DISCUSSION
In Burney, Superior Avenue and Mackinac Street intersect to form an uncontrolled 90-degree, two-legged intersection where, save for a few turns to and from private single-family residences adjoining the intersection, all through vehicles travel from Superior Avenue to Mackinac Street and vice versa. In light of this operating scenario, the intersection is currently striped as a 90-degree curve which transitions from one road to the other. A new 30-unit high-density residential housing complex will soon connect to the intersection adding a significant increase in traffic volumes and bringing a new, potentially dominant, movement to and from the housing complex. An engineering study was conducted (attached), and it was determined that the increase in conflicting movements and operating uncertainty brought by the addition of the housing complex entrance to the current intersection configuration supports the intersection’s conversion from uncontrolled to all-way stop controlled. |