BPW&S Decides Fate of Locust Street
A great deal of interest had been generated by a request from the schools corporation to continue to restrict traffic on Locust Street near New Albany High School and the Hazlewood Middle School.
The Board of Public Works and Safety has jurisdiction over the street, which had been closed during the past few years of construction. Neighbors to the north had felt they would be unduly burdened if the street were not reopened.
In a Solomonic, compromise decision made this morning, the BPW&S decided to take these actions, as passed on to us by board member Steven LaDuke:
Re-define the use of Locust St. including:
- NA-FC School will install lockable, operating gates on Locust St.
- These gates will be closed from 6:30 AM - 4:00 PM during the months of August - May.
- The gates will be open all other times.
- When open, Locust St. will have 2-way traffic between Vincennes St. and Silver St.
- Install signage on Locust St. at Vincennes St. & Myrtle Ave. explaining Locust St. operating hours.
- Yellow line curbs on Locust from Vincennes to Myrtle and post "No Parking at Anytime" signage.
- Double yellow line the middle of Locust St.
- Install signage at Depauw stating no through traffic.
- The School resource officer will patrol Depauw Ave. during pick-up and drop off to help enforce
traffic rules on Depauw.
- Install stop signs at Myrtle Ave. and Locust St.
We also wanted everyone to know the city, residents and Schools will continue to monitor the situation and continue to tweak the plan as needed. We want to have a traffic count performed once we are able to open Locust St. as well as a traffic count during school.
It was the intention of the Board of Public Works to take immediate action no matter what decision, however because of the rain for the rest of the week, it looks like we will not be able to stripe the street until next week.
We're pleased to be able to broadcast this information via our Web log in the public interest and we thank the board for providing it.
We'd also like to know what you think about this decision. Write us with your thoughts. Note that the board will continue to monitor the situation and may well make changes to the plan in the coming months. Let's hope this display of cooperation between competing interests can be a harbinger of things to come in other areas of government.
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Randy Smith, destinations@sbcglobal.net
The Board of Public Works and Safety has jurisdiction over the street, which had been closed during the past few years of construction. Neighbors to the north had felt they would be unduly burdened if the street were not reopened.
In a Solomonic, compromise decision made this morning, the BPW&S decided to take these actions, as passed on to us by board member Steven LaDuke:
Re-define the use of Locust St. including:
- NA-FC School will install lockable, operating gates on Locust St.
- These gates will be closed from 6:30 AM - 4:00 PM during the months of August - May.
- The gates will be open all other times.
- When open, Locust St. will have 2-way traffic between Vincennes St. and Silver St.
- Install signage on Locust St. at Vincennes St. & Myrtle Ave. explaining Locust St. operating hours.
- Yellow line curbs on Locust from Vincennes to Myrtle and post "No Parking at Anytime" signage.
- Double yellow line the middle of Locust St.
- Install signage at Depauw stating no through traffic.
- The School resource officer will patrol Depauw Ave. during pick-up and drop off to help enforce
traffic rules on Depauw.
- Install stop signs at Myrtle Ave. and Locust St.
We also wanted everyone to know the city, residents and Schools will continue to monitor the situation and continue to tweak the plan as needed. We want to have a traffic count performed once we are able to open Locust St. as well as a traffic count during school.
It was the intention of the Board of Public Works to take immediate action no matter what decision, however because of the rain for the rest of the week, it looks like we will not be able to stripe the street until next week.
We're pleased to be able to broadcast this information via our Web log in the public interest and we thank the board for providing it.
We'd also like to know what you think about this decision. Write us with your thoughts. Note that the board will continue to monitor the situation and may well make changes to the plan in the coming months. Let's hope this display of cooperation between competing interests can be a harbinger of things to come in other areas of government.
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Randy Smith, destinations@sbcglobal.net
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