4163 - 62 Opposition to traffic light at Edwards & Det. - unsigned

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RESOLUTION NO. BY: AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION declaring the opposition of Council to the in- stallation of traffic control devices which violate sound principles of traffic engineering~ and calling upon the Mayor as director of Public Safety to recon- sider the necessity of the traffic signal light installed at the intersection of Edwards and Detroit Avenues in the City of Lakewood, Ohio. WHEREAS, a traffic signal light has been installed at the intersection of Edwards and Detroit Avenues in response to an order issued by the Mayor as Director of Public Safety, and WHEREAS, said installation was authorized without making request to the Department of Police for a traffic survey, without consulting the Ward Council- man or Council's Committee on Traffic and Safety, without the advice and counsel of a qualified traffic engineer, and in direct contravention of recommendations made in 1961 by traffic engineers of the Cleveland Safety Council, and WHEREAS, the indiscriminate erection of traffic signal lights in response to individual complaints or pressure groups may tend to create or intensify the hazards of modern traffic unless such lights are erected as the result of a thorough analysis of facts and circumstances gathered and evaluated by trained experts on the basis of established scientific data; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That the Department of Police is hereby requested to make a complete traffic survey of the intersection at Edwards and Detroit ~menuesi; Section 2. That the Mayor as Director of Public Safety is hereby urged to order that the traffic signal light at said intersection remain inoperative until such a survey can be completed; Section 3. That upon completion of such survey the traffic signal light be removed unless demonstrated by the survey to be clearly necessary and war~ ranted in accordance with recognized standards of traffic engineering as set forth in the Ohio Manual of U~iform Traffic Control Devices; Section 4. That the Mayor as Director of Public Safety is hereby urged to return to the former policy of securing a traffic survey and consulting Council for full discussion of each request for traffic signal lights before ordering the installation of same. Section 5. That this resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure for the reasons stated in the preamble hereof and provided it receives the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all members elected to Council, it shall take effect and be in force irmnediately upon its adoption and approval by the Mayor. Adopted: President Approved: Clerk Mayor