Traffic commission approves red curbing and painted center line at Vancouver and Adeline after residents press safety concerns

The Burlingame Traffic Safety & Parking Commission voted 4toapprove staffrecommendations to paint 20-foot red curb zones on all approaches to the Vancouver/Adeline intersection and to add a painted yellow center line, while delaying any physical raised centerline devices.

City staff told the commission they reviewed neighborhood reports and traffic counts after a March vehicular collision and an on-site meeting with neighbors on Oct. 8. Staff said the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) multiway-stop warrant looks for five correctable crashes in 12 months and minimum volumes on the major street; the review found three potentially correctable incidents across 2022, 2024 and 2025 and average major-street hourly volumes near 140 vehicles — below the 300-per-hour threshold.…