Residents raise safety concerns after 'Live at Station' event; judge calls traffic 'a nightmare'

Three community members addressed the Burleson County Commissioners Court during the public forum on Oct. 23, urging the court to review safety and traffic impacts from a recent Live at Station by 46 Entertainment event.

Greg Stazny, Terri McCormick and Kimberly Drake said the event generated heavy traffic on County Roads 201 and 274 and on FM 60, FM 2039 and FM 3058, and they asked county leaders, “What did we gain from this event?” Their remarks requested attention to safety on rural roads that residents cited as affected by event traffic.

County Judge Keith Schroeder later told the court that the event’s traffic had been “a nightmare,” while also noting the event provided sales-tax benefits to the county and to local businesses. The court did not adopt any immediate traffic-control measures at the meeting; no motion to direct staff for a traffic study or mitigation was recorded.

The comments were recorded under the public forum portion of the Oct. 23 agenda; the court’s formal actions that day focused on routine approvals and contracts. Any next steps on traffic mitigation or special-event permitting were not specified in the minutes and would require a future agenda item or staff follow-up for formal action.