Waukesha committee backs short-term visibility fixes and asks staff to add median option to CIP for Sunset Drive–Guthrie intersection

The Waukesha City Building and Grounds committee voted June 30 to direct staff to implement short-term visibility measures at the intersection of Sunset Drive and Guthrie Road and to include a median design option for the intersection in next year’s capital improvements program.

Committee members approved a motion to flag stop signs, install a more robust temporary center stop sign, and ask staff to add the median option into the FY2026 CIP. The motion passed on a voice vote with four ayes and no recorded dissents.

The action followed a staff presentation of short- and long-term alternatives prepared with Ayers Associates traffic consultants. Craig (city staff) and Andy Raul, a traffic engineer with Ayers Associates, reviewed options that range from low-cost, short-term measures — flashing stop signs, speed-feedback signs, restriping and pavement markings, and larger temporary center stop signs — to longer-term changes including medians, a compact roundabout and full signalization.

"We have short-term options that could potentially be done this year," Craig said, including flashing stop signs for the east–west approaches, additional pavement marking and a speed-feedback sign targeted at eastbound drivers. Raul said a compact single-lane…