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Temecula council approves Pava Road rehabilitation, stops short of immediate lane reduction and asks staff to study alternative striping
Summary
After extensive public comment and council debate, Temecula's council approved a $3.1 million pavement rehabilitation and authorized bidding while rejecting staff's immediate road-diet striping plan; the council directed staff to return with additional cross-section options, including keeping four lanes with narrower lane widths and wider bike buffers.
Temecula City Council members voted on March 24 to move forward with pavement rehabilitation on Pava Road but declined to adopt staff's recommended lane-reduction striping today, opting instead to send the striping question back to staff for more analysis.
The council approved advertising bids and associated CEQA determinations for the Phase PW25-05 pavement rehab (a project staff estimated at about $3.1 million) but, after hours of testimony and council debate, rejected a motion to implement the road-diet striping that would have reduced the corridor from four travel lanes to two with a center two-way left-turn lane and buffered bike lanes.
Why it matters: Pava Road runs past several schools, the Temecula library and other youth-oriented destinations. Supporters of the staff proposal said…
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