It went to left turns on both a green light and a green arrow, to left on a green arrow only, and then returned to left on both again.

As part of a recent change to the Uptown traffic configuration at the intersection of State Route 89A and Forest Road, northbound cars were only allowed to make a left turn on Forest Road on a green arrow. A sign was placed on the signal mast indicating the change in late August.

The change to the green arrow-only left turn on Forest Road resulted from a striping change on State Route 89A that created two southbound traffic lanes, but that change didn’t last long, according to City Maintenance Superintendent Dan Neimy.

“We put a sign up that allows a turn on green, not only on the left-turn arrow, but on the green ball,” Neimy said, adding city staff worked with police to determine the best possible traffic flow.

“We were thinking we would just want traffic on the green arrow only. We didn’t want the vehicles that were heading north trying to turn in front of two lanes of traffic heading south. We did some investigation and noticed the traffic heading north in the left turn lane was stacking up when they could only turn on the green arrow, so we put it back to the original way, where left turn on green must yield to oncoming traffic,” Neimy said.

For the full story, see the Wednesday, Sept. 12, edition of the Sedona Red Rock News.