MONROE - The City of Monroe Common Council today will consider a resolution to install stop signs on 6th Street at 22nd Avenue, but the Public Safety Committee decided Monday to wait four weeks to see how the traffic flow is affected before considering stop signs at a different intersection on 26th Avenue, which is a school crossing.
By state statutes, a traffic study must be done before installing stop signs at the 26th Avenue intersection, because 6th Street, an arterial road for Wisconsin 59, intersects 26th Avenue, said Al Gerber, city engineer supervisor.
Police Chief Fred Kelley said he found no accidents at the 26th Avenue corner in the past three years.
Gerber said a 12- to 16-hour count will be taken on a day with favorable weather to get the best possible count.
According to Gerber, 6th Street and 22nd Avenue intersection became a four-way stop in 1993, but the signs were taken out a few years later. A traffic study had been done to put the stop signs in, but he did not recall a study being done for removal.
Gerber is not concerned about putting the signs back in at 22nd Avenue, based on the previous traffic study.
Kelley said the signs at 22nd Avenue will be installed by the end of next week.
Terry Faith, who lives on St. Claire Court near the two intersections, attended a committee meeting Oct. 5, and returned Monday to talk to the committee.
Faith is concerned for middle school students, including her 12-year-old daughter, who cross 6th Street at 26th Avenue on the way to school.
By the time Monroe Middle School students arrive at the cross walk, crossing guards are gone, she said.
Northside School is located about three blocks south of the Justice Center, and the middle school is downtown.
About 15 residents attended the committee meeting Oct. 5 to help convince the city to install stop signs, following the Sept. 18 death of a resident in their neighborhood.
Anna E. Niederberger, 82, died at UW Hospital in Madison from an injury she sustained five days earlier while crossing 6th Street near 22nd Avenue. She was the first traffic fatality in Monroe in more than 15 years.
Neighborhood residents indicated they wanted the intersections at 22nd and 26th avenues protected.
Residents told committee members that vehicles do not observe the 25 mph speed limit from 20th Avenue to the new Justice Center, near 30th Avenue. They said some vehicles travel as fast as 50 mph.
By state statutes, a traffic study must be done before installing stop signs at the 26th Avenue intersection, because 6th Street, an arterial road for Wisconsin 59, intersects 26th Avenue, said Al Gerber, city engineer supervisor.
Police Chief Fred Kelley said he found no accidents at the 26th Avenue corner in the past three years.
Gerber said a 12- to 16-hour count will be taken on a day with favorable weather to get the best possible count.
According to Gerber, 6th Street and 22nd Avenue intersection became a four-way stop in 1993, but the signs were taken out a few years later. A traffic study had been done to put the stop signs in, but he did not recall a study being done for removal.
Gerber is not concerned about putting the signs back in at 22nd Avenue, based on the previous traffic study.
Kelley said the signs at 22nd Avenue will be installed by the end of next week.
Terry Faith, who lives on St. Claire Court near the two intersections, attended a committee meeting Oct. 5, and returned Monday to talk to the committee.
Faith is concerned for middle school students, including her 12-year-old daughter, who cross 6th Street at 26th Avenue on the way to school.
By the time Monroe Middle School students arrive at the cross walk, crossing guards are gone, she said.
Northside School is located about three blocks south of the Justice Center, and the middle school is downtown.
About 15 residents attended the committee meeting Oct. 5 to help convince the city to install stop signs, following the Sept. 18 death of a resident in their neighborhood.
Anna E. Niederberger, 82, died at UW Hospital in Madison from an injury she sustained five days earlier while crossing 6th Street near 22nd Avenue. She was the first traffic fatality in Monroe in more than 15 years.
Neighborhood residents indicated they wanted the intersections at 22nd and 26th avenues protected.
Residents told committee members that vehicles do not observe the 25 mph speed limit from 20th Avenue to the new Justice Center, near 30th Avenue. They said some vehicles travel as fast as 50 mph.