Traffic Flow Key to Downtown Revitalization

Lexington town officials are considering whether to revise a package of road improvements in order to make downtown more of a shopping destination than simply a thoroughfare to other parts of town, The State reports.

"We want people to come downtown instead of zipping through," Mayor Randy Halfacre told the paper.

"One way to do that may be to scrap a portion of a plan adopted in 2005 to convert Main and Butler streets into one-way freeways, an idea recently recommended by a town advisory panel. But Halfacre said town leaders may keep traffic flowing both ways on those roads, to appease merchants and residents downtown," the paper reported.

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