LEWISTON – Residents can learn more about a plan to slow traffic on outer Lisbon Street at a special meeting Wednesday at the Ramada Inn.

It is scheduled for 6 p.m. in the hotel’s second floor classroom, above the ballroom.

Lisbon Street changes from two lanes to four as it crosses the boundary from Lisbon to Lewiston. Slower cars move off to the right to let the cars behind them zoom past in the left lane. The road funnels the traffic downtown, past the south Lisbon Street businesses.

The city’s plan would restripe the stretch between the Lisbon line and Westminster Street, replacing the four lanes with three – one lane eastbound, one westbound, and a turning lane in the middle.

The plan is scheduled to go to the Planning Board on Monday. It goes to the City Council on Tuesday if the planning board approves.

That stretch of Lisbon Street handles between 14,000 and 15,000 car trips daily. Traffic engineers say the three-lane configuration could accommodate as many as 25,000 trips daily.