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Published: 24 August 2017 24 August 2017

img 3722Mayor Ken Ladner, in background, and street personnel talk about and prepare the changes at Broadway and Bullard.

img 3726Southbound lane on Bullard approaching what will be a four-way stop at the Bullard and Broadway intersection

Photos and article by Mary Alice Murphy

The traffic lights now in place in downtown Silver City at the intersection of Broadway and Bullard Street will no longer serve as the only traffic manager.

Mayor Ken Ladner said the corner will become a four-way Stop, with stop signs posted on the light poles. "(Town Manager) Alex Brown and (Public Works Director) Peter Peña are working with the New Mexico Department of Transportation to determine whether the traffic lights will be flashing red or a steady red."

The southbound side of Bullard Street already has its STOP AHEAD sign embedded into the street. Ladner said the vinyl letters have reflective properties. "The letters were placed on the street and the workers took heat guns and bonded them to the pavement."

Workers on Thursday afternoon managed traffic at the intersection while cleaning the streets to prepare them for the vinyl letters. Friday morning, the workers will put the letters into the northbound lane of Bullard south of Broadway. Ladner said regular street paint would be used to delineate the crosswalks on all four sides of the intersection.

"Sunday, they will be putting the letters on the eastbound and westbound lanes of Broadway," Ladner told the Beat. "We are also going to do the same thing with the letters at the Sixth and Bullard streets intersection. We're not sure of the timeline."

However, he said, on Wednesday, Sept. 6, the street department will begin redoing Market Street. "When people come over the bridge from the Visitor Center, we want them to see a nicely maintained street."

Ladner concluded by saying: "Alex and Peter are doing a great job improving safety for pedestrians and drivers."