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Safety Harbor Moving Downtown Stop Signs
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Published: September 22, 2007
SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. - SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. - It will soon be harder to speed along downtown streets.
Under current conditions, motorists can travel on Second Street South from Ninth Avenue to Second Avenue and be required to stop four times for traffic control devices.
If they used Fifth Street South from Ninth Avenue, heading east, however, they would not have to heed a stop sign until they reached Bayshore Drive.
This kind of inequity in the configuration of traffic signs fosters an imbalance in traffic distribution and could result in increased speeding, City Engineer William Baker recently told city commissioners.
City engineering proposed relocating some of the downtown stop signs, so travel in all directions will be for no more than two or occasionally three blocks before reaching a stop sign.
Savvy motorists will no longer be able to choose the road on which they can dash along unimpeded by traffic control devices, he said.
There are 75 stop signs downtown. There are no plans to increase the number of signs, only the location of about a dozen signs will be changed, he added.
Motorists will be notified of stop-sign relocations along the route, which will take place in phases, through the use of message board signs, he said.
At a recent meeting, city commissioners gave city staff a unanimous go-ahead to even out the number of stop signs.
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