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Columbia congestion/safety meeting held, gap discovered How could the state highway department not have records to show incidents of people being hurt on the Square? How could they not know of the need for improved traffic controls? A gap in communications that could cause this was discovered in a roads/sidewalks meeting Tuesday, 8 Jan 2018 at the Chamber of Commerce conference room. - LW Click on headline for complete story with photo(s) By Linda Waggener Finding out where there's a gap usually moves a problem part way to a solution. It is hoped this chapter of the hazardous downtown Columbia traffic concerns will end in actions that will save people from getting hurt on Columbia's Public Square in the future. People have been injured, regularly, people have been killed in the crosswalks on the public square and there are absolutely no records of any of them from the past twelve years at the state level -- the Transportation Cabinet representatives had no idea there were problems until the city sidewalk committee requested help in 2017. Today's was a second meeting to explore improvements in crosswalks and streets for greater safety. How could the state roads department not have records to show incidents of people being hurt on the square, how could they not know of the need for improved traffic controls? A gap in communications that could cause this was discovered in a roads/sidewalks meeting Tuesday, 8 Jan 2018 at the Chamber of Commerce conference room. The gap -- a breakdown in communications between city/county government, law enforcement and the state transportation department -- was explored. The visitors from the transportation cabinet explained that police reports may be drafted in the officer's database but if there is no review/acceptance of the report then it does not go to the state transportation department. Additionally, if the report is written about a building near the incident, the report might not relate the incident to a road at all -- therefore the report never gets to the transportation department. And the transportation department holds the keys to the machine that can make changes in traffic controls. It appeared in the meeting that there can be no immediate movement of the yield signs to better alert drivers to the crosswalks as described in this article by Billy Joe Fudge who witnessed a death there and has communicated how he feels it could have been prevented by preventing traffic from packing the double lanes to the yield sign. After the meeting, Mayor Curtis Hardwick was invited to ride around town with the visitors and said he felt good about certain areas, especially Greensburg Street where they stopped, went over details of the proposed sidewalk, found ways to solve challenges, and were joined by sidewalk advocate Mary Anne Loy. At the meeting were Transportation Cabinet representatives Tamra Wilson, Conley Morin, Jeff Dick and Troy Hearn; Sidewalk Committee and interested citizens Pamela Hoots, Ellen Zornes, Mary Anne Loy, Andrea Waggener, Dr. Pamela Stephens, Billy Joe Fudge, Curtis Hardwick, Michael Stephens, Sharon Burton and Linda Waggener. This story was posted on 2018-01-09 18:40:55
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