The Worcester County Commissioners agreed this week to have stop signs added to Golf Course Road at the intersection so that it is now an all-way stop. Commissioner Bud Church, who represents that district, said he was eager to see the change take place.
“There have been several very serious accidents at that intersection,” he said.
The vote to install the four-way stop came after a presentation from John Tustin, the county’s public works director, at Tuesday’s meeting of the county commissioners. Tustin said that generally, multi-way stops were used when the volume of traffic on all of the approaches to an intersection were equal. According to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, before a four-way stop is installed there should be an average of 300 vehicles per hour on the major street (Golf Course Road) and at least 200 vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles per hour on the minor street (Sunset Avenue).
Tustin said under those guidelines, the intersection qualified for a four-way stop.
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It's about time. That is probably the worst intersection in West OC during the summer months.
ReplyDeleteSpeed bumps got tons of comments, this one should be a doozy.
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ReplyDeleteStop signs don't tear up your suspension or cause your car to scrape ground even at a crawl.
It is a busy intersection; hope it helps.
Good decision.
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