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Residents press council for traffic calming; staff outlines Safe Routes to School improvements and street rehab plans
Summary
Residents urged the council to address speeding on narrow neighborhood streets. Public works staff outlined a toolbox of traffic-calming options, a $250,000 Safe Routes to School project, Vision Zero coordination and planned street rehabilitation work.
Public works staff briefed the Gonzales City Council on Feb. 18 about resident requests to install traffic-control measures and on upcoming pedestrian-safety and paving projects. The presentation framed the city’s approach as the “three E’s”—education, enforcement and engineering—and outlined a toolkit of treatments including striping adjustments, radar-feedback signs, intersection bulb-outs and speed humps.
Public works staff said the city has $250,000 for Safe Routes to School improvements along Fifth Street between the U.S. 101 southbound ramps and the eastern edge of the community center, and that the project design will consider bulb-outs and crosswalk alignment at Rincon and Fifth Street. Staff noted a consultant is being…
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