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���- i <br /> REPOI � T � � � <br /> To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> From the City Manager <br /> May 9, 2005 <br /> Subject <br /> Four-way Stop Signs on Shearwater Parkway at Canvasback Way/St. Lucia Drive <br /> Recommendation <br /> Adopt a resolution approving and authorizing the installation of 4-way stop signs on <br /> Shearwater Parkway at its intersection with Canvasback Way/St. Lucia Drive. <br /> Background <br /> Residents in the area of the intersection of Sheannrater Parkway with Canvasback Way <br /> and St. Lucia Drive petitioned the City to install stop signs on Shearwater Parkway at <br /> that intersection. As the Canvasback Way and St. Lucia Drive approaches to this <br /> intersection are already controlled by stop signs, the proposed stop signs on <br /> Shearwater Parkway (where pedestrian crosswalks are marked) would make the <br /> intersection a 4-way stop. A total of 18 residents representing 17 properties near the <br /> intersection in question signed the petitions. <br /> Traffic volumes at the intersection meet the criteria of Redwood City's local street stop <br /> sign policy for 4-way stops. At approximately 2,600 vehicles per day, Shearwater <br /> Parkway is at midrange of the City policy's volume requirement for the busier street <br /> (1000 to 4000 vehicles per day required). The Canvasback Way and St. Lucia Drive <br /> approaches to the intersection carry a combined total of 1,200 vehicles per day, <br /> meeting the criterion for the minor street (at least 900 vehicles per day). Additionally, <br /> the volume on the minor street approach fulfills the local stop sign policy criterion of <br /> exceeding 30 percent of total traffic entering the intersection for eight hours per day, , <br /> with total traffic entering the intersection in those eight hours averaging 250 vehicles per <br /> hour. <br /> The intersection has had a good safety record. In the eight years from the beginning of <br /> 1996 through the end of 2003, there had been only two accidents reported there <br /> involving traffic movements through the intersection. Roughly 11 million drivers safely <br /> passed through the intersection in that period of time. The two reported accidents that <br /> did occur near the intersection both involved vehicles turning the corner too quickly on <br /> wet pavement, and sliding off the road. In 2004, an additional accident was reported in <br /> which a southbound vehicle on Shearwater turned left while failing to yield to an <br /> oncoming northbound vehicle. <br /> Page 1 of 2 <br />