A. Established: The City Manager may appoint an individual as the Traffic Engineer that shall exercise all the powers and duties as provided by the ordinances of the City.
B. Powers And Duties:
1. Generally: It is the general duty of the Traffic Engineer to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering investigations of traffic conditions and to cooperate with other City officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of the City and as directed by the City Council.
2. Install Traffic Control Devices: In cooperation with the City Engineer and the Public Works Department, the Traffic Engineer shall place and maintain on City streets, all traffic control devices when and as required under the ordinances of the City to make effective the provisions of said ordinances, and may place and maintain such additional traffic control devices as deemed necessary to regulate, guide or warn traffic under the traffic ordinances of the City.
3. Regulations; Emergency And Experimental:
a. The Traffic Engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the City and to make and enforce temporary or experimental regulations to cover the emergency or special conditions. No such temporary or experimental regulations shall remain in effect for more than ninety (90) days.
b. The Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under actual conditions of traffic.
4. Crosswalks, Safety Zones And Lane Marking: The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized:
a. To commission engineering studies and consult with the City Engineer and Public Works Department or others concerning the designation of preferred pedestrian paths across roadways.
b. To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway crosswalks at intersections where warranted or where there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places as deemed necessary.
c. To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as deemed necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
d. To mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as deemed necessary and advisable, consistent with the City's traffic ordinances.
5. Mid Block Crosswalks Not Located At An Approved School Crossing: The Traffic Engineer shall utilize the standards for evaluating mid block crosswalks found in the "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways" (MUTCD) and any other Federal, State, or local regulations that are deemed applicable by the Traffic Engineer.
6. Regulate Timing Of Speed: The Traffic Engineer is authorized to regulate the timing of traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and safe manner at speeds somewhat below the speeds otherwise applicable within the district or at intersections and shall erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
7. Place Turning Markers: The Traffic Engineer is authorized to place islands, markers or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at intersections, and such course shall be traveled irrespective of any other provisions of this chapter.
8. Determine And Designate Stopping, Standing Or Parking: The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate, by proper signs, places not exceeding one hundred feet (100') in length in which the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay in traffic. (Ord. 2017-18, 11-14-2017)