Wednesday, March 4, 2009
City commissioners decided Tuesday night to keep some streets around the Oread Inn construction zone closed until Dec. 31. Dave Corliss, city manager, said no changes would be made to the current road blocks.
Paul Werner, one of the architects for the Oread Inn, said there would also be reconstruction of the streets around the Oread Inn. The reconstruction will take place on Indiana from 11th to 12th streets, Oread Avenue from 12th Street to 13th Street, and 12th Street from Louisiana to an undetermined point near the current roundabout.
The streets will be reconstructed to provide more room for parallel parking and will be closed as needed to finish the project.
Continuing construction in the Oread neighborhood will soon lead to traffic detours.
Werner said the sidewalk along Mississippi would also be redone.
Some students have had problems with the street closures.
Eric Kanter, Chicago junior, lives at Hawks Pointe III, adjacent to the construction zone.
“It makes it very hard to get around,” Kanter said. “Beyond that, just all the construction wakes us up every morning and that’s not something we were told before we signed the lease.”
Dustin Kohrs, Overland Park senior, also lives at Hawks Pointe III, but he said the noise hadn’t bothered him much.
“Noise is pretty minimal,” Kohrs said. “You don’t hear a lot of it unless you’re out in our living room.”
Kohrs said his main concern was the trucks around the construction zone.
“There’s been a couple of occasions when there has been a truck blocking our parking lot,” Kohrs said. “They usually move it pretty quickly.”
Stephen Reysen, Fresno, Calif., graduate student, lives on 12th Street where the road has been blocked off and has experienced the same problem as Kohrs.
“Sometimes they will have a big truck over here blocking the way,” Reysen said. “The main problem is Indiana here being blocked off.”
Reysen bought a parking pass to avoid the problem.
“I just work around it,” Reysen said. “I bought a pass and started parking down on Mississippi instead.”
Nick Schleicher, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said he agreed trucks often blocked the pathway, but he said the construction also had benefits.
“It’s kind of good for the most part because it keeps traffic from coming through,” Schleicher said. “People who don’t know where they’re going used to circle around here.”
Dustin Ward, a construction worker for Quality Electric, said there hadn’t been any problems with traffic or students around the construction site.
“At the beginning of the project there was a fire hydrant that opened up, flooded the basement,” Ward said. “That’s about it.”
Werner said the Oread Inn was scheduled to open in December of this year.
— — Edited by Chris Horn
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