presstalk
• In this week’s edition of (farragutpress), a person was quoted who spoke at the (Farragut Municipal Planning Commission) meeting that there should only be one way in and one way out of the new elementary school.
That didn’t make a lot of sense to me because the comment included something about parents dropping off and picking up kids and totally neglected to mention teachers, administrative staff, (other) staff, maintenance, deliveries and so forth.
The proposal to have more than one entrance is a sound one, and it is a much more effective and efficient way to move traffic through the school and prevent back-ups on Boring Road or Smith Road and Kingston Pike.
Also, I have to agree with several members of the FMPC and a couple of people who spoke that the traffic study that was done by Knox County Board of Education is also short-sighted because they did a study on traffic around a piece of empty land. … (90-second limit up).
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