Residents say a lack of stop signs in a busy Riverdale shopping area is causing confusion for drivers and putting pedestrians in danger.

West 235th Street between Riverdale Avenue and Johnson Avenue is lined with busy stores, like Rite Aid and Key Food, but traffic in the area has many shoppers feeling unsafe.

"Until they put stop signs, it's like a rodeo. People don't know where to go, these guys stop and they hold and they wait sometimes it’s controlled chaos," says Bronx Councilman Andrew Cohen.

Councilman Cohen is working to address the problem by calling on the Department of Transportation to conduct a traffic study to hopefully get stop signs installed, but it is a request that has been denied in the past.

"I think that a lot of people think it's a four-way stop and that causes some dangerous situations," says Cohen.

News 12 reached out to the DOT for a statement, and a spokesperson said in part, "Using factors such as vehicular and pedestrian volumes, crash history and existing signal spacing, it was determined that additional traffic controls were not warranted. We will re-evaluate for additional traffic controls next year."