With fast expansion happening in the southwest part of Lubbock, several neighboring residents are worried the current roads won’t keep up with the traffic.
“Cars are going 50 miles an hour past us and there really is no place for you to get out into it traffic,” Marguerite Bourn, who lives in the Orchard Park Neighborhood said.
Bourn said to get in and out of her garage she has to use an alleyway with the only exit being to 114th street. She said sometimes to even get out of the alleyway onto 114th she has had to sit and wait for at least 10 minutes.
She said if the city would have just made the street with more lanes in the first place, this would have never been a problem.
“The city had planned for this to be 5 lanes; which should be sufficient but if they’re going to be putting in two hundred apartments, a business next to that then 500-600 homes, there is no way 1,500 extra cars can be on this road and have it work out,” Bourn said.
Steve Massengale, the City Councilman for District 4 said they’ve looked into expanding but right now it’s just not in the budget.
“Council prioritize some of our road projects so hopefully we can move 114th street up and try to get it widened. We have other streets that have the same needs,” Councilman Massengale said.