Narrowing Douglas a $7 million waste, but City Hall’s not listening | Opinion

“Call me a skeptic. I’ve lived here long enough that we’ve gone through numerous renditions of Douglas getting wider and narrower and wider and narrower and now we’re back to narrowing Douglas. I struggle with what we’re trying to achieve, turning it back into three lanes and encouraging more congestion along that corridor.”

This was not a comment made at the public meeting on Monday evening to discuss Wichita City Hall’s plan to squeeze the four traffic lanes on Douglas down to two between Washington and Grove.

It was not a comment made at the Nov. 3 District 1 Advisory Board meeting, where townsfolk gathered to discuss the plan and collectively wondered why…

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