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10 essential rules every driver must know to ensure our streets are safe for everyone 
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10 essential rules every driver must know to ensure our streets are safe for everyone 

With August being National Traffic Safety Month and school starting this week, we encourage College Station residents and visitors to stay alert, informed, and responsible while navigating our city streets. Here are 10 reminders to help you make our community safer when on the road. Continue reading 10 essential rules every driver must know to ensure our streets are safe for everyone 

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CS, A&M work to reduce gameday traffic congestion

Game Day Traffic

By Troy Rother, City Traffic Engineer

As much as we all love Aggie football, there’s one thing we dread when football season arrives – the increased traffic around Kyle Field.

In the early 1990s, the city worked closely with Texas A&M to develop a plan to move traffic in and out of the area after football games. The plan has worked well, but the rapid growth of the city and the university – not to mention all the new visitors from the Southeastern Conference – means it must be updated.

After last season’s Alabama game, we collaborated with the university to collect postgame traffic data all over the region to develop better methods of moving traffic. We also partnered with the Texas A&M University System and other local agencies, such as the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, to find ways to not only move traffic more efficiently after games, but to also assist fans arriving in town before games.

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City works to reduce gameday traffic congestion

Game Day Traffic

As much as we all love Aggie football, there’s one thing we dread when football season arrives – the increased traffic around Kyle Field.

In the early 1990s, the city worked closely with Texas A&M to develop the Go With the Green Plan to move traffic in and out of the area after football games. The plan has worked well, but the rapid growth of the city and the university – not to mention all the new visitors from the SEC – means it must be tweaked and updated.

Continue reading “City works to reduce gameday traffic congestion”