Welcome

Thank you for visiting the virtual open house offering proposed changes to Burrell Drive between Anderson Lane and Ohlen Road. The goal of this project is to improve safety, connectivity and comfort of people living in and moving through this area. Please take a moment to review the proposed plan described below and provide your feedback through the project survey, open through June 15, 2025. Thank you. 

Project Scope Map

About Burrell Drive

Burrell Drive is a two-lane residential street through the heart of the Wooten neighborhood, connecting residents to local schools, parks, churches and nearby restaurant, retail and grocery destinations along Anderson Lane to the south and across US 183 to the north via Ohlen Road. Burrell Drive is also parallel to the Red Line Parkway, a 32-mile urban trail that is planned and built in segments that generally follow the CapMetro Red Line railway.  

Project Goals

MAINTAIN SAFE SPEED │ RED LINE PARKWAY CONNECTION │IMPROVE COMFORT AND ACCESS

• Keep Speed Low – Burrell Drive's posted speed limit is 30 mph except in the school zone between Anderson Lane and just north of Wooten Drive.  The goal of this project is to return average speeds to 25 mph or lower and offer that consistently across the entire extent of Burrell Drive.  

• Connect the Red Line Parkway - Efforts are underway to fund and construct segments of the Red Line Parkway north and south of Burrell Drive as shown on the map above. There are currently no plans to construct a trail along the rail right of way between Anderson Lane and Ohlen Road.  As a street that runs parallel to the planned trail alignment along this CapMetro Red Line railway, Burrell Drive creates a unique opportunity to provide a trail connection much sooner.  

• Increase comfort and access - Burrell Drive currently has a sidewalk on one side and no bicycle facilities. People on bikes and people driving currently share the general travel lane. Sharing space on streets with higher speeds has been found to be generally uncomfortable for most Austinites, especially those who are interested in bicycling but concerned for their safety or the safety of their young children. 

• Safer routes to schools and parks - Wooten Elementary School and Wooten Park are both located just east of Burrell Drive and the Redeemer Lutheran School is located at the corner of Burrell Drive and Anderson Lane. This project seeks to support safer routes to these schools and the neighborhood park, while also maintaining vehicular access and space for queuing during morning drop off and afternoon pick up. A shared use pathway will be constructed on the south curb of Wooten Drive between Burrell Drive and Lazy Lane as part of the Safe Routes to School Program and the AISD renovations of Wooten Elementary school's campus.

Proposed Changes

For a detailed drawing of the proposed changes, please click here for a roll plot. 

Project Components:

• In-Street Trail - An in-street trail is proposed along the east curb of Burrell Drive, protected with rubber curbs. Mail and trash service would continue along the east curb as it does now. 

Burrell Drive (Anderson Lane - Ohlen Road) Existing Condition

Burrell Drive (Anderson Lane - Ohlen Road) Proposed In-Street Trail

An example of an in-street trail protected with rubber curbs

• Slower Speeds and Improved Safety - The addition of the in-street trail is expected to help keep speeds at the desired 25 mph or lower. Similar projects have shown a reduction in high-risk speeding (speeds 5 mph over the posted limit) by 90%. Overall crashes are also shown to decrease on average by 30% with similar projects in Austin.

• On-Street Parking - In order to make space for these changes, on-street parking would be modified to the west curb. Parking analysis shows that overall parking utilization does not exceed 50% of available space on any given segment of Burrell Drive and it is generally higher along the west curb than on the east curb. 

Parking analysis performed at various times of day and days of the week on Burrell Drive.

LEGEND

• Yellow: Weekday afternoon
• Green: Saturday morning
• Coral: Sunday morning
• Light Blue: Weekday evening

Implementation

If the proposed plan moves forward, installation would be completed in a phased approach. The first phase would remark the centerline of the street between Weyford Drive and Wooten Drive over the Summer of 2025. The next phase would begin in late 2025 to reconstruct the corners of Burrell Drive at Ohlen Road, Wooten Drive and Anderson Lane to make space for the in-street trail. The bikeway would follow in coordination with routine maintenance of the pavement (resurfacing and remarking), currently scheduled for the Spring/Summer of 2026.