Monday, December 13, 2004

Residents of the Shawnee Estates neighborhood many long dissatisfied with traffic flow through the area can comment Tuesday night on a city plan to close two street connections.

The Bowling Green Public Works Department will hold an open house to take comments and show plans to close Lost River Lane at Patton Way and the Navajo Drive entrance to Shawnee.

It will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Bowling Green Junior High School cafeteria on Campbell Lane.

Shawnee Estates is an established, finished neighborhood surrounded by continuing development, and its residents complained in June that a large apartment complex for Western Kentucky University students at the corner of Navajo Drive and Patton Way has left their street entrances clogged and filled the neighborhood with speeders taking shortcuts.

The city held an August meeting at the junior high, which drew about 60 residents, many of whom accused the city of ignoring their complaints. Public Works Director Emmett Wood promised to return with proposed traffic-calming measures once the problem had been studied in detail.

For more information, call city Traffic Engineer Mark Absher at 393-3227, or Neighborhood Action Coordinator Karen Foley at 393-3674.  Daily News ·813 College St. ·PO Box 90012 ·Bowling Green, KY ·42102 ·270-781-1700