Council hears South Arcadia multimodal safety plan to add bike and pedestrian connections

City engineers and consultants on Wednesday presented a draft South Arcadia Multimodal Safety Improvement Plan that recommends new sidewalks, protected bike lanes and design changes to the Samoa Boulevard–U.S. 101 interchange to improve east–west connections and reduce vehicle speeds. The presentation outlined three interchange alternatives, two design options for Samoa Boulevard and constrained but improvable designs for South G Street.

The plan, funded initially with a 2023 Caltrans sustainable transportation planning grant, seeks to reconnect neighborhoods divided by U.S. 101 by adding pedestrian and bicycle access across the interchange and along Samoa Boulevard and South G Street. “These are long‑term plans that are part of a larger vision to reconnect communities throughout Arcadia,” said Neidra Cadre, Arcadia’s city engineer, introducing the project team.

Consultant Rosanna Southern of GHD said community outreach produced roughly 400–500…