Jun 9, 2010
Adams Street Narrowing
By: Kevin Buchanan
If you’ve been wondering what all the construction is on Adams Street in the Near Southside, it’s another street narrowing/streetscape project. The street’s been taken down in width and bulb-outs are being used to contain the on-street parking, to provide a slower, safer, more pleasant street and better parking setups. Work’s been underway for a while now and it looks like the project is finally starting to enter its last stages, so it shouldn’t be that much longer before it’s re-opened again.
Besides the various townhome developments on Adams (Texana and Oleander Place thus far), there’s the old Dunn Haven Apartments building on the corner of Adams & Magnolia that’s being turned into a marketing company’s headquarters, and the old (and awful) Fort Worth ISD Adult Education Center on the other corner is being remodeled into some kind of FWISD gifted & talented girl’s academy (and while the terrible design of the building isn’t being radically altered, it is at least getting a more interesting paint job to help break up the street facade into less boring components).
really? the Dunn Haven apts are being taken over by a marketing company for headquarters? that sucks, it has potential for something far more interesting and vibrant that would add to the area.
The school will be the Young Women’s Leadership Academy, opening this fall for 6th and 7th grade girls.
Looks like it’s not going to be any narrower than it was. Just a few new bulb-outs added, so they’ll be less grass. (Also, alarmingly, the curbs show no sign of drains. How typical is that?)
Are these narrow streets supposed to be for Bicycles or for automobile use? Oleander street looks like a bike/walk trail and actually I don’t see how a regular car or truck can get through there without it being a one way street. I rode through Oleander the other day and thought about that very hard. I was looking for a one way sign or a bicycle/walking sign which none were to be found along the path. I was wondering if these were gonna be Bicycle/pedestrian paths which would be VERY Nice if that was the deal. I look forward to seeing more like it.
I’ll be watching to see how the traffic at the school is routed during the busy times. I hope the drop off mommas don’t think they can jam up the bike lanes.
This looks great. I am glad the TIF and city are doing this.