BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – A west Bexar County business owner wants the Texas Department of Transportation to fix his access to U.S. 90, but the state agency indicated it’s not their issue.
Jim Donohue, owner of Holiday Hills Christmas Trees, said this is the second or third holiday season he has rented a spot off the eastbound access road, less than half a mile outside of Montgomery Rd. But the highway access doesn’t provide him with any holiday cheer.
Instead of a frontage road, a shabby patch of pavement, gravel and dirt connects the main lanes to the end of the private drive leading to his lot.
He worries about damaged surface, drainage issues and the danger for drivers trying to get off or onto the fast-moving highway.
“I’m going to have a thousand plus cars over the next month try to navigate this mess,” he said.
Donohue says it’s a mess that’s all on TxDOT property.
“They’ve been here three different times dumping the concrete and dirt and said this is their land and it will be rebuilt and done with a nice frontage road by January of 2026,” he said. “Here we are, November of 2026, and it’s gotten worse.”
Donohue says those piles have exacerbated the drainage issues, and he points to a steep climb to the highway which he calls a “death zone.”
“Somebody is going to get hurt trying to get on and off there,” he said.
KSAT watched larger trucks leaving properties from further back on the private drive bounce through potholes as they took a shallower entry onto the highway.
Jeremy Larsen drives a concrete mixer and said he’s in and out of the location several times a day. Getting onto the highway is “horrible” he said.
“It’s a very violent road to get onto. A lot of bumps and kicks up a lot of dust, impacts vision,” Larsen said.
Apart from speaking with TxDOT personnel on site, Donohue said he filled out a comment about his concerns on the TxDOT website but hasn’t heard back.
He says he wants to see “it cleaned up and not flood and be dangerous,” which he thinks is possible, even without a whole new frontage road.
“I don’t want to see anybody get hurt,” he said.
A TxDOT spokesperson told KSAT the access way was not a permitted driveway and that the area was not a highway entry or exit point designed by TxDOT.
She also said the concrete and dirt piles were not left there by TxDOT, though Donohue remains adamant he saw them.
The spokeswoman did confirm there is a construction project planned for the area, Phase II of the U.S. 90 Expansion, which includes building frontage roads.
However, she provided two different start dates for construction: “later in 2027″ and “later this year.”
The TxDOT website lists the anticipated construction timeline for Phase II as 2028-2032.
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