PHOENIX — City of Phoenix street experts are set to study traffic impacts from its controversial reverse lanes. It’s an issue the community has been split on for years.

Bill Sandweg's shop, Copper State Coffee, is located at the heart of the reverse lanes, near 7th Avenue and Glenrosa.

“I've seen at least a dozen, two dozen of my customers get into accidents out here over the last 20 years," Sandweg said.

Sandweg believes the reverse lanes are to blame for many of those accidents.

“Reverse lanes, they're designed to increase capacity, but they decrease mobility," he said.

The reverse lanes run on 7th Street and 7th Avenue between McDowell Road and about Dunlap Avenue in Phoenix. Monday through Friday during peak morning traffic hours, the reversible lane is used in the southbound dire

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