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(A) The Commission shall have authority to declare any street or part thereof a play street and to place appropriate signs or devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect the same.
(B) Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating any street or part thereof as a play street, no person shall drive a vehicle upon any such street or portion thereof except drivers of vehicles having business or whose residences are within such closed area, and then any said driver shall exercise the greatest care in driving upon any such street or portion thereof.
(C) The Commission is hereby authorized:
(1) To cause to be designated and maintained, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places as he may deem necessary.
(2) To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
(D) The Commission is hereby authorized to direct the marking of traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary.
('79 Code, § 23-10) (Ord. 78-25, passed 9-5-78) Penalty, see § 70.99
(A) Those streets and parts of streets described in Schedule II on file in the offices of the City Clerk and hereby adopted by reference are hereby declared to be through streets for the purpose of this section.
(B) Whenever any ordinance of this city designates and describes a through street, it shall be the duty of the Commission to cause a stop sign to be placed and maintained, or on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation at any intersection, a yield sign, on each and every street intersecting such through street unless traffic at any such intersection is controlled at all times by traffic-control signals; provided, however, that at the intersection of two such through streets or at the intersection of a through street and a heavy traffic street not so designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches of either of said streets as may be determined by the Commission upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study.
(C) The Commission is hereby authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazard exists upon other than through streets and to determine:
(1) Whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such intersection, in which event they shall cause to be erected a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required; or
(2) Whether vehicles shall yield the right of way to vehicles on a different street at such intersection, in which event they shall cause to be erected a yield sign at every place where obedience thereto is required.
('79 Code, § 23-11) (Ord. 78-25, passed 9-5-78)
It shall be unlawful for any person to disfigure, injure or damage any parking or traffic regulation signs placed on the streets in the city.
('79 Code, § 14-66) Penalty, see § 70.99
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive or propel a bicycle, wheelbarrow, or other vehicle on any sidewalk within the city, or coast on a sled on any sidewalk in said city, or skate on roller skates on any sidewalk in said city.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to ride a bicycle through any of the streets or alleys of said city in the daytime without having attached a bell to same which must be reasonably used to give warning of their approach. All persons riding bicycles within the city limits in the nighttime shall have attached to same a bell and light, lantern or lamp sufficient to give warning of their approach.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive or propel a bicycle or similar vehicle within the city, in a fast and reckless manner without due regard for the traffic on said street or alley.
('79 Code, § 14-64) Penalty, see § 70.99
(A) No pedestrian shall cross Lancaster Avenue in the city from its intersection at Barnes Mill Road to its intersection at Crabbe Street at any location other than an intersection controlled by a traffic signal and including a marked pedestrian crosswalk.
(B) When any such intersection is controlled by a traffic signal only, no pedestrian shall initiate the crossing of Lancaster Avenue unless and until the traffic signal facing the pedestrian is green in color. A yellow traffic signal facing the pedestrian indicates that there is insufficient time for a pedestrian to complete a crossing safely and no pedestrian shall initiate a crossing when facing either a yellow or a red traffic signal.
(C) When any such intersection is controlled by a traffic signal and by a pedestrian crossing signal, no pedestrian shall initiate the crossing of Lancaster Avenue unless and until the pedestrian crossing signal facing the pedestrian is white in color. A pedestrian crossing signal facing the pedestrian which is orange in color and blinking indicates that there is insufficient time for a pedestrian to complete a crossing safely and no pedestrian shall initiate a crossing when facing either a blinking orange or a steady orange pedestrian crossing signal.
(Ord. 02-22, passed 7-18-02) Penalty, see 70.99
MOVING VEHICLES
(A) The state traffic laws regulating the speed of vehicles shall be applicable upon all streets within this city, except as the traffic schedule declares and determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that certain speed regulations shall be applicable upon specified streets or in certain areas, in which event it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of any speed so declared in the traffic schedule when signs are in place giving notice thereof.
(B) It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed permitted by state law on the street intersections in the traffic schedule is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist at such intersections and it is hereby declared that the maximum speed limit within 100 feet upon every designated approach to and within those intersections designated shall be as stated, which speeds so declared shall be effective at the times specified when signs are erected upon every approach to every such intersection giving notice of the maximum speed limit so declared thereat.
('79 Code, § 23-19) (Ord. 78-25, passed 9-5-78; Am. Ord. 78-40, passed 11-21-78; Am. Ord. 81-15, passed 6-16-81
; Am. Ord. 11-18, passed 7-12-11
) Penalty, see § 70.99
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