With no ribbon cuttings or fan fare the city of Sioux Falls finally fixed and turned the stoplights back on at 17th and Cliff. When they were taken out by a car in 2021 I really didn’t care and figured it would just get fixed in a few months. After a couple of years, the owner of Mr. Goodcents showed up to a council meeting and asked them to turn the lights back on. This was about 2 years ago. Notice this story from almost 2 years ago;
Strictly speaking, the intersection doesn’t meet the standards, but a traffic signal at the intersection of Cliff Avenue and 17th Street will return, said Heath Hoftiezer, an engineer with the city of Sioux Falls.
This just shows me how incompetent city government is. It takes 4 years to replace a stoplight! FOUR YEARS! And we wonder why the online meeting service has been broken for 20 years!?
I would be inclined to call the people involved with this replacement (traffic, planning, city council, SFPD, SFFD, Mayor) losers. But that would be too nice.