Bellaire Drive undergoes major repairs
Students and neighbors inconvenienced by construction
By Anthony Kirchner
Staff Reporter

A local resident could think of nothing to do but sing as construction crews did street work in front of her home on Bellaire Drive last week.

“I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky come tumbling down,” Mrs. Jim Hunt sang as she described the noise that came from jackhammers tearing up concrete on the 4000 block of Bellaire Drive.

David Dunai/STAFF REPORTER Traffic is temporarily slowed near Bellaire and Stadium. Repairs to the road are for potholes. The construction should be complete by the end of February.

Hunt said the constant noise from construction crews has been a huge inconvenience, but she said she realizes the construction is a “fact of life.”

Hunt has lived on Bellaire Drive for 22 years with her husband Jim Hunt, a TCU alumnus.
“The quality of the street was just not very good,” Hunt said. “Hopefully, Bellaire will be better after all of this mess.”

New concrete is being poured along several sections of Bellaire Drive to repair large potholes that had begun to form on the street, said James Wilson, superintendent for the Bellaire project.

Ed A. Wilson Inc. is the company in charge of street repairs on Bellaire Drive as part of a street restoration contract with the city of Fort Worth. Wilson said the construction on Bellaire Drive will be done by the end of February.

“If the weather cooperates, we might even complete the Bellaire project by the 20th or 21st of February,” Wilson said.

Stephanie Hayes, a junior elementary education major, said the construction is something that has affected her and the many TCU students who drive on the street daily.

“The traffic congestion has been so bad, it takes me 10 minutes longer to get home,” Hayes said. “It’s really all such a pain.”

Ed A. Wilson Inc. submitted traffic control plans to the city of Fort Worth in order to regulate the traffic problems that come as a result of the construction and they are doing their best to redirect traffic, Wilson said.

Sam Cobb, another resident who lives on Bellaire Drive, said the construction has been a little bit of a problem for him, but it has been a welcomed problem.

“The potholes on Bellaire have been really bad,” Cobb said. “I’m so glad to see them finally doing something about this street.”

Cobb said he is also pleased the construction crews are working all the time.

“You never see workers sitting around, every worker has something to do and they are doing it,” Cobb said.

Anthony Kirchner
a.l.kirchner@student.tcu.edu

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