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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2/6/2024 Item 6a, Green Cynthia Green < To:E-mail Council Website Subject:Dear Mayor Stewart and council members Attachments:Dear Mayor Stewart and council members.docx This message is from an External Source. Use caution when deciding to open attachments, click links, or respond. January 29, 2024 Dear Mayor Stewart and council members, I’m writing you today hoping you will act soon on funding for the Broad Street corridor. I have lived on Stoneridge Drive for almost 36 years. For the last 26 years, I have been concerned for my safety, almost anytime I leave Stoneridge Drive to get onto Broad Street. If you haven’t experienced it, pulling into the center lane (frequently referred to as suicide lane) only to find another car headed towards you with no apparent recognition that it isn’t meant to be a traffic lane is terrifying. Not only am I concerned for my safety as a driver, I see the precarious situation that walkers and bike riders face on Broad Street. I see people try to cross Broad St on foot or bike and I pray they make it without incident. Very few parents allow their children to ride bikes to school and because of that, we have more traffic for the necessary twice-daily school trips. I have also watched several traffic calming measures that have taken place on all the other major thoroughfares in our city. Almost any other street that has anywhere close to the number of vehicle trips as Broad Street does has been traffic calmed. To name a few, South Street between Broad Street and Higuera. Laurel Lane between Orcutt and Johnson. Currently, Johnson between Laurel Lane and San Luis Dr. Foothill has received pedestrian crossings. And almost every one of these has either fewer lanes or center lane medians or both. The only other major street in town that is as wide as Broad Street is Madonna Rd. and it has medians, traffic signals, and pedestrian crossings. My question to you all is when will the Broad Street plan that was accepted in 2014, 10 years ago be implemented? I attended the public comment meetings back then and know for a fact that the city spent a lot of money and staff hours for that very well-thought-out plan to be completed. The part that allowed for additional residential and commercial units has been implemented, so why not fix Broad Street? At the very minimum please get us traffic calming medians and a lower speed limit that is enforced. Respectfully, Cynthia Green 1 545 Stoneridge Drive San Luis Obispo 805 235.1782 2 January 29, 2024 Dear Mayor Stewart and council members, I’m wri�ng you today hoping you will act soon on funding for the Broad Street corridor. I have lived on Stoneridge Drive for almost 36 years. For the last 26 years, I have been concerned for my safety, almost any�me I leave Stoneridge Drive to get onto Broad Street. If you haven’t experienced it, pulling into the center lane (frequently referred to as suicide lane) only to find another car headed towards you with no apparent recogni�on that it isn’t meant to be a traffic lane is terrifying. Not only am I concerned for my safety as a driver, I see the precarious situa�on that walkers and bike riders face on Broad Street. I see people try to cross Broad St on foot or bike and I pray they make it without incident. Very few parents allow their children to ride bikes to school and because of that, we have more traffic for the necessary twice-daily school trips. I have also watched several traffic calming measures that have taken place on all the other major thoroughfares in our city. Almost any other street that has anywhere close to the number of vehicle trips as Broad Street does has been traffic calmed. To name a few, South Street between Broad Street and Higuera. Laurel Lane between Orcut and Johnson. Currently, Johnson between Laurel Lane and San Luis Dr. Foothill has received pedestrian crossings. And almost every one of these has either fewer lanes or center lane medians or both. The only other major street in town that is as wide as Broad Street is Madonna Rd. and it has medians, traffic signals, and pedestrian crossings. My ques�on to you all is when will the Broad Street plan that was accepted in 2014, 10 years ago be implemented? I atended the public comment mee�ngs back then and know for a fact that the city spent a lot of money and staff hours for that very well-thought-out plan to be completed. The part that allowed for addi�onal residen�al and commercial units has been implemented, so why not fix Broad Street? At the very minimum please get us traffic calming medians and a lower speed limit that is enforced. Respec�ully, Cynthia Green 545 Stoneridge Drive San Luis Obispo 805 235.1782