The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-20
TO CLOSE JACKSON
STREET At GRADE
SCHOOL EACH NOON
Town Also Requests State High
way Patrol of Main Street
to Curb Speeding
Council Acts on Eight Traffic
Proposals Presented by
Citizens Group

Acting on recommendations for
Improved traffic safety presented at
last Monday nights meeting of the
municipal council by citizens group,
councilmen made the following deci-
sion on eight proposals:
1--Set up to bar all vehicular
traffic in front of the grade school
on Jackson street between Vine and
Franklin streets, every noon hour
when school is in session.
2-Authorized Mayor w. A. Howe
to request that the state highway
patrol conduct a 30-day campaign
on Main street in Bluffton to curb
speeding and reckless driving thru
the town.
Ask Greyhounds to Curb Speed
3-Decided on a letter to the
Greyhound Bus lines requesting the
curtailment Of excessive speed of
buses operated within the city limits.
PLACED renewed emphasis on a
program to replace STOP signs
where needed at street intersections.
5-Ordered a daily check of all
traffic signals so that prompt re-
placement of burned out lights can
be made.
School Zone Markers
6-Took action to provide street
SCHOOL ZONE markings at the
grade school similar to those painted
last week at the high school on Main
street by the state highway depart
ment.
7-Set up to study the replacement
and renovation of street markers.
Stabbed for further investigation
a request to prohibit parking in the
first stall on each side of the Frank
lin street intersection on Main
street, to provide better view of on
coming traffic which cars coming off
Franklin street must avoid
Spokesmen for the citizens group,
which presented the eight recon-
mendations, were Woodrow Little
and Norman Triplett; accompanied
by Supt. Ralph Lanham and Waldo
Hofstetter, representing the board Of
education.
Bar Noon Traffic
Barring traffic on Jackson street
from 11:45 a. m. until l p. M,
urged by school officials, will help
safeguard the lives of school young
sters crossing the street to the
school yard and those who play
during the noon hour on the school
grounds, it was pointed out.
Barriers will be erected on Jack
son street at Franklin street and
Vine street, closing off to vehicular
travel a two-block stretch of the
street. On Church street, a barrier
viii be placed at the alley by the
Niswander and Herring office.
State highway patrol cooperation
in patrolling Main street, heavily
travelled by Dixie highway traffic,
was requested on the assumption that
highway patrolmen can be assigned
for that purpose.
The request for re-marhng of stop
streets followed by several weeks
program of replacement started by
the town, after a survey showed
many signs had been knocked down
in accidents or destroyed through
vandalism. New signs have been
ordered by the town, but delivery
has been delayed.
Adequate street marking OF schooi
zones, as requested, was assured
Tuesday when Mayor W. A. Howe
was told by officials of the state
highway department that they would
cooperate in doing the work, with the
town paying for expenses entailed.
Further study of the proposition
asking for action to bar parking near
the Franklin street intersection on
Main was required because discus
sim disclosed that heavy traffic
coming out of alleys throughout the
business district face equal hazards.
To bar parking at all such spots
would remove parking space already
at a premium.
Among proposals informally dis
eussed by the council to eliminate
those hazards were suggestions to
nernit traffic in allevs only away
from Main street, with no vehicles
rerrnittnsl TO come onto the street
from them, or perhaps to permit
onlv right hand turns, so that cars
could not turn left across traffic.
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