Letter to the Editor

8600 University Boulevard
Evansville, IN 47712
April 16, 2009

Editor, The Evansville Courier & Press
300 East Walnut Street
PO Box 268
Evansville, IN 47702-0268

To the editor,
With the proposal to move the new stadium downtown and all the negative feedback to this move, I can’t help but wonder if commuting around the complicated, one-way streets is the real reason for this feedback. The city of Evansville needs to improve the methods of transportation downtown in order to draw larger crowds of people willing to brave these confusing streets. Parking is another major issue that draws citizens away from visiting downtown and not wanting to see the stadium moved here.
Before the city wants to make these big changes for downtown Evansville, they need to clean up the streets to make transportation easier and less fearful for people to travel. They need to improve the one-way streets and provide better signs to guide visitors to where they want to go. Downtown has a lot of potential but smaller changes need to be made before they spend millions of dollars on a new stadium that may soon become another “white elephant” for Evansville.
Melissa Martin
Evansville