HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/5/2021 Item Public Comment, Czech
Delgado, Adriana
From:Genevieve Czech <agczech@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday, September
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Public Comment for October 5th meeting
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Honorable Council:
While you will be attending to the important task of choosing a new Mayor tonight, we ask you to add a life and death
matter to your agenda for discussion and action as soon as possible. I refer to the tragic and unnecessary death of a
beautiful soul, a 17 year old lad, in a car accident recently at the corner of HIghland and Highway 1.
Finnigan was killed while lawfully moving forward to turn left onto HIghway 1 from HIghland. An elderly man from
Morro Bay sped up the highway and ran the light killing Finnigan, a SLO resident. This junction has been the scene of
other accidents, and is a vulnerable junction. Many Cal Poly students use it throughout the day each and every day, not
to mention many local residents. For years the question has been raised as to why the speed limit on Highway 1 from
north to south culminating to this junction and being designated Santa Rosa has not been reduced much earlier on the
northern end, advising motorists of the abrupt change to a city street and a college/neighborhood junction busy with
vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians.
The City could reduce the speed already at the Cal Fire site where it enters Highway 1, with warning signs in advance of
the changed zone.
Even better would be working together with the County to reduce the speed after the light of the Mens´ Colony where
the HIghway starts to rise. A warning sign should be posted ¨35 mph zone ahead¨. Reducing speed well in advance of
the junction should be a matter of urgent attention.
Why should change have to happen after a tragic death, so often the case? I wish I had raised the issue much earlier so
that Finnigan would still have his life ahead of him. Now with Cal Poly back on campus, and the College Highland
neighborhood inundated with young residents using this corridor, we ask you to demand a review of the safety issues of
the junction. Other junctions are also a matter of importance, like Foothill/N. Chorro/Broad, where fatal accidents have
occured. At this present time it is increasingly unsafe at the latter junction due to the ongoing massive construction at
the corner of Foothill and N. Chorro.
Respectfully,
Genevieve Czech, 612 Stanford Drive, SLO
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