Corpus Christi’s Timbergate Drive is fully reopened after a $4.7 million reconstruction project funded through the voter-approved Bond 2022 program. The project brought new asphalt, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and improved lighting to one of the city’s most deteriorated streets.
For more than a year, Daniel Canonge couldn’t back his truck out of his own driveway. Construction barrels blocked his path, forcing him to move them himself just to get to work.
Timbergate Drive reopens after $4.7M Bond 2022 project
“It was definitely inconvenient. The barrels that they put, they put a bunch of them, which I understand is a safety. But a lot of times I couldn’t back my truck out, I couldn’t back my vehicles out, and I got in the way often. Sometimes I have to go out here, even move them around myself so I can back out,” Canonge said.
Canonge has lived on Timbergate Drive for 8 years. He said the old road wasn’t just an inconvenience — it was costly.
“We were getting some, our tires and our cars and our suspension, before they did the construction, actually cause a little damage. And now that the streets are smooth, you don’t have to worry about that,” Canonge said…