New stop signs installed on South Lake Tahoe streets to improve safety

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - There are three new stop signs in the Rocky Point neighborhood of South Lake Tahoe in response to complaints about speeding vehicles and unclear lines of sight.

Last week City of South Lake Tahoe Public Works staff installed stop signs at Chonokis Road and Rocky Point Road, and on Montreal Avenue at Moss and Fern roads.

The City hired a traffic engineer to do an assessment of the conditions after they received complaints and requests to look at speeders using the neighborhood to bypass Highway 50/Lake Tahoe Boulevard through the casino corridor.

Ray Jarvis, the City's Public Works director said they receive a lot of requests for speedbumps, stop signs, traffic signals or other safety and traffic control issues and they go onto a list for assessment with the most crucial at the top.

Another street that received new signage was Los Angeles Avenue in the Al Tahoe neighborhood. Being the only street in the area without any stop signs, people used it to move through at unsafe speeds. There are now stop signs at both Fresno and Sacramento avenues to protect the number of pedestrians and cyclists using those streets around Regan Beach.

Since the City of South Lake Tahoe does not have a traffic division, and department heads cannot install stop signs on their own, they hire outside traffic engineers to assess issues in the city limits.