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| 1/7/2010 12:39:00 PM | Email this article • Print this article | Traffic Panel Gets Parker Street, Argonne Road Update
Jennifer Peryam
Times-Union Staff Writer
Warsaw Traffic Safety Commission Wednesday morning received an update on the Parker Street and Argonne Road project.
City Planner Jeremy Skinner said a top coat of asphalt on the road will be laid late next spring.
There currently are temporary lane markings at the intersection. Temporary lane congestion and flaggers should be expected in the spring when the top coat is laid.
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Commissioner George Clemens commended the city for the work on the project.
"The city has been receiving many positive comments on the project," Clemens said.
The commission re-elected Warsaw Police Department Lt. Kip Shuter to serve as the commission's administrator, and Steve Foster was re-elected to serve as secretary for 2010.
Shuter informed the commission a neighborhood meeting was held in 2007 with Gable Subdivision residents to discuss making Dubois Drive one way west toward Kosciusko Community Hospital.
The plan is to make Dubois Drive one way once the Parker Street and Argonne Road project is completed, Shuter said.
The subdivision consists of residents who live on Nancy and Sally streets and Brookview Drive.
The residents had concern with Dubois Drive becoming one way. During the neighborhood meeting in 2007, the residents said they want Brookview Drive at Parker Street closed so excess traffic doesn't drive through their subdivision if Dubois Drive becomes one way.
Warsaw City Council still needs to approve the commission's recommendation to make Dubois Drive one way to alleviate traffic congestion, according to Warsaw Mayor Ernie Wiggins.
A neighborhood meeting has been tentatively scheduled for Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. at the WPD training center to continue discussion on the topic. Shuter encouraged city councilmen and traffic commissioners to attend the meeting.
Also during Wednesday's meeting, Foster expressed concerns with seeing visitors coming to the Kosciusko-Warsaw Chamber of Commerce and parking in Family Video's parking lot on South Buffalo Street.
He asked if the video store had set up a parking agreement with the chamber to allow its visitors to rent parking spaces at the video store.
Skinner said he was not aware that a parking rental agreement had been set up between the two entities, and said he would look into it.
Skinner said the video store is responsible for enforcing their parking, and it is not the city's responsibility to enforce the parking.
Wiggins said councilman Jeff Grose informed him that a constituent approached him about the potential need for a guard rail to be installed in front of the retention pond by Menards on the south side of Patterson Road. Shuter and Street Superintendent Lacy Francis will look at the issue.
Skinner informed the commission that Medtronic Sofamor Danek employees approached him suggesting a traffic turn signal be installed for traffic that turns off of CR 150 to get onto U.S. 30. The employees had concerns with traffic accidents at the intersection.
Shuter will review the suggested need for a traffic turn signal.
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