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continue to pull them apart;' ' Davis said. "There are a lot of ' people involved in it who are pret~ open-minded about trying to bring this to a conclusion:' But divisiveness was the order of the evening, as a question- and-answer period degenerated into interruptions, sarcasm, fin- ger-pointing .and shouting. One target of some neighbors' ke was .. Dr. Thomas Fallon, who lives just across the street from Lowry Hill and owns several apartment buildings in the neighborhood. Fallon is not technically a Lgwry Hill resident; neither is his attor- ney, Warren 6skey, who repre- ' sents the coalition. LHRI board member Vanessa Dayton object- ed to money the co'alition . allegedly spent to organize. against the'traffic circles. Dayton then left the meeting. Mayoral candidate Barbara Carlson -- a Lowry Hill rdsident who strongly dislike~ traffic cir- cles -- also jumped into the fray at the community meeting, urg- ing Sco. tt to hold a vote. A vote was eventually held, with 75 residents voting for removal of the traffic-calming tests, 13 people voting against. Meanwhile, Scott and Mona- kan proposed a plan to remove many of{he circles from Lowry Hill, while inst~lllng new four- way stop signs at two intersec-. tions and testing anothe3 traffic- calming device, the raised speed ' table. To make any circles or humps permanent, 75 Percent of the residents one block in each ' direction would have to ippr0ve, Mon. ahan sake ' . .- ''I'm very doubtful that'circles will be 'remaining/' .S~ott said ',." after the meeting. :.' : - 7 ' ' Data: ti;affic - .- calming Works · Lowry Hill's traffic-calming tests included installation of 17' traffic ~rcles, speed humps on one Nod(and a thrgated inter- section. By far, residents have reserved most of their animosity for the circles, although cars have' been honking as they drive on the speed humps. Monahan said that during the test, cars have hit five traffic ch'des. HoweVer, the- ' city has recei~,id nO reports of.. Vehicle-vehicle accidents at traf- tic-circle intersections] The city/dso produced data showing that. the traffic-calming tests had slowed traffic without appreciably ch~:nglng ~i~ffik vol: umes. The goal of traffic-calming is t.o sl0w cars Without causing · them to switch to other streets. In Lo~n'y, Hi/l, one concern was that speed humps, on Irving. would cause b. ars to move to Humboldt, but the city's tests' haven't shown' that iobe happen- in.g, said John Hotvet, of_Public Works. The Coalition for Traffic Safe- ty's resolution asked that the neighborhood spend its NRP -money set aside for traffic calm- ing On police buy-back to enforce traffic laws. Coalition members ' also favored lobbying the Legisla- ture to reduce speed limits on residential streets to 25 miles per hour. In April, the coalition col- lected 400 signatures asking for - removal of the traffic ch'des and speed-hfimps; the}' said residents opposed'them 9:1.. -' Is there any larger meafilng to Lowry Hill's iraffic-cirde debate.* "What haqe we learned aboUt the functioning of our public stre'ets, our urban character and 'our collective concerns for safety, pedestrian and bio/de rights, and. driver courtesy*." Scoit asked ' ' :'. n~ighborhood residents'in a July 25 letter. "Who should be allowed to decide whether oi' not Sp'ec~ic calmhag devices'should bk ". retained*." -! Get inqolved · Lowry Hill Residents, Inc:, the official Lowry Hills nfigh- borhood association, has sched- uled an 'Aug. 19 board meeting., 7:30 p.m. at Kenwood Recre- ation Center;, traffiC'calming .is on the agenda. ..~