Jeff Worrell campaigning during Election day A.M. traffic with a sign that states: “This Stop Sign must go” and two campaign signs by his side

Removing the Auman and 126th Stop Sign!

Please note the date of this text.

One year to the day before the 2011 Primary

So what year did the Mayor begin laying the groundwork for the Stop Sign removal?

Mayor Brainard began work to remove stop the sign in 2016 in 2010!

That is right he had the engineering work done in 2010 clearly preparing for a 2011  Stop Sign removal campaign strategy.

So clearly this was on the mayors radar in 2010 for the 2011 campaign. A funny thing happened on the way to the 2011 Primary. The mayor had TWO candidates running against him that he knew would split the vote so he stuck the ACE back up his sleeve to play when he needed it. He needed it in 2015.

For 4 years the Mayor allowed 13,000 cars/day to stop at a sign he intended to remove.

But only when it would help him stay in office for another term.

That is 18,980,000 unnecessary stops and starts. How much fuel was wasted sitting in line. How many sets of brakes is 19,000,000 stops? How much time did you lose for 4 years just so the Mayor had a winning Campaign strategy?

Even a bigger question is how many accidents and how many dollars in property damage resulted from the Mayor’s campaign strategy?

The Mayors Councilors were elected, so on January 5, 2016 the second business day in the New Year the sign was taken down. That was the morning only one day after the new Council was seated and voted for its removal.

It was such a big deal Adam Aasen of the Current in Carmel actually did a video shoot of its removal.

Within 10 days we had the first car crash into a bicycle at the 126th and Auman at the site where the Stop Sign had been removed.

See how the residents of the affected neighborhoods felt regarding removal of the stop sign .