Published: Feb. 3, 2015
Council to study traffic light patterns
Committee to review road projects
By NICHOLAS DETTMANN
Daily News
The West Bend Common Council decided at Monday’s meeting at
City Hall to use more than $63,000 to research the traffic light pattern on
Paradise Drive from an account that was already allocated to fix traffic
signals.
The council also unanimously voted to appoint a three-person
committee to review city road work projects and accept bids for the pending
18th Avenue expansion project, which Mayor Kraig Sadownikow said he still hopes
will start in 2017.
The aldermen voted to use $63,100 budgeted to replace
existing radios at traffic signals connected to the master signal at Washington
and Seventh and install more radios where needed. Also figured into that cost
was the purchase of one camera, labor, and a consultant to perform traffic
counts, analysis and timing.
Instead, the money will be used to fund a research project
to review the timing of the traffic signals on Paradise Drive, plus purchase a
traffic laptop for the Street Division, purchase a spare processor for traffic
camera and complement budgeted funds for pre-emption system at Washington
Avenue and River Road.
“Some of the dollars will go to research and re-time those
to make them more user friendly,” Sadownikow said after the meeting.
The three-person committee charged with reviewing the city’s
street-repair wish list consists of aldermen Rick Kasten (District 5), Ed
Duquaine (District 3) and Steve Hutchins (District 2).
“We do have some priorities in place with regard to which
road gets fixed next, but really confirm that priority list is still accurate,”
Sadownikow said while introducing the plan, adding maintaining passable roads
is still a high priority.
The most recent list is from about three years ago.
Sadownikow said about $20 million-$30 million worth of work
needs to be done in the city, with only about $1 million per year available.
The city’s total budget is $20 million.
“If we’re going to do it one year at a crack, it’s going to
take us 20-30 years to get them all done and by that time we’re going to have a
whole other list that starts,” Sadownikow said.
Some funds to help with the 18th Avenue project is coming
from the state. However, the funds are limited and that’s where the council’s
search for a cost-friendly bid comes into play.
The council hopes to have at least five bids by Feb. 11.
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