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RESOLUTION TO RESCIND THE DESIGNATION AND ESTABLISHMENT AS A ONE-WAY STREET FOR WEST FIRST STREET BETWEEN 6th AVENUE WEST AND LAKE AVENUE AND FOR EAST FIRST STREET BETWEEN LAKE AVENUE AND 3RD AVENUE EAST AND BETWEEN 8TH AVENUE EAST AND 24TH AVENUE EAST.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
RESOLVED, that in accordance with the provisions of Section 33-17 of the Duluth City Code, 1959, as amended, West First Street, between 6th Avenue West and Lake Avenue, and East First Street, between Lake Avenue and 3rd Avenue East and between 8th Avenue East and 24th Avenue East, are no longer one-way streets. This resolution will become effective only after said street segments have been posted with proper signage and striping, indicating the change in designation.
Statement of Purpose
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The City of Duluth has been working to implement the Imagine Duluth 2035 Plan, which was adopted in 2018. Chapter 10 (Transportation) recommends that one-way streets downtown be reviewed and evaluated for conversion to two-way traffic. Duluth's one-way street patterns date to pre I-35 construction. One-way streets were designed to move large traffic volumes efficiently through the area; this traffic capacity is no longer needed.
Currently, the direction of traffic flow on First Street changes from one-way to two-way at four locations: 6th Avenue West, 3rd Avenue East, 8th Avenue East, and 24th Avenue East. This is confusing and dangerous for motorists and makes east-west travel more difficult Downtown, in the Medical District, and the East Hillside residential area, especially when construction or emergency closures disrupt traffic flow on parallel streets.
The City of Duluth completed a consultant traffic study in 2019 to convert the currently multi-directional First Street traffic to consistent two-way traffic from Mesaba Avenue to 24th Avenue East. The benefits of the project are: 1) More direct access in the Downtown, Medical, and eastern residential areas, along with...
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