BRYAN, Texas — While the highly debated Texas Avenue medians have been completed for around four months now, Bryan and College Station residents are not giving up on voicing their concerns.
The BCS Median Survey Team is a newly formed group of citizens that are looking to remove most of the medians and reform the necessary ones with reflective paint, beveling the edges and shortening the intrusion into the intersections.
Their goal is to get 30,000 petition signatures for this change and get on the Bryan City Council agenda to bring attention to their concerns.
A spokesperson for the group, Jack Robbins explained, “Our goal is to remove all of or most of the medians in the area our first focus is this South College Station corridor, and we're shooting for all or most of the medians. If the survey were to reveal the majority of people don’t care or they like the medians we’re gonna have to back off. I think at a minimum they’ve got to be more visible, particularly at night. It’s really hard when you’re driving along here at night to pick out those little openings that you’re supposed to make your left-hand turn in.”
The group also says driver demographics make the medians more dangerous to the community.
“We have a young segment of drivers the average age in the area is 28 that’s 11 years younger than the national average. We also have an average aging population with me among them I know I don’t see as well or react as fast as I used to,” Robbins said.
The city has said they do not have enough information to provide an official response in regards to the group's goals to get the medians removed.
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