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Traffic safety expert urges roundabouts on South Parkway to reduce severe crashes
Summary
Guest presenter Mr. West told the advisory board that roundabouts at the Love Road and Broadway intersections on South Parkway could cut fatalities by about 90% and injuries by about 80%, and asked the board to draft a resolution endorsing the idea and to pursue state and federal stakeholder support.
At the Feb. 10 meeting of the Grand Island supervisors advisory board, guest presenter Mr. West urged the board to pursue two roundabouts on South Parkway between Love Road and Broadway, calling the corridor "one of the most dangerous" on the island and citing a pedestrian fatality two years earlier.
Mr. West summarized research and a diagram he distributed, saying a roundabout at the two intersections would "eliminate fatalities at those intersections by 90…
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