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HomeMy WebLinkAbout5.1 Davona Drive TrafficCITY OF DUBLIN AGENDA STATEMENT City Council Meeting Date: October 13, 1986 SUBJECT: Davona Drive Traffic - Letter from the Hendricks Family EXHIBITS ATTACHED: 1) Letter from the Hendricks Family 2) Copy of traffic accident report 3) Memorandum from Police Chief dated October 9, 1986 R ECOMMENDATION~f~2) Receive Staff presentation Receive public input Deliberate, and give Staff direction. FINANCIAL STATEMENT: Cost of further studies and traffic mitigation measures is unknown at this time. DESCRIPTION: Mr. Hendricks, of 8670 Davona Drive, has contacted Staff regarding traffic problems on Davona Drive and asked that this be brought to the attention of the City Council. Staff has taken a recent look at this street and determined that the problems still persist. Davona Drive is a collector street which is used by a large number of vehicles and is also a perceived shortcut between Village Parkway and Alcosta Blvd. Vehicles traveling eastbound on Alcosta Blvd. approaching Davona may turn right on a red light. Secondly, traffic does tend to speed, as much of the street is fairly straight and a large portion of the traffic is passing through. Discouraging use of the street by through traffic can be done by several methods, some fairly radical: 1. Revision of signal timing at Davona Drive and Alcosta Blvd. to allow more traffic to pass straight through to Kimball Avenue. This could be combined with signing to direct traffic to Kimball. It would also require traffic to wait longer leaving Davona in order to discourage those who are shortcutting to save time. 2. Targeting this area for heavy enforcement. This will not only discourage speeding but also through traffic, as their intent is to save time by speeding. 3. Closing the street to through traffic by the use of barriers. 4. Closing the street to entering traffic at Alcosta Boulevard. Of the first two possibilities, the second is being done, and Staff is meeting with City of San Ramon Staff to pursue the first. Alternates three and four are radical and should only be done after sending notices to the entire neighborhood asking for their views on these closures. The problem with total or partial closures is that local traffic is penalized and also is detoured onto other streets not now incurring this volume of traffic. Staff recommends that the public views be heard at this meeting and that a second meeting be scheduled to answer new questions brought up at this meeting. ITEM NO._~~ ~ COPIES TO: The Hendricks Family September 18, 1986 Lee Thompson~ City Engineer City of Dublin 6500 Dublin Blvd. Dublin~ Ca. 94568 Dear Mr. Thompson, As a result of our recent telephone conversations, I am writing you this letter to put down in black and white the concerns of the residents of Davona Drive about the dangerous traffic situation that still persists and is growing daily! I have gone personally door to door trying to obtain the collective opinion of my neighbors and their concerns. Recently we had a major traffic accident involving two automobiles with small children on board-- with seven injured and one requiring surgery and both cars heavily damaged. Last weeks a be~iful dog was killed the one time his owner had not latched the gate securely. A few days ago a car was clocked going 50 mph on Davona. That is not unusual but the disturbing part is that the car was speeding past Murray Elementary School at noon with children out on the street by the crosswalks. Davona, you might say~ is the street where you never see the children. It's quite obvious that parents won't chance let'ting a child play out front because of the wreckless speed of the over abundance of traffic we experience each day! Over two years ago a study revealed that over TWO THOUSAND vehicles used our street daily! I can assure you that that number has not dwindled. With the rapid growth of our area and the completion of Bishop Ranch, t~bse numbers can only increase. Although illegal, deisel tractor trailers~ (some with hazardous placards), along with construction equipment use our street freely. NOW we have bus traffic with a gross vehicle weight that doesn't belong on our street! Where will this end?--with the death of a child? We, as residents of Davona certainly hope not! The radar citations have shown clearly that speeders are from out of the area and are using Davona as a short cut at the residents expense! After a discussion with our police departments it became quite obvious that with the present man power~ we, as residents could not expect to have traffic laws enforced on a regular basis. Only when a traffic unit was available and certainly not all the time. We have had the "Radar Bandaid Service" several times in the past and as soon as the bandaid is removed, the sore festers up again. At the corner of Wicklow South~ we now have stop signs that have made some progress. No one has driven into a p~ed car or into a house since the signs were installed, but speeders~oing and coming from Alcosta Blvd. have a pedal to the metal attitude to this point at Wicklow South that makes this stretch of Davona Drive extremely dangerous as small school~ children cross Davona at Wicklow North--right in the path of the speeders! These are just a few instances I've mentioned as I can't see going on and on. However, if our city can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to "beautify" our main streets, why has the city allowed Davona Drive to continue to deteriorate with a virtually unchecked, and certainly unrestricted traffic flow that endangers our children and serves only to lower our property values! We, the residents of Davona Drive in the City of Dublin demand that immediate steps be taken to correct this dangerous problem. If, due to the City of Dublin's inaction, nothing is done to permanently correct this dangerous situation, then surely the City of Dublin must assume responsibility. Respectively, TRAFFIC COLLISION , ~~1~ IICY- Vi~, YR(IJ MAKI(S)IMOO~JS)ICO~OR(S) ~lCKHSE NO.(S) STATE(S) Clip US~ VEHICLE DAMAGE--IXTKNTILOCATION ..................................... : ~R~ ~pc"~, Wo~,:. ~'~, ......................... ~ ~pc~. H~o.~. ~. I PARTY N~M~(~mST, M~, , v=.. : : CliP 555-Page 1 (Rev 6-82) OPI 042 TRAFFIC,COLLISION CODING ,,o. c[ .,,., 3 Y.. 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