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Indiana University and city officials are asking themselves what can be done to make Fee Lane safer after an IU student is killed by a car while crossing the street; Sprunica Elementary School in Brown County was on lockdown today while police search for two burglary suspects; Monroe County Republican Party chairman Gene Moncel lays out his priorities in the debate over health care reform; Bloomington will receive $745,000 in federal grants for energy efficiency retrofits of city buildings including City Hall; the law firm Keller & Keller donates a "BEAST" to the Bloomington Fire Department for cutting open cars to rescue crash victims; researchers at IU will lead a $15 million project to develop an experimental supercomputing network; Bloomington will commemorate 9/11 with a ceremony tomorrow at City Hall; county commissioner Mark Stoops says INDOT's threat to withhold funding for local construction projects over a local property in the I-69 right-of-way is pure blackmail.
FEATURE
Today the City of Bloomington is holding a second round of public workshops addressing the 10th Street Mobility Study. The East 10th Street corridor through campus has long been identified as a transportation challenge, and studies conducted as long ago as 1964 have recommended improvements to the area’s mobility for pedestrian as well as vehicular travel. There are several plans to consider, including making 10th Street a one-way street. The consulting firm Gorove/Slade Associates, Inc. was hired earlier this year to assist with the study and provide consulting services, and in a few minutes we’ll hear from consultant Dan Van Pelt after the city’s senior transportation planner Raymond Hess sets the stage in this WFHB radio exclusive.
VOICES IN THE STREET
Our weekly public opinion feature goes on-location at the Fourth Street Festival to talk to artists about…art! What IS art? How do you know when you see it?