Jill Ament

Blocked roads and walkways on campus are causing frustration among Texas State students. Jill Ament has more…

Implementation of the Texas State Master Plan is in full swing, with several older structures being renovated and new ones steadily being built.
By now, the sight of cranes, construction workers in hard helmets and the sound of drills and bulldozers are familiar on campus. But construction also brings other familiar sights: barricades blocking roads and sidewalks that many students use every day.
Lauren Taylor is a senior at Texas State. She says the temporary closure of a sidewalk to Jones Dining Hall recently caught her off guard.
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Other students are finding their convenient routes to class botched by signs saying Road Blocked or Sidewalk Closed.
Texas State senior Brittany Davis says she can't take her short cut anymore. She's had to revert to other, more
congested and out-of-the-way detours.
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Some paths on West Campus have been partially or fully shut down. Renovation of Commons Dining Hall is ongoing, and it'll remain closed until sometime next fall. Several floors of Lampasas Hall are also closed while the building receives an extensive makeover, expected to end this summer. Master Plan construction isn't expected to end until sometime around 2017.
For Bobcat Update, I'm Jill Ament.