(A) The office of City Traffic Engineer is established. The City Engineer shall serve as City Traffic Engineer in addition to his other functions and duties and shall exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided in this traffic code.
(B) It shall be the general duty of the City Traffic Engineer to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic-control devices, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents, 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 this traffic code.
('71 Code, § 70.14)