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Council weighs street-safety complaints, freeway engagement translation request and funding for transit studies
Summary
Residents urged short-term safety fixes after a school-bus crash on Gregson Street; staff requested $7,000 to translate final Durham Freeway engagement reports and council programmed $5M for an access maintenance facility and $200,000 for a BRT feasibility study in the CIP.
Public commenters raised urgent street-safety concerns and potential interim fixes while staff and council discussed larger transportation projects and related budget items.
Margaret Chapman, representing the Trinity Park Neighborhood Association transportation committee, described an Oct. 30 crash in which a school bus struck houses on Gregson Street and urged the city to pursue short-term safety measures — an additional traffic signal at Knox & Gregson, a road diet, and other interim treatments — because longer projects like two-way…
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