I agree, living on Stimie Avenue and having to pull onto Park Street is a gamble every time! People treat that stretch of road like the Grand Prix! How about getting the light installed and having St.Pete Police conduct speed enforcement from Elbow Lane as traffic flows north along Park Street.

Thank you for reporting this issue to us via SeeClickFix St. Pete. We will forward the details you have provided to the appropriate City department so that they may investigate and take any necessary action. We appreciate your help! Sincerely, Mayor's Action Center

Traffic signal installation is based on State and National criteria that can be found in the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Engineering studies would be required to determine if existing conditions would meet any of the criteria. This is the first time I have been made aware of any request for a traffic control signal at this location. Working with the City's Traffic Signal Coordinator we will schedule the required studies and report back our findings . As you know there was a flashing crosswalk beacon installed in April of 2011 in response to residents requests for better pedestrian protection. Speed enforcement is under the jurisdiction of the Police and I have requested and they routinely conduct details on an ongoing bases as recourses are available.

This is terrific! I hope you keep us all updated. A previous resident made mention of the city's intention to put in a traffic signal, was there any validation from the city in regards to their concern?
Steve F.

Steve - I have checked our files and see no previous request to review for a traffic signal at this location. - Mike

Thanks! My mistake. I thought someone posted a need for a traffic signal on Parke Street and Elbow Lane.

To Steven Francis. This was a post for the need of a traffic signal at a Park St & Elbow Lane.

To Michael Frederick. Please recheck your files. It was posted the last time on 6/20/16 and acknowledged by the mayors action center on the same day. It was stated at that time that the mayor had attended the Jungle Prada association meeting and stated that funding had already been approved to install a traffic signal at this location. The flashing lights don't always work and even when the do work, the cars do not stop.
We were going across Park St today to eat lunch at JP Tavern. We waited as usual for the heavy traffic to go by before we pushed the button to activate th flashing lights. The car approaching in the outside lane stopped. We started across and a car in the inside lane came flying through. Four cars came through from the opposite direction without stopping. This happens continuously. It is very dangerous. Please don't wait until someone is killed here before you install a signal light. Thank you.

Well Done!!!

The Mayor's Office checked the 06/20/16 submission #2610009 and it was a request to fix the existing crosswalk. "LED crosswalk lights seem to be stuck on to cross Park St at Elbow LN".

Only subsequent "comments" referenced anything to do with a traffic signal and I don't necessarily see - comments unfortunately.

Regardless, we are checking the intersection now to see if a full traffic signal is warranted and will report.

To Michael Frederick. Would you please check the 6/20/16 submission again. It was only 4 sentences and it did ask why the traffic signal had not been installed like the mayor said. Our area would appreciate your help in this matter.

Transportation Department staff have just completed our 24-hour traffic study and signal analysis and determined that the side street vehicle volume is too low to meet the state requirement to consider a traffic control signal at this locations.

Specifically, the criteria requires at lest 105 vehicles an hour from the side street and 500 vehicles minimum from the main street approaches, for each hour during an 8-hours period of the day. The side street volume recorded in our study ranged between 20 and 33 vehicles per hour, far short of the required 150 needed.

The City of St Petersburg periodically reviews past reports that are made from citizens within our city limits, and in an effort to clean-up old issues that were resolved some time ago, we are marking as 'closed' those issues that were submitted in the past for which the work has been completed or the issue has otherwise been resolved.

If you think for any reason that the issue you submitted in the past might still be unresolved, please feel free to submit a new report with the SeeClickFix St. Pete website and we will make sure the issue is directed to the appropriate City department to be addressed as soon as possible.

Thank you - MAC