University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 13, 1988
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Group plans traffic reforms
By Michael Carolan
Kansan staff writer
Members of the University Place Neighborhood Association, located just south of the KU campus, said the traffic reforms that the Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission passed Monday night would slow speeders and provide safety for residents.
The reforms include installing traffic lights at 19th and Naismith streets and 19th and Louisiana streets, reducing the neighborhood speed limit from 30 mph to 20 mph, placing a traffic guard at the corner of 19th and Louisiana, and installing
a stop sign for westbound traffic on 17th Street at Louisiana. The University Place Neighborhood is bounded by Naismith and Louisiana streets and Sunnyside Drive and 19th Street.
Neva Entrikin, office supervisor in the KU art history department who lives in the neighborhood, said area residents were pleased that the traffic safety commission recommended they hoped the recommendation would pass the Lawrence City Commission in the next few weeks.
scool, 2145 Louisiana, had to cross a dangerous intersection at 19th and Louisiana streets.
She said the neighborhood elementary students who attend Centennial
"It's very hard for a 5-year-old to cross the intersection, especially with no supervision," she said.
Lynn Weis, adjunct assistant professor of human development and president of the University Place Neighborhood Association, said the speed limits of the streets that surrounded the neighborhood, Sunnyside Drive and 19th Street, were 20 mph and that many motorists used the neighborhood streets as a shortcut around the 20 mph streets.
ANNOUNCING:
KU ON WHEELS
SPRING 1988
ROUTE HEARINGS
WEDNESDAY APRIL 13 & 20
For the 88-89 Academic Year
The Student Senate Transportation Board is holding its annual route hearings to discuss possible changes in the bus routes for the next academic year.
We will be hearing requests and recommendations on Wednesday evening April 13 & 20,—5-7 p.m.
Call 864-3710 for an appointment.
Remember to gather as much information as possible as well as composing a realistic impact statement on the KU student body.
Call 864-4644 OR 864-3710 for more information.
Hearings will be held in the Rockchalk Room (through the cafeteria) in the Burge Union.
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