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SEP 161981 aoox 47 PnE.4 75 CHAIRMAN LYONS THEN PRESENTED THE PROCLAMATION TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, MRS, DON C. SCURLOCK. 11-173 211 6Z I a as TIM RK11k • Imo: RUTH STANBRIDGE, SAFETY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN OF COUNTY COUNCIL OF PTAs, APPROACHED THE BOARD AND INTRODUCED THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THE 16TH STREET TRAFFIC CONDITIONS: JANE VANN, SARA MONTGOMERY, AND RUTH BARNES. SHE THEN READ ALOUD THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL: 4835 66t1i Avenue Vero Beach, Florida 32960 September 16, 1981 Chairman Lyons and Members of the County Commissioners Indian River County Courthouse Vero Beach, Florida 32960 Gentlmen: The Safety Committee of the Indian River County Council of PTAs has asked to be placed on this agenda to discuss our concerns for the dangerous situation existing on 16th Street. We do not plan a lengthy presentation, since we know that you are aware of the problems existing along this corridor. Also there are several people with me to speak. The traffic count, though quickly taken by Chief McCall's office, conveys just how badly improvements are needed. With the main fire station scheduled to be moved just south of the intersection of 16th Street and Old Dixie Highway, the obvious east/west corridor will be 16th Street. On August 27 from 12:00 noon through August 30 at 12:00 the traffic count at 16th Street and 20th Avenue had a grand total of 39,240 vehicles ... (that was a Thursday, the day after school started, to Sunday at noon). The daily average traffic count was 9,810 and even Saturday and Sunday the daily total ran over 8,500. Chief McCall's office also provided a list with dates of accidents occurring on 16th Street from U.S. 1 west to 27th Avenue. The listed 110 accidents represents 10% of the total 1,057 accidents reported in the same time period. This corridor is needed by the ambulance squads to dispatch emergency help to the east, south and west. This corridor is also used by citizens traveling to the shopping areas, downtown, south U.S. 1, and to the Plazas. With the 17th Steep Bridge, the south beach is now accessable by way of 16th Street. I know that Chairman Lyons has indicated that a list of future road improvement projects should not be pursued until a traffic engineer is hired - I understand that just this Monday (September 14) a traffic technican was engaged. I believe that in March a road priority list was made for unpaved county roads, with no road priority plans for reconstruction on existing roads such as 16th Street or construction of new roads-