Some more controlled traffic is coming to the Heritage Meadows Subdivision.
At the last city council meeting, Police Chief and Assistant City Manager Shawn Myatt presented an ordinance to install some stop signs at the intersection of Carriage Lane and Mockingbird Streets, plus the intersection Heritage Drive and Meadow Lake Drive.
Myatt said he went out there, and the area was confusing to him. Plus, there were streets allowed to flow uncontrolled onto streets with stop signs.
“What this is about, was just creating some uniformity. For whatever reason, this was left out, but this will give us our three-way and four-way stops to control those intersections, because of the amount of traffic. One street, it was not long, but you have a section of housing between two cul-de-sac’s flooding in, and it was not controlled. but, you had the main streets controlled, which did not make any sense,” Myatt said.
There has been some complaints in recent times of people using the long straight away street there for racing, but Myatt says these stop signs are for controlling the traffic flow, not speed.
And he noted that a lot of reported issues out there, really are not issues most of the time.
“Part of the problem is perception. People think people are speeding, and they are not. That is what we deal with, I would say 90 percent of our complaints are…unfounded, due to the fact people are travelling at 30 miles per hour, but to them, it looks like 50 miles per hour,” Myatt said.
That ordinance was approved by city council, for installation of new stop signs in Heritage Meadows.
No time table for when the actual signs will be installed.