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Discussion of issues relating to the Intersection of Railroad Avenue and Center Street.
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Summary:
Over the past several weeks, staff has witnessed a rise in illegal vehicular turning movements at the intersection of Center Street and Railroad Avenue. Specifically, these entail eastbound traffic on Railroad Avenue illegally turning northbound onto Center Street. Often this traffic includes large tractor-trailers which damage the new Gateway monuments located on North Center Street. You may recall, last year the Gateway monument on the west side of North Center Street sustained $50,000 in damage when an errant 18-wheeler turned northbound onto Center Street off of Railroad Avenue. Astonishingly, in 2017 alone we have seen additional Gateway damage on three (3) separate occasions. In early January, the median was leveled by an unknown diesel. Staff made appropriate repairs to return the median to its original condition, only to have the median struck again less than a week later by another unknown tractor-trailer. Our wonderful Public Works crews once again made median repairs which remain in place. However, in mid-February yet another unknown errant diesel illegally turned onto Center Street from Railroad Avenue, taking such a wide turn the driver damaged the eastside Monument and ruining its ground lighting.
On Tuesday evening, staff would like to discuss this matter with Council and get your feedback on potential solutions to remedy this situation, including the installation of cameras to monitor that intersection.
Fiscal/Budgetary Impact:
Unknown at this time. To be determined.
Recommended action
Discussion only in Workshop.