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Redondo Beach reviews truck-route gap at Torrance border, considers traffic-calming for Palos Verdes Boulevard and Prospect Avenue
Summary
City public works and police outlined legal limits and engineering options for addressing heavy truck traffic and speeding on Palos Verdes Boulevard and Prospect Avenue; commissioners heard resident data and voted to continue formal action with Torrance to April.
Public Works Director Andy Wingie and transportation engineer Ryan Lehi briefed the Redondo Beach Public Safety Commission on January 23 on truck-route conflicts at the Torrance city border and a menu of traffic‑calming options for Palos Verdes Boulevard (PV Boulevard) and Prospect Avenue.
The presentation said California Vehicle Code sections cited by staff allow local truck-route regulation (Cal. Veh. Code §35701) but permit trucks to use non‑route streets to make deliveries (Cal. Veh. Code §35703). "The base of it is that we have incompatible truck routes at the city border," Lehi told commissioners, explaining that PV Boulevard is a truck route in Torrance but not in Redondo Beach, which creates an enforcement gap where a truck legally on Torrance routes crosses into Redondo and is suddenly on a street where the city lacks an enforceable truck‑route designation.
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