sr-120969-8a1CITY OF SANTA MONICA
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DATE: December ~, 1868
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TO: Perry Scott, City i,~anager
FROM: Bartlett L. Kennedy, City Engineer
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SUBJECT: Left Turn Storage Lanes on Lincoln Boulevard, Colorado
Avenue to Santa Monica Boulevard.
Reference is made to my memo of November 18, 1858, subject
same as above, recommending the installation of left turn storage
lanes on Lincoln Boulevard at Colorado, Broadtaay and Santa.P~Tonica
Boulevard.
The installation of these lanes vrould require fire removal
o_° less than half of the curb parking spaces in the block betti^reen
Santa P~Sor_ica Boulevard and Broad~~ray and all of the spaces in the block
betvreen Broadiway and Colorado (1500 block).
As you knoti~r, this recommendation s~ras di sapp-roved at the
November 25, 1868 meeting of the City Council. Councilman Reidy, in
moving to disapprove the recommendation, requested the administration
to study tine possibility of revising the plan for the 1500 block to
permit bath the left turn storage lanes and some curb parking.
Attached hereto is a sY>etch shovring the results of the
requested study. The length of the left turn pockets has been
reduced to an absolute minirnm of 100 feet. The transitions required
{approach transition from center line to lane line and transition from_
lane line to packet, on the one side, and the reverse transition fror.;
pocket to centerline on the other side), overlap each other by 30 feet.
Since this overlap area is the only section Ushe-re sufficient
roadUaay width. (30') exists to permit tti~ro moving lanes (11' eacr.) and
one parking lane { '), only one parking space on each side of the
street could be provided under this proposal. There is no conceivable
justification for subjecting the 28,020 + motorists daily using this
street to this ti~reaving action for the sole purpose of providing a
maximum of one curb parking space on each side of the street.
In view of
esser_tiai to relieve
Boulevard, it again
requested to approve
lanes as proposed in
Attachment: Sketch
the above, and since it has become absolutely
the traffic congestion on this section of Lincoln
is urgently recommended that the City Council be
the installation of the subject left turn storage
my November 18, lg'og memo.
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BARTLETT L. KEPNEDY
City Engineer ~ i