CityofSantaBarbara
The Lower Eastside Community Connectivity Active Transportation Plan (Plan) will be presented to the Sustainability Council Committee on Thursday February 1st, and to City Council on Tuesday, February 13th. The Plan recommends infrastructure safety enhancements to improve walking and biking connections between the Lower Eastside and destinations south of US Highway 101, including a new pedestrian and bicycle overcrossing.
In 2020, the City of Santa Barbara (City) was awarded an Active Transportation Program (ATP) Cycle 4 Grant to develop the Lower Eastside Community Connectivity Active Transportation Plan (Plan). The purpose of the Plan is to identify ways to improve walking and biking between the Lower Eastside and destinations south of US Highway 101 such as East Beach, Dwight Murphy Field, and the Santa Barbara Zoo. The Plan was developed through community engagement, an existing conditions analysis, engineering approaches to address community mobility needs, and a feasibility assessment of a new highway overcrossing. Proposed projects within the Plan include a new bicycle and pedestrian highway overcrossing between the intersection of Canada and Pitos Streets and Dwight Murphy Field, as well as several pedestrian infrastructure safety enhancements in the Eastside Neighborhood such as curb extensions, crosswalks, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, and lighting.
To review the Plan, please visit: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/LECC
For questions about the Plan, please contact: LECC@SantabarbaraCA.gov
The Plan will be reviewed by the Sustainability Council Committee on Thursday, February 1, 2024, at 9:30 a.m. for feedback and a recommendation to Council. For details on this public meeting, please visit: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SustainabilityCommittee
The Plan will go through final review by City Council on Tuesday, February 13, 2024, for consideration of Plan approval and direction to staff to seek grant funding for the proposed projects within the Plan.
For details on this public meeting, please visit: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilMeetings
Further expansion of the amazingly expensive bicycle lobby takeover of our streets. Ignoring the fact that there is almost no usage of these bikeways for anything except recreation, the powers inside the city have created some nightmarish constructions such as the bizarre traffic limits around Alameda Park, the damaging “speed humps” and “traffic calming devices” on the Westside and Eastside and the silly plastic dividers on Micheltorena over the freeway, to say nothing of the ugly mess that lower State Street has become. If bicycles were actually a significant practical transportation alternative this might be different but in reality it is a small elite who are benefiting from these expenditures and semi-permanent alteration of our streets.
Small number of elite people? You must see a very different group of people cycling to work and school than I do. I see kids going to junior high and high school, plus a lot of folks in “blue collar work clothing”.
Every word of that is a lie.
Dalgorf–you would have more credibility if you provided facts to show that the post was a “lie.” Certainly there are infrastructure projects as decscribed in the original post. And, a recent Goleta survey documented no more than 3% of their jobs were serviced by bicycle commuters.
Anon – While I dislike how annoying Dalgorf is and find their insults basic and crude, I think they were meaning to respond to Anon above saying the bike path is only utilized by the elite
A main goal of all the bike path stuff is to make bicycling more appealing. The idea is that if the routes are safer, more people will use them, and it won’t just be the “elite,” but people from all segments of society. But (and) I hope the city has plans to educate people: it’s annoying to see bikes riding on Micheltorena (in certain blocks) now that Sola has been majorly redone specifically to accommodate bikes. I will add: some of the current bicyclists are far from “elite,” but are persons with mental disabilities that preclude them from driving cars, and poor persons who can’t afford cars but are dutifully on their way to work.