FORT WORTH -- If you heard more horns than usual in Fort Worth this Friday, a mistake by one of the city's subcontractors is to blame.
All over Fort Worth's West 7th Street area, two-way roads were painted to be one-way overnight. And on Bledsoe, just east of Nordwood, crews painted arrows on the road indicating westbound drivers should use both lanes.
The problem is, it was all done without any signs or warnings alerting residents of the change. The roads are supposed to become one-way streets later this summer, but the City had said before they'd let people know before hand and put up signage.
"I was like, uhh, I don't know if im supposed to go down this street or not," said Alex Stanton, who works nearby.
"I was unsure of what was going on," echoed driver Kelly Dwyer.
The changes caused near-accident after near-accident, as people couldn't figure out if it was a one-way road or a two-way.
Our crew watched as people changed their minds mid-turn, turned left at the same time, backed up into traffic to avoid going the wrong way down the apparent one-way street, and narrowly avoided head-on wrecks.
"So apparently I pulled down the wrong one way," Dwyer said, after nearly missing another car. "This used to be a two-way. There's no signs saying now it’s a one-way, and almost got in a head-on collision with a car that probably thought I was wrong."
WFAA contacted the City of Fort Worth immediately Friday to find out what was going on. That led them to realize a massive mistake had been made.
They released this statement to WFAA:
"The signs and markings were scheduled to be in place after all the streets were repaired and prior to the streets going to one-way . Unfortunately, the sub-contractor prematurely scheduled and painted the one-way markings prior to the agreed planned date. The contractor's crews are currently onsite removing the conflicting markings at their expense."
The subcontractor did indeed come out right away to remove the freshly-painted lines. The City says it will be making road repairs before the streets go one-way, and it will indeed put signs up first alerting people of the changes.