Edhat Staff
By the edhat staff
Five streets in Santa Barbara are reducing their speed limits due to a recent Engineering and Traffic Survey.
The streets are: Alamar Ave, De La Vina Street, La Colina Road, Miramonte Drive, and Yanonali Street.
Below are the current speed limits and the reductions that will take affect per street:
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Alamar Ave between State Street and Foothill Road: 35 mph to 30 mph
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De La Vina Street between State and Mission Streets: 30 mph to 25 mph
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La Colina Road between Verano Drive to La Cumbre Road: 30 mph to 25 mph
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Miramonte Drive between Carrillo Street and Via del Cielo: 30 mph to 25 mph
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Yanonali Street between Garden Street to Calle Cesar Chavez: 30 mph to 25 mph
Safer roads by lowering speeds, thats great. I still think some street need gradually increasing speed humps, bright yellow!
Since the required studies are done, this also means SBPD can legally use radar on these roads to give tickets! Pro-tip: If you ever get a radar-enforced speeding ticket, contact the local Traffic Engineer and ask when the last Engineering Traffic Study was completed. It must be within the past 5 years, or bye-bye ticket.
Additional Pro Tips:
– You can ask LE to show you the “documentation” (could be a simple sticker) a!s to when the radar was last calibrated.
– Be super respectful to LE if you have been stopped…don’t be “sappy” though as they’ll see right through it (“You sure fill out that uniform nicely officer.” ….that type of thing).
– Acknowledging that you were or probably/most likely were guilty of what they stopped you for.
– Even if you receive a citation, do NOT cuss out or denigrate the officer in any/shape/form/manner.
Cannot tell you how many times I’ve gotten out of tickets for speeding, unlawful U-turns, late-late very late yellow lights, illegal passing, and so on by being respectful and/or slightly “snively”, but don’t grovel. In my world, boot licking is fine as long as my insurance don’t go up or have an infraction on my driving record.
They want an acknowledgement when you click Send … which is tantamount to fixing the longstanding bug where it sometimes doesn’t return to the article from the ADD NEW COMMENT window.
Late late late late yellows.. that’s bad and an increasingly growing habit in town from what I’ve seen. Please no one do this.
Speaking of late, late yellows, I’ve had it up to here with people running the very, very red light at Castillo and 101. There needs to be both cameras and a warning on the train trestle when the light is red/turning red. It’s insane how many times per week I see someone run that light 3, 4, even 5 seconds after it turned red. It might be a visibility thing.
Thanks for the nonexistent “post made” notification, Edhat.
Huh @Local321? What is your complaint with edhat exactly?
Plus, the posting bug’s really not a big deal, it’s a harmless mistake everyone experiences once and then they understand for the future. This isn’t CNN, it’s a local site. Deal with it, it’s not that serious.
It’s also probably a frustration thing. Caltrans runs the traffic light timing under and directly adjacent the freeway, not the City, and they don’t give two hoots about the awful backup they cause all over town.
Lower speed limits is great but unless there is enforcement then what good will it do?
please add Las Positas to this list. All roads in the Samarkand area need 25 mph posted. People in SB are terrible speeders. You need active enforcement.
Las Positas was recently lowered last year. (south of the freeway)
Lower speed limits….yay. Now, please enforce. !! And, to all who run the yellow or red, STOP….& Use your signals…way too many careless, self absorbed drivers in “Paradise”. Y’all are forcing our insurance rates up!
Yellow doesn’t mean stop, legally. Only that your car must be at least partially in the intersection before it turns red. That’s the law.
Speed bumps is one way to go. Definitely low tech and cheap, When traveling in Australia my friend who loaned me her car received a ticket in the mail after I left. They have cameras and speed traps in various places. The one I violated was on a bridge over the Derwent River. No muss, no fuss, or as they say, “No dramers, Mate.” They mail the ticket, you pay the pay the fine. (I paid her back and it wasn’t cheap). Such a system would certainly cool the jets of some of the hot rodders we have racing down San Andres many other streets around here. Probably too techie for us though plus it’s got to be an infringement of some unalienable right or other. Kinda like roundabouts, huh?
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The 154: Why do they not lower it to say 30mph and load it with highway patrol? Far too many going too fast on the 154. Lower speed limit will get it off Google Maps as the fastest route from here to SLO etc, and of course, dramatically reduce the injuries/fatalities, plus the cops will make massive money in the first few months . Seems like a win all the way around. – AB in SB
The government cannot arbitrarily set the speed to whatever they want; hence requiring an engineering survey to support a posted speed. (the speed set is based on how fast people drive and the design of the roadway)
Another possibility would be teaching kids not to walk in front of traffic, treat motorized bikes as vehicular traffic and require training to use, and put driver’s training back into high school required class.
Milpas, please add Milpas! That north-travelling traffic comes off the traffic circle and just shoots through all the way to turn near the Bowl.
These new speed ‘bumps’ are more like speed mounds. Especially the ones on San Pascual. Driving over them at 25 mph will cause most cars to bottom out and damage their suspension. In reality these traffic interference devises are created to actually deny people the right to travel at the posted speed limit and are, therefore, probably illegal. But priorities are very odd in this city. I wonder if there are speed bumps on bicycle lanes to slow them down to a “posted limit’?
Interesting thought about speed bumps on bicycle lanes. I’m concerned about excessive speeds on the multi-use paths, now that e-bikes are so prevalent. It’s a great way to get around, but people expect to be able to amble slowly or bike leisurely on the multi-use paths, and those e-bikes can go pretty fast.
I do support the lower speed limit specifically on De la Vina. Lots people pulling in and out of parking spaces, pedestrians trying to cross. Drivers need to be able to deal with that, and the lower speed should help.
Bike path speed bumps, not a bad idea except that these are multiuse paths and I’d wager speed bumps would be a major ADA problem.