The new traffic signal will go live at 9 a.m. Tuesday on Colony Boulevard.
Crews will be at the site at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to check operation of the light and make any last-minute adjustments, Sam Wartinbee of District Property Management told members of the Project Wide Advisory Committee on Monday morning.
“My only concern is the (golf cart) traffic from the north making that left-hand turn,” PWAC member Ron Ruggeri said.
He said he is worried that traffic will get backed up.
PWAC Chairman Peter Moeller said there were indications that showed 50 percent of the people coming from that direction turned left, and 50 percent were going across Colony Boulevard.
The longest wait a golf cart going north-south could potentially face is 90 seconds, Wartinbee indicated.
He added that the flow of traffic will be monitored and adjustments will be made as necessary.
“We said as a group we said if this didn’t work, we’d come back and address it,” PWAC member Steve Printz said. “The fact that we have something in place that we can program is good.”
All board members agreed the primary reason for the light was safety and any delay would be secondary to safety.
Moeller added that the work that Community Watch has done directing traffic at the site since this past October is appreciated.
“They have done a yeoman’s job,” Moeller said. “And they did it with a smile on their face.”
The bid for the work for the signal was $117,798.07 from Florida Safety Contractors Inc. Wartinbee said the work had come in slightly over that cost.
The developer has indicated that he would be willing to contribute $100,000 toward the traffic signal installation. Everything over $100,000 is to be paid out of Project Wide Advisory Committee funds
