Top Ten Priority List for East Forest Park
Approved at March 11, 2009 meeting.
Submitted to the Springfield Office of Planning and Economic Development
- When weather permits fill in pot holes.
- Improve road conditions in city especially on Plumtree Rd., Overlook Drive, Abbott Street, Harkness Ave.
- Single Stream Recycling for all of East Forest Park.
- Fix traffic congestion around General Edwards Bridge.
- Enforce speeding on East Forest Park streets (Speed Traps: Sumner Avenue, Allen Street & Sumner Avenue, Surrey Rd.)
- Keep current traffic pattern on Overlook Drive.
- Adopt traffic proposal around Frederick Harris School, 90 day trial one-way for Whittum Avenue from Allen Street to Plumtree Road.
- Install sidewalks on the East Side of Eddywood Street by the corner of Allen Street.
- Plow operators should stop piling snow on corners where there are sidewalks so residents can shovel and make accessible to pedestrians.
