HomeMy WebLinkAbout1975 07-01 Radatz-Ariel alternate road plan is ordered REVIEW RadatzArie1 eit l . e
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In an effort to accomodate the requests while the Ariel street connection was
of some residents,the Maplewood Council financially feasible from an engineering
has ordered the city staff to proceed with standpoint, "the social aspect of the
roadway system in the area appears to be
an alternative road plan for Radatz
avenue and Ariel street. greater than ' the question of the
The councir at a recent meeting, engineering feasibility for construction."
Collier stated that the"main reason for
directed that barricades be erected
between Chisholm avenue and Ariel reviewing the feasibility of Ariel street
street nn Radatz avenue. Tant would would be to provide close access to White
essentiallytrallow only for easteroulde-
Bear avenue for those people on.Radatz
way traffic. between Ariel and White Bear avenue."
But the city's plan meets the request of The original plan proposed to have
residents,the, whs aliving west of the motorists go easterly, on Radatz, to
proposed Ariel street connection, to have McKnight road and then northerly to
two-way traffic on Radatz avenue, from order to t or southerly to CountyBrRoadeu .in
White Bear ave. order to travel to White Bear avenue.
At a meeting in May some Radatz Collier added, however, that a regular
avenue resieensid they no longer saw intersection could be maintained at White
the need to allow only one-way traffic Bear avenue and Radatz avenue with
-since the road hasn't received heavy plThemnediannt ofthe would be closedone-way �at White
motor vehicle use since the Maplewood
Bear avenue at Radatz, he reported.
Mall opened last year.
And they cited traffic figures for one 48 "This would allow greater flexibility of
hour period this spring in which the traffic movement for those people v uRadatz
e and
figures declined. avenue between White Bear avenue and
The city's other alternative,apart from Ariel street at much less cost than the
putting up barricades on Radatz, was to addstruction of Ariel street," Collier
added.
construct an Ariel connection between
Beam avenue and Radatz avenue,Public thisHwoulder "the strict and rising fromu
Works Director Bobby D. Collier stated. would be the strict continuing
enforcement" of the one-way portion of the
Manager Michael Miller stated that
street," Collier continued.
City officials maintain that it may be
necessary in the future to proceed with
the Ariel street connection. But they say
that won't occur until Woodlyn avenue is
finished.
Mayor Robert Bruton, who indicated
his frustration at re-hearing the item
because citizens had continually changed
their minds on what they wanted,
dissented on the council's vote. "You're
changing the basic plan of the Task
Force," Bruton told his colleagues. "I
think there comes a point when you stop
considering matters."
He added that changing plans will cost
added money, which will have to be ab-
sorbed by the taxpayers.