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Honorable Brad Wright
Honorable George Pierce
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adjacent residential neighborhoods, using
minor residential streets neither designed
nor intended to be traffic arteries. Often,
such heavy use causes safety hazards (espe-
cially when children are present), and it can
cause unwarranted noise and disruption in
otherwise quiet residential neighborhoods.
'Cut-through' traffic in a residential
neighborhood can significantly detract from
the quality of life there.
Local traffic officials have very few options
to control 'cut-through' traffic. Because
street patterns are almost always fixed by
recorded plat or dedication, it is usually
futile to try re-route or to redesign the
streets themselves. Sometimes turn restric-
tions or 'one-way' restrictions will
discourage 'cut-through' traffic, but these
restrictions can cause problems of their own
in a residential neighborhood.
Local traffic officials may have no practical
way to discourage 'cut-throughs' except by
erecting four-way or three-way stop signs on
the affected residential streets.
Section 31 of article 6701d, V.T.C.S., addresses the
matter of local authorities placing and maintaining traffic
control devises upon any highway under their jurisdiction.
Section 31 provides:
Local authorities, in their respective juris-
diction, may place and maintain any
traffic-control devices upon any highway
under their jurisdiction as they may deem
necessary to indicate and carry out the
provisions of this Act, or local traffic
ordinances, or regulate, warn or guide
traffic. All such traffic-control devices
hereafter erected shall conform to the State
Highwav Department's1 manual and specifica-
tions. (Emphasis added.)
1. "State Highway Department" changed to "State
(Footnote Continued)p. 6228
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1182, text, June 6, 1990; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth273620/m1/2/?q=%22Mattox%2C+Jim%22: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.