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City hopes to end shortcut
Barricades aimed at stopping traffic behind 10th Street businesses
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Temporary barricades block drivers from using the path behind the Reserves at TrailRidge apartments as shortcut connecting Walmart and Dillons. The Great Bend City Council has approved installing permanent barricades at the site. Making it an official street has been discussed, but that is unlikely to happen, city officials said. - photo by DALE HOGG Great Bend Tribune
Most Great Bend motorists may not have been aware of it, but there has been a shortcut connecting Walmart on Grant Street and Dillons on McKinley Street. Well, the dirt path running behind the Reserves at TrailRidge apartments, assorted shops and fast-food restaurants, and the new Holiday Inn Express wasn’t an official route. In fact, it is a route city officials are hoping to close down.