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Resident urges sidewalks and traffic calming on 30th Street; city staff says phased CDBG project will add segments
Summary
A Bakersfield resident asked the City Council for speed-control measures and sidewalks on 30th Street near Longfellow Elementary. City staff said the work is included in the city's CDBG curb-and-sidewalk program, funded in part by general CIP dollars and will be done in phases over about three years.
A Bakersfield resident told the City Council on July 9 that children walking to Longfellow Elementary School regularly have to share the roadway with vehicles and asked the city to install traffic-calming measures and sidewalks.
Michael Torres, who said he lives on 30th Street, told the council, "I'm requesting that, if there's any way we could get speed bumps or radar or see if, Department of Transportation would actually help out ... so we could get sidewalk so somebody doesn't get hit." He described several recent crashes and near-misses on the corridor and said…
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