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• • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council March 17, 1982, Page 4 The first was the traffic signal at 2nd Street and East Main. Richards stated after numerous traffic counts, volume just did not justify a signal at that intersection. That signal is actually creating a needless delay to motorists on the major street. Based on this, he recommended the signal at 2nd and East Main be removed. Hodge: I have talked to the Fire Chief and the Police Chief, and neither one of them have any objections to this light being removed. Richards: The second area involves a short block between 8th Street and 9th Street. There is a pretty bad alinement problem there created by left turn lanes at 146. Right now, both sides of the road are reserved for on-street parking. However, in our many visits down here we have seen almost no parking in this short block. We are asking the Council input on removing this on-street parking for this short block. It would greatly improve traffic operations and could enhance traffic safety. We propose two main travel lanes and a right-turn lane. Our •. final problem area is really the most critical, at the Five Points intersection. We will be replacing the signal equipment but no matter what we try to do to signalize this intersection as it is, our design will be inefficient. There is just no good way to signalize a 5-legged intersection. There is driver confusion at this type of intersection. We have done an acci- dent study and the number occurring is slightly higher than at 2nd and 4th, but it's not all that high at this point. The condition is so bad that drivers are adjusting their driving and driving extra safe through this intersection. We do fore- see a problem as the City grows. We propose to make the 5th leg (the San Jacinto leg) one way out-bound from the inter- section to A Street. Traffic would be southeast bound to A Street, beyond A it would be two-way flow just like it is now. Traffic coming north along San Jacinto to Main would be routed along A Street over to Broadway. We would do this with signs and paint stripes and maybe some of the raised jiggle bars. The traffic volumes are not all that great and we feel this would be a very adequate method to control present and future problems. Faris: Who pays for all the additional striping and signs? Richards: I believe that would fall within the budget, so the Highway Department would pay for it. Skelton: Do you know what the annual operating and maintenance • cost for operating the light at 2nd Street?