More parking needed at Morrissey Park
Friday May 9, 2008
A front page article in The News-Gazette announced the addition of an 8-foot-wide walking path to Morrissey Park. When we first noticed that flags were being put into the ground we were thrilled that perhaps the long-needed parking spaces would be added. After calls had been made to the park district and even bringing up the dangerous parking situation at a neighborhood police meeting years ago, we had finally given up. During soccer and football games there is parking on both sides of Harrington Drive, allowing only one lane of moving traffic around a curve.
Our biggest fear is that a child will run between parked cars, trying to hurry onto the field, and will be hit by a car. Most drivers seem to drive carefully through the narrow opening, but it's difficult to even see when another car is approaching from the opposite direction.
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