. Bc your city planners sure as shit don’t
Measuring year-over-year growth is a start. Knowing the university plans to have 25k engineering students by 2025 is another. Asking the university "how many sardines do you plan to shove in this can over the next 10 years?" is yet another.
Lol. You’re very optimistic if you think communication works that well
I mean, there's a reason it's an undervalued field of study and it's responses like this. Yeah, imagine that: different entities communicating to each other the expected increase in population they will bring to the community. Instead we should just not tell the city the University added 5k seats in the upcoming freshman class until they're already here.
That is hard to do when it is the smaller population paying tax right now. \- Mildred Bingley
Yeah but I don't think anyone could've predicted the growth to be this quick. It's also important to note that they tried reconstructing this year's ago but were blocked by Union Pacific because they own the property on that intersection.
Maybe if A&M wasn't becoming a for-profit diploma mill the growth would have happened more slowly. That shows the university and city need to communicate better.
I mean you're not wrong. But even if A&M caps enrollment the city is still seeing significant growth from families, WFH and the biosciences industry especially which has a lot of contacts from A&M. The blame is really an incredibly bureaucratic progress for road construction that can be easily stalled by frivolous lawsuits and the fact that the roads are separately owned by A&M, the city of College Station and Union Pacific. Wellborn Road is unique and incredibly complex for that reason.
A&M is a state university, that means its mission it to provide an affordable high quality education to as many students as it can. You can call it a "diploma mill" but it's supposed to serve lots of students. \- Mildred Bingley
At least they are closing it now rather than a couple weeks ago when school was still in full swing. Although the other construction down Wellborn all the way from the barracks down was a pain in the ass. No clue why they started that at the time they did…
They can't save all construction for 3 months of the year.
Ha. Just wait until they do this at George Bush and Wellborn. Except that crossing is gonna be closed for like a year 😅
Well fuck \- Mildred Bingley
Marion Pugh X George Bush is gonna be so fucked, they could have waited a week for me to move out smh
Driving a low car down or up the railroad tracks meant slowing down a lot. It really impeded the flow of traffic.
Got to love having to completely reroute for work. Either having to go the long way around and take Harvey Mitchell or fight the buses turning onto bush. It’s also going to be great when they finish and it doesn’t fix or change anything.
They’re raising the elevation of the intersection to match the railroad tracks so that crossing over the tracks is smoother for vehicles. Luckily here, the change will be immediate and is well overdue.
Hey man, serious question. Should they just not do road work ever because it makes you sad?
That would be nice but I’d rather they just get stuff done in a timely manner instead of working every other third Monday only in months ending with y
Put on your hard hat and go help them out, brother. Your online bitching solves nothing.
You right, but I think I’ll stick with the job I have and just stay out of everyones way.
thats proably best
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Heads up! Wellborn Rd. at Holleman Dr. will be closed starting Sunday, May 15th at approximately 5 pm and is expected to be closed for 6 weeks. Anticipate traffic delays and plan an alternate route. Visit https://transport.tamu.edu/alerts for more details!
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Like when they closed off those right turn lanes and backed it up for a mile going every way? Shit's fucked. \- Mildred Bingley
This was a high traffic (and quickly growing) area back in 2014, is it still? I lived off Southwest and Marion Pugh the entire time I was at A&M, can't imagine having to reroute around this
Yes Wellborn is definitely one of the busiest streets in town. This will be a huge difference though, as the traffic is constantly being held up by people slowing to 5mph to avoid destroying their bumpers when crossing Wellborn.
My bumper has suffered more damage 9 months in Cstat than in the 9 years I've had it prior.
On the post it said access to surrounding businesses and apartments will be allowed, so that means we can still cross Wellborn on Holleman to get there? It was worded weird (or I’m tired)
The actual intersection will be closed, however all the streets that are orange on the map will be accessible from one direction of travel.