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Tuesday, September 9, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Commission hopes ordinance curbs traffic violations
By PATRICIA FEENY
The increasing number of speeding and handicapped parking violations has forced the Lawrence City Commission to take action.
The commission adopted an ordinance Sept. 2, increasing the amount a violator could be fined to $250. The ordinance, however, doesn't apply to KU parking.
Commissioner Ernest Angino said he mainly was concerned with the violation of handicapped parking places.
He said that too many times, capable people park in places reserved for the handicapped. He said he thought the increase in the maximum fine would act as a deterrent.
Before the ordinance, a violator could be fined $10 to $100. Also, judges will have more flexibility when deciding how much to fine a violator, he said.
Commissioner David Longhurst said the city could uphold the ordinance in a couple of ways — either by vigilant enforcement or increased penalties, Longhurst said.
Ron Olin, assistant chief of police for Lawrence Police, said that the department worked to carry out requests from the commission.
Oin said all handicapped parking spaces must be marked by a sign that would be eye level to a driver. The space also must be marked on the ground.
If spaces are not marked in both
Angino said he had seen KU students violating handicapped parking zones on campus.
ways, the police cannot enforce the ordinance, he said.
Don Kearns, director of parking services at the University of Kansas, said violation of handicapped parking on campus was not a problem.
He said parking services began to actively enforce parking violations five years ago.
The fine facing violators is $25. Kearns said the possibility of being ticketed and towed deterred the KU faculty and students from parking in handicapped places.
According to Kearns, parking service officials monitor the number of faculty members and students who
need handicapped parking places each year.
There are currently 69 handicapped parking places on campus. Handicapped individuals must get car stickers through their home states to park in the spaces.
In Lawrence, the Department of Motor Vehicles and Independence Incorporated, an organization that assists the handicapped, issue stickers to people who can verify their handicap with medical documentation.
In addition to enforcing handicapped parking violations, Angino said, drivers in Lawrence disregard speed signs and traffic laws.
He said drivers speed frequently on Tennessee and Kentucky streets. Ac-
than that "
Longhurst said enforcement in that area already was pretty heavy
Olin said officers issued 40 percent of their speeding tickets on those two streets.
cording to a city study on speeding, the average speed of cars traveling on Kentucky Street was 37 mph.
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"And that's only the average," Angino said. "That means that 50 percent of the people are going faster
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