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Show The singular tale of Penrose Drive, Part II The petitions are flying thick and fast on the Penrose Drive issue. The most recent entry is a petition signed by about 50 rents of Federal Way, a narrow, winding little affair wh.ch has its birt eastbound demise of South Temple Street. Federal Way coo g y on.ast past several fraternity houses before toppmg busting in full glory onto the campus, immediately west Engineering Building. Now, the people on Federal Way don't want Penrose Drive : closed which is certainly a welcome but most unexpect stand Their reasoning is that if Penrose Drive is closed as an entr ance to the University, traffic normally using that street w, I divert itself onto Federal Way. Thus, while life will be made bearable on Penrose Drive, it will be made entirely unbearable on Federal Way. This diversion of traffic seems entirely plausible to us. Penrose i Drive and Federal Way are not too far apart, and as entrances to he University they serve the same general areas of the cty, mainly the See related story-page 1 Avenues and North and West Central City. We see no reason why the 5,200 cars per day on Penrose Drive should not avail themselves or Federal Way. On the changes in bearability of life on the various streets we are inclined to be rather skeptical. We are more inclined to believe changes in relative property values and isolation from the University as motives in this issue. But at any rate, nobody seems to want their street used as an access route to the University. And the very fact that people find it necessary to use residential streets for access points up the lack of efficient access to this campus. Undoubtedly the city commission will shortly close Penrose Drive and shut off all further of the subject, ignorant of the access problem on the University. We would like to see a study made, if it is not already in. progress, on access to the University. In the meantime a moratorium should be placed on all street closings, until said access problem is equitably solved. If the good people of Penrose Drive can wait that long for their real estate profits, that is. |