EMAILS FOR TWO-WAY LEFT-TURN LANE ON IOWA

From: Gardenprof@aol.com [mailto:Gardenprof@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 10:05 AM
To: Charles Soules
Subject: Comment on Left Turn Lane Proposal

Chuck,

My wife and I are completely for the suggested changes. Safety needs to come first and that portion of Iowa is really dangerous for people making left turns onto the side streets, except at Harvard. We assume that the Harvard Stop signal would switch to left-turn arrows instead of "yield on green." Otherwise only one, or perhaps two, cars can turn during peak traffic hours. Is this correct?

Sorry we can't make the meeting.

Jack and Carolyn Landgrebe

1125 Highland Dr.

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Conrad [mailto:jconrad@ku.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:00 AM
To: Charles Soules
Subject: Iowa Street improvement

My wife and I appreciate and support the proposal from Harvard to

University on Iowa.  For more than 40 years we have lived in Lawrence

and have been concerned when we would be driving south and wish to turn

on to University Drive -- lest we be rear ended or cause a following

vehicle to swerve to avoid us.  To date we have been fortunate and

never have had experience.  Basically, without the left-turn lane our

driving has caused the major road to become narrowed, deprived of one

of its lanes.

We understand the point made by neighbors that 15th Street deserves

improvement -- but that does not eliminate the problems on Iowa.

Thank you for giving us an audience and we hope this improvement will

proceed.

  Janice and Don Conrad

1506 Crescent Road

Lawrence, KS 66044-3118

          785-842-4425

EMAIL AGAINST TWO-WAY LEFT-TURN LANE ON IOWA

-----Original Message-----
From: b berg [mailto:baberg@webtv.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:47 PM
To: Charles Soules
Subject: Iowa St. Two-Way Left-Turn Lane

Dear Charles,

My husband and I would like to voice two votes against this plan, due to

the certainty of significant traffic increases through our already busy

neighborhood streets.

Thank you,

Beth and Chuck Berg

on Stratford Rd.

EMAIL CONCERNS TWO-WAY LEFT-TURN LANE ON IOWA

From: Jeremy Gayle [mailto:jeregayle@sunflower.com]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:19 AM
To: Charles Soules
Subject: Iowa Left Turn onto University

Dear Mr. Soules,
       Thank you for visiting with me earlier in your office
and for the notification of  the Tuesday 3/27 meeting at City Hall.
I have  questions about the number of accidents on Iowa.
Unfortunately, archived stories at LJW are no longer available without
an account, so I am calling this up from memory

48 accidents in the last TWO years.

This is rather like a George Carlin routine reporting a
"Partial score just in  --  KU 59"

With no information about the # of accidents on Iowa from
the Turnpike entrance/exit to the 37th street bypass, it is
difficult to interrupt the LJW headlines of
"Notorious for collisions" and "Accident prone" and
'if city engineers can convince neighbors'
'city planners trying to build support for......"

Iowa Street Statistics
Why a two year period?
How many accidents occurred on the entire route?
Break down to turnpike to Harvard
Harvard to 15th
15th to 21
21 to 37th

When do these accidents occur?
Are a large percentage on
football, graduation, orientation KU weekends?
during bad weather - at night?
due to speeding, inattentive driving, etc.?

Whom  do these accidents involve?
How serious are they?

I recognize that there will be a left turn lane at University.
I ask for this information, that I may clarify my own
thinking and reasoning.

Thanks,
Gayle Matchett
1300 Raintree Place
785-842-4888