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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting -February 8, 201 1 because of the way the traffic is routed. The east-west connector only goes to the theater, to Barbie Street and dead-ends at St. Joseph or Fellows. So, it down"t make any sense to spend that kind of money and not have an east/west connector that"s not going anywhere but to a theater, and two secondary roads. If the east/west connector went to another main route, that would be different. Also, the fact that they are going to put in a traffic light between Carl Kay Memorials and C & B Optical. That's going to be another traffic bottleneck because every time that light changes to let the theater traffic through there, everything on South Michigan Street will come to a stop. You are going to have traffic backed up all the way to Johnson Road and Gilmer Park because during rush hour you've got bypass traffic coming in, you've got traffic coming in from U.S. 31 South, you"ve got traffic coming in from Ireland Road going north. Another reason I'm against it is that if you close that end of South Main after you put the roundabout in, how are the businesses along there going to get service from their delivery trucks? There's no way they can get in and out of there. I don't know if anyone has considered an alternative or not---the engineers or whoever is in charge ofthis---but if you go down Franklin Street and go across Ewing where it turns into Green Tech Drive, you've got the old defunct Sibley Foundry. There's a roadbed that goes behind there that goes all the way down to Chippewa. If you wanted to continue Lafayette down, that would be the best thing to do is run it all the way down from there to Chippewa, putting a roundabout at Chippewa or Ireland Road. Where that road behind the foundry comes out on Chippewa, you've got easements there anyway, you've got the power lines and 8