Lexington could be getting more blinking caution lights. David Filiatreau in Traffic Engineering told the
Lexington City Council earlier this week that some stop lights could be switched out for blinking yellow lights.
“There’s plenty of intersections that don’t necessarily need signals and would operate much better additionally and we wouldn’t have to maintain them,” Filiatreau said.
The lion’s share of funding for Lexington road projects comes from federal and state sources. Transportation Planner Max Conyers says there’s a constant flow of state-funded improvement projects moving up, down, and even off the priority list. “Other times on the other hand, they move ahead projects that we think are important and we’re surprised with that,” noted Conyers.
There can be roadblocks to making changes. Public Works Commissioner DowellHoskins-Squier told the council that getting the state to release a state road for local upkeep can be a complicated process. “You have to maintain route continuity, so if you remove the state route designation from a road like Euclid, where do we route the state route,” explained Hoskins-Squier. “So, there aren’t very many options.”
?Council member Fred Brown said the council needs to improve on how well it works with the local state legislative delegations on projects like roads.
