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– IE Transit Talking Points Short
The
Transit Coalition supports the development of complete streets, which
in addition to the main roadway, includes concrete sidewalks, bicycle lanes or a paralleling cycleway, wide shoulders
for potential street parking, and marked crossings through developed areas. For rural areas, a single multi-use bridle path located adjacent to the major roadways can complete the street. Such streets and
roadways provide safe and efficient transportation choices to move
people.
We
believe the streets of Southern California ought to be designed to
support a variety of transportation options, not just automobile
travel. Streets that are designed to accommodate solely automobile
traffic often cause inconveniences or even safety issues for
pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, and equestrians.
This
is possibly the case in regards to a March, 2013 pedestrian injury in Temecula. Two pedestrians were struck by a car along a segment of a major road without sidewalks which links a
city library into the western part of town. Pauba Road in some parts
is complete with the exception of its western segment where the
injury took place. Pauba Road also has
portions in the east where only the southern half of the road is
complete. A local resident, Mike Baxter is petitioning to get the
western segment of Pauba into a complete street which is long past due. To be fair, the city
has been proactive in ensuring its streets are complete, but
sidewalks feeding to/from the city library without exception need to
be finished promptly on both sides of the road. Now is the time.
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