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MAR__1 7 1982 I Mr. Grover Fletcher Chairman, Transportation Planning Committee Administration Building Vero Beach, Florida 32960 Dear Grover: BOOK "�� FAtE 200. 4835 66th Avenue Vero Beach, Florida 32960 March 5, 1982 Re: Sixteenth Street- -3 n Traffic Improvement Plan The Safety Committee of the County Council of PTAs would like,very much to compliment Mr. Jim Davis and his staff for the tremendous amount of work they have done obtaining the data necessary to complete this preliminary Traffic Improvement Plan for Sixteenth Street, We feel that this preliminary plan presented in February to the Transportation Planning Committee is a viable way to obtain solutions to the many problems existing along that roadway. We have reviewed and would like to comment on several aspects covered under this preliminary plan. 1) We agiee with the staff's recommendation that the pedestrian bridge alternative should not be considered. The age of the students that would use this overhead bridge leads us to believe that "herding" them onto such a walkway would not solve the safety problem. Most of these students are old enough to drive vehicles -and we feel that they are old enough to properly use simple, designated pedestrian walkways. If it is found that the newly designated and restricted walkways and parking areas on city property or school property are abused, strict enforcement of city and school rules should then be undertaken by the proper authorities. 2) The internal flow of buses and other vehicular 7traffic on the High School grounds should be coordinated with the newly designed 16th Street traffic flow plan. It is imperative that an effort be made by the techincal members, especially those representing the school and the county to address this problem. The Appendix VII entitled School Traffic Stud, presents only a detailed description of the number of vehicular and pedestrians that use this 16th Street/Citrus Bowl complex area. It does not address the internal flora on the high school groan's and the school traffic flo;r in relation to the surrounding streets (16th Street, 20th .lverllio, 16th Avenue and 17th Avenue) . Even thou,,:,,h this Appendix mentions the Vero Beach Junior c:; ,h and the Voro Beach Elemerltiry School; again, a detailed description of vehicular and pedestrian flo-,! is not given. `.:'e :7ere ver',' disappointed that P1OSe::ooll ElL'Mentar`: School, 1JCated d1riCt1'; on 16th Street was not even mentioned.