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by Anne Skinner tersection to meet with future plans for a
left turn lane.Two years later the council
Traffic is expected to move more resolved the lane be installed. Six months
smoothly at the intersection of Woodlynafter that a public hearing was ordered to
and White Bear Avenues in Maplewood, review the approved county plans. At the
as a result of a city council action Oct. 27. hearing last Thursday,no dissentors were
The council unanimously endorsed a present.
Ramsey County proposal to install a left The action is expected to improve an
hand turn lane from Woodlyn Avenue to already congested intersection which is
White Bear Avenue. one of about six in a half mile stretch of
The estimated $23,335 project will be White Bear Avenue.
funded through county state aid monies,
at no cost.to the city. Ramsey County _,
Engineer Wayne Leonard told the council
however, the intersection would even-
tually require a left turn indicator.
"Somewhere along about next spring,
we've got to address the signal question,"
Leonard indicated. "The need is there."
Under a second county proposal,the cost
of the signal would be divided between the
city and county —about $5,700.
The issue began a year and a half ago
when the council passed a resolution
modifying the geometries of the in-