At the Nov. 15 Grapevine City Council meeting, a proposal of potential alterations and enhancements for Dallas Road from Texan Trail to William D. Tate Avenue was presented.


Craig Melde of ArchiTexas, who presented the proposal, said the plan for the road is to make it into a “great urban boulevard that is in a safe, walkable corridor.”


To accomplish that, Melde said the road would need to be redesigned as a two-lane road in order to accommodate vehicle circulation, pedestrian enhancements and landscape improvements. However, Mayor William D. Tate and City Council members voiced their opposition against condensing the roadway.


“I just don’t think that’s going to work,” he said. “You can’t cut Dallas Road down to two lanes and move the traffic. There’s too much traffic there today, and when you add the train station, the hotel, the apartments and everything else that is going to be there, you’re going to have chaos and you’re going to have people going all through the historic district trying to get where they have to go.”


Council instructed the architects to come back with a scaled-down proposal that keeps Dallas Road at four lanes but still has pedestrian and landscaping enhancements.


As work on the TEX Rail corridor begins, Grapevine City Council seeks to keep Dallas Road at four lanes