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S B 343
Senate Bill 343 mandates supplemental materials that have been
received by the City Clerk's office that relate to an agenda item after
the agenda packets have been distributed to the City Council be
available to the public. This document is also available in the City
Clerk's office, the Dublin Library, and the City's Website.
The attached document was received in the City Clerk's office after
distribution of the November 17, 2009 City Council meeting agenda
packet.
05/18/10 6.1
From: Randy Frazier
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 9:19 PM
To: Jaimee Bourgeois
Subject: Hearing Tuesday Night
Jaime,
Thank you for the staff report for Tuesday night's City Council meeting.
I just realized this afternoon that I am not going to be able to make it to the hearing. But
based on what you have told me, it doesn't make much difference, the speed change on
AVB cannot be stopped by anyone--not even the City Council!
I guess the fact is that people are already going over 25 mph. No surprise there.
I have wished the entire time I have lived here (10 years) that the police would enforce
the limit--but largely they haven't. It would seem that ) based on that (lack of
enforcement, you would be hard pressed to call this street a speed trap, but then it is all
how one defines speed trap, isn't it!
Just for the record I want to state several things:
1) I contend that there has been increased traffic in the past 10 years. This
increased traffic could be largely blamed on the increased development in the San
Ramon and east Dublin. Lack of a 2nd High School to service the population in these
areas can't be helping. It is going to be interesting to try to navigate the street with the
increased traffic, moving faster.
2) In spite of some of the contrary opinions at the last meeting where we talked about
the consideration of a new traffic light on AVB, a good number of people are using AVB
FOR NOTHING BUT A WAY TO CUT AROUND THE 680/580 Interchange en-route to San
Jose. How do I know this? I work in the old Washington Mutual Bank building on
Dublin Blvd. When I go to work, I drive west on AVB; turn left on Amador Plaza---and
drive through Dublin Boulevard, passing Big 5 Sporting Goods, and turning right on St
Patricks--en-route to our building parking lot. Every day I follow anywhere from 1-3 cars
taking this short cut.
I guess 5 mph isn't too big of a deal--as long as the police enforce it. But then I have to
wonder why they would enforce it after the change when they aren't doing it now. My
guess is they won't and the average speed will creep up to 35 mph.
As it is now, I almost have to have a light in front of my house to back out of my own
driveway - there is that much traffic--and so little room on the street. And coming home
is almost as much fun. I have to start slowing everyone down about a block from my
house, just so I can pull into my driveway. Even then, when I signal, slow down, etc,
many times I get the digital salute from those nice people who routinely use AVB.
It's going to be interesting to see what happens.
Randy Frazier, P.E.
6778 AVB