Board of Aldermen 03-08-2022 Page 17
So | don’t think this change will have a significant effect on traffic conditions in the area. | think it’s more of a safety issue
and it was brought forward based on concerns that we received. But if the Board wanted to entertain any hour restriction,
we certainly can do that but | wouldn't do that during normal business hours or on Saturdays. This last Saturday | heard
there was a lot of issues there as well so.
Alderman Klee
Thank you, I’m not suggesting, just wanted to get some ideas.
Alderman Moran
Thank you Madam President. So | take this way home. | live in Ward 7 but | work in Ward 8. I'll come down Spit Brook
and take a left onto DW. | don’t think so much it’s the traffic that’s coming from Adventure Way, | think it’s the human
behavior change because now you're frustrated. Frustrated that you can’t get into CVS, frustrated that you can’t get into
Best Buy, and now people are coming back onto Adventure Way, and just flooring it as fast as they can. Where | come
from, it's a Massachusetts stop, a slow roll, make sure nothings coming, but not paying attention to the U-turn. | think the
frustration is caused by the increased traffic in that area that is really causing people to blow through that light. | for one
before Lent started, | would visit that Pizza Hut almost frequently, every day if | could, and that U-turn is true. Everyone
coming out of that side you’re going to get side swiped. | was leaving CVS the other day and someone banged that U-
turn and entered into the gas station from the wrong entrance where it clearly says “not an entrance”. So there is a lot of
frustration over there that does need further study for the impact on the area. But | think this ordinance will slow people
down to think twice before they take a right into a U-turn.
Alderman Clemons
| agree completely with Alderman Moran on this. For me it’s about the traffic that is making a U-turn. | have been in that
situation myself making that U-turn where | almost go into an accident with somebody coming out making a right turn on
red. | personally feel that wherever we can have a right hand turn on red, we should have it. | even like the left hand
turns on red on one-way streets like over on West Hollis Street. | think its Liberty onto West Hollis Street you can do that,
but it has to be safe. When you have an entire population of people that live on one side of the road and the only way that
they can turn around and go north is to make a U-turn, then that U-turn has to be safe for them. So for those reasons, I’m
going to support this legislation.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. | actually wanted to ask, and | don’t know if the idea and maybe this is for Mr. Hudson, to restrict the U-turn
was ever looked at. | disagree with what was just said that you can just go a block further and you can get on past the
Shaw’s. Also you can go out of some of those apartments the other way. | know which ones you’re talking about but like
Royal Ridge you can go through the other way.
President Wilshire
Did you have a question?
Alderwoman Kelly
My question is have we ever considered restricting the U-turns? Sorry | said a lot around the question.
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Thank you. That was talked about, | believe, both when Bu’s came forward with their traffic study and later when Costco
came forward with their study. That was talked about, but it’s a very heavy U-turn movement because all of the
residences that want to reverse direction. So in looking at the number of people that wouldn’t have a great alternative
otherwise, you'd have to go further to make another U-turn heavier somewhere else. | think it became a consensus that
that wasn’t a recommended approach.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you very much.
