Led by interim CAO Adam Goheen, the County has finally installed warning signs at 62 and 1. 

“Five years after first seeing warning signs near Perth, talking and writing to the MTO, Mayor and Councillors, and supported by the former OPP Staff Sergeant Hatch, Acting CAO Adam Goheen finally made it happen,” said a pleased and relieved David Fox on Friday 29 August, the day the new signs went up. 

Sitting on either side of Highway 62 along Road 1, they read “Cross Traffic Does Not Stop,” and feature a flashing yellow light.

Mr. Fox has been a volunteer firefighter with Fire & Rescue for over 40 years, and was assigned to the Bloomfield/Hallowell ward. “Time and time again, whenever I asked questions after a collision, somebody would say, ‘I thought it was a four-way stop’.”

Prince Edward OPP and Fire & Rescue attended an alarming number of  accidents at the dangerous intersection in August. While neither the Ministry of Transportation nor the OPP would confirm the exact number of collisions in 2025, the figure could be as high as eight.

A steady increase in the number of accidents year over year and lobbying by the County spurred the MTO into action in 2023. After engineering studies and cost analysis, it announced it would build a roundabout to slow and direct traffic, but has yet to schedule construction.

“The Highway 62 and Prince Edward County Road 1 intersection improvement project is currently in the detailed design phase, with procurement of a Service Provider underway,” the MTO said in a statement through Bay of Quinte MPP Tyler Allsopp’s office. “Construction will begin after a proponent has been selected”

At the outset of the intersection improvement project, 2026 was a possible construction start date.