Sherwood transportation staff told the Traffic Safety Committee they will collect traffic volumes, pedestrian counts and average speeds to evaluate whether the Woodhaven–Pinehurst intersection should become an all-way stop.
Jason Wirtz, a city staff member, said the intersection ‘‘is a busy intersection’’ that serves multiple neighborhoods and a regional sidewalk connection and that staff plan to use radar-count machines to collect the data needed to run a warrants analysis.
Nut graf: The committee is treating two pending stop-sign requests as evidence-driven decisions. Staff said data collection will inform whether to recommend an all-way stop at Woodhaven–Pinehurst; separately, notices for a stop sign at First and Park have been posted and the city expects to install the sign in early August if no objections arrive during the 15-day notice period.
Wirtz said staff and a senior civil engineer reviewed recent traffic patterns and observed substantial pedestrian activity tied to nearby development. “We’re gonna go collect that data with our, radar count machines … so we can do a warrants analysis and then…recommendation to the city manager to make it an all way stop,” he said.
On the First and Park request, staff said the required 15-day posted and mailed notice period is nearly complete and that an installation is scheduled for the week of Aug. 5–6. Committee members suggested staff could remove the item from the agenda once the sign is installed, with a caveat that staff should bring any resident complaints back for discussion.
Committee members also said the city has moved a speed trailer to several locations, and staff confirmed plans to use the trailer to slow traffic and to capture speed data. Staff noted they plan to subscribe to a software service (Urban SDK) to aggregate speed and volume data remotely and to onboard that service in early August.
Ending: Staff said they will return with the Woodhaven–Pinehurst warrants analysis and with data from the speed-trailer and any Urban SDK reports so the committee can decide on an enforcement or signage recommendation.