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66 <br />Regular Council Meeting <br />3/21/94 <br />Page Four <br />Lt. Jay said we investigated that possibility and the zone is too long for that. The state <br />will only permit those types of installations where the construction zone is <br />approximately 200-250 feet. Beyond that, they do not allow it. This zone is going to be <br />approximately 1,000 feet long (500' on either side of Highland and S.O.M.). What <br />happens when you have that type of zone is you let a platoon through on the green <br />signal, the people that are now stopped for the red (it just turned red), will attempt to <br />catch up to that platoon and sneak through. Then that tacks the time on the other end <br />and then the people coming through the other side are delayed because they have the . <br />same problem because then they are not getting as many cars through. Another <br />problem is that installation is only used on low volume roads. S.O.M. Center is not <br />considered a low volume road by any stretch of the imagination (either a technical or a <br />common sense one.) Those are the two major reasons that you can't put in a signal <br />zone. <br />Mr. Ehrhardt asked how will the school buses be affected going in and out of our <br />development. <br /> <br />Lt. Jay said they have already been made aware of this change and they are already <br />working on that. <br />Mr. Ehrhardt asked how about the kids that have to get on the bus. <br />Lt. Jay said they will still be getting on the bus. The only problem is they won't be able <br />to at S.O.M. <br />Mr. Ehrhardt asked how they will turn around. <br />Lt. Jay said I am guessing, and you will have to discuss that with the transportation <br />manger, but I am guessing the buses would probably come into Thornsway and make <br />their turn at the cul-de-sacs on Bramblewood and then come back out and go on the <br />other. <br />Basil Russo, Deel2wood Lane, said the comments that have been made to this point have <br />been a rather mild response to the reaction that we have received in the community to <br />the entire manner in which this has been handled. I, for one, did not even hear about <br />the proposed plan until I received a phone call from a neighbor the day before. Many <br />people in our community who are not here are still not aware of what the City's plans <br />are. Suffice it to say, those of you that have done the investigations and have made the <br />decisions obviously do not live in our community or you would not be satisfied with <br />the proposal that you have come up with, because we are not satisfied. The situation is <br />such that I took a ride this morning just to see what was involved. I went down and