West Lafayette is hoping to minimize the shock of closing one of the city’s most traveled streets by communicating with residents on the front end of the massive State Street overhaul. Starting April 1 st , State Street will be shut down from University Drive to Airport Road. Segments of Tapawingo Drive and Marsteller Street will also be closed. Approximately 100 commuters dropped by a lunchtime meeting at Purdue to ask questions and make plans for the upcoming changes. One of those commuters is Beth Tucker, who works in Purdue’s Young Hall and parks in the Wood Street Garage, which will be closed starting in May. Tucker says she’s not a cyclist yet, but is thinking about starting to ride a bike to deal with the upcoming closures. “This would be a change, but maybe a good change,” she says. “Exercise? Yeah! It might be a good change.” CityBus says six of its 15 regular routes will need to be re-routed during the construction. But CityBus Manager Bryce Gibson says traffic tangles
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