<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2F1de9_1CdnDvvA00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2F1de9_1CdnDvvA00" width="1280" height="853" ><figcaption>The Casper City Council discusses plans for addressing parking and traffic concerns along 2nd Street at its Tuesday work session. (Tommy Culkin, Oil City News)</figcaption></figure>CASPER, Wyo. — On Tuesday, city officials presented the Casper City Council with a strategy to permanently eliminate neighborhood traffic congestion and parking frustrations sparked by a new business earlier this year. The traffic surge began in the area of 2nd Street and Kenwood Street in March, following the opening of Styrrups Soda Shop. At the time, local retailers said the new business limited parking for their businesses and made it difficult for motorists to access their shops, while Kenwood Street residents also cited problems caused by the soda shop’s drive-through. In response to the influx of customers, Casper Public Services Director Krista Johnston said the city initially implemented temporary measures, such as adding a center turn lane on South Kenwood Street and installing new signage and road striping. However, Johnston said the business owners still expressed concerns regarding the use of a city-owned parking lot that in 2007 was informally designated as parking for their businesses after on-street parking was removed during a 1990s streets project. Now, the city has developed an improvement plan that retains the center turn lane and adds a delineator post at the entrance of the city parking lot. Johnston also said the city will look to honor the previous informal parking arrangements by developing official license agreements that would grant businesses the right to use designated spaces in the lot. Signage will also be posted making it clear that the lot is designated for the specific businesses. At the request of the affected business owners, the plan will also retain perpendicular parking on the east side of the street. “We had initially proposed to do that as angled parking … but the businesses over there did not want that and wanted it to be able to have access coming from traffic on 2nd Street, coming from the north,” Johnston said. Before officially taking effect, the proposed plan will need to be approved by the City Council at a future meeting, after the city attorney’s office has finished the parking space license agreements. <figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0jWIVm_1CdnDvvA00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0jWIVm_1CdnDvvA00" width="843" height="512" ><figcaption>(via City of Casper)</figcaption></figure></div></body>

Block Source: oilcity.news

Misinformation

Clickbait

Old or repetitive news

Explicit content

Location not relevant

CASPER, Wyo. — On Tuesday, city officials presented the Casper City Council with a strategy to permanently eliminate neighborhood traffic congestion and parking frustrations sparked by a new business earlier this year. The traffic surge began in the area of 2nd Street and Kenwood Street in March, following the...

Casper plans 2nd Street parking adjustments

NewsBreak

CASPER, Wyo. — On Tuesday, city officials presented the Casper City Council with a strategy to permanently eliminate neighborhood traffic congestion and pa

Casper plans 2nd Street parking adjustments

Comments / 1