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City updates traffic data after East Olive Avenue reconfiguration; staff proposes minor striping changes
Summary
City staff reported mixed speed results and unchanged traffic volumes after a lane-reduction pilot on East Olive Avenue and proposed widening on-street parking lanes by two feet to relieve resident concerns about parked cars being too close to moving lanes.
City staff presented an evaluation Tuesday of a February 2024 test reconfiguration on East Olive Avenue and proposed a modest striping change to address the most frequent resident complaint: that travel lanes feel too close to parked cars.
Marcos Fuentes of Community Development said the project converted a portion of East Olive from two travel lanes in each direction to one lane each way plus a center-turn lane, kept on-street parking, and narrowed travel lanes to slow traffic and reduce pedestrian crossing conflict.
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