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City Engineer Provides Update on Main Street Project
The Sheridan City Council and Mayor Roger Miller received an update on the reconfiguration of Main Street in downtown Sheridan. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has the details.
In anticipation of the Wyoming Department of Transportation’s resurfacing project of Main Street in downtown Sheridan that is scheduled for 2023, the City of Sheridan implemented a three-lane reconfiguration test of Main Street in downtown last summer. Of nearly 1,000 online responses to a survey on the three-lane configuration, 65 percent of the responses were positive. In the fall, the City converted the portion of Main back to its original form prior to the test. The question remains of whether or not to implement the three-lane configuration before the WYDOT resurfacing project.
City Engineer Hanns Mercer provided the Council with a cost estimate if the City were to do the lane reconfiguration prior to the WYDOT project in 2023.
Mercer said that the action item that will come before the Council at their next regularly scheduled meeting would be to officially request that WYDOT incorporate the lane change either into their design for the 2023 project, or sooner if the Council determines funding for doing the project before that time.
Edward
May 12, 2020 at 7:55 am
With a 65% positive response rate, why did it get changed back? Whomever made that decision, should take care of the bill. Enough taxpayer money has already been wasted.
Aaron
May 12, 2020 at 12:55 pm
The real question is why do we need to change the configuration? Its bad enough that you can make left hand turns during certain hours already and now you want to restrict the amount of flow? Perhaps Sheridan should stop trying to make themselves to look like Jackson Hole.
JohnnyK
May 13, 2020 at 10:59 am
We started to look like Ft.Collins and Bozeman way before Jackson. The new inter-change has the same flair as every exit in Colorado.