COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A request from the Department of Municipal Services concerning a policy regarding child warning signs in the City of Coldwater is on Monday night’s Coldwater City Council agenda.
City Manager Keith Baker said in his memo to the Council that the City and specifically the D.M.S. has received requests over the years from residents to install specialty message signs or special needs signs. Several signs of this type have been posted for years in their current locations.
But Baker says that their review of available research indicates that signs of the type and other signs have little or no effect on driving behavior and may give the impression that it is safe for children to play in the street.
The Council is being requested to pass a resolution that establishes a policy that would permit only those forms of street signs that are
covered in the State and Federally adopted Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
The resolution also calls for the city to no longer install child specialty warning signs, and will remove those currently located on city streets.
The city will still install and maintain pedestrian and playground signs at specific locations as standardized by the MUTCD including at schools, playgrounds, and recreation areas where pedestrians are regularly present.
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