HomeMy WebLinkAbout8/15/2017 Item 16, Teifel (3) Chorro Broad Traffic Deterrent
I recently married and moved into a house on Chorro St. near Foothill Blvd. There is constant
vehicle traffic in front of our house, which takes away peace and quiet that anyone would want
in their home. I drive to downtown and other places in SLO, and I also ride my bike along
Chorro St. to downtown. It seems that the biggest deterrent to riding bikes on Chorro St. is the
volume of traffic. Although I haven't studied the numbers in detail, based on the traffic counts, it
is a high volume of cars travel from downtown SLO to Foothill Blvd via Chorro St:
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The traffic volume also contributes to a lot of disturbance for residents. From what I
understand from reading about the 3 Bike Blvd options, the maximum neighborhood
traffic volume along Chorro St is already exceeded and will remain exceeded no matter
which option is chosen. This is something that must be addressed both for bike safety
and residential peace.
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US101 to Foothill Blvd. If it is more convenient to go on Santa Rosa, people will start
using that route rather than cutting though the neighborhood.
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Create a diversion that prevents cars from going straight or turning eft heading north or
south along Chorro St. through Murray St. (Right Turn Only heading North/South along
Chorro.) Cars heading East/West along Murray may go straight or Turn right. (No left
turn) Bicycle and pedestrians may go any direction.
This may be accomplished by connecting the center side walk that goes along Murray
St. to stretch across Chorro, while leaving a wide enough gap in both directions for
Bicycles to pass through.
Broad at Meinecke
Heading South along broad street, left turn only.
Heading North along Broad St, Right turn only.
Heading West along Meinecke, right turn only.
Bicycles and pedestrians may go any direction.
Meinecke at Benton
Heading east along Meinecke, no right turn.
Heading west along Meinecke, no left turn.
Bicycles and pedestrians may go any direction.
This is to prevent people from using Benton as a cut through street, because of the
inconveniences added by the above 2 diversions.
What this does
These simple changes make it slightly less convenient for cars to use Chorro and Broad
St. to get to downtown. With these changes, it will make it more convenient for cars to
use Santa Rosa St.
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these changes affect driver choice of routes. Any other starting and ending points would
simply be expansions of these routes and thus produce the same result.
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If the above changes are made, it will take drivers 5 minutes to use Chorro and Broad
Street to get from Chorro at Walnut to Ghorro at Foothill. Thus, it will be faster for them
to take Santa Rosa St. (4 minutes). People tend to take the faster route, diverting traffic
out of the Chorro/Broad NEIGHBORHOODS, onto the main road (Santa Rosa).
I ran out of time, but still need to do a similar comparison for these other routes;
however, I expect the result to be similar, based on the new traffic flow with the
proposed changes.
Chorro/Foothill to Chorro/V1lalnut
Broad/Foothill to US 101 S
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