Save Lake Lavon

Beautiful Lavon Lake, Collin County, Texas
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lake


 

 

How You Can Help!
This bridge plan can be stopped by stopping the route's approval. 

A Public Hearing and VOTE on the Lavon Lake Bridge Route
is set for October 11, 2010.  Monday 9:30 a.m.   

4th floor of the Jack Hatchell Administration Building, 2300 Bloomdale Rd., McKinney, TX 75071

If 3 out of the 5 Commissioner's Court members vote NO,
the route will NOT become part of the current, or future,
Collin County Thoroughfare Plans or the Regional Thoroughfare Plan.

TWO STEPS TO STOP THIS BRIDGE ROUTE'S APPROVAL:

  1. Send an email to the Commissioners using the information below.

  2. Personally contact at least 3 other people and ask them to send an email to the Commissioners.  Ask each of them to contact another 3 people to continue the chain!

EMAIL ADDRESSES:

keith.self@collincountytx.gov; jjaynes@collincountytx.gov; kward@collincountytx.gov; mshaheen@collincountytx.gov; jhoagland@collincountytx.gov

CC Collin County Engineering: rdelgado@co.collin.tx.us

You may also want to send a 'copy' of your, "Please VOTE NO!" email to: 
dwebb@duncanwebb.org; cheryl@votecherylwilliams.com; nobridgeroute@gmail.com

SUBJECT LINE:

Lavon Lake Bridge Route – Please VOTE NO

YOUR MESSAGE:

First ...

Include Your Name and Address

Second write the following...

Please include this email as an official comment for the October 11, 2010 Public Hearing on the Lavon Lake Bridge Route

Third write your own comment...

(*Example topics are below.  Copy and edit to fit your concerns.)

* Citizens appreciate the care and concern our Commissioners take when planning the budget and spending our tax dollars.  Please consider that this route is not part of a prudent or cost effective mobility plan.  Please reject this route.  Also, consider the removal of the "Place Holder" route from the Mobility Plan 2007 Update to assure that this route location study is not repeated in the future.

* Do not approve this bridge route. It is clearly drawn to service the southeastern Collin County transit hub, and BOTH are extravagant, damaging plans that citizens want stopped.

* Collin County projections show Hwy 380 and Hwy 78. NCTCOG traffic congestion is not cured by a bridge.  NCTCOG traffic projections show completion of the more cost effective roadways (as Hwy 380 and Hwy 78), WITHOUT building new bridge, lake area traffic gets no worse  from 2009-2030.  Instead of planning an extravagant bridge route that Collin County engineering has said may "stay a line on the map forever," spend a portion of the extravagant bridge cost and plan for attainable improvements that will actually help in the areas of greatest need. 

* Please, do not approve this route for an estimated $470 million dollar bridge the lake area residents do not even want. This extreme cost is 10 to 15 times more than similar capacity non-bridge roadways. Collin County's projected average daily trips are relatively low.  When compared to the new Hwy 75 and Hwy 121 project the Lavon project cost is 6 times greater.  This route is NOT fiscally responsible planning.

* The Corps of Engineers do not approve of this or any route drawn by HNTB.  Please do not approve this route.

* The chosen route requires that both bridges have 52 feet high, 360 foot wide open spans.  Each cut diagonally over deep water, yet Collin County Engineering and HNTB engineering deem this route the most "optimal." Citizens are not persuaded by engineering's matrix of "+" and "-" arguments.  The study evaluations and reasons for choosing the route were far too subjective.  Please do not approve this questionable and extravagant route as part of the official Collin County Mobility Plan 2007 Update. 

* Collin County admits it does not have a specific study that quantifies the difference of building, or not building, this bridge.  They have no targeted data to support the need for this bridge, while NCTCOG projections say that completion of other area roadways will serve to keep the traffic the same in 2030 as it was in 2009.  Please do NOT approve this route. Instead, revise the planned improvements for Hwy 380 and SH 78.  Focus on a plan for cost effective solutions that will help the most and can be delivered sooner.

 

Please tell your friends, co-workers, and relatives
to send an email to the Commissioners!

 Flyers to hand out to your neighbors.

 Have a sign made for your yard using these  sign graphics .

 
What You
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Collin County
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Videos Of Past Public Meetings:

September 14th Commissioner's Meeting:
1 Toll Discussion
2 HNTB Presentation
 

October 7th Public Meeting
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9

(9 Part Video)

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 
 


 Please submit comments and information to:SaveLakeLavon@gmail.com