Restaurateur Jimmy Carter has been asking for a stop sign here for more than a decade, but he never gave up. Over two years ago another local resident wrote in the HillQuest Community Forum regarding neighborhood pedestrian experiences: “I agree that we need more traffic calming (stop signs and lights) on Fifth. A woman was killed at Spruce a few years back, and still no stop light.”
Well that time has come (almost).
It was learned Monday that City Traffic Engineering now expects that the installation of a long awaited stop sign on Fifth Avenue at Spruce Street will occur before the end of September. Because the Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee forwarded Uptown Partnership’s contract to the City Council with the inclusion of this stop sign, the City Attorney has told Traffic Engineering that it can proceed with the installation. Hip hip hooray!
Two weeks prior to the final installation the City will post signs meant to notify drivers on Fifth Avenue.
Keep your fingers crossed that no one else will be hurt in an accident (at the left on Friday, August 13th) at this dangerous intersection. Change CAN happen. (The community was continually told that the crosswalk above, painted last year on the south side of the Spruce Street, was impossible, too.)
