Streetscape Plan Updates from Leucadia & Solana Beach

The North County Times is reporting that a Los Angeles fire Engineer David Smith is collecting signature support to oppose Leucadia‘s beautification project since he believes the new plans will compromise fire truck access. However, the city’s Fire Chief Mark Muir disagrees with Smith’s assessment and stated that while the road didn’t weren’t  up to par on the city’s requirements, the recommendations did meet the state’s standards.

Asked if he thought a fire truck would have trouble moving through the reworked area, Muir responded, “To me, that’s not even a question. We can do it.”

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Meanwhile  John A. Eldon an instructor at UCSD’s extension program attended the Solana Beach Streetscape Plan and learned that,

the project consultant now advocates two southbound lanes, the rightmost of which would to be clearly sharrow marked and designated as a slower lane to be shared by motorists and bicyclists.  Northbound we would have one through lane next to a fairly wide bike lane, which should work OK because there is only one intersection (Lomas Santa Fe) along the 2-mile stretch.

The shared lane is a huge improvement over earlier door zone bike lane plans and the proposal to divert southbound bicyclists to a side street west of the coast highway. The next community meetings will be sometime in January.