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TRIP hosted an open house about the 24th Street project tonight. It was considerably calmer than the the 58-to-Westside Parkway one a few weeks ago. There are three segments to this project: There's the Oak and 24th intersection. With so much traffic there turning, it's a challenge, TRIP engineer Ted Wright said. The options range from just more lanes to a split-level intersection with curving ramps. There's the 24th Street segment. This is the tricky part. It's to be widened to six lanes. It can be widened on the north, the south or both. Here's the thing — widening either side would mean taking that first row of homes. Widening both sides would mean taking that first row of homes on both sides. One possibility on this segment is a frontage road on the north side, similar to what you can see today on Stockdale Highway or New Stine. That way, people from the north would be routed through one or more traffic lights. There'd be one on the north, not on the south, because the...
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