WEST CHESTER TWP — Recent traffic counts show the number of cars cruising through Cobbler's Creek, just west of the newly gated Wetherington subdivision, has doubled since the gates shut this month, Police Chief John Bruce told trustees.

        “Since the closing of Wetherington, we've seen a doubling of about 300 to 600 vehicles per day,” Chief Bruce said at Tuesday's meeting.

        Cobbler's Creek residents said they weren't surprised. They had feared the Wetherington gates would divert cut-through traffic through their quiet, narrow streets.

        “That place is ablaze with little kids on bicycles and little girls pushing strollers,” resident Walter Hoffman told trustees at Tuesday's meeting. “What has taken place is just going to totally mar the neighborhood. We just feel we are really hurting and things are going to worsen as the summertime starts.”

        Officers will keep counting cars in the Cobbler's Creek subdivision off Tylersville Road, just west of Wetherington, which shut its gates to keep out the up to 11,000 vehicles a day from what had been a favorite cut-through between Tylersville and Cincinnati-Dayton roads.

        “We will keep up a continuous traffic analysis until we get enough data to anticipate a problem,” Chief Bruce said.

        Police officials told the Enquirer Monday a recent vehicle count of 1,404 cars per day was down compared to a count last September of 2,344 cars.

        But on Tuesday, after Cobbler's Creek residents questioned the accuracy of the police counts, Chief Bruce told trustees the September count was skewed because the police department initially didn't take into account two road closings in September that pushed more cars through Cobbler's Creek than normal. A traffic count taken last April, when no roads around Cobbler's Creek were closed, showed 495 cars daily.

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