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☒City Council Approved: 6/21/1993
☐City-Wide Revised:
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YIELD SIGNS
PURPOSE: Yield signs are used to protect traffic on one of two intersecting streets without
requiring traffic on the other street to come to a complete stop. Studies indicate Yield
signs are effective in certain low volume conditions with adequate sight distances. Some
efficiency in accident reduction, delays, and operating costs can be realized with the use
of Yield signs.
PROCESS: The staff member you have contacted will formalize your traffic safety concern or
request. That person will work with you and gather the pertinent facts to help clearly
define the problem and seek a solution. City staff will review those facts, determine if
the request is warranted and will share this determination with you. If you disagree with
the recommendation or can bring for the additional information and/or facts that are
persuasive as related to the City warrants/policies for the requested issue, you may
request that the Traffic Safety Committee review the issue.
POLICY: 1. The provisions of the Minnesota Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) shall
be followed.
2. Relevant speed, volumes, accident records, sight distances, and other pertinent data
will be reviewed when considering the installation of a Yield sign.
3. Absent engineering data in support of a Yield sign, intersections shall remain
uncontrolled.
4. Any of the following conditions may warrant the installation of a Yield sign.
a. At the entrance to an intersection where it is necessary to assign right of
way and where the safe approach speed on the entrance exceeds 10 MPH
based on adequate sight distance.
b. Where there is a separate or channelized right turn lane without an
adequate acceleration lane.
c. At intersections where all legs of the intersection do not exceed 800
vehicles/hour for any given hour. (Must also comply with (a) above.)
d. At any intersection where engineering studies identify special problems that
are correctable by Yield signs.
5. Yield signs shall not be used to control traffic traveling on a collector or arterial
roadway.
6. Yield signs shall not be used to control traffic entering a collector or arterial
roadway.
7. Yield signs shall not be used on more than one approach of an intersection.