A committee from Women for City Living is inquiring into official plans for the future use of Skinker Boulevard and McCausland Avenue. The group is alarmed by the placement of new light standards along McCausland on the property owner’s side of the sidewalk, far enough from the present curb line to permit another lane of traffic to be constructed on McCausland from Manchester to Hipointe. The group distributed a flyer through the area this summer calling the attention of residents to the hazards such widening would bring to pedestrians and to turning vehicles. They are also concerned about the noise pollution level of additional traffic.
This committee has already recommended to the Department of Streets that through truck traffic be prohibited on Skinker from Clayton Road to Delmar to protect the residential character of the neighborhood and to halt the mounting traffic hazards and constant noise.
Since McCausland and Skinker are natural extensions of each other, any widening or encouragement of additional traffic on one will certainly affect residents living along both streets.
In the study undertaken this spring by the Traffic Division it was demonstrated that more than 60 dual-wheeled trucks an hour, 98% not stopping in the area, rumbled down Skinker from Clayton Road to Delmar.
A spokesman for the group said that residents who must enter both Skinker and McCausland from side streets and driveways are increasingly alarmed at the mounting traffic hazards they encounter.
Originally published in The Paper, August 1971.
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