For decades Woolen Mills neighbors have asked the City for relief from “cut through” traffic, vehicles using neighborhood streets to avoid traffic lights. The step in that direction from the city has been signage. We are a City of literati and surely, the written word should suffice. The above is the first sign on E Market warning truck drivers.

The second sign strongly suggests that tractor trailers turn right…

Dead end! This third sign is within the area the City designates as the Woolen Mills neighborhood.

And so, vehicles proceed. Maybe they didn’t understand? Maybe they thought the warning applied to others?

I think the yellow signs are advisory. They are a suggestion. I don’t think the drivers get tickets for their incursions or suffer financial penalties for the items they break.

Recently the TJPDC voted to raise the Federal Classification of our neighborhood streets to a more intense category “minor collector”. Will that help?

Possibly employ a different advisory sign?