Tuesday, March 5, 2013

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

26 comments:

Anonymous said...

Half Moon Bay will have this done and finished and Pacifica will still be catering to the hippies and noobees arguing about Highway 1.

todd bray said...

Let's hope so.

Anonymous said...

Todd Bray and his Vallemar hippies and noobes are the main impediment to anything revenue producing being built in Pacifica.

Johhny T said...

hear hear. You are correct Mr Bray.

U R Full of It said...

Anon 1046... you are so right! Just think of how much revenue we would have if we had a 6 lane freeway running through town. It is not like CalTrans has been messing with the light on Hwy 1 and RDM. When you are waiting to make a left off of 1 onto RDM the light changes first for people making a left from RDM to HWY 1, even when there are no cars waiting to turn left.

Anonymous said...

Vallemar? And West Sharp park, Rockaway, Manor, and on and on. This is a hippie town you fools!

Anonymous said...

Conspiracy.

Anonymous said...

1142 sarcasm, yes? yes?

Anonymous said...

oh yes I'd get off the freeway to stop in pathetica. absolutely.

Anonymous said...

Yeah 1142. Look what the freeway did for Palmetto and the Pacific Manor and Sharp Park districts. That's posh, prime, luxe. Thank the great Caltrans. Killer of towns. Won't take much. We're near dead now.

todd bray said...

Anyone of you know the identity of the gullible suits viewing the quarry today? looks like the 88 acre property is attracting a new set of suckers.

Anonymous said...

If we keep saying "hippies" we can fix anything! burp.

Anonymous said...

here we go again

Anonymous said...

Bray they were saying something about Nevada is full.

Anonymous said...

MIB?

Anonymous said...

Wassa matter Todd? You guys don't have the quarry bugged for just such events?

Steve Sinai said...

"Anyone of you know the identity of the gullible suits viewing the quarry today"

"Word on the street" is that it's Chop Keenan.

Anonymous said...

California Prison Authority.

Anonymous said...

Bray, can march into their office and tell them not to buy the quarry.

Like he did last time.

Anonymous said...

It's not Chop.

Anonymous said...

Todd fo-gets the Quarry is already approved for commercial use, no vote needed. As long as there's nothing crazy the coastal commission will pass it.

Anonymous said...

Chop Keenan. That would be too funny. Well I guess he never did build what he wanted in HMB after they so cleverly turned his land into a protected wetlands. Probably still has some of their money. Oh, let me count the thousand ways the official City of Pathetica lunkheads could screw it up, causing Chop to then slice and dice this town.

Anonymous said...

Cypress Gardens wants to build a cemetery.

Anonymous said...

"Quarry is already approved for commercial use, no vote needed. As long as there's nothing crazy the coastal commission will pass it." Peebles said he'd build all commercial if Measure L didn't pass. Instead, he stiffed his lender on the non-recourse loan and walked away with a multi-million dollar profit. The lender was stuck with the quarry. If the coastal commission will pass an all-commercial project, why hasn't somebody done that?

todd bray said...

I know this means nothing to the various Anon's here but zoning is a far cry from an approved project of any kind.

But if the current East Coast owners of the property can unload it on some un-informed wanna be's like themselves or the transient fellow they loaned so many millions to to buy it, then good for them. Bad for the buyer, but good for them.



Anonymous said...

Chop Keenan managed to get a hotel built in HMB right on the water. Then it went condo. Same in Hermosa Beach. He's big but deep local roots. And he likes retail. He knows how to get things done. If he's interested, it's a good sign. He'll run rings around the amateurs we've put in charge. Ask the other amateurs in HMB who tried to mess with him. Fingers-crossed.