It shall be the general duty of the Traffic Engineer to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of official traffic control devices, to conduct analyses of traffic accidents and to devise remedial or corrective measures, to conduct investigation of traffic conditions, to plan the operation of traffic on the streets and highways of this City, 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 as are imposed by this chapter. By way of example, but not by way of limitation, the Traffic Engineer is authorized, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, to act as follows:
A. Install, maintain and remove traffic control devices;
B. Designate and mark medians in traffic islands;
C. Conduct speed zoning studies and post speed limits;
D. Designate minimum speed as provided by law;
E. Regulate speed and traffic movement by traffic signals and provide for the synchronization of the signals wherever practicable;
F. Designate one-way streets and roadways;
G. Designate through streets or roadways and control entrances;
H. Designate stop or yield intersections and erect stop or yield signs;
I. Establish restrictions, prohibitions and regulations for the parking, standing or stopping of vehicles;
J. Designate parking zones for taxicabs, press, television, radio cars and the like;
K. Establish tow away zones;
L. Designate upon which streets angle parking shall be permitted;
M. Designate and sign intersections at which drivers shall not make a right or left turn, a U-turn or any turn at all times or during certain times;
N. Designate and sign intersections where multiple turns shall be allowed;
O. Mark centerlines and lane lines and place other pavement markings necessary for the regulation and control of traffic;
P. Install and maintain crosswalks at intersections or other places where there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway;
Q. Establish safety zones at places where necessary for pedestrian protection;
R. Install pedestrian control signals and designate those crossings where angle crossing by pedestrians shall be permitted;
S. Establish play streets;
T. Establish truck routes upon the recommendation of the truck route committee; and establish truck loading zones;
U. Designate and sign those streets and roadways where pedestrians, bicycles, electrical assisted bicycles, electric scooters, low-power scooters, motorcycles, off-highway vehicles, EPAMDs, and/or other nonmotorized traffic, or persons operating a vehicle shall be excluded as provided by law;
V. Designate and sign those streets upon which vehicles or loads of a certain weight or size shall be restricted;
W. Provide for temporary street or alley closures by the erection of barricades;
X. Issue special permits for parking, stopping or standing, for curb loading operations, for the movement of vehicles having excess size or weight, for the movement of trucks on restricted routes or prohibited routes;
Y. Designate school zones;
Z. Designate temporary detour and truck routes as necessary to avoid construction, emergency or other hazardous situations.
The Traffic Engineer may charge appropriate traffic control fees. (1968 Code §6-26-9; Ord. 75-86; Ord. 79-32; Ord. 85-263; Ord. 01-42; Ord. 02-42; Ord. 05-124; Ord. 21-23)