The City of Bee Cave wants TxDOT to study the speed limit of their roads within the city.
Bee Cave is growing by leaps and bounds. Residents there think speed limits on state roads in their city are too fast. Bee Cave City Manager Clint Garza says after a failed effort in March they got the City Council to approve asking TxDOT to study Highway 71 and RR 620. “If the number come out and the study shows they should be lowered as well, the speed limit down 71 would match what we’ve got in the unincorporated areas as well as when you’re heading into Lakeway on 620.”
Garza says Mayor Pro Tem Bill Goodwin wants a decision based on science and not emotion. So, they’re trying to abide by the TxDOT scientific process rather than emotion. “I think the desired result is that TxDOT look at the traffic patterns and look at what people are driving and follow their process and protocols for establishing the speed limit.” He says TxDOT’s research shows lowering limits by five miles an hour as residents have requested doesn’t make the roads safer. “I sent the resolution over to the State and let them know that we did pass it. I haven’t heard back from my district office of when they plan it, but I’d expect that, unless something has changed, that they would do the work this Fall.”
