From: Hal Vatcher, WMHOA board member
To: All Warriors Mark Homeowners
The Town of Breckenridge and CDOT have worked together to make changes to the operating schedule of the street lights located at Broken Lance & Main, and at S. Park & Main. The objective is to move traffic easier and faster along S. Main towards town, as well, establish a better, more effective, program for exiting from Broken Lance onto and through Main Street. I have been asked by out Asst. Town Manager and our Police Chief to make them aware of any new or continued issues. Please let me know (via email hal@vatcher.com) if you experience any consistent difficulties or anomalies at these intersections. Thank you.
From: Dennis R. McLaughlin
Chief of Police
Breckenridge Police Department
Officer Craig Johnson has now completed his SARA project at the intersections of Boreas and Park on Hwy. 9. About two weeks ago, CDOT changed out the traffic box at the Boreas intersection. Officer Johnson spoke to CDOT and along with the new box, they reset the timing to more accurately reflect traffic use patterns in that area. For the past two weeks, Officer Johnson surveyed the intersection at different times a day and various days of the week. He was unable to detect any backup or traffic problems at either intersection or along Hwy. 9 in that area. With that said, none of his survey days were on very heavy use days so we might see some backup problems with heavy traffic. I also mentioned that I received a citizen inquiry about the same area complaining about the timing of the signals. However about two weeks ago I also received the same citizen thanking us for fixing the problem. It appears from Officer Johnson’s contact with CDOT and the reports back from the citizen that the new CDOT traffic box solved the problem as far as we can tell. However, on our new SARA project forms, it calls for periodic follow up for the next 1-3 months, so Officer Johnson will continue to monitor the intersection from time to time. If any problems develop we will address them. Please let me know if you have additional questions. Thanks.
Dennis R. McLaughlin
Chief of Police
Breckenridge Police Department
970-453-3177