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Council weighs three-month trial to disable two Sioux City traffic signals amid safety and parking concerns
Summary
City engineer proposed a three-month trial to turn off signals at Tenth & Douglas and Morningside & Peters after a warrant study found neither met signal criteria; council debated pedestrian safety, school and parish impacts, parking loss and visibility before agreeing to monitor the intersections during a trial period.
Sioux City officials at a council meeting considered a proposed trial period to disable two traffic signals — one at Tenth Street and Douglas Street and the other at Morningside Avenue and Peters — after a city traffic study found neither intersection met signal warrants.
Gordon, the city engineer, told the council that a 2023 study showed the intersections did not meet volume or pedestrian-signal warrants and recommended a three-month trial beginning the last week of July and running into October to observe conditions with schools back in session. "I'm recommending that we start... like the last week of July and go to the October," he said.
The recommendation prompted sustained public comment and council discussion focused on pedestrian safety and parking. John Flannery, with Bishop Heelan Catholic Schools and representing Cathedral of the Epiphany, said the school and parish opposed removal at Tenth and Douglas. "We are adamantly opposed to removal of the, stoplight at Tenth And Douglas," Flannery said, noting "125 students…
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