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Particular Objections

The student analysis team, composed of graduate
students Walter Cox, Nanak Manku, Abinash
Mude, and Graham Pervier, pointed out particular
objections to the Highway Department's
Grady-Gordon/Preston Ave. route.

Their analysis first asks if the extensive improvements
of the route "actually reflect the
desired routes of the public or of the troubled
downtown merchants?" They point out that the
projection for 1985 indicates that the present
central business district will be involved in only
21 per cent of the study area's total retail sales.

As described in the Highway Department's 1967
"Major Arterial Street and Highway Plan," the
route is designed to ". . . relieve the traffic congestion
on Ivy Road, University Avenue and Main
Street."

The analyzation group points out that, according
to the alternate proposals developed by the
other three groups, "the traffic demands of the
east-west corridor can be accommodated with
less cost and greater convenience."