From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 13, 1989:

The Lawrence City Commission this week voted unanimously to authorize Mayor Bob Schumm to ask the Kansas Department of Transportation for a traffic light at a North Lawrence intersection. Aiding commissioners in their decision was a petition with signatures from 870 residents supporting the installation of signals at the intersection of North Second and Lyon streets. KDOT approval was required before the traffic lights could be installed because North Second doubled as U.S. Highway 24-40. Requests for the signals had first come from school bus drivers, who were frustrated at the traffic flow at the intersection. “Try to enter North Second (from Lyon) between 7 and 8 a.m. and go south,” said Bob Moody, president of the North Lawrence Improvement Association. “It’s nearly impossible.” Commissioners embraced the idea of requesting a reasseessment by KDOT. “Let’s do it,” Schumm said. “The petition speaks very highly for the fact that there’s a lot of people concerned with it.”