Closing of SH 236

TxDOT closed SH 236 at the Leon River more than a year ago. This has created a major inconvenience for local persons on many levels:

Most locally have a Moody address and do most business in Moody or McGregor; this doubles time and expense for us.

Access for Emergency services is adversely affected.

Access to Mother Neff state park from the south is ridiculous.

We have been patient with progress because the bridge upgrade was badly needed due to intermittent closure of SH 236 due to flooding. There have been several delays, but now progress is essentially halted due to a guardrail material dispute between the contractor and TxDOT. We have been unable to get any update on completion and re-opening of SH 236.

The bridge is completed except for guardrail. We need SH 236 re-opened by some temporary means (I would suggest the concrete lane barriers they use everywhere) while they iron out their issues.

This delay is not acceptable when there are ways to prevent it.

Guy Mathews

The Grove Community