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New stop signs, crosswalk on slate for summer

Several new stop signs and a new crosswalk — all intended to improve campus safety, wayfinding and traffic control — are scheduled to be installed before the beginning of the fall semester.

Four new stop signs will be installed at the traffic booths on campus. The "stop" information on signs currently at the booths will be removed, and stop bars will be painted on the pavement. The new stop signs will be placed in four locations: At the west end of Jayhawk Boulevard for eastbound traffic entering near the Chi Omega Fountain; the north side of the intersection of Sunflower Road and Sunnyside Avenue for northbound traffic; the south side of the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and 14th Street for southbound traffic; and at the south end of Mississippi Street near the intersection of Memorial Drive for southbound Mississippi Street traffic.

At the request of the Campus Safety Advisory Board, a new crosswalk will be installed near Naismith Hall, and a transit stop in the area will be relocated. The crosswalk, also scheduled to be completed before the beginning of the fall semester, will be installed across Naismith Drive, just north of its intersection with 19th Street. The crosswalk is intended to help improve safety for students who cross Naismith Drive between Naismith and Oliver halls, said Marion Paulette, landscape architect with Design and Construction Management. The new crosswalk will not replace any existing crosswalks.

The transit stop currently on the east side of Naismith Drive in front of the west main door of Naismith Hall will move north, about 120 feet south of the intersection of Naismith Drive and 18th Street. The relocated stop will allow pedestrians to enter the crosswalk with an unobstructed view of oncoming traffic from the south.

KU HISTORY:

Time magazine took note of KU's aspirations of greatness in an article on July 16, 1951. In a piece about the departing Chancellor Deane W. Malott and his replacement, KU Medical Center Dean Franklin D. Murphy, the magazine wrote, "In the last 12 years, KU has begun to climb from its place as a solid but unspectacular state university ... Under Chancellor Murphy, it hopes to climb even faster." For more, see www.kuhistory.com.