Sunday, April 04, 2010
Driveway markings behind Metro Express car wash, right-only lanes and the future of Franklin/Cloverdale
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| | Dear Road Wizard: From Presidential Drive (east of Eagle Road) I drive south towards Pine Avenue behind Washington Trust, The Ram, and Metro Express car wash. At Metro Express a thick white stripe is painted across the road like a stop bar. But no stop sign! I assume the line is there in the spirit of "don't block the entrance to Metro Express." Drivers coming north must think I DO have a stop sign, because they turn into the car wash as though they have the right-of-way. Can something be done about this? R.C.@ |
| | Hope so. That un-named street is private, part of Reagan Subdivision. For many drivers, it's a handy way to get to a distant parking lot and often functions like a public thru street.
The Metro Express manager says the stop bar line probably was done by a predecessor in exactly the spirit you suggest – to help northbound drivers turn left into Metro Express and not back up onto Pine.
A thin white line might have been better. A traffic engineer more savvy about public street symbols would never paint a stop bar look-alike without a matching stop sign look-alike.
The Metro Express manager now has the name and number of just such a traffic engineer at ACHD, who agreed to help. I hope he'll call. Together, they'll probably create a safer solution.
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