Lexington city leaders are moving forward with working with a consultant to study re-timing certain traffic signals on weekends.
The study involves more than 40 traffic lights in the Hamburg and Nicholasville road areas. Council Member Jennifer Mossotti asked Acting Environmental Quality and Public Works Commissioner Charlie Martin about the Reynolds Road light near Fayette Mall. “I mean that whole intersection is just a dead stop now. Not any better when the holidays are gone,” said Mossotti.
“Yeah, I can attest to it,” said Martin. “I pick up my daughter there at LCA and come back down Reynolds Road and try to turn left on Nicholasville and always get cut off by somebody who doesn’t want to wait in line there in front of Target.”
Mossotti suggested heavier traffic enforcement at that intersection might help. The consulting work, budgeted at more than $200,000, is expected to begin the first of the year.
