Roundabouts have wider radius, and more safety features; they’re not recommended near a railway corridor or where the sidestreet, the street intersecting a major artery has much less traffic than the main road, as with our three way intersections. Only the intersection at La Costa is more than a three-way interesection!

Second of all, NONE of the planned five traffic circles are replacing intersections with stop signs, as is the plan in Del Mar. And in Del Mar the residents are getting to VOTE if they favor traffic circles and reduction of a lane on the Coast Highway.

No stop signs, near traffic circles are planned to be eliminated, either. There is a currently existing stopsign, at Hygeia, that was never replaced when the two traffic circles on Leucadia Blvd. were installed. In fact, there WAS a plan to replace that stop sign, in Phase Two of the Leucadia Blvd traffic circle plan, at which time more sidewalks were to be installed, facilitating beach access. Phase Two NEVER happened, and the money was diverted to the North 101 Streetscam Plan.

There is presently a stop sign, NOT to be eliminated, at Marchetta and Highway 101, near Juanitas. That stop sign will stay, although the first traffic circle is planned at El Portal, EXACTLY WHERE City traffic engineers recommended no “lane diet” should begin, due to already existing traffic back-up between the Marchetta three way intersection stop sign and the traffic signal at Leucadia Blvd. and North Hwy. 101. The plan DOESN”T make sense, except to a few pro-development advocates who seem completely unconcerned about adding to gridlock, cut-through traffic racing through our neighborhoods, and slower emergency response time.

The traffic circles would NOT be traffic calming. There is NO EVIDENCE that they would. Instead this issue pits a few merchants and property owners against the neighbors, who would primarily like to be “left alone.” We favor the rights of neighborhood self-determination, citywide. We don’t want and can’t afford to have these so-called “improvements” rammed down the throat of our neighborhood, at the expense of public safety and our peaceable dwellings.