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Commission recommends Sage Creek High School safe routes plan for city council review
Summary
The commission received a conceptual Safe Routes to School plan for Sage Creek High School and voted to forward the plan to City Council; the plan includes near-term signing/striping and long-term shared Class I paths, intersection signal timing changes, and programmatic education steps.
The Traffic Safety and Mobility Commission received a report on a proposed Safe Routes to School plan for Sage Creek High School and voted March 3 to recommend the conceptual plan to the City Council.
Nathan Schmidt, transportation planning and mobility manager, and associate engineer Nick Gorman presented the plan. Staff said Sage Creek High School enrolls about 1,400 students who travel to the campus from across Carlsbad and portions of Oceanside and that College Boulevard and Cannon Road together carry roughly 21,000 vehicles per day. Mode-share results presented during the meeting showed approximately 85% of students arrive by vehicle, about 4% by bus and roughly 8% by e-bike — an estimated 100 e-bikes per day, staff said.
The plan groups improvements into three categories: near-term low-cost items (signing and striping, targeted green conflict paint), long-term infrastructure (shared two-way Class I bike/pedestrian paths on Cannon and College Boulevard where feasible,…
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