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AGENDA. From the San Mateo County Supervisors‘ meeting agenda for Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 at 9:00am as a hybrid meeting. Prepared by Road Safety Audit Team December 22, 2022.
From the Safety Audit
The SMCDPW requested assistance of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to assess safety concerns on Pescadero Creek Road early in 2022. A road safety audit team was agreed upon by the County and included county and Fhwa personnel and a bicycle safety advocate. Initially, primary concerns were identified to be speed, multimodal user conflicts, motorcycle crashes, and roadway alignment and associated studies both recent and forthcoming. For the field review of over fourteen miles, the road was sectioned off in keeping with the San Mateo County maintenance sections identified as Pescadero, Loma Mar, and La Honda. Each section contained four segments.
PCR Road Safety Audit Summary
Opportunities exist to improve overall safety for road users, including pedestrians and bicyclists, by implementing safety countermeasures. Generally, these countermeasures are targeted to decrease occurrence of errors and/or user conflicts in addition to the frequency and severity of crashes. Observations, concerns, and suggested improvements are not comprehensive; other treatments aside from those identified in the report may be considered and could potentially yield similar or better results. Some primary areas of concern noted by the Team: crash frequency, crash type, speeding, lane departures, roadside design, signing, and markings needs, traffic control device needs for curves and intersections, and multimodal conflicts. Suggested improvements focus on one or more of the following: modifying driver behavior, compliance with traffic control devices, the occurrence of lane departures and likelihood of recovery and reducing speed (primarily in curves, multimodal conflict areas, etc.). Suggested improvements include but are not limited to intersection control and warning signs, curve treatment signing and markings, visibility enhancements, intersection channelization, conspicuous bike lanes and bike signing and markings, Share the Road signs, various signs and markings, and new bike passing lanes. A comprehensive pedestrian plan is suggested using this RSA Report and past pedestrian study recommendations. The next step in the RSA process is the SMCDPW evaluates a course of action considering all data, studies, and recommendations and suggestions and develops an implementation plan for selected treatments and actions. This plan then becomes a part of the project files for PCR.
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Author: Coastside Buzz
Me
First of all there should more Sheriffs patrolling the area especially on La Honda road. Highway 84 on the weekends and now even during the week has become a race track for younger kids to race their cars on all these roads around La Honda, Loma Mar and Pescadero. I live in La Honda and have almost been hit head on driving probably more than ten times in the past few years. Just the other day some kid in a grey Honda sedan passed me on a blind turn on Highway 84 and almost hit another driver come down 84. I’m probably one of the many irate citizens that live our here in La Honda. Something really needs to be done before someone or many others are killed. Please help us here were it used to be nice and quite without crazy drivers, a concerted citizen of La Honda.