Edinburg council directs median plan for Alberta Road; TxDOT signs off on two alternatives

Edinburg — The City Council voted to direct staff to proceed with a median option for the Alberta Road reconstruction project at the Klausner intersection, after a detailed presentation from the city engineer, technical remarks from Texas Department of Transportation representatives and public comment from nearby business owners and residents.

City Engineer Marlo Quinojosa told the council the project is roughly "62% completion" and described progress from I‑69 west to the city's western limits. "The section between Jackson and Sugar, the road has been paved," she said, and the team expects to finish the next section "by the April" and begin improvements east of Klausner "probably around March." Quinojosa also reported traffic counts used in the analysis: "10,879 vehicles" through the intersection on the study days, a posted speed limit of 55 mph, and an 80th‑percentile speed of 54 mph; the fastest recorded speed on the sampling day was 76 mph.

Those counts and speeds were central to the council's discussion. Quinojosa described several alternatives analyzed for the Alberta–Klausner junction: a four‑leg signalized intersection, a three‑leg configuration that restricts one crossing movement, a roundabout, and the median…