Jetton/Old Jetton intersection gets a fix later this month
Feb. 4. The treacherous intersection of Old Jetton Road and Jetton Road will get a fix, starting this month. The intersection has one of the highest accident rates in town.
In mid-February, the Town of Cornelius will add signage and pavement markings at the intersection directing drivers to make right-hand turns only.
It means the risky left turn out of Old Jetton and onto Jetton toward West Catawba will be a thing of the past.
The Town of Cornelius will condemn a small portion of the property in front of the Harris Teeter to make a “porkchop turn” work. It’s so-named for the shape of the median that will physically prevent motorists from turning left. (It’s outlined in fuscia in the aerial view above,)
The median will also prevent drivers from crossing Jetton into the Peninsula Village shopping center, home of Waterbean Coffee and Brooklyn South.
In a press release, the town said drivers will have other alternatives for exiting the Jetton Village shopping center, including the intersection of Old Jetton Road and West Catawba Avenue.
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Finally! Thank you for moving forward on this project! As a homeowner living off Jetton Road in the Peninsula, I want to go on record of how dangerous it remains for cars leaving the Peninsula Village Shopping Center to take a left to go home on Jetton Road——much less going straight across to visit Harris Teeter. You will still have the west-bound Jetton cars making U-Turns at the cross-over at Peninsula Village. You will still have cars quickly making U-Turns at the end of the median to get back to the stoplight going East. Traffic not totally controlled yet. But we will take anything at this juncture.
Elaine Russell
That’s a good thing. I myself have nearly been struck by vehicles making that left onto jetton towards catawba. Thx alot.