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Sonoma City Traffic Safety Committee approves amendment to add 3rd Street bike boulevard, drops proposed school path
Summary
The Sonoma City Traffic Safety Committee unanimously approved an amendment to a Go Sonoma-funded active-transportation project that removes a proposed school trail and instead adds a Class 3 bike boulevard on 3rd Street West, increasing the project budget by about $47,000; the amendment will go to the Sonoma County Transit and Climate Authority for review.
The Sonoma City Traffic Safety Committee voted unanimously to approve an amendment to a Go Sonoma-funded active-transportation project that removes a proposed school trail and replaces it with a Class 3 bike boulevard on 3rd Street West, city staff said.
City staff told the committee the change is conceptual and will require final engineering before construction. The staff presentation said the amendment would increase project costs by about $47,000 on top of an existing roughly $1.8 million construction allocation (about $1.6 million of which is grant-funded), with a city share of about $277,000. Any funding gap created by the change would be covered by the city through its capital improvement program if needed.
The amendment would reallocate the portion of the project originally planned as a school trail (identified in the plans as the Sassarene school trail) toward a bike boulevard on 3rd Street West that connects to the Friar Creek Bike Path and other existing routes. Staff described traffic-calming measures to be included in the…
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