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Vallejo leaders push near‑term safety fixes and a $31.5 million Sonoma Boulevard rebuild after rising fatalities
Summary
After reporting 12–13 traffic fatalities across consecutive years and identifying State Route 29/Sonoma Boulevard as a hot spot, Vallejo officials and Caltrans outlined a six‑mile repaving and complete‑streets project and agreed on immediate steps — prioritizing lighting, crosswalk improvements and enforcement — while the larger project moves ahead.
Vallejo public safety officials and state transportation staff on Tuesday outlined a two‑track response to a recent uptick in traffic fatalities: a long‑term Caltrans complete‑streets rebuild of Sonoma Boulevard and a set of short‑term actions the city will prioritize immediately.
Caltrans public‑affairs chief Bart Ney said the Sonoma Boulevard project will repave and reconfigure about six miles of State Route 29 from Maritime Academy Drive to Many Drive, adding elements intended to slow speeds and improve pedestrian safety, including lane reductions and road diets in sections, curb‑extension bulbouts, raised median islands, pedestrian‑scale lights, landscaping, and new bike lanes. "It's a paving project… ultimately costing $31,500,000, of which Vallejo contributed $126,000," Ney said during the subcommittee meeting.
City and county law‑enforcement representatives and traffic engineers acknowledged the project will take months to build and emphasized that it does not preclude quicker interventions. Councilmember Matias and other committee members…
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