add other safety improvements for pedestrians, like raised crosswalks<\/a>. <\/p>\nHowever, many residents have voiced their opposition to the proposal, including many people we talked to Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it sounds like a bunch of chaos and it\u2019s going to be a mess,” said Reading resident Ben King.<\/p>\n
WATCH: Hear why Reading residents are concerned about the proposed road diet<\/p>\n
Debate grows ahead of Reading Road road diet vote<\/p>\n
Corrine Kinebrew, who travels along Reading Road often, agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019ll cause a lot of congestion for this area,” Kinebrew said.<\/p>\n
The project would cost $3.9 million and would be entirely funded by ODOT. <\/p>\n
ODOT said increases in travel times will be minor, but some drivers are skeptical.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to create a lot of traffic, and it\u2019s not going to stop people from speeding,” Kinebrew said.<\/p>\n
It’s not just drivers who are worried, but nearby businesses, too.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Capano, who works at Tres Bell Cakes off Reading Road, worries about the impact it could have on business along that stretch of road.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople aren\u2019t going to want to come here,” Capano said. “How are we going to get in and out?\u201d<\/p>\n
She said she worries people will want to avoid traffic jams.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s going to create a lot of angry, angry people,” Capano said.<\/p>\n
Ahead of Tuesday’s meeting, Capano and some other residents are hoping city council will hit the brakes on the proposal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s another solution, but I do not think just two lanes on Reading is going to cut it,” Capano said. <\/p>\n
ODOT said residents and business owners may want to take a few minutes to review the project and all the resources that are available on the public input site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Ohio \u2014 An important decision is looming in Reading as city council is expected to vote on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[79402,79403,128,130,129,79404],"class_list":["post-245220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-9-on-your-side","tag-cincinnati-news","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-wcpo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}