Half Moon Bay preparing to widen Highway 1

Half Moon Bay Review/Mark Noack, 3/1/13. "City revisits traffic study,  Planning officials discuss local roads."

"Half Moon Bay planning officials brainstormed ways to improve the city’s grid of roads, trails and highways at a follow-up meeting on Tuesday to prepare the city’s circulation update. The circulation report is the master plan setting goals for improving the city’s transportation infrastructure. The current circulation study was put together in the 1990s, and city planners have indicated it’s overdue for an update.  

Half Moon Bay to Pacifica, "Hello fix the traffic"  

The city’s array of pathways is used by all, and many people have firsthand knowledge of traffic hot spots.  In November, more than 40 city residents came out to make suggestions for where the city could improve traffic or safety. Many of those suggestions were centered on the Highway 1 backbone of Half Moon Bay.  “There is no safe way to cross from the east side of Highway 1,” wrote Golden Gate Avenue resident John Szabo, one of many who flagged problems for the city. “Don’t wait for people to die before something is done.”

But other residents were firmly opposed to new traffic signals or making any changes to Highway 1. That may be a sign of the provincial fights the city could face as it moves forward with planned road improvements. In tandem with the circulation study, the city is preparing a long-expected expansion of Highway 1 that would widen the roadway, extend its parallel pedestrian trail and install three new stoplights." 

Posted by Kathy Meeh