For many Bosse High School students, getting to and from school each day requires walking across four lanes of Highway 41 traffic during a time when drivers are using it to get to work. While crossing guards are in place and a crosswalk path is clearly painted on the road in an effort to get students across safely, it s still a dangerous trek for everyone. In an effort to make that walk safer, the city has announced changes to the intersection s traffic patterns beginning Tuesday (April 13th, 2021).
Eventually, a pedestrian bridge will be built over the intersection that will allow students and anyone else trying to cross the intersection a much safer way to do so. With the construction of that bridge not even scheduled to begin until 2025, city officials are using the altered traffic patterns as a bridge, if you will, until the construction of the bridge is complete.
Traffic pattern changes planned at U.S. 41 and Washington Ave. By Jill Lyman | April 9, 2021 at 1:10 PM CDT - Updated April 9 at 11:07 PM
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - The Indiana Department of Transportation says changes are coming to the traffic patterns at U.S. 41 and Washington Avenue in Evansville.
They are in preparations for the upcoming pedestrian crossing project.
The new patterns begin on Tuesday, April 13, at 9 a.m. at the intersection near Bosse High School.
The planned changes are as follows:
U.S. 41 Southbound and Northbound: The right turn movement from U.S. 41 to Washington Avenue will no longer be allowed on a red light. New signal heads have been added to warn drivers of the new right turn movement.
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