Edhat Staff
Preliminary design for the San Ysidro Road Roundabout Project (click here for more information)
Source: Santa Barbara County
The City and the County of Santa Barbara invite the public to attend a community meeting and open house for the Olive Mill/Coast Village Road Roundabout Project.
5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29
Chase Palm Park Center
236 E. Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara
At the meeting, speak to experts about the design of this project and the County’s roundabout project at San Ysidro Road and N. Jameson Lane.
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Keep it small and slow-moving so that people can walk around it. Most of them are completely pedestrian unfriendly. This will cut off CVR from the Biltmore for walking.
It’s about time!
Every intersection in Santa Barbara should have a roundabout. This would get rid of most of our traffic.
Great idea. Olive Mill definitely needs it. That intersection is a mess. I would say San Ysidro not so much.
Roundabouts are great tools to solve these problems, EXCEPT most people can not drive or use critical thinking skills. The backup at the Hot Springs roundabout is pretty severe and these will even be worse. Prepare for a huge Montecito battle over the roundabouts.. IF you can not believe that the third lane of the freeway has not been completed through Montecito yet.. You will be saying the same about these roundabouts in about 20 years. The freeway expansion through Montecito is the biggest no-brainer of all times.. BUT, it still goes on and on while more and more air pollution and congestion pours through Montecito as a result. I guess more money does not always equate to more brains.
1. what the heck is the shape of that san ysidro one? 2. the process of them putting in the olive mill roundabout is going to absolutely suck. i wonder what the plan is for traffic control and mitigation and how long it will take? the third lane through montecito and carp is long long overdue. hoping that happens soon, as well as the potential on-ramp at cabrillo
Construction and traffic impacts will absolutely suck. Lets hope that the 192 is rebuilt before these roundabouts are constructed.Wonder if they’ll propose building both in parallel? Or serially?
The trouble with roundabouts in this area is that the engineers make them way too small. Roundabouts need space to function properly, without a good amount of space cars tend to stack up, which defeats the purpose. Yet engineers still try to fit roundabouts in spaces that are way too small.
There would have been a 3rd freeway lane through Montecito years ago but some of the residents put up such a powerful fuss it got canceled. Now they are paying the piper.