UPDATE ON WASHINGTON AND EMERSON:

You may have seen the article in the Jan-Mar issue of the WWPNA newsletter talking about Washington & Emerson being converted to two-way. This article was published incorrectly. We have a new volunteer editor for the newsletter who inadvertently changed the headline and published the article incorrectly. The original article is attached below for your review (click on "Read more" or "1 attachment" below). Please expect a correction in the next newsletter.

Though WWPNA has been pursuing this goal for decades, Washington & Emerson streets are not being converted to two-way. Rather, Public Works is implementing traffic calming measures over the next several months. These include replacing the stop lights in the interior of the neighborhood with 4-way stops, reducing the speed limit on these streets to 25 miles per hour, designating Washington and Emerson as bike streets, and after repaving next summer will stripe in dedicated bike lanes. The streets will remain in their current one-way configuration. The stop lights at Speer Blvd., Alameda, and N Buchtel will remain. In five years Public Works will revisit the neighborhood's request, and based on circumstances and the results of the aforementioned traffic calming measures will make a final determination whether to revert these streets to their original two-way configuration.

WWPNA has made significant progress on our traffic mitigation plan in this area as well as on Logan, along Lincoln and with pedestrian access to the surrounding light rail stations. These changes should calm traffic throughout the neighborhood, and make it safer for neighbors to walk (and bike) to the park, light rail, local businesses and other neighborhood amenities.

Please remember that safety is first. Make sure you look both ways at all intersections as drivers adjust to new traffic patterns.
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