Send In Your Support for Lomas Santa Fe Improvements

Send In Your Support for Lomas Santa Fe Improvements

The Lomas Santa Fe Corridor Improvement Project had its Phase III Workshop on May 29 – click here to see the exhibits presented. It is important to provide your comments to the City of Solana Beach in support of the improvements – send to City Engineer Dan Goldberg at [email protected]. What do you like / don’t like about the proposed improvements? Include your preferred option for the West side section (3 options were presented). The information below represents BikeWalkSolana’s group recommendation to our City Council and Staff. You may use it to help guide your letter of support.

BikeWalkSolana supports all the objectives of the Lomas Santa Fe (LSF) Corridor Improvement Project to create an attractive transportation environment for our major east-west arterial through Solana Beach:

  • Improve safety for motorists, cyclists, pedestrians while maintaining vehicle travel efficiency
  • Provide a pleasant environment for travel throughout the city for all road users
  • Provide a safe route for children to walk or ride bikes and scooters to school
  • Improve the environment and residents’ health and quality of life by making active transportation a more viable option to:
    • Get more people to walk and ride bikes for short local trips, including to the beach, stores, schools, parks, sporting events, and the library.
    • Enjoy walking, riding, and driving the roads of our beautiful seaside community
With those objectives in mind, the features proposed during Phase II and Phase III that BikeWalkSolana endorses are:
  • Narrow the travel lanes to reduce speed while maintaining overall travel times.
  • Widen the bike lanes and add buffers, utilizing green paint to guide through conflict areas.
  • Improve pedestrian crosswalks and use lead pedestrian signal phasing to improve safety.
  • Add the eastern section Multi-Use Class I path presented in Phase II.
  • Add western section Multi-Use Class I path proposed on May 29.
  • Add the pocket park on southwest corner of LSF / Stevens.
  • Add landscaping and furnishings throughout the LSF corridor to beautify.
BikeWalkSolana additionally recommends changes to both drive lane and bike facility widths, particularly for the western section Multi-Use path.
 
The Multi-Use Class I path on both East and West sections will provide a separated facility on the northern side of LSF to greatly improve safe routes to schools and to provide a safer, more comfortable biking and walking experience for much of the length of LSF. Specifically, BikeWalkSolana is suggesting narrowing the drive lanes throughout the corridor to match the successful lane narrowing of Hwy 101 in 2013. For the western section Multi-Use Class I path, we would like to widen the usable path width to the 10′-12′ range like other Class I paths in San Diego County. The 8′ two-way path shown on May 29 is the absolute minimum, as a cyclist needs a good 4′ of horizontal operating space for safety and this path is to be shared with pedestrians, children, pets, etc. A wider path improves both safety and beauty.
 
The graphic below shows the May 29 Multi-Use Trail proposed roadway cross-section and we have added our suggestions to show that they might even be achieved without right of way changes. This suggestion only shows there are possibilities for improvement as BikeWalkSolana does not claim to have engineering or planning expertise.
 
Mutli-Use Class I Option
 
Click here for our full comments sent to City of Solana Beach. Please read if you would like even more detail and rationale behind our endorsements and additional suggestions.
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