Traffic Alert: New Stop Signs Coming to Your Neighborhood Intersection
Village putting up new traffic signs at intersections all over town.
Drivers should pay extra attention while navigating Algonquin’s neighborhood streets because more stop and yield signs will be popping up throughout the village. Algonquin police and public works are putting up new stop or yield signs at more than two-dozen uncontrolled four-way intersections throughout the village. Police began taking a look at intersections after noticing crashes occurring in residential neighborhoods last summer, Algonquin Police Chief Russell B. Laine said. The department’s Traffic Safety Unit wanted to see if there was appropriate signage and do an inventory of where signs were posted, he said. What the unit found is 32 uncontrolled four-way intersections, including two where the crashes occurred, Laine said. …
