Dallas Is Seeing Vibrant Red When It Comes To New Stops Signs

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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Street signs in some Dallas neighborhoods are starting to get bigger and shinier.

The stops signs are redder and vibrant in color since the city started using newer, more reflective materials. City officials are hoping the move will make the signs more visible and cut down on neighborhood collisions.

Auro Majumdar, the assistant director of Dallas Street Services, says the City decided to go forward with the change based on national research. "They had come out with recommendations for higher reflectivity and bigger signs all over the country. What we've done is we've taken that a step forward."

Majumdar says everything began with those yellow school zone signs we all drive past everyday. "We switched from the yellow to the florescent yellow, and when we started looking at it we decided we'd make [over] our stop signs and everything else."

With the city's permission neighborhoods like University Park and Old Lake Highlands even took it upon themselves to revamp their stop signs with red reflective tape. Majumdar explained, "The City of University Park had put some up on their stop signs -- on the post. And they had approached us to be able to do that in the neighborhood."

Right now the city only changes out broken or faded signs, sop only a fraction of Dallas' 40,000 street signs have been brightened. But Majumdar says the goal is to eventually have every sign in Dallas bigger and brighter.

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