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Click here to report street light outage. STREET NAME CHANGED TO ELIMINATE CONFUSION
The Sachse City Council approved a request for a street name change from Maple Shade Court to Shade Tree Court at their April 7, 2008 meeting. The following addresses are affected: 4503, 4504, 4507, 4508, 4511, 4512, 4515, 4516 and 4520 Maple Shade Court will now be 4503, 4504, 4507, 4508, 4511, 4512, 4515, 4516 and 4520 Shade Tree Court. The police department is updating its 9-1-1 database and the U.S. Postal Service has been informed. If you have questions or problems, please contact Michael Spencer at 972.675.16
5th STREET WIDENING PROJECT - ROUTE SELECTED FOR ROADWAY On June 18th, the Sachse City Council selected an alignment for the 5th Street widening project as presented by Birkhoff, Hendricks & Conway, L.L.P. This project, approved as part of the November 2006 Bond package, will upgrade a vital arterial roadway and help ease transportation woes in the northeast sector of our city. Click here to view a map of the selected route. (The file is extremely large. Please be patient while it is loading.) As of January 18, 2008 - Survey work has been completed and the engineers will begin taking soil samples. We are still on track to begin appraisals in late winter or early spring. Design drawings of the roadway will be presented at the City Council meeting of January 21st. Kansas City Southern Railroad has begun communication on the improvements to the intersection at 5th Street and Highway 78. With Collin County making improvements to DeWitt Road and the City of Wylie making improvements to McCreary Road (Maxwell Creek), there will be a four-lane divided roadway from Highway 78 to FM 544 in the future. Engineering work continues on Bunker Hill Road and Murphy Road. Updates will be posted as they become available. Dallas County conducted an informational meeting on Murphy Road at Sachse City Hall in November with residents that will be affected by the construction. It is anticipated that construction to move and relocate utilities will begin the first of 2009.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is proposing improvements to State Highway 78 from 4,000 feet north of the President George Bush Turnpike in the City of Garland, through the City of Sachse, and continuing to Spring Creek Parkway in the City of Wylie. The purpose of the proposed project is to improve mobility and traffic safety along the stated limits of SH 78. Click here to read a more detailed verbal description of the proposed improvements; and click here to view a map of the starting and stopping points of the project.
UPDATE ON PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
TURNPIKE The proposed 9.9-mile segment from Highway 78 to Interstate 30 through Garland, Rowlett and Sachse received approval for the financing and connection agreements from the Texas Transportation Commission. After receiving environmental clearance from the Federal Highway Administration in January 2005, work on the final design is under way. In May 2007 the NTTA received authorization to begin the purchase of right-of-way and that process is ongoing. The tentative project schedule calls for construction to begin in the third quarter of 2008. The projected opening from SH 78 to IH 30 is late 2001 to early 2013.
STREET LIGHT OUTAGE A PROBLEM? As you may or may not know, streetlights in Sachse are installed and maintained by TXU, therefore TXU is responsible for street light outages and repairs. If you have a street light out in your neighborhood and would like to report the problem directly to TXU, you may call 1.888.313.4747 and speak to an operator, or you may send the request over the Internet using the online form that is available at http://www.txuelectricdelivery.com. Click on the link titled "Report Streetlight Outage". Be advised that the outage reported will not show up on the website immediately. Please allow 1 to 2 days so the outage can be registered on the site. This action does not delay the maintenance process, but allows time for downloads and updates to occur. In most cases, the outage can be viewed on line the following day.
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