Committee advances Tuesday Drive and Wednesday/Stephanie Drive safety measures; seeks further review of one crosswalk

The West Covina Traffic Committee approved a package of sign, pavement and intersection changes for Tuesday Drive and agreed to return a separate package for Wednesday Drive/Stephanie Drive after staff examines a midblock crosswalk for Americans with Disabilities Act compliance and potential relocation.

For Tuesday Drive (between Wednesday/Stephanie Drive and Shakespeare Drive), engineering staff recommended — and the committee approved — replacing faded stop signs and speed limit signs; adding cross‑traffic does not stop plaques and red reflective strips under stop signs at two intersections; installing 35 pavement legends adjacent to speed limit signs in both directions; and adding stop‑ahead warning signs and pavement legends. Brian Cervantes summarized the technical basis: ADT counts on March 4, 2025 showed 995 eastbound and 910 westbound for a 1,905 ADT total, and a 24‑hour speed survey recorded an 85th‑percentile speed of 39 mph on a posted 35 mph segment. The committee added a direction to check double‑yellow centerline striping through curves (detail 22) as an additional measure.

For Wednesday Drive/Stephanie Drive (from South Veronica Avenue to Stacy Court), staff reported three reported collisions in SWITRS for Jan 2022–Dec 2024, ADT totaling 2,629 vehicles/day from March 4, 2025 counts, and an 85th‑percentile speed of 35 mph on a posted 30 mph street. Staff recommended restriping and replacing faded pedestrian signs, replacing reflective crosswalk markers, trimming bushes at the midblock crosswalk, and installing two short red‑curb segments (20 feet north of Tuesday Drive and 30 feet south of Tuesday Drive on the east side of Wednesday Drive).

Committee members asked staff to forward faded‑sign work and vegetation trimming to public works maintenance and to re‑examine the midblock crosswalk’s ADA curb ramps and the crosswalk’s location. One committee member suggested moving the marked crossing farther east toward a stair access point used by residents; staff agreed to bring back revised recommendations and additional data at a future meeting.

Motion and vote: The committee approved the recommendations for Tuesday Drive and voted to advance that package to city council for approval (vote in favor: 4; no: 0). For Wednesday/Stephanie Drive, the committee approved the engineering recommendations in principle but directed staff to return with revised recommendations addressing the crosswalk ADA ramps and possible relocation; that motion to return with revisions was approved (vote in favor: 4; no: 0).

Staff will return to the committee with refined recommendations and additional pavement/ADA analysis for the midblock crosswalk on Wednesday Drive.