Laserfiche WebLink
72A -) <br />REPORT <br />To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From the City Manager <br />April 28, 2003 <br />Subject <br />Stop Sign Installations on Stambaugh Street at Buckeye Street, and on Pine Street at <br />Stambaugh Street. <br />Recommendation <br />Adopt a resolution approving and authorizing the installation of stop signs on Stambaugh <br />Street at its intersection with Buckeye Street, and on Pine Street at its intersection with <br />Stambaugh Street. <br />Background <br />The proposal for stop signs along Stambaugh Street was brought to staffs attention by <br />neighborhood petition. When staff investigated, over 300 pedestrians were observed <br />crossing each of the intersections in the one -hour period following school dismissal. Most <br />of the pedestrians were school -aged children. Many were unaccompanied by adults. We <br />estimate that similar volumes of pedestrians cross these intersections in the hour before <br />school assembly in the morning. This volume of child pedestrian activity vastly exceeds <br />the threshold level at which the installation of stop signs would be justified, in accordance <br />with adopted Redwood City Local Street Stop Sign Warrants (20 school -age pedestrians <br />crossing per hour). <br />The reason for the very large numbers of pedestrians in this area is that there is a grade - <br />separated pedestrian crossing of Woodside Road along the alignment of Stambaugh <br />Street. This crossing is a principal access route to and from Hoover School for pupils and <br />their caregivers. It is also a convenient route from the neighborhood north of Woodside <br />Road to Hoover Park. The recent shift of the crosswalk across Middlefield Road (that had <br />been relatively close to Woodside Road) to a location at the intersection of Buckeye Street <br />and Middlefield Road, occurred subsequent to staffs counts of pedestrians crossing <br />Stambaugh at Buckeye. The shift of that crosswalk has probably caused an increase in the <br />number of pedestrians crossing Stambaugh at Buckeye. <br />On the average, each of the intersections experiences about one accident per year that <br />might be avoided with the use stop signs. These have all been crashes between motor <br />vehicles; no pedestrians have been involved. While that frequency of vehicle crashes is <br />below the level that would justify stop control under the Redwood City Local Street Stop <br />Sign Warrants, it is considerably above the rate of accidents that would be expected to <br />occur at these intersections according to statewide averages. Hence, the proposed signs <br />could be expected to have generalized traffic safety benefits as well as that of protecting <br />child pedestrian crossings. <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />