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Council asks staff to run public outreach after split recommendation on Cardiff bike route design
Summary
Staff and the Mobility & Traffic Safety Commission disagreed on sharrow placement for a Cardiff corridor. Council directed staff to perform a community participation plan and return with the commission's input.
The City Council reviewed proposed bike-route design plans for Cardiff-area streets (San Elijo Avenue, Dublin Drive, Manchester Avenue) and heard competing recommendations from staff and the Mobility & Traffic Safety Commission.
City traffic engineer A. Bandigan (staff) reported a technical evaluation of pavement width, curvature, sight distance and traffic speeds for the San Elijo/Manchester/Dublin corridor. The staff recommendation favored using Manchester and Dublin as an alternate route for cyclists and avoiding sharrows (shared-lane markings) on a narrow, curved section of San Elijo because of geometry and limited sight distance. The Mobility & Traffic Safety Commission reviewed local feedback and recommended adding sharrows in the S-curve area on San Elijo as an additional alert to motorists.
Public speakers included neighbors who said shoulders are narrow and road edges are deteriorated; local cycling advocates and Mobility commissioners argued sharrows alert drivers to bicycle presence where riders currently use the route. Council members discussed broader network options, including connections to the North Coast Bikeway and alternate east-west paths, and raised concerns about whether immediate striping might push cyclists into hazard zones or whether a larger, neighborhood-level community participation process (CPP) was needed.
Action: Council voted to direct staff to conduct a Community Participation Plan (CPP) focused on the proposed bike-route plan and to return to the Mobility & Traffic Safety Commission with CPP results. The commission will reconcile the technical staff recommendation and commissioners' preference; staff will then return to council for final action. Council explicitly asked staff to consider the S-curve sharrow question in the CMP and to evaluate northern bike-route linkages as part of the outreach.
The motion passed unanimously (Deputy Mayor Lyons absent). Staff estimated the outreach and commission process would add several weeks; council noted summer season timing and expressed a desire to avoid long delays but also to get neighbor input before restriping.
