TUSTIN : New Stop Signs to Undergo Review

The City Council on Monday will consider whether to take down two stop signs after recently completed traffic studies showed that they are not warranted under state traffic guidelines.

Both stop signs were erected last month at the request of residents who said that the area near A Street at 2nd and 3rd streets is overrun with traffic and that the intersections are dangerous.

Resident Paquita Said was killed while walking her dog at one of the intersections--Yorba Street and Amaganset Way--and her friends and relatives were among those who packed the council chambers last month to request the signs. Less than a week earlier, motorcyclist Michael Beales was killed in a traffic accident two blocks away.

Although the studies, conducted by a traffic analyst hired by the city, do not indicate that conditions warrant the signs, the analyst noted that the council still has the authority to place them there.