Re: Abbott, Armstong, Lovers Lane
An Overheardian says Highland Park should follow the precedent set by University Park during the Lovers Lane redo:
The preferred alternative is NW Highway (but the engineer and Council had stated it would be too inconvenient to through traffic to send them that far), the same path chosen by UP officials when they closed Lovers. When they had a choice, they opted to route the traffic away from residential streets, even when more convenient alternatives such as Southwestern, or University were available. The UP council’s first allegiance was obviously to their citizens, and their safety. Why should the logic in Highland Park be any different?
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This Overheardian clearly didn’t live near Lovers during the 2004 construction. The traffic WAS rerouted down Southwestern. Much of the UP traffic was even rerouted down Amherst, including all of the traffic for 650 students being dropped off and picked up for school each day.
Please don’t follow University Park’s example as this would mean that in order to save time and money on construction most trees in the public easement would have to be cut. This is what happened to us on Lovers: clearcutting! Our road now looks more like a race-track than a neighborhood road. And we have tons of traffic!