The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced Monday morning that the traffic light at the intersection of Main Street and Lakota Drive will be in red flashing mode through Friday evening.
Keith Todd, the spokesman for District One, tells Your News Edge engineers are conducting a traffic flow study to determine if the intersection could function as an all-way stop.
Todd adds the conversation started with members of Cadiz City Council and that the traffic light would need a major upgrade if it’s not turned into an all-way stop.
The upgrades to the traffic light would cost the state up to $100,000.
The City of Cadiz conducted a traffic study when Mayor Lyn Bailey was in office with those findings submitted to the state as part of a request for a stop light to be installed. When Lakota Drive was opened in 1995, the City had the option to make the intersection a full four-way stop with Lafayette Street but passed due to the cost.
A dedicated left green turn arrow was implemented in the past decade for drivers turning onto Lakota Drive from Main Street. However, the stop light was switched to turn red on a timer instead of the motion sensors in the past year and the dedicated arrow was removed. As a result, traffic on Lafayette Street, which runs parallel to Main Street, has increased in the past year as drivers opted to avoid the stoplight.
Todd says the traffic study will end Friday evening around 8:00 and will take a few weeks to comb through the data.
Approximately 8,200 vehicles travel through the intersection in an average day.
