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Residents press Brazos County for transparency and pause on Inner East Loop study
Summary
Multiple residents and technical speakers urged the commissioners court to publish the thoroughfare plan, pause the Quiddity contract and disclose public outreach for the proposed Inner East Loop; an engineer who reviewed consultant forecasts said the loop shows limited impact on peak traffic in the study model.
A sustained tranche of public comments at the July 15 Brazos County Commissioners Court meeting focused on the proposed Inner East Loop, a transportation study and related consulting work by Quiddity Engineering. Dozens of residents and several technical speakers urged the court for more transparency, asked that the county pause or re-evaluate the Quiddity contract, and sought clearer public engagement and data.
Why it matters: the Inner East Loop is a proposal that residents said could cross private property, change rural land uses and require large public investment; citizens asked the court to ensure the project reflects community priorities and that technical assumptions and outreach be transparent before any irreversible steps are taken.
Residents cited lack of notice and incomplete public engagement. Sam Abiach, a new resident, asked the…
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