City of Janesville considers scope of street conversions
By
BETH WHEELOCK
Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
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The two major one-way streets in Janesville could be on track to becoming two-way thoroughfares.
Public Works Director Carl Weber says the city hired a traffic engineer to investigate the impact of the conversion. The study was completed a few weeks ago. It's being reviewed by downtown business owners and city staff members.
The conversion could be expensive. In addition to repainting lanes, adding traffic lights and signs, the city would likely need to reconstruct the Five Points Intersection. Weber says if that's necessary, the project could cost upwards of a million dollars. Otherwise, it could cost around a half-million dollars.
Weber says the project does not have a definite timeline.
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Sep 17, 2010 at 3:01 p.m.
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This is the craziest idea to spend $1M that keeps recurring in an attempt to placate downtown businesses. Everybody knows what is downtown and how to get there. The new parking ramp (at $$??) gives a place to park. Enough already, when so much infrastructure needs repair and updating. I agree with doc0430----keep the study on file and review it every few years before returning it to the file cabinet.
Sep 17, 2010 at 10:57 a.m.
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Change North Washington back to two-way first.
Sep 17, 2010 at 7:11 a.m.
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The reasoning is it'll benefit businesses downtown.
Sep 17, 2010 at 6:57 a.m.
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Why change it? What a waste of money!!
Sep 17, 2010 at 12:35 a.m.
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Leave it alone already! This is not the first time that the city has hired a traffic engineer to study this either, so save this one so that in 4 years when you want to look at this again, you already have the study!!! What a waste of time and money, but then again its Janesville so what else would you expect?
Sep 16, 2010 at 9:48 p.m.
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Do we really need Court St. and Milwaukee St. to become 2-way streets, let alone $1,000,000 to redesign the 5 points? I think we have all become quite used to the downtown traffic situation, and why waste taxpayer money to redesign it? Seems to work fine the way it is. Plus, if the 5 points were to be shut down, where would all the traffic be rerouted? Sounds like more of an inconvenience than anything.....
If it ain't broke: why fix it?
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