[Durham INC] All-Way Stop Added to Chapel Hill Road Intersection

[Blalock, Amy]

CITY OF DURHAM

Office of Public Affairs

101 City Hall Plaza

Durham, NC 27701

 

 

News Release

 

For Details, Contact:

Amy Blalock

Sr. Public Affairs Specialist

(919) 560-4123 x 11253

(919) 475-7735 (cell)

Amy.Blalock at DurhamNC.gov

 

 

 

 

For Immediate Release: November 23, 2011

 

 

 

All-Way Stop Added to Intersection on Chapel Hill Road

Chapel Hill Road Near Bivens Street and Jersey Avenue to Receive School
Zone Designation

 

DURHAM, N.C.-The City of Durham, in partnership with the North Carolina
Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and neighborhood residents,
recently installed an all-way stop at the intersections of Chapel Hill
Road, Bivens Street, and Jersey Avenue. 

 

"This change is needed due to multiple factors along this segment of
roadway," said Phil Loziuk, traffic operations engineer with the City's
Transportation Department. "Previous changes made to the intersection
have slowed traffic by a couple of miles per hour and we hope that the
all-way stop will drastically reduce the sporadic speeding and
occasional accidents along this stretch of state road."

 

According to Loziuk, repeated traffic studies by the City have shown
that 85 percent of the motorists traveling along this portion of Chapel
Hill Road drive below the posted speed limit. Later this month, this
segment of Chapel Hill Road will receive a school zone designation when
Lakewood Montessori Middle School opens in the old YMCA building.

 

About the Transportation Department

The City of Durham Transportation Department is responsible for a broad
range of transportation services, which include traffic signs and
signals, transportation planning, parking operations, street lighting,
the taxicab administration and bicycle and pedestrian planning. The
City's Transportation Department also oversees the Durham Area Transit
Authority (DATA) public transportation system as well as the DATA ACCESS
service for persons with disabilities. The City of Durham leads planning
functions for the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning
Organization (DCHC-MPO). For more information, visit 
http://DurhamNC.gov/ich/op/dot.

 

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