BRENHAM CITY COUNCIL MAY NEED TO CHANGE 290 SPEED LIMIT AGAIN

  

The Brenham City Council will reconsider the speed limits for Highway 290 through the city limits when they meet Thursday.

The City Council set the speed limits from the eastern city limit out to the cloverleaf at 60 miles per hour at their last meeting. 

City Manager Terry Roberts says the Council may have to reconsider that decision because of objections from the Texas Department of Transportation.  Roberts said TxDot had done a traffic survey and determined that  the speed limit be raised from 65 to 70 miles per hour from FM 577/Blue Bell Road to the BNSF Railroad tracks and from 60 to 65 from the railroad tracks to Business 290.

Roberts says TxDot has told the city that unless the city does their own traffic survey, they should follow their recommendations.

The  Brenham City Council will likely revise the speed limits when they take up the matter on the second reading. 

Brenham Police Chief Rex Phelps had expressed concerns about the higher speed limits, noting the number of traffic accidents on the city stretch of the highway in the past two years.