Western Michigan University has decided that the campus would be easier to navigate if the streets didn’t change their names so often. On Tuesday Western’s Board of Trustees voted to drop many of the street names in place when campus was built.
It plans to introduce straightforward titles for many roads. Western Avenue, for example, will become part of "Ring Road South."
The university will also rename a set of streets that bear the names of pioneers in women’s athletics. It plans to use those names at the school’s sports fields instead.
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Western plans to change out the road signs during the summer of 2017.
