HUNTINGTON BEACH : Intersection Tops List of 18 Needing Lights

The intersection of Yorktown Avenue and Delaware Street is the top choice for installation of new traffic lights on a list of priorities proposed to the City Council.

But the council has delayed a vote on the list and instead will hold a study session on signal lights sometime in February.

City Traffic Engineer Jim Otterson said that Huntington Beach can afford only one new traffic light in the fiscal year ending June 30. After a detailed study, city workers determined that the Yorktown Avenue-Delaware Street intersection most needed the traffic light, Otterson said.

The intersection, which is about half a mile from City Hall and Huntington Beach High School, is now controlled with four-way stop signs.

“A significant number of people go through that intersection, and there have been many accidents there,” said Otterson.

The proposed priority list ranks 18 intersections. In descending order, the other 17 intersections on the list are: Adams Avenue-Lake Street, Edinger Avenue-Saybrook Lane, Delaware Street-Ellis Avenue, Graham Street-McFadden Avenue, Springdale Street-Slater Avenue, Saybrook Lane-Humboldt Drive, Palm Avenue-17th Street, Delaware Street-Garfield Avenue, Heil Avenue-Saybrook Lane, Atlanta Avenue-Huntington Street, Graham Street-Glenstone Drive, Graham Street-Slater Avenue, Algonquin Street-Heil Avenue, Banning Avenue-Bushard Street, Orange Avenue-17th Street, Magnolia Street at Edison High School and Atlanta Avenue-MiraMar Lane-Greenfield Lane.