Leader Staff
City of Shawano officials will sit down with representatives of the Department of Transportation next month in hopes of talking the agency out of a proposal to reduce Airport Drive to one lane.
Airport Drive also serves as state Highway 47-55, and the DOT has plans to resurface it next year between County Road BE and Green Bay Street.
As part of that resurfacing, the DOT is also considering cutting the road to one lane from its current two, said Eddie Sheppard, assistant city administrator and public works coordinator.
Sheppard said the DOT used traffic counts on Airport Drive to come to that recommendation.
Sheppard said the city wants to keep it a two-lane street because of the heavy industrial usage it gets.
The DOT will visit with city officials on May 9.
“They’re coming down to hear us out,” Sheppard said.
After that, the DOT will return for a public hearing later in May, he said.