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Thank you for contacting City of Huntsville Traffic Engineering. We would like to advise as follows regarding your request to Traffic Engineering, and then we will forward the See Click Fix to City of Huntsville Engineering: The full connection between the Lake Forest Community and the Wheeler Bend and Wheeler Pointe Communities, via Barren Fork Boulevard, has been a part of the City of Huntsville’s Long-Term Plan for many years. As well, this connection was part of the Lake Forest Subdivision plans when the Community was first approved by the City. Questions regarding this connection should be referred to the City’s Engineering Division, which is administering the Barren Fork Boulevard Extension Project

Huntsville Traffic Engineering assigned this issue to Huntsville Engineering

Thank you for making us aware of your concern. As Traffic Engineering mentioned this project is part of a Long-Term Plan. We will review and consider your concerns and follow up accordingly.

Thank you,
Engineering

Councilman Culver's office has been called several times about this issue. His assistant assured each time that he would return these calls but weeks have passed and he has not.

Huntsville Engineering has not replied to this report since it was assigned to them by Huntsville Traffic Engineering over TWO months ago. Please address this issue.

It looks like it was addressed just not the answer you want Citizen. It was a long term plan by the developers of Lake Forest when submit to Huntsville. So just deal with it and quit whining.

Huntsville Engineering stated on February 6, 2018 that they would review and consider concerns and follow up. That was over two months ago and still no update here.

However, last Tuesday April 10, 2018 Councilman Will Culver hosted a Town Hall Meeting at the Lake Forest clubhouse to address this issue with the many concerned residents of Lake Forest. I would estimate there were at least 200 people there and not one person was for the connection, everyone was against it and made that very clear to Councilman Culver.

There is also a change.org petition for this issue that has over FIVE HUNDRED signatures: https://www.change.org/p/please-make-the-connection-of-barren-fork-to-the-lake-forest-subdivision-for-emergency-vehicles-only

Councilman Culver also brought up this issue at the Huntsville City Council meeting on April 12, 2018 and said he felt he reached an "amicable" solution with our community.

Well the traffic flow could be helped when they open the section open. The folks that live on the back side might use barren fork instead. To cut time and also it is a four lane road and parents and kids could use it to get to school.
And someone said on the Nextdoor app that there is a new subdivision also plan to open and use with this extension.
If the neighbors of lake forest have issues with speeding you can request speed humps or other traffic calming devices.
Or request some radars set up by hpd.
You will prolly be more successful with the traffic calming devices than the extension they are building for emergency only. Don’t see that happening.

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If this goes through, my family and I will not be able to safely get out of our driveway, especially in the mornings when trying to go to work. It also reduces the value of our home.

It has already started and prolly be done by start of school year. I don’t think it will add that much more traffic . It if does ask for speed calming devices.

I understand that this connection has been a long term plan of the city. I get that, but plans on paper do not take into consideration the effect it will have on the lives of the great residents of Huntsville that live in Lake Forest. I am one of those residents. This connection will cause so much trouble for our neighborhood. Just today, I was behind a large dump truck that turned from Lake Forest Blvd. onto Holly Park Blvd. This truck crept around the lake, and once on Holly Park, because it was a straighter stretch of road, floored it headed to the construction zones. Don't you know, that once that connection is opened up, that those droves of people taking this "short cut", in a hurry to beat the traffic, are going to speed down that straight stretch from Barren Fork, turning right on Holly Park/Youpon,to Lake Forest Blvd. There are children, the elderly, dog walkers, pedestrians, and many handicapped residents, not to mention all of the service trucks that frequent and park on these streets, that stand to be endangered by connecting a 5 lane road onto a neighborhood street. I have a friend who is severly handicapped who walks her dog down this very street everyday, and I am very concerned for the safety issues that the city is creating by making this a through street. I am humbly and respectfully asking the City of Huntsville to please listen to the 500 plus Huntsville residents who will be directly effected by this action, and have expressed their concerns, and to please ammend these plans for opening up this connection. Please make this Barren Fork connection for EMS access only. We, the citizens of Lake Forest and Huntsville, thank you so much for this reconsideration. Thank you for looking out for the safety and welfare of the people of our city.

The only traffic increase will not be as busy as u think it will be. Barren fork isn’t that busy at all. It will be more traffic coming from lake
Forest than vice versa. If it does become a problem ask for speed humps or traffic calming devices.

If this gets connected Barren Fork Blvd will be busier than it is now because people that live further down Zierdt Road will be able to use Barren Fork Blvd and Lake Forest as a short cut. There are more and more people moving down there with the new subdivisions that are being developed.

Kind of funny how everyone is all up in arms about the barren fork addition! I live on the east side of LF and have to deal with a high amount traffic and speeders everyday. The exact same thing some of you are worrying about are things we deal with on Tall Oak and Shadow Creek.... I wanted speed humps or bumps put in on Shadow Creek to slow people down but was very rudely attacked by opposition. People basically told me that their cars tires and suspension systems were more important than our families safety. We have seen many people driving down Shadow Court at very high rates of speed... sometimes as high as 50 to 60 mph.

I am not opposed to the connection. I am in favor as it may lighten the traffic load on our side of the community. I'm sorry to be so cynical, but when I raised traffic concerns I was less than politely shut down by my "neighbors".

Not all of them, if it's the request I'm thinking of I asked you if you had contacted Riley Security and you replied and said they stated they had no authority to do anything about speeding. I am not and have not been against speed cushions. They don't damage car tires and suspension systems if you go over them slowly, people that are against them just don't want the inconvenience.

If I remember correctly it was also stated by others in that request that you had been derogatory toward the residents of Shadow Creek or their subdivision on Nextdoor.

We have never interacted before. So, Idk who you were addressing previously. It was not on this forum either. Nevertheless... The less than understanding or caring attitude came from a large number of LF residents.

Please complete the pass through!!!! It will allow emergency access vehicles and residents to get to those other communities and William middle school easier and faster.

Someone on Tall Oak Blvd requested speed bumps on SeeClickFix in October of last year: https://en.seeclickfix.com/issues/3760022-traffic-street-sign

Yep. I wasn't on that request. Too bad it got closed. Maybe the new access will alleviate some of the high speed traffic in LF on the east side.

The road is open so this might as well be closed.

Might as well close this issue since the road has been officially opened and being used.

The road was opened in September 2018 and we continue to monitor traffic counts in this area. Final traffic counts will be performed upon the completion of Martin Road and Zierdt Road widening projects to address any traffic concerns that may occur.

Thank you,
Engineering

Thanks for fixing this request!