HomeMy WebLinkAboutTSC Packet 11-04-2010 Special MeetingCITY OF SARATOGA
TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSION
Special Meeting AGENDA
DATE: November 4, 2010
TIME: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
LOCATION: Administrative Conference Room
13777 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga, CA 95070
Call to Order
Roll Call: Biester, Bustamante, Coulter, Guichard, Kane, Kirk, and Vita
Report on Posting of the Agenda: Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2, the agenda
for this meeting was properly posted on October 28, 2010.
Accept Agenda Items: No additional items may be added pursuant to Government. Code
Section 54954.2.
Oral & Written Communication
Any member of the public may address the Commission about any matter not on the agenda
for this meeting for up to three minutes. Commissioners may not comment on the matter
but may choose to place the topic.on a future agenda.
1. Traffic Matrix #260
Issue: Concerns with crosswalk on Prospect Road at Titus Avenue
Action: TSC will make recommendation
Adjournment to the Regular Meeting at 6:30 p.m.
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related modification or accommodation to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk's Office at
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before the start of the meeting.
In accordance with the Ralph M. Brown Act, copies of material provided to the Traffic Safety Commission by City
staff in connection with this agenda are available at the office of the Public Works Department at 13777 Fruitvale
Avenue, Saratoga, California 95070. Any materials distributed by staff after the posting of the agenda are made
available for public review at the Public Works office at the time they are distributed to the Traffic Safety
Commission.
Certificate of Posting of Agenda:
I, Kristin Borel, Public Works Analyst for the City of Saratoga, declare that the foregoing agenda for the meeting of
the Traffic Safety Commission of the City of Saratoga was posted on October 28, 2010 at the office of the City of
Saratoga, 13777 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga, CA 95070 and was available for public review at that location. The agenda
is also available on the City's website at www.saratoga.ca.us.
Kristin Borel
From: Mani Jayaraman [manijayaraman@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 5:06 PM
To: Kristin Borel
Subject: Fwd: Re: [McAuliffe] Pedestrian safety on crosswalk at Prospect & Titus intersection
Dear Kristin,
Below is an email that I wrote to the other administrators at City of Saratoga regarding pedestrian safety at the
Prospect and Titus crosswalk. I was informed by one of the your colleague that I should forward this email to
you as it comes under your purview. Please do the needful. Thank you.
Regards,
Mani
From: Mani Jayaraman <manijayaraman@yahoo.com <mailto:manijayaraman%
40yahoo.com><mailto:manijayaraman%40yahoo.com> >
Subject: Pedestiran Saftety on Crosswalk Prospect Ave @ Titus ave
To: cmorrow@saratoga.ca.us
<mailto:cmorrow%40saratoga.ca.us><mailto:cmorrow%40saratoga.ca.us> , kk2king@saratoga.ca.us
<mailto:kk2king%40saratoga.ca.us><mailto:kk2king%40saratoga.ca.us> , cpage@saratoga.ca.us
<mailto:cpage%40saratoga.ca.us><mailto:cpage%40saratoga.ca.us> , hmiller@saratoga.ca.us <mailto:hmiller%
40saratoga.ca.us><mailto•hmiller%40saratoga.ca.us> , mcappello@saratoga.ca.us <mailto:mcappello%
40saratoga.ca.us><mailto:mcappello%o40saratoga.ca.us> , ctclerk@saratoga.ca.us <mailto:ctclerk%
40saratoga.ca.us><mailto:ctclerk%40saratoga.ca.us> , davea@saratoga.ca.us <mailto:davea%
40saratoga.ca.us><mailto:davea%40saratoga.ca.us> , jcherbone@saratoga.ca.us <mailto:jcherbone%
40saratoga.ca.us><mailto:jcherbone%40saratoga.ca.us> , jsmith@saratoga.ca.us <mailto:jsmith%
40saratoga. ca.us><mailto : j smith%40sarato ga. ca.us>
Cc: hoipoon@yahoo.com
<mailto:hoipoon%40yahoo.com><mailto:hoipoon%40yahoo.com> , mcauliffeweb@mcauliffek8.com
<mailto :mcauliffeweb %40mcauliffek8 . com><mailto :mcauliffeweb %40mcauli ffek8 . com>
Date: Friday, 22 October, 2010, 1:26 PM
Dear All,
I'm writing to bring to your attention to a very hazardous situation at the Prospect Avenue and Titus Avenue
intersection in Saratoga . There is an unguarded pedestrian crosswalk at this intersection which leads to Christa
McAuliffe School . I and many other parents use this crosswalk with our kids to get to the school. On a regular
basis, cars drive past this crosswalk without waiting for the pedestrians at speeds which are hazardous and
borderline criminal. On Wednesday, 20th October, I and my son were almost run over by an SUV. The vehicle
came to screeching halt mere few feet from us while we were using the crosswalk. Upon sharing this incident
with other parents, I found out that these close calls happen too often. I doubt us or any pedestrian would
survive a collision if it were to happen.
This situation is worse in the westbound direction due to the following reasons.
1) Speed limit of 40 mph: This is an avenue in a residential neighborhood and near a school and speed limit of
40 mph seems way too high in my opinion.
2) There are no clear signs warning drivers that they are approaching a across walk used by school children
1
ahead of time.
3) Existing signs are obscured by overgrown trees.
The above issues can be addressed by
a) Reducing the speed limit to 25 mph around this cross walk. The high school kids down the road enjoy this
luxury and I can think of no good reason this safety measure should not be provided to the younger children.
b) Post bigger, more visible signs indicating that there is a pedestrian crosswalk ahead. This will allow the
drivers to be more aware of the hazard to the pedestrians.
c) Trim the trees obscuring the current signs.
d) Traffic enforcement with police once a week.
While I realize that option (a) can take time, the other three can't happen soon enough. I realize that there is a
monetary cost in carrying out the above fixes and I hope that concern for pedestrian safety outweighs that cost.
If no corrective action is taken to address this hazard, a serious and possibly fatal collision involving a
pedestrian and a car is a certainty. It is not question of if, it is matter of when. The cost to the city from any legal
action arising from such an incident, would far outweigh any expense in preventing such an incident.
I sincerely hope that necessary remedies are carried out before any untoward incident.
Sincerely,
Mani Jayaraman
Concerned Parent.
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From: Nasim Hashemi [mailto:nasim@hashemi.com]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:20 AM
To: Jerry W. Witherspoon
Cc: Dave Anderson; Mani Jayaraman; McAuliffe@yahoogroups.com; Kathleen King; Chