Councilman Holds Tyler Town Hall Meeting

TYLER — District 6 Tyler City Councilman Jason Wright has made good on a campaign promise. He is holding town hall meetings with Tyler residents. The first one was held Saturday night.

Wright told KETK-TV, “I don’t want to wait until there’s some burning issue that we all need to kind of react to, instead I want to make sure that our citizens are better aware of what we do at the city, what’s going on and most importantly, I want to know the concerns that they have.”

Topics ranged from the budget to Tyler’s traffic congestion. Their were questions about heavy traffic on South Broadway and the loop and the medians TxDOT installed. According to Wright, statistics show that traffic fatalities have gone down since the medians were put into place. He also said roads like the Grande Boulevard extension and Loop 49 are meant to relieve some of Tyler’s traffic congestion.