{"id":9381,"date":"2025-10-28T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:23:37","slug":"changes-coming-to-three-way-stop-in-downtown-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/changes-coming-to-three-way-stop-in-downtown-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes coming to three-way stop in downtown Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Region of Queens councillors have voted to move ahead with changes at the three-way stop at Main and Market streets in Liverpool. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Region of Queens is going ahead with changes to the three-way stop in downtown Liverpool to address safety concerns from pedestrians and motorists.<\/span><\/p>\n

At their Oct. 14 meeting, councillors voted in favour of three recommendations from consultants CBCL, who did a traffic study of the Main and Market intersection in February<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those are: removing the separate westbound or right-turning lane on Main Street in front of the post office and adding a curb extension to shorten the crosswalk distance; adding tactile walking surface indicators to warn visually impaired pedestrians they\u2019re entering or leaving a crosswalk; and removing or changing some of the parking near the intersection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayor Scott Christian said after the meeting that council wants Director of Infrastructure Adam Grant to come back with a plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian said he\u2019s eager to see what could happen with the parking spaces. The region\u2019s traffic study found that some collisions and near-collisions were caused by people entering or leaving the angled spots outside the post office.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be interested to see what staff come up with in consultation with some experts to figure out what some other options for reconfiguration could look like there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

CBCL representatives told councillors in July<\/a> that the intersection can handle current and future traffic volumes without installing traffic lights.<\/span><\/p>\n

The busy intersection has caused safety concerns for years. Council has returned to the issue repeatedly in the past without settling on a solution.<\/span><\/p>\n

CBCL had asked staff whether the region wanted the study done during warmer weather in the spring when traffic activity would be higher. The region\u2019s response was that the consultants should use their best judgement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy Mayor Maddie Charlton asked Grant whether the recommendation against traffic lights would have been different if the consultants had come later in the year. Grant said their conclusion about lights would have been the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was a valid point to be raised,” Christian said, “but I\u2019m satisfied that our director of infrastructure felt that the methodology was appropriate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian said he\u2019s not sure when council will see a plan for the changes at Main and Market streets. But it would have to be accounted for in next year\u2019s budget before the work could begin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mainmarketintersectionchangesoct2825.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Region of Queens is going ahead with changes to the three-way stop in downtown Liverpool to address safety concerns from pedestrians and motorists. At their Oct. 14 meeting, councillors voted in favour of three recommendations from consultants CBCL, who did a traffic study of the Main and Market intersection in February. Those are: removing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[958,314,3108,1663,39,2893,3531,2179,3272,3215,501,226,1651,592,2170],"class_list":["post-9381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-adam-grant","tag-cbcl","tag-crosswalks","tag-intersection","tag-liverpool","tag-main-and-market","tag-main-and-market-intersection","tag-main-and-market-streets","tag-motorists","tag-pedestrians","tag-post-office","tag-scott-christian","tag-three-way-stop","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9385,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions\/9385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}