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Napa council approves Lincoln Avenue ‘road diet’ after hours of public comment
Summary
After weeks of outreach and a lengthy public‑comment period, the council approved a restriping and safety redesign for Lincoln Avenue (California–Soscol) that narrows travel lanes, adds buffered bike lanes and turn pockets; staff will monitor traffic, collisions and modal shifts post‑implementation.
Public Works Director Julie Lucido and senior traffic engineer Fareed Jovindel presented the Lincoln Avenue Safety and Rehabilitation Project, proposing a ‘‘road diet’’ that converts four travel lanes into three (one lane each direction plus a two‑way left‑turn lane), widens and buffers bike lanes, extends turn pockets, and creates bus boarding islands at two stops.
Staff said Lincoln appears on Napa’s high‑injury roadway list and summarized collision data that documented dozens of injuries in the corridor over a recent five‑year period, noting a concentration of bike and pedestrian collisions near Napa High School. Jovindel said traffic modeling and connected‑vehicle telemetry analysis showed the configuration would modestly increase end‑to‑end…
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