Brazos Co. Commission asked to help pay for another study to separate pedestrians from vehicles along University in the Northgate district

This podcast contains comments from the December 16, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.Brazos County commissioners take no action on a request made by the Bryan/College Station Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to make a $40,000 dollar contribution towards another study about how to deal with separating pedestrians from vehicular traffic along University Drive in the Northgate district.Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the December 16, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the April 2, 2025 meeting of the MPO board showing options for separating pedestrians and vehicles along University in the Northgate district.MPO director Dan Rudge says the funding request has also been made of the university, the cities of College Station and Bryan, and property owners along University.Rudge says there are currently seven options to separate vehicles from pedestrians. One is favored by A&M, a different option is favored by the city of College Station, and another option is favored by the city of Bryan.When asked if there can be a compromise, Rudge said the compromise is building a tunnel under University to separate pedestrians from vehicles. And the cost of doing that is more expensive than the $671 million dollar expansion of Rudder Freeway that started this month.