Katie Ralston is looking forward to volunteering.Dona Bymaster is dreading yet another invasion of her neighborhood.Both were among about 50 residents of southwest Colorado Springs at a briefing Wednesday night about how their neighborhoods will be affected by the U.S. Senior Open to be staged at The Broadmoor on July 28 to Aug. 3.Senior Open promoters and city officials met with Broadmoor neighbors at Colorado Hall to outline the traffic plan, which calls for closing many roads for an event expected to draw 8,000 spectators the first day and building to 35,000 by Sunday’s finals, in addition to 3,000 volunteers.”We want you to know we’re listening,” said Doug Habgood, championship director with Bruno Event Team, which is running the event. “We don’t have eyeballs everywhere, so we want you to let us know what’s happening.”Habgood said public parking will be virtually banned in The Broadmoor’s vicinity, and buses will shuttle volunteers, employees and spectators from parking lots some distance away, such as the World Arena.Promoters urge attendees to ride their bikes to a designated parking spot.Most roads on the hotel’s west side will be designated as no parking zones. Barricades will block traffic from roads adjacent to Lake Avenue.A big portion of West Cheyenne Mountain Boulevard will be closed from July 21 to Aug. 8.Pourtales Road will serve as the emergency access route. No parking allowed.It’ll never work, according to Bymaster, who’s lived within a couple of blocks of the hotel for 50 years and has seen plenty of cars bully their way into neighborhoods where they’re not supposed to be.”In theory, it never works because anyone who knows anything about this area inevitably sees it as public street parking,” she said.City officials say police will swarm the area, writing tickets and summoning wreckers to tow illegally parked vehicles that pose a hazard.Not everyone is skeptical.”I think it’s a great plan,” said Reed Cagle, who lives on one of the roads to be closed. “If everyone would relax and go with it, it would be fine.”Ralston, who has volunteered for six shifts that week, is going with it.She lives in a brownstone immediately east of the hotel on Lake where traffic is likely to gridlock at times.”This is an event,” she said. “You choose to live next door to a hotel, you have to expect it. I think they’re doing a great job and trying as hard as they can.”CONTACT THE WRITER: 636-0238 or pam.zubeck@gazettedev.gazette.com