There's a yield sign on Langdon Crescent at Athabasca Street East that one city councillor says is creating a danger for pedestrians and drivers alike.

You'll see it if you're heading north on Langdon and turning right to go east onto Athabasca. Councillor Crystal Froese says she's bringing it up to City Council, suggesting that the yield sign simply be swapped out for a stop sign. 

"I've had citizens tell me that there's been near misses," said Froese. "People are often distracted looking left as they're cruising into that intersection."

Froese says that directing motorists to come to a full stop would give them time to check left and right. Only a few meters east of the yield sign is a crosswalk that serves pedestrians as a hypothetically safe spot to cross Athabasca if they're coming from the library or Crescent Park. According to Froese, it's not always that safe.

"I've been [driving] behind somebody, who was doing what the sign says, yielding, as they were moving onto Athabasca East, and didn't see a person actually crossing from the library, because they were busy looking over their left shoulder for traffic coming in, and they had to slam on the brakes."

Froese said in that situation, the quick-thinking pedestrian was able to get out of the way. However, not all pedestrians using that crosswalk would be able to move that that fast. 

"There's funerals that happen there, there's the library, there's a seniors apartment building right across, there's a daycare. It's a prudent one to do before somebody actually may get hurt."

That's one of three intersections Froese said could use some clearer signage. She's also suggesting that the yield sign on the other end of Langdon signalling to drivers onto Fairford St. be swapped out for a stop sign as well more clarity at the intersection of 9th Ave. NW that directs transport trucks to merge going west.

"I really don't think that people see that there's actually another way to get onto highway 1 besides that intersection."

City Council will discuss adjusting the signage at the regular meeting of City Council Dec. 16.