The Week of May 4, 2020 — Heat, Changes Coming to Barton Road Between Anderson and Campus Streets, and The Pandemic Continues.
The featured image for this week’s blog was taken from the west end of parking structure P4 located on the south side of Barton Road. It shows a crew forming a section of the median between Anderson and Campus Streets, which when completed will add a left turn lane allowing emergency room patients and ambulances traveling east on Barton Road to turn left crossing the west bound lanes and enter the Emergency Room entrance. This realignment will save wait time at the Barton Road/Anderson Street light and mitigate U-turns onto the westbound lanes, thus freeing up the intersection to allow Anderson Street traffic to turn right onto Barton Road without fear of traffic making U-turns.