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Downtown businesses worry that customers already have a hard time finding parking, and a two-way street may make it even harder to find a spot.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe it’ll bring more customers, making it a two-way street. I do find it difficult for the parking,\u201d says Floriana Adragna, co-owner of Spin & Savory in downtown Scranton.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat may be more harder for customers to find parking because the streets are really smaller here,\u201d says Genesis Vega of 3 Tiers Bakery.<\/p>\n
The city says the project aims to improve traffic flow and make intersections safer.<\/p>\n
Some businesses fear that a further lack of parking would lead to fewer customers entering their doors.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe we see lower foot traffic here,\u201d says Vega.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt may bring more people passing by, but I’m not sure about people actually stopping,\u201d says Adragna.<\/p>\n
For pedestrians, some see the plan as a way to keep streets safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s going to be a transition, but I think overall it’s going to be really nice for the city,\u201d says Erica Nealon of Scranton.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people have a hard time driving on these roads just because of them not being two-way, so I think that a lot of these streets would be a lot safer and a lot better for people like me walking around the street,\u201d says Jacob Kannard of Scranton.<\/p>\n
City officials say two-way conversions on the remaining sections of the affected one-way streets will take place after upgrades to the traffic signals at those intersections early next year.<\/p>\n
The planned intersections to have their stoplights replaced with flashing red signals and to have stop signs installed starting October 19th include:<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Franklin Avenue at Biden Street<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Biden Street and Penn Avenue<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Biden Street and Wyoming Avenue<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Franklin Avenue at Linden Street<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Linden Street and Penn Avenue<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Linden Street and Wyoming Avenue<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Linden Street and North Washington Avenue<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Linden Street and Adams Avenue<\/p>\n
\u00b7 North Washington Avenue and Vine Street<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Vine Street and Adams Avenue<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Penn Avenue at Vine Street<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Vine Street and Jefferson Avenue<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Olive Street at Jefferson Avenue<\/p>\n
The one-way streets that plan to have sections transformed into two-way following the 30-day transition phase include:<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Biden Street, from Wyoming Avenue to Franklin Avenue<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Linden Street, from Penn Avenue to Jefferson Avenue<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Adams Avenue, from Linden Street to Mulberry Street<\/p>\n
\u00b7 North Washington Avenue, from Olive Street to Mulberry Street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city will begin a 90-day plan on Monday to transform several intersections to increase traffic flow and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-307088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307088","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=307088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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