The Pine Bluff City Council Traffic and Aviation Committee voted 2-0 in favor of do-pass recommendations Thursday involving changes to roads at four locations.
The full council will have the final say on the following proposed changes:
*Moving a stop sign direction from north-south to east-west around the intersection of Hoover Street and North Norman Street. A child was hit by a car on July 28 near this intersection.
“People are driving at a high rate of speed and not stopping,” Alderman Steven Mays said. “The child is alright. The mother of the child requested we add a stop sign.”
*Adding a sign reading “Slow Children at Play” at Southern Crossing as a resident has requested.
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*Adding a “deer crossing” sign in the 2000 block of Oakwood Road as a resident has requested.
*Changing the following roads from two-way traffic to one-way traffic because they are narrow: Gross Street heading south from 13th to 19th avenues; Sherman Street heading north from 13th to 19th avenues; Grant Street heading south from 13th to 19th avenues; Lee Street heading north from 13th to 19th avenues.
“I think it is great because someone came to me with a solution to a problem,” Pine Bluff Street Department Director Rick Rhoden said of changing these roads.
Aldermen Charles Boyd and Lloyd Holcomb Jr. voted for the motion. Mays abstained from the motion, citing a desire to survey residents.