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Residents raise crosswalk safety concerns; ADOT to replace crossing with hawk signal, mayor says
Summary
Public commenters described a dangerous crosswalk at Circle K where lights are not visible and a resident’s child was struck; Mayor Wallace reported ADOT will remove the crosswalk and add a hawk overhead red-light signal at Clark and 90 in response.
During the public comment period, resident Lonnie Brock told the Council the crosswalk by the Circle K is dangerous because the crossing lights are not visible; Tami Ackerson said her daughter was hit while using the crosswalk properly and urged the town to install a safer crossing.
Later in the meeting during Council reports Mayor Johann R. Wallace said he had met with Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and that ADOT “will be removing the crosswalk and adding a new one with a hawk overhead red light signal at Clark and 90.” The minutes link the citizen concerns and the ADOT response in the same meeting record.
The minutes do not specify a schedule for the removal and replacement, the budgetary responsibility, or whether additional traffic engineering studies were performed; the recorded outcome is the ADOT commitment reported by the Mayor, which the Council did not vote on during the meeting.
