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Commission highlights Highway 199 safety concerns, $60 million project and traffic‑calming plans
Summary
Commission staff reported a recent fatality on Highway 199 and said about $60 million in improvements for the corridor will go out to bid soon, while stressing that physical traffic‑calming measures—not just lower speed limits—are needed to change driver behavior.
Commission staff delivered an extended safety update on U.S. Highway 199 and State Highway 197, urging faster access to crash data, describing pending capital work and pilot traffic‑calming measures, and discussing the limits of speed‑limit reductions alone to change driver behavior.
Staff said they have struggled to obtain prompt and accurate collision information from the California Highway Patrol and that community members have been repeatedly calling to ask what happened after recent incidents. “We’ve had some difficulty getting prompt and accurate information about collisions on the highway,” the Transportation Commission Executive Director said. Staff reported a fatality…
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