Stop Signs Will Return to Muskego Neighborhood

Although the resolution to return stop signs to each corner of a T-bone interesection was already on the agenda at Tuesday night's Common Council meeting, residents were in attendance to make sure it stuck.

Dozens of parents and children sat in to make sure three stop signs would be placed at the intersection of Somerset Drive and Hawthorne Road, telling the council that since their removal in 2011, there have been too many close calls and an accident was imminent.

Jerome Burish, a resident of the subdivision, told the council that removing a stop sign on the westbound side of Somerset made the intersection unsafe as oncoming traffic could not see bikes in time due to bushes that hinder a driver's view.

Apparently the sign was removed in June of 2011 as then-Alderman Tracy Snead and the public safety committee did not feel it was necessary, given there was no sign on the eastbound side of Somerset. At that time, Captain John La Tour advised that they should either remove one of the two stop signs that were there on Hawthorne and westbound Somerset or put another one in.

The council's action will return stop signs to every corner of the intersection.