Hurst residents press council for traffic-calming on Pleasant View after frontage-road closure

Taylor Camps, a Hurst resident at 429 West Pleasant View Drive, told the Hurst City Council that the closure of the northbound access from Norwood to State Highway 183 has sharply increased traffic on neighborhood streets and raised safety concerns for students walking to Shady Oaks Elementary and to Bell. Camps thanked the city for recent steps — restriping crosswalks, increased police presence and a temporary radar speed-trailer — and requested additional, physical measures to slow drivers and reduce cut-through traffic.

Camps said the city’s quick restriping at Pleasant View and Cavender and added patrols had been “very… appreciated,” and described near-miss traffic incidents residents report since construction began. “We then feel a loss of control or fear of how do we continue to maintain a safe street for our children,” Camps said, reading from prepared remarks.

City leaders responded that several…