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MU: Student safety top concern
OXFORD — For a recent statistics class, fourth-year Miami University business major Brian Schummer recently had to count the vehicles passing through the intersection of U.S. 27 and Ohio 73.
“I saw a lot of semis,” Schummer said, adding that U.S. 27, which drives through the heart of the Miami University campus, is “busy, but if you watch yourself on it, it’s not a problem.”
School officials agree that accidents are rare, but they say the potential is always there, as it was several years ago when a graduate student was killed when her bicycle was struck by a truck.
“If you have 60,000 crossings there per day, there are lots of opportunities for things to happen,” said Stephen Snyder, executive assistant to the university president.
“This is a safety issue for our faculty, staff and students,” Snyder said, flatly denying allegations that the school is trying to improve traffic flow to Yager Stadium or some other selfish aim.
Student body president Mike Scott agrees. “It is by the sheer act of god that no one’s been hurt, or worse, killed, crossing that road,” he said.
To justify their position, school officials point to a two-year study of transportation issues in northwest Butler County. It ended in a compromise, Snyder said, with the school abandoning a bypass it wanted around north Oxford for the connector.
Snyder said he’s open to alternatives, but that the safety issue is pressing and any options that keeps pedestrians at risk on campus indefinitely is unacceptable.
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