{"id":186244,"date":"2025-08-30T03:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186244\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T03:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:14:10","slug":"neighbors-talk-about-traffic-issues-on-mockingbird-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186244\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors talk about traffic issues on Mockingbird Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI hear every bang, every crash, every screech, every everything,\u201d Guerin says. <\/p>\n

Guerin, who is in her 60s, has lived in her home for about 35 years with her husband. She describes her neighbors on Mockingbird and around the Yosemite Lane horseshoe as ideal, but the traffic issues, which she says have been ramping up over the past five or six years, are not.<\/p>\n

Because of her close proximity, Guerin says she\u2019s had to help push vehicles out of the way after wrecks and learned that Dallas Police officers don\u2019t respond to all car crashes. <\/p>\n

From January 2024 to June 2025, the City\u2019s Transportation and Public Works Department reported that there were 20 crashes in Guerin\u2019s neighborhood, one of which fatal. <\/p>\n

Mockingbird Lane from US-75 to Loop 12 is on the City\u2019s High Injury Network<\/a>, which are \u201ccity streets that account for a disproportionate number of fatal and severe crashes (i.e., the 7% of roads where 62% of crashes resulting in a death or severe injury occurred),\u201d according to the City\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

The Lakewood\/East Dallas Advocate has reported on major Mockingbird crashes before, including last year when three people died<\/a> after their vehicle crashed into a tree west of White Rock Lake. <\/p>\n

Guerin decided to contact the City for help. She was surprised when they asked her how the problem needed to be solved. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not an engineer,\u201d she says with exasperation (though she does think the speed limit should be lowered). \u201cI don\u2019t know all your capabilities. I\u2019m just a citizen that wants to help people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this summer, the City\u2019s Transportation and Public Works Department listed a slew of changes that have been made to Mockingbird Lane, specifically in Guerin\u2019s neighborhood. <\/p>\n

\u201cRecent improvements to improve traffic safety along Mockingbird between Abrams and Williamson Roads include several speed limit signs installed between Abrams and Yosemite Lane, a speed feedback sign near Yosemite, curve warning signs and chevrons to mark curvature in the road between Hillside Drive and Yosemite, and replacing the 4-inch-thick broken lane lines with 6-inch-thick solid white lines to delineate lanes between Hillside and Yosemite,\u201d according to the department\u2019s statement. \u201cIn addition, Mockingbird Lane has received fresh lane line striping every three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mockingbird Lane in our neighborhood currently isn\u2019t being studied like Abrams Road and Skillman Street are. (The City has analyzed conditions of the Lakewood-area sections of Abrams and Skillman<\/a> starting in fall 2023 to make improvements.) However, the City\u2019s Transportation and Public Works Department says speed and traffic volume studies have been conducted on Mockingbird previously.<\/p>\n

\u201cFull transportation safety studies for corridors are prioritized based on high-injury network rankings, available funding and community input,\u201d according to the City\u2019s statement. \u201cThe Abrams Road transportation safety study does recommend pedestrian-related upgrades for the signalized intersection of Abrams and Mockingbird.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Abrams Road study reports that the Mockingbird intersection is the third highest for intersection crashes between 2019 and 2023 on Abrams.<\/p>\n

One of Guerin\u2019s neighbors, who requested anonymity because she feared retaliation against her husband\u2019s job, described chronic speeding, car crashes and racing on Mockingbird Lane. <\/p>\n

One of the wrecks involved another vehicle that spun around and totaled her car while it was parked outside her home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was with my mom, who was visiting from out of town, and not even five minutes before it happened, we had just gotten out of the car and brought groceries inside,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She adds, \u201cThat just makes you stop and like, \u2018Whoa, we live on a crazy street.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This neighbor suggested alternating the traffic signals so that vehicles would have to stop at more red lights and slow down, putting more space between homes and the road, and using bike lanes to calm traffic. She and her husband have talked about moving away to a safer location, but that\u2019s not something they want. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate because we love the area, and the neighborhood has so much to offer,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

They moved to their home in 2022 and liked that they were in walking distance to amenities, like the restaurants near Hillside Drive. But after seeing what Mockingbird Lane is like, this neighbor doesn\u2019t dare walk there. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like we can\u2019t actually utilize it to the full extent,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI hear every bang, every crash, every screech, every everything,\u201d Guerin says. Guerin, who is in her 60s,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-186244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115115541436002895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}