Stop signs being added to three intersections

Last September, the Clarion city council started considering which intersections in town might need more stop signs. At their meeting Monday, they introduced two ordinances that should decrease the probability of accidents at three different intersections.

Ordinance 560 actually removes two stop signs: the ones currently at the intersection of 1st Street NE and 1st Ave NE, the corner on the north side of the post office. However, Ordinance 561 changes that intersection to a four-way stop. The other stop sign additions are on 1st Street SW, stopping north- and south-bound traffic at the intersection of 1st Ave SW by City Hall—where City Administrator Dustin Rief said he witnessed several “near-accidents” every week—and on 4th Ave NW, stopping east- and west-bound traffic on the intersection with 4th Street NW, which is by the back entrance to Hagie Manufacturing.

The council voted to waive the second and third readings of the ordinances. Rief said other locations that may get stop signs in the future are 1st Ave SW where it crosses Main Street by Chappy’s, and the intersection of Main and 2nd Ave NE by Fuel and the library. The latter poses some logistical problems for sign placement, however.

For more city council business, see the April 7 edition of the Monitor.