Matthew Comer

Eastbound Slaughter Lane at the Brodie Lane Intersection is a bottle neck issue. It backs up regularly, escpecially at rush hour. The lanes back al lthe way past the Sendera neighborhood, almost all the way to Mopac Loop 1.

Any easy and cheap way to relieve a lot of this traffic and speed up commute time, would be to enlarge the lanes into the very large median at the Brodie Lane intersection back to almost Bowie High School.

Because many people just want to turn left, so the left lane can back up to almost Bowie High School, and traffic congestion does not ease up, until the lanes are expended at the intersection for the stop light.

Can New Davis Westbound lanes be expanded into 3 lanes?
This great new project that has improved the intersection at Westbound Davis at Brodie Intersection, it has been too successful and heavy with traffic that backs all the way down Davis. The reason is that it is 2 lanes (with a wide painted divider in the road) Most people either want to go straight or turn right, so the light could be improved by removing the painted barrier and having 3 dedicated lanes: Left, Straight, and Right. Then that would certainly help with the issue.

Can this be done?

Less than 5 years ago, 2 new stop signs were erected on Clawson Road. These are on a bend on Clawson Road where Crown Drive enters Clawson Road. A stop sign at Crown Drive has been present for many years and is surely required. However, the 2 new stop signs are more confusing and not required than anything else. Nobody in the neighborhood respects them, which is apparent, because nobody stops at them. They are stop signs in middle of a continuous road. There is hardly ever any entering or exiting traffic onto Crown Drive. This neighborhood is over 60 years old, with many residents living here for all of these years. They do not stop at these signs, maybe a rolling stop at best. This is more of a cause for an accident, then how it was before.

Today, a vehicle traveling too fast ran the South stop sign, then due to a vehicle approaching the stop sign from the North, the driver turned too fast and ran into the property located at 4512 Clawson Road, damaging the fence and home. This has caused panic and outrage among the neighbors, who agree that the 2 new stop signs are a detriment, rather than a benefit. Please remove both 2 new stop signs on Clawson Road at Crown Drive.

Note: The signs were erected a day before a builder put a house on the market. The house was doubled in size, then flipped. This would be the only house that may benefit from 2 new stop signs, as now the house and driveway are within the intersection. However, now the entire neighborhood must share in the detriment that these signs present in their daily lives.

Another South Austin traffic mess. Deer Lane at Brodie Lane is an absolute traffic nightmare at all times of the day:
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Deer Lane traffic East at the intersection of Brodie Lane is a two lane road with no South turn lane, causes traffic to back up on this road dozens of cars deep morning, noon and night.

I sent a request to the City of Austin for traffic improvements recently, but have yet to receive a response.

If this is something that you can shine light on and champion, please let me know if I can take any photos for you that would show how deep the cars pile up on this 2 lane road.