Minutes-11/09/1988

Steele: After school we hold the elementary kids until all the buses have pulled out. The kids can't leave until then. The high school kids leave right away, so that traffic is gone, too. Slaymaker: Watch my house after school and see how busy the street is. Steele: I saw some elementary kids walking on the right side of the yellow line. But I also saw some elementary kids riding their bikes down the middle of the street and going in circles. The vehicles are under control after school. There were 33 cars over a 40 minute period. Madden: The traffic is bad after athletic events. I was almost hit on the Third Street exit. Steele: There is a problem at night. If you have to make it one way, you should make it two-way at night. Madden: The council has talked about building a sidewalk there many times before. Steele: I'd be glad to ask the School Board to help out in some way. Potter: What is the estimated cost? Hart: Two-way traffic is usually a minimum of 17 feet. Would need 100 loads of dirt. Would want to widen more than eight feet. Make 24 feet for traffic plus six foot walkway. Hoyt: You recommend a minimum of 17 feet and we have kids on that now, too. Hart: The recommended width for a traffic lane is 12 feet. It would cost $4,000.00 to $5,000.00 with free dirt. The street is 312 feet long. It's 23-24 feet wide past the corner. Slaymaker: Are you saying it's safer for kids to walk on? Hart: I didn't say anything about that. Slaymaker: The traveled portion is 12 feet per lane. Steele: I don't want to put any kids in a hazardous way because of this. You could close it and put more traffic onto highway 6. If it's one way, people would violate it. They park everywhere at ball games. Spivey: It could be gated when there are activities if you didn't want people to use it. Steele: The patrolman and deputy do not want that much traffic on highway 6. Spivey: It's more dangerous to pull onto the highway by the Lark than it is to exit straight out onto the highway from the school. Steele: That's right. Spivey: Is the 25 mph speed sign just over the top of the hill to the west? Steele: We've been using it for 20 years and it's been working. It's being limited now for the wrong reasons. Spivey: The council is trying to satisfy the people who were at the sidewalk meeting. I said that at the last meeting. Steele: It's hard for kids. Someone could walk the kindergarteners across highway 6. We're looking for a solution until the road gets extended. I'll be glad to ask the board to help out. Potter: We'll see that the curbs get put up right now along the yellow line. In the spring we could haul in dirt and try to work it into next year's budget if the school will help out. Leave it a two way and someone will have to wait to get through. I hate to see all the traffic go by the Lark and Main Street can't hold that much traffic. Greiner: In effect, putting up the curbs makes it a one way. Potter: We had it that way for years.