People Staked Out on Goleta Overpasses and Intersections
Edhat has posted a community question as to who the folks staked out on Goleta overpasses and intersections are.
According to reader comments, they are people doing traffic studies, and as David Pritchett comments, "The most accurate method simply is to watch and count...". David goes on to suggest that he has "heard that people in The Good Land are concerned about traffic." and "The new City Council majority there will make traffic worse in a hurry."
Other reader comments that were posted are related to signals at intersections that are "...working just fine thank you." and another reader comment hopes "someone at CalTrans reads Edhat and can put in a good word on fixing a few lights in Goleta."
So, along those lines, how is the traffic in Goleta? We all know that Goleta hosts the worlds worst traffic signal at the Fairview and 101 North intersection. Should the city council take a more proactive stance at addressing traffic issues, especially if they are backed by the pro-development camp? Edhat is reporting that Jonny Wallis was at the SBCAG South Coast Subregional Planning Committee Meeting on February 7, 2007.
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The previous Council supported spending $20 million of Caltrans money on upgrades to Fowler and Ekwill streets. They strongly supported the concreting of the wetlands in those areas... that is just east of the airport, in the historical Goleta Slough.
Meanwhile, they ignored all sorts of other transportation issues, ranging from the awful Calle Real/Fairview/101 intersection to bikepaths to the shuttle buses and transportation center promised when Camino Real Marketplace was construction.
What a joke Pritchett has made... the old Council was awful on this issue; hard to see how the new Council could be worse, although it is a possibility. Pritchett is ignorant of the Ekwill/Fowler situation.
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