Summit County officials said they will study the two-way stop at the intersection of Ute Boulevard and Highland Drive to determine whether traffic in the area should stop in all four directions.
Summit County Councilman John Hanrahan said the Kimball Junction intersection is dangerous and stop signs should be installed at all for corners.
“I think you’re going to end up making it a four-way stop,” Hanrahan said Wednesday at a Summit County Council meeting in Coalville.
However, the decision rests with Summit County Manager Bob Jasper, not the County Council.
“For now we’re going to put in bigger stop signs and a painted stop,” Jasper said.
But the intersection will remain a two-way stop, he said.
There are stop signs on Ute Boulevard. But signs are needed on Highland Drive to stop cars in four directions, critics say.
Making the signs on Ute Boulevard bigger will not make the intersection safer, Hanrahan said.
But county engineers have said that there is not enough traffic in the area to justify making the intersection a four-way stop.
“We like to be consistent as much as we can with national road standards,” Jasper said.
However, the county will conduct a traffic study at the intersection, he said.
“We’ll look at it in much more detail,” Jasper said.
Summit County Councilwoman Claudia McMullin said people have told her the intersection should not become a four-way stop.
“They don’t want a stop sign to impede the flow,” McMullin said.
But there are sometimes near misses as drivers on Highland Drive blow by the intersection with pedestrians trying to cross the street.