Council asks staff to study returning South Street to two-way traffic
After research showed South Street’s one-way pattern dates to an unfinished VDOT-era plan, council asked staff to evaluate a return to two-way traffic. Officials said the change would require extensive public engagement and engineering study of pavement widths and intersection impacts.
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Council discussed a one-block one-way pattern on South Street (between Main and Washington) that dates back to a discontinued traffic plan from the 1980s. Councilman Stacy Haley reported historical information and a citizen explanation that the one-way segment was part of a larger proposal to make Main and Washington one-way in opposite directions; the larger plan was never implemented.
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