Due to a high number of traffic accidents, Encinitas plans to make changes to a Coast Highway 101 roundabout near the Paul Ecke-Central primary school.
In a year and a half, 19 collisions were reported at the El Portal roundabout, many of whom involving drivers under the influence, indicates a report by city staff. The majority of collisions involved vehicles hitting panels or street posts. Four of the collisions led to injury, adds the report.
Because many children and their parents cross this area on their way to and from school, it seems that there is a need to install certain protective measures along the banks of the relatively new roundabout for Having speed of control vehicles and out of control is not on the sidewalk and injuring pedestrians, the city traffic engineer, Abe Bandegan last week.
Bandegan asked the council to authorize $ 40,000 to pay for Rumble Stiangs at the roundabout entrances and metal terminals painted green around the edges of the roundabout. The members of the council told him to return with other solutions instead of the terminals, saying that the green metal posts will look ugly. Rather, they suggested wooden wall structures.
“I don’t think residents want the limits,” said Board of the Council Jim O’Hara.
He said that the city had spent a lot of things to make landscaping along this part of the Luucadia’s Coast Highway 101 is beautiful, and added that it was generally not enthusiastic about use terminals along the city roads.
“I already think that Bollards is starting to cause a little tension in our community,” he said.
Before the November elections, the majority of the municipal council was pro-bollard, encouraging the use of plastic plastics in plastic along the city roads to separate cycle paths from vehicle traffic. The new majority of the council argued that the previous group overestimated the transport of bicycles, as opposed to vehicles, and note that vehicles are the way most people travel to town.
During the meeting of the Wednesday council, a handful of public speakers offered various solutions to the question of the roundabout. Several people have said that they would like the city to also install pedestrian crossing tags in the region, while the frequent participant of the Council, Donna Westbrook, said that she thought that the city should think of removing the Rond- point and replace it with traffic lights.
“Maybe you have a very bad design there and it should be something else,” she said.
Scott Campbell, who operates a plea group called Citizen Review Panel enclosure, said that he had examined all traffic collision reports and found that accidents have generally occurred at night and involved in altered drivers.
“This is not a design problem, it is an application problem,” he said by urging the city to put more sheriff deputies in the street to catch drunken drivers, which the mayor of the city said they are part of the budget for the coming fiscal year.
The city staff report indicates that out of the 19 collisions reported between February 2023 and August 2024, 18 years old occurred during night hours. Twelve incidents were “attributed to drivers operating under the influence of alcohol or drugs”, six incidents involved excessive speed, and 10 vehicles involved “striking fixed objects, such as panels or reverber posts”.
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