[SDCBC] What were they thinking?

[John Eldon]

Per Dan Burden, reducing the speed limit to 40 would preserve, or perhaps enhance, the street's carrying capacity.

Kathy Keehan <execdir at sdcbc.org> wrote:                        I’d be interested to hear suggestions from this list about what could be improved about this particular intersection. Here’s the basic parameters –
   
  6 lane arterial, 55 mph. Street classification will not be changing, since there is currently a need to provide this much pavement to move the number of cars using the intersection with an acceptable level of service. 
  Long right turn only lanes on both sides of the intersection, to hold the cars queuing up to get on the freeway during peak hours (and to keep them out of the way of the straight through traffic)
  Fairly sharp turn radii at the corners. These are not free right turns/merges/diverges. They don’t require a stop at the corner, but it will be tough to make the turns on most of the corners at more than 15 mph. 
  No alternate freeway crossings. Every street that crosses the freeway has on- and off-ramps. 
  Although it would be nice to reconfigure the land uses/street configuration, it’s Camino Del Norte. No fronting uses. Recently and fairly intensively developed, so no opportunities for redevelopment anytime soon. 
   
  Options?
   
  Kathy
  
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