I also strongly oppose the barrier being removed. Since it's been down I have witnessed a significant number of people speeding through the neighborhood. Also, I understand the majority of people from Kiowa are also opposed to this. If both neighborhoods want to keep the barrier up why remove it?

It is disingenuous to open up the street for a large construction project, and then turn around and use that as the logic to keep it open. With a brand new highway in place, there is no reason this route needs to be open to facilitate traffic between Hwy 101 and Lyman Blvd.

Please do not open the barrier! We have an abundance of families with children partly due to the safety and security inherent by our development. Please do not open it up to free flowing public traffic - it is not worth the risk to our families!!

We agree with the petition. There are many examples where potentially busy residential streets are blocked to redirect cut-through traffic; south mpls, near the city lakes area, for example. It's a no brainer.

Traffic projections on Hwy 101 are to more than double over the next five years. When backups occur drivers are going to look for shortcuts through residential areas. This additional traffic will impact safety particularly around the pool area where cars park and kids cross the street to take shortcuts through yards. Close the Kiowa Trail – Springfield connection.

We are absolutely against removing the barriers. There are too many young kids in our neighborhood and any increase in traffic will raise the risk to our families. We certainly do not want this route to be viable for commerical traffic and appear on someone's GPS as a time-saving shortcut.

My wife and I strongly oppose the opening of Kiowa trail to Springfield neighborhood. The increased traffic will increase risk to all families and change our neighborhood in a very negative way.

My husband and I take 101 south every day to work and we don't even want the "short cut".