The city is taking new action to increase driver safety on the busy thoroughfare.“A cluster,” he calls it. “We’ve got friends that have lost tires and rims on this road.”This time, he decided to take the torn-up road. He drove up Canyon Valley Trail to the Parker intersection and reportedly saw a large gap of cones, allegedly about 18 feet apart.“I cross the street, make a left turn ,” he recalled, pointing at a barricade in the distance. “You see that barricade? That wasn’t there.
Since the project began, Navigating Parker’s patchwork and sections with steep drop-offs has led to many allegations of vehicle damage. “That’s a lot. That’s a very high number for a construction project,” says City of Plano spokesman Steve Stoler. Stoler and the city’s engineering director note that in some cases, drivers simply ignore layers of safety, including cones and barricades.The city estimates there are 50 trenches along Parker Road where line replacement work is being done.“One thing we’re going to do is take a look at all the intersections along Parker Road where the construction is,” said Stoler. “We’re asking to put up a third layer of barricades to prevent this kind of thing from happening.