SALISBURY — Three intersections in Salisbury will be a bit safer after the city council voted on Tuesday to change them to all-way stops.

The intersections that were presented by city Traffic Engineer Victoria Trexler were West Horah and South Craige streets, West Horah and Institute streets and West Fisher and South Jackson streets. Currently, each is a one way stop, with Institute, South Craige and South Jackson streets all being stop sign controlled.

The proposal to change the two West Horah intersections came because of resident complaints and because of crash data, said Trexler. The two intersections have each had six crashes within the past three years and 90 percent of the crashes in the past five years have been t-bone crashes.

“What’s happened is there are these four car-killing bumps on Monroe Street, so anybody coming down Monroe Street from Brenner toward Fulton or Fulton toward Brenner, they avoid Monroe Street. That makes Horah a racetrack,” said Councillor David Post.

Councillor Harry McLaughlin, who also owns nearby McLaughlin’s Grocery, said that he appreciated the city looking into the two intersections because he knew that the staff had repeatedly heard about citizens’ safety concerns. Post also said that he also thinks the city should look into adding more four-way stops between Institute Street and Brenner Avenue to help curb the speeding further.

Trexler said that she was proposing the all-way stop at West Fisher and South Jackson streets because of the increased pedestrian traffic in the area resulting from the creation of the Bell Tower Green.

“Thank you for identifying the Jackson and Fisher street one, because you’re right, we have more feet on the street now and so doing things more proactively is great,” said Mayor Pro Tem Tamara Sheffield.

Trexler and city Traffic Director Wendy Brindle said that the town should be able to complete the work of adding the stop signs and painting the stop bars at every intersection along with changing the flashing light at the intersection of West Horah and Institute streets within two weeks.

After the discussion, the city council members voted unanimously to approve the proposed ordinance change adding the four-way stops.