BLOOMINGTON — Stop signs will return at four intersections along Seventh Street in Bloomington, according to a news release.
Bloomington City Engineer Andrew Cibor issued a 180-day order to revert the intersections at Morton, Washington, Lincoln and Grant Streets to all-way stops beginning March 6.
The stop signs at the intersections were removed in 2021 after the city completed the 7-Line protected bicycle lane project.
According to the city, traffic and crash data as well as input from Bloomington Transit and Bloomington Police Department played a role in the decision.
“We recognize that change can be challenging and that the stop signs were removed to create an efficient multimodal east/west corridor, but our priority is to ensure that all users — drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, and transit riders — can navigate 7th Street and its intersecting streets safely,” Cibor said in the release.
Cibor issued a similar 180-day mandate in April 2023 to install stop signs at the corner of Seventh and Dunn Streets, and City Council added the intersections at Lincoln, Morton and Washington Streets in an ordinance six months later.
The ordinance passed with a 5-4 vote, but then-Mayor John Hamilton vetoed the ordinance in Oct. 2023, saying he only wanted a stop sign at Seventh and Dunn. City Council failed to override his veto.
City Council passed an ordinance to Nov. 2024 to make the stop signs at Seventh and Dunn Streets permanent, but would have to pass another ordinance to make the new stop signs permanent.
