{"id":29836,"date":"2025-10-06T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=29836"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:42:03","slug":"school-dismissal-chaos-snags-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/school-dismissal-chaos-snags-business\/","title":{"rendered":"School dismissal \u201cchaos\u201d snags business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s hardly a secret that dismissal time at the Bellmont High School campus is something to avoid, if at all possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one business owner recently talked with Decatur City Council about the possibility of finding any solutions to the traffic woes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pizza-King-traffic.jpg?resize=640%2C385&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pizza-King-traffic.jpg?w=970&amp;ssl=1 970w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pizza-King-traffic.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pizza-King-traffic.jpg?resize=768%2C462&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Christner, owner of Christner&#8217;s Pizza King located on Monroe St. near the Stratton Addition entrance, told council, \u201cWhen school lets out there, it&#8217;s chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s impossible (for his delivery drivers) to get out (of the business) and go west.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christner asked if the city had any ideas of adding a traffic light in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Dan Rickord said INDOT (Indiana Department of Transportation) has told the city \u201cabsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mayor noted that the state recently made some changes in the traffic lights at North Adams Drive, Jackson St. and US 224.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that the city will contact INDOT \u201cto see if anything can be done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com It&#8217;s hardly a secret that dismissal time at the Bellmont High School campus is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,21],"class_list":["post-29836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pizza-King-traffic.jpg?fit=970%2C583&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29838,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29836\/revisions\/29838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}