{"id":12851,"date":"2021-09-13T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12851"},"modified":"2022-02-22T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T21:36:22","slug":"rough-road-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12851","title":{"rendered":"Rough Road Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Businesses Struggle through Construction on Highway 100<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Lanes closed off at the main intersection of Highway 100 & S Arroyo Blvd
Photo was taken by Victor Moreno, Los Fresnos News<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Emilio Flores
Los Fresnos News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many are aware of the road work happening on State Highway 100\/Ocean Boulevard. Whether you are a resident of Los Fresnos, or you\u2019ve taken your family on a trip this summer to enjoy our amazing South Padre Island, the construction is an obvious inconvenience. Construction started in May, and ever since, traffic has been slower through town. Customers getting in and out of the local businesses and shops around the area has taken longer and become more difficult.
In an interview with the City Manager, Mark Milum, explained some of the slowdowns and difficulties construction workers have faced. \u201cThere\u2019s been a couple. They located a Gas line that they weren\u2019t aware was there and had to get that moved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Local Shops Respond to Construction Work
<\/em><\/strong>Many business owners have struggled and tried to adjust in order to keep their businesses open. Back in May, Godoy\u2019s Bakery posted on their Facebook page new routes for their entrances just to get into their bakery. They\u2019ve been having difficulty ever since the road work started and have seen sales drop because of it. The bakery has since tried to make adjustments. Cris Godoy explained \u201cOur sales dropped, 60 to 80 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


He said that Godoy\u2019s Bakery started taking their bread to sell at other places, wherever they could. \u201cPort Isabel, Brownsville, San Benito, and that wasn\u2019t enough so we started making flour tortillas\u2026 That was another thing that helped us remain here in Los Fresnos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


But Godoy said that it\u2019s still not enough for them to remain in Los Fresnos. \u201cIt\u2019s already to the point where we\u2019re done, you know.. We\u2019re out of money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Godoy and his brother Sabino Godoy have been running their bakery for two years now and said that \u201cIt\u2019s pretty hard for us\u2026 For us to remain here. We don\u2019t have any days to rest.. Because we don\u2019t have money to pay our employees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Jerrod Leon Henry, the self-proclaimed \u201cMexican Hillbilly,\u201d is also the owner of Rio Grande Distillery. Like Godoy\u2019s Bakery, Henry\u2019s liquor store has been suffering from the road work being done on State Highway 100\/Ocean Boulevard. He also has said that he will be relocating his Liquor store.
When asked what the City of Los Fresnos has done to help these small businesses, Mark Milum, City Manager told Los Fresnos News \u201cWe\u2019ve been trying to promote them, and trying to be sure that they have access in and out of their business.\u201d and when asked how they\u2019ve promoted these businesses Milum responded \u201cSocial media, And the Chamber has been doing a good job of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Road Construction and Estimated Time-Frame
<\/em><\/strong>Milum further explained the benefits and reasoning behind the construction work. He noted the sidewalks will be ADA compliant. \u201cPeople can get around the way they need to get around.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Roads will also be a little wider in some places for better traffic flow. The project has had some slowdowns with prolonged rains and weather interference. But Milum said there \u201cshouldn\u2019t be anymore slowdowns, and they should be moving along pretty well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


When asked about the time-frame of the project he says \u201coriginal plan was 11 months. Trying to meet that, even though there\u2019s been delays.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


In summary, Milum asks people to \u201cbe patient, and go to our businesses along that area\u201d \u201cEveryone has always had access to their businesses, it just hasn\u2019t been great because traffic backs up so people don\u2019t want to wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Businesses Struggle through Construction on Highway 100 Emilio FloresLos Fresnos News Many are aware of the road work happening on State Highway 100\/Ocean Boulevard. Whether you are a resident of Los Fresnos, or you\u2019ve taken your family on a trip this summer to enjoy our amazing South Padre Island, the construction is an obvious inconvenience. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,14],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-12851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","category-valley","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13156,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851\/revisions\/13156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}