For some people, change can be a hard pill to swallow and Black Diamond has been going through plenty of changes recently as the community continues to grow.

A new set of traffic lights have been installed and are now operational where the old four-way stop used to be.

Town C.A.O Sharlene Brown says while some may feel like they've lost their small town feel, she simply says they've only added a few lights.

"Instead of being one, four-way stop, we're still just a one light town. In that respect I think that things going forward are going to be okay," Brown says. "We still have the belief from the community that we are still a small town, in small town Alberta."

Brown says things have been going smoothly but as with any big change there's still a few timing bugs to work out.

"It hasn't caused any back-ups and traffic still seems to be running through fairly smoothly and so all of that has been good."

Brown says council notices a problem though.

"There are some challenges I think in the timing of the lights and there's been some concerns put forward by the council.  They would like to see that after nine o'clock instead of one set of lights flashing red, and one yellow for yeild, that both sets flash red turning it into a four way stop again."

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