H. B. 4539
(By Delegates Hunt, Spencer, Wells, Brown,
Hatfield, Amores and Palumbo)
[Introduced February 14, 2006; referred to the
Committee on Roads and Transportation then Finance.]
A BILL to ensure the safety of school children crossing the
exceptionally dangerous intersections of U.S. Route 60 and
Witchers Creek, Kanawha County and U.S. Route 60 at Diamond,
Kanawha County, by requiring the division of highways to
install traffic control signals at both locations.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
WITCHERS CREEK TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE
§1 Installation of traffic control signal at the intersections of
U.S. Route 60 and Witchers Creek, Kanawha County, and U.S.
Route 60 at Diamond, Kanawha County.
The Division of Highways shall install a electric traffic
control signals,
exhibiting red, yellow and green lights
successively one at a time
, at the intersection of U.S. Route 60
and Witchers Creek, Kanawha County, and at U.S. Route 60 in
Diamond, Kanawha County for the purpose of
regulating, warning, and guiding traffic
.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to ensure the safety of
school children crossing the exceptionally dangerous intersections
of U.S. Route 60 and Witchers Creek, Kanawha County and U.S. Route
60 at Diamond, Kanawha County, by requiring the division of
highways to install traffic lights at both locations.
§1 is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have
been omitted.