Council Delays Vote on Traffic Circles

Residents on Dorothy Lane won’t be seeing many commercial trucks driving past their homes anymore, but the speeding cars that use their street as a shortcut won’t be forced to slow just yet.

The City Council has decided to wait before voting on a recommendation to install traffic circles on Dorothy Lane between Longview Drive and Acacia Avenue. The round medians, placed at the center of intersections, are designed to slow traffic by forcing vehicles to drive around them.

At a recent meeting, council members said they wanted a study of two stop signs to see whether they would slow traffic on the residential street. City staff will make a recommendation to the council early next year on where the stop signs might be placed.

The council did vote last week to establish 15,000-pound maximum vehicle weight limits on Dorothy Lane between Hornet Way and State College Boulevard and on Hornet Way between Berkeley Avenue and Dorothy Lane.