If trucks keep coming, so will tickets, says North Texas city urging TxDOT to cooperate
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Driving into Glen Rose just before noon on a warm March day, you can see the water and shoreline at Big Rocks Park packed with families. Just a few hundred feet away, nearly every seat in Shoo-Fly Soda Shop is filled as workers sling ice cream to families looking to cool off. A block over vendors are setting up for a market in the city’s center.
For the North Texas city with a population just short of 3,000, the spring break crowd brings vibrancy and business to their quiet downtown, but city administrator Troy Hill is fixated on an intersection he be...