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City of Encinitas MEMORANDUM City of Encinitas MEMORANDUM DATE: February 10, 2020 TO: City of Encinitas School District Liaison Committee FROM: Ed Wimmer, P.E., City Engineer CC: Carrie Bedord, Consultant Development Services Director SUBJECT: Capital Improvement Program and Traffic Updates The following are updates for school related CIP and Traffic projects: El Portal Street Pedestrian & Bike Underpass (Installing a pedestrian railroad undercrossing at El Portal Street from North Coast Highway 101 to Vulcan Avenue near Paul Ecke Central Elementary School) 100% plans Construction expected to start July 2020 SANDAG is the Construction Manager Art tiles and Bike Rodeo events with Paul Ecke Central students Santa Fe Drive Corridor ATP (Pedestrian and bike improvements from Windsor Drive to El Camino Real including a traffic signal at Balour Drive. Also installing curb gutter sidewalk mobility and landscape improvements from Gardena Road to Bonita Drive with a Z crosswalk at San Dieguito Academy) Project can be advertised for construction after Active Transportation Program grant construction funds are allocated in October 2020 Council expected to award design consultant contract on February 26, 2020 Verdi Avenue Undercrossing (Installing a pedestrian and bike railroad undercrossing at Verdi Avenue from San Elijo Avenue to Highway 101) 90% design underway Birmingham Drive Streetscape (New sidewalk, street, pedestrian ramps underground utilities from Interstate-5 to San Elijo Avenue) Consultant engineering firm conducting additional analysis of drainage and storm water quality recommendations to reduce post project flows to Rossini Creek SDG&E designing undergrounding 90% design initiated Traffic Updates: San Elijo Avenue Sharrows (Installed sharrows on Santa Fe Drive to Chesterfield Drive parallel to CRT and a door zone buffer along San Elijo Avenue from Mozart Avenue to Montgomery Avenue) Project completed 2/7/20 Capri Elementary School Speed Cushion (Installing a speed cushion at Capri Elementary) Final evaluations and neighborhood vote Piraeus Street Bike Lanes (New restriping to include bike lanes and narrower traffic lanes from Leucadia Blvd. to La Costa Avenue) Project completion anticipated by the end of March 2020 El Camino Real Buffer Lanes (Adding buffer lanes from south of Santa Fe Drive to Manchester Avenue) Project will be implemented by OMWD San Elijo Avenue and Liverpool Drive Crosswalk (Installing crosswalk at San Elijo Avenue and Liverpool Drive) Adding crosswalk; completion anticipated by the end of February 2020 Village Park Way (Adding a double left turn for Village Park Way (north approach) and a buffered bike lane in both directions between Encinitas Blvd. and Mountain Vista Drive) Project will coincide with the FY 18/19 Pavement Repair and Overlay Project S. Willow Spring Active Transportation (Adding bike lanes, buffers and an improved crosswalk on El Camino Real to Encinitas Blvd.) Design alternatives and parking removal scenarios are being evaluated Traffic Calming and Active Transportation (Adding traffic calming on Vulcan Avenue north of Encinitas Blvd to La Costa Avenue) Narrowing traffic lanes Adding a walkway and speed tables Construction to begin in January 2020 Vulcan Avenue and La Costa Avenue Traffic Signal Warrant analysis started in January 2020; design will start in March 2020 Safe Routes to Schools Recommendations Capri Lack of path/sidewalks; recommendation to install path from Saxony to Rainbow Ridge Speeding cars; recommendation to install speed bumps Flow of traffic; additional options for traffic flow, including access to Rainbow Ridge El Camino Creek Additional crosswalk guards or safety personnel. Our community does not follow the rules for drop off and pick up nor do they follow the law—parking, turning, and crossing illegally. Our school staff is diligent and tries to educate but unfortunately the school community continues to behave inappropriately. It is not a safe environment for any walker or biker. ECC utilizes alternative campus entrances to relax car flow and short term park and wait areas Speeding cars and heavy traffic along Calle Barcelona towards El Camino Creek. There are no city posted signs along Calle Barcelona indicating that a school is nearby. Ideally awareness that an elementary school is located off this maJor road, drivers would take notice of more children walking/biking and drive accordingly. The back gate is a scary & dangerous place for pedestrians. Drivers park in the red zone, kids get dropped off in the driveway where people are standing. It’s so dangerous and parents have to be on high alert. People speeding and running red lights in the mornings on Leucadia Blvd. Additional crossing guards at side entrance to school There are speeding cars and no crosswalk guards