Traffic is one of the bigger concerns as folks venture out to view the once-in-a-lifetime event, so emergency managers, along with city and county leaders, have been actively preparing ahead of the influx of visitors.
Preparation for April’s total eclipse is a conversation that’s been going on for years in San Antonio and the Hill Country.
“We expect that kind of visiting traffic here to cause extreme traffic congestion on our roadways, place an enormous strain on our first responders and hospital systems, drain our food and fuel supplies and strain our city and county infrastructure to, quite possibly, over capacity,”Traffic is expected to be one of the bigger issues. Leaders on both the city and county levels in the Hill Country have been working with various departments to plan ahead to help combat the congestion.
“We’re working to mitigate as many of those issues as we can. You notice I say mitigate... we’re not going to solve that issue, but we want to do the best we can to move traffic through the city,” said McCall. “We’re partnering with TxDOT on that and have been in the works with them for about the last year, working through traffic plans to help handle that amount of traffic in our community.”
“Bexar County Office of Emergency Management is in contact with our partners and stakeholders locally as well as the surrounding counties in preparations for the Solar Eclipse on April 8th, 2024,” said Michael Morlan, deputy chief with the Bexar County Office of Emergency Management. “At this time, we do not foresee Bexar County submitting a disaster declaration.
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