Tag Archives: Traffic

No Traffic Solutions For Pine Ave. Not That It Was Needed Anyway

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Substainable P.G. type idea to make travel by car less desirable. Look at the picture, there is enough room on Pine Ave for 4 traffic lanes, curbside parking and bike lanes to nowhere.
Pine Avenue 1980s

Earlier this year, the Pacific Grove Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Commission made efforts to carry out a 3-lane conversion on Pine Avenue, with one lane each way and a center turning lane, adding bike lanes on each side. Amid mixed public reaction to the proposed project, the idea has been postponed and Public Works has completed a re-paint of the street in its familiar, 4-lane configuration. No plans for a 3-lane conversion are in the works at this time.

No Traffic Solutions For Pine Ave. Not That It Was Needed Anyway

One Way Lighthouse Avenue Is A Commie Plot

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Delays

The preferred alternative remains a one-way, eastbound Lighthouse with two general traffic lanes and one lane dedicated to bicycles, buses and emergency vehicles.

City traffic engineer Rich Deal contends that controlling traffic speeds on city streets is easier with one-way traffic than with two-way, and cited Alvarado Street in downtown Monterey as an example.

But Alvarado street is not a main road into Pacific Grove. Reducing four lanes to two will not help ease traffic.

This is beginning to sound like a “Sustainable City” scheme, much like to stupid idea to reduce Pine Avenue to two traffic lanes in P.G. with exaggerated bicycle lanes no one needs. Until they take your freedoms away.

Bike lanes

One Way Lighthouse Avenue Is A Commie Plot

One Way Lighthouse Ave Is Not My Way

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Lighthouse Ave Traffic

Ever get the feeling that these traffic experts ride the bus all the time? Kind of like having priests counsel on marriage. Dedicating traffic lanes to buses will not reduce anything when no one rides them. Take out some sidewalks that are always empty to make more room on the narrow avenue or make the buses use Foam or Hawthorne. Or make Holman Highway 4 lanes all the way.

Making Lighthouse Avenue one-way through New Monterey remains the preferred model for easing vehicle traffic on the crowded city street, improving safety and making it more bus and pedestrian friendly, according to city planners.

Monterey traffic engineer Rich Deal, senior planner Kimberly Cole and principal planner Elizabeth Caraker met residents and business owners Wednesday to hear their comments on the proposed Lighthouse Area Specific Plan. Another workshop is at 5p.m. Nov. 30 at the city’s Hilltop Park Center.

The one-way model, Deal said, would allow improved traffic flow toward Monterey and could include a dedicated bus lane that would speed up bus service by reducing the time needed for curbside stops.

One Way Lighthouse Ave Is Not My Way

Trolleys Will Send The Tourists On A Ride

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Our taxes at work, for the right reason? We are in your town, filling your inadequate sewers.
Trolley Riders

The MST Trolley – Pacific Grove will operate daily Thursday, Aug. 12 through Sunday, Aug. 22, departing every 30 minutes between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. and stopping at destinations including the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Lovers Point and numerous stops throughout the downtown area for shopping and dining.

The scenic route will include a tour of the bay along Ocean View Boulevard from Hopkins Marine Station to Point Pinos. On-board narration provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium will provide passengers with information on the city’s history and points of interest.

Trolleys Will Send The Tourists On A Ride

May Is Crosswalk Awareness Month In P.G.

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The City Council will consider the approval of a Resolution naming the month of May 2008 as “Pedestrian Safety Month” as part of the Pacific Grove Police Department’s ongoing efforts to promote pedestrian safety throughout the City.
Reference: Police Chief Engles
Recommended Action: Adopt the Resolution

Sometimes hard to see people crossing the street downtown, but please do try and look.

Even harder to see the pedestrians (or the pedestrians see cars) at Fountain & Lighthouse when delivery trucks block the crosswalk because someone that drives a gold Chevy pickup (presumably an employee of Victorian Corner) uses the “Loading Zone” as a personal all-day parking place.

Crosswalk Awareness Month Vc

All the time . .

Crosswalk Awareness Month Vc2

May Is Crosswalk Awareness Month In P.G.

Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone

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If the gas prices keeping tourists away don’t kill downtown this will. If I need to leave the car down or up the hill to go to the bank or hardware store, forget it. I’ll just keep driving all the way to Sand City.

Cort floated an idea that came out of the city’s Economic Advisory Committee. Pacific Grove could close several blocks of Lighthouse Avenue to cars, he said, creating the first “pedestrianized” downtown on the Peninsula.

Murmurs grew until the room was buzzing like a poked beehive. The noise drowned out the mayor’s subsequent comments on water storage and solar roofs.
But City Councilman Alan Cohen, who also sits on the committee and owns Lighthouse Business Center, is skeptical. He worries that commercial rents on Lighthouse – which are already at a premium – could be affected. And he doesn’t like the notion of customers walking several blocks to go shopping, then schlepping their packages back to their cars. “It would close off traffic on a street that brings a lot of people to town,” he says.

Rough estimate of the planned no car zones:

Ban Cars Downtown

Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone

Traffic! Open Up The Presidio?

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I always thought that the Presidio would be a better site for CSUMB and Fort Ord would be better for the Defense Language Institute.

Fred N. Nielson writes:

One solution would be to move some of the functions to Fort Ord, but such an expensive option shouldn’t be necessary. There are military bases all over the world with civilian roads running through them. A number of roads through DLI could effectively serve the same purpose.

A cursory study of the map reveals that Corporal Ewing Road and Artillery Street could be opened to civilian traffic without damaging the Presidio’s integrity. Lawton and Rifle Range roads could also serve as easily protected routes through the Presidio. Just opening two routes through the Presidio would increase traffic flow by nearly double.

There are solutions to this problem. New roadblocks, literal or otherwise, are not helpful. Let’s help our merchant friends in New Monterey and Pacific Grove. Contact your local officials and voice your concern.

Traffic on the high road
68 At Chomp

Traffic on the low road
Lighthouse Ave Traffic

Traffic! Open Up The Presidio?

The Last Naked Intersection Succumbs

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A new stoplight is planned for New Monterey, aimed at improving safety for pedestrian and bicycle crossings at Lighthouse and avenues. Construction of the traffic signal is expected to begin today.

Lighthosue Ave At Mcclellan

There you have it. Now, every intersection on Lighthouse Avenue in New Monterey has a stoplight. What next? How about a signal at Giannis Pizza, Longs Drugs, the surf shop, and when that’s done move toward the same on Foam street and then Hawthorne.

Here is it.
McClellan Stoplight

The Last Naked Intersection Succumbs