Lake Geneva agrees to share cost for Center Street traffic signal study | Local News

Associates of the metropolis council unanimously approved, April 25, to shell out a portion of the cost for an engineering review to decide if a site visitors signal is warranted in close proximity to the intersection of Middle Street and Interchange North.

The aldermen authorized that Lake Geneva’s part will not exceed $4,000 with the revenue coming from the city’s contingency fund.

Users of the town council’s finance, licensing & regulation committee unanimously authorized the proposal, April 19.

Alderwoman Mary Jo Fesenmaier claimed the county will be carrying out the contracting for the review.

“The metropolis will simply just fund our 50 percent of it,” Fesenmaier mentioned.

Community Functions Director Tom Earle explained Walworth County officers have agreed to pay back their portion of the charge.

“There was communicate from the metropolis about positioning a signal there,” Earle reported. “I talked to the county, and they agreed to pay for 50 percent of it. The general public is effective committee imagined it was a very good concept and sent it to FLR to examine funding.”

The analyze is envisioned to price tag involving $6,000 and $7,000. Town officers approach to pay about $3,500, but Earle advised the aldermen to approve to pay up to $4,000 in scenario the examine ends up costing extra dollars.

“It’s not established in stone,” Earle said of the estimate expenses for the review. “That was an approximate range from Walworth County, so you may want to place a tiny fluff in it.”

Town officers have thought of installing a traffic signal in that location, since traffic around that intersection has enhanced throughout the earlier few decades, as the Stone Ridge subdivision on the Heart Road hill has been produced.

There was controversy final yr about velocity bumps that were being mounted on the Centre Avenue hill for the reason that Town of Geneva officers were concerned about motorists speeding in that space. At this point the City is not organizing to reinstall the velocity bumps, unless of course there are concerns.

Mayor Charlene Klein said the city might want to conduct further scientific studies in the long run to ascertain if website traffic signals are wanted at other intersections, as visitors has seemed to raise in other parts of the metropolis.

“Probably several places in the course of our metropolis, as hectic as it’s receiving, we will have to search at in the long run,” Klein reported.