at back gate We do a combination of walking and driving to school (with driving being our most utilized mode). My main safety concern is sadly the parents of students at our school. Many parents are making illegal u-turns on side campus roads, trying to rush through a crosswalk before families/students have fully crossed, etc We walk to school and enter through the back gate on Paseo Aliso - there is a crosswalk, which is great! Unfortunately, cars drop their kids off in the red areas surrounding the crosswalk and then back up into the crosswalk when they are ready to drive away, endangering anyone trying to cross. Drivers are also very anxious to go through the intersection (Paseo Aliso + Via Adelfa) and don't always let the walkers cross in the crosswalk, they speed on through, especially as it gets closer to 8am and they are running late. Additionally, parents parking on the other side of Paseo Aliso from the back gate will allow their children to run across the street, instead of using the crosswalk. Finally, many people will make illegal U-turns in the middle of Paseo Aliso after dropping off their children. Even though it is more crowded and congested with traffic, I drop-off at the front of the school because it is the only place I feel safe letting my kids out of the car. We have a back gate at our school and since there is less supervision there, I don't like to let my kids walk. A lot of parents don't follow traffic laws and it's not safe to cross the street there. I witness multiple traffic violations (rolling through stop signs, illegal u-turns, J-walking, speeding) each morning and I've even seen some very close calls with kids almost getting hit in the crosswalk. We are fortunate to have a crosswalk at our back gate, but there isn't anyone there to help kids cross and most people cross outside of the cross walk for convenience. I really hope we can get some support with helping make going to school safer for our kids. Thank you for doing this survey. Encinitas Union School District December 2019 Safe Routes to Schools Recommendations Flora Vista Challenges in staffing the new crosswalk in the afternoon (Wandering and Rambling) Current crosswalk at Gardendale Road & Aspenglow: Drivers do not pay attention or stop, and drive down Gardendale very quickly. A number of families travel to school from the east side of Gardendale Road. With the curve in the road, if a car is parked directly in front of the crosswalk, it is hard for the driver to see pedestrians waiting. Suggested solution from the community is for a flashing crosswalk. We live next to diegueno so it is a very busy street my daughter has to cross to get to and from school, especially when diegueno is approaching release time. Having a flashing crosswalk lights of some sort may help drivers pay more attention to the children in the cross walk? My daughter and our neighbor feel like they need to run across the street (willowspring) so they do not get hit by a car. Requesting a lighted crosswalk and LED stop sign (for both east and westbound traffic) installed at the intersection of Mountain Vista and Shadow Mountain Drive/Wandering Road (Entrance to the Flair Encinitas community) many FV families live in this community and loads of kids walk to school. La Costa Heights The biggest help would be adding a crosswalk at Morada and Levante. (TONS of walkers and bikers at that intersection and it’s tough without a crosswalk.) Add a crossing guard at La Costa and Rancho Santa Fe. (recommend research on level of impact) Add a carpool board at the school to help parents connect for setting up carpools. Mission Estancia We live by an intersection where kids from the lower street walk up a staircase and cross the street. Currently there is no stop sign, and it’s dangerous because people are zipping by to go to work in rush hour. PLEASE put in a stop sign and crosswalk! Corner of Camino Coronado and Via San Clemente. By Mission Estancia. There is a yield sign, so it wouldn’t be hard to Just switch to a stop sign. Please send someone out to look at this intersection. A stop sign was installed a few blocks down on Calle Jalisco, and this intersection is much busier on a school morning. The corner of Via San Clemente and Camino Coronado needs a crosswalk and stop sign. It is a high traffic area in the neighborhood and not safe for kids to cross without a stop sign! Not enough stop signs! There are some blind corners that make it very unsafe. Consistent crossing guard morning and afternoon. Better signage or speed bump indicating a stop is necessary. Traffic and teenage drivers at LCC Crossing Maverick Way/ LCC is the largest barrier. Too dangerous for a kid to cross there with all the high school drivers. That she would have to bike on the main streets which have heavy traffic.
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