Keller Neighborhood Wants Thoroughfare Stopped

KELLER (CBSDFW.COM) - The Danbury Parks Neighborhood of Keller has 54 houses in it. But according to their latest traffic study, there are at least 12-hundred vehicles driving through it every single day.

Kevin Mench knows he's taking chances crossing Danbury Parks Drive at dusk on a scooter. "That's why I got orange on. So, I can stick out," he said, wearing a Philadelphia Flyers hockey jersey.

Parents say speed is also a threat. Christie Abercrombie said, "I have triplet three-year-old boys and I don't let them out the front door anymore."

With a photo radar gun, CBS 11 News Reporter, Carol Cavazos, found some vehicles driving eight miles an hour over the posted 25 mile an hour limit.



Where are drivers going? They're cutting through this neighborhood of $600,000  to $1 Million homes to reach two major arteries, Rufe Snow and Keller Smithfield.

"I'm afraid some kid's going to get hurt," said John Graves. Graves lives on Danbury Parks Drive. lives two houses from the neighborhood entrance at Keller Smithfield Road.

Graves has five children and wants to gate the neighborhood. But HOA rules say that would take a unamimous vote and four of the 54 homeowners say 'no."

CBS 11 contacted three of the four. All three declined to go on camera but said gating the
community would mean they would own the streets and they don't want that liability. They're afraid
someone involved in an accident on one of their streets would sue them all.

Meanwhile, Graves is working with the City of Keller on other solutions to redirect traffic. It would involve gates that would only be opened for emergency crews.

"It's a lot of complicated options and proposals but at the end of the day, it's safety versus convenience.
Residents on both sides will discuss their issues before the Keller City Council at a hearing scheduled for November 16.