Have you ever been driving down a narrow road, notice a vehicle coming from the opposite direction and begin to worry about being sideswiped or running off the road? That’s how it feels driving on Mississippi University for Women’s campus. Narrow roads that present this problem on campus like 5th Avenue and 12th Street need to be widened to improve driving conditions and there are some cost-efficient solutions to do so.
There are many areas on campus that present terrible traffic conditions due to narrow roads. Majority of these streets have added congestion from the parallel parking that lines at least one side of the road. Two examples of roads that illustrate these issues are 5th Avenue and 11th Street. 5th Avenue is one of the main ways
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One solution would be to remove all (or at least majority) of the parallel parking spaces that line the narrow roads on campus. To offset the lost parking spaces, a new parking lot (or even gravel lot—depending on the amount of money willing to be spent) can be fabricated. Some teachers, however, may be in objection to this solution since it will prohibit them from no longer being able to park directly in front of their building. An easy solution to this problem would be transforming the closest student parking spots into teacher’s parking. By doing this, it would only require teachers to walk a few steps further than they normally would but would also provide a new convenience of getting in and out of their parking spot as well as to and from the parking lot. One other efficient solution would be to transform these current two-way streets into one-way streets. With the way MUW campus is set up, it would be relatively simple to make this transition because, for instance, 12th street could be altered into a north-bound-only street and the south-bound lane could be redirected onto 13th street. Making these two parallel roads into one-way streets, would allow more driving space resulting in a much less congested, confusing, and problematic drive through campus. In this solution there would be no objections from teachers nor students about the loss of parallel parking spots since the parallel parking spots would remain along these one-way roads. These solutions would allow for a much more efficient traffic flow on
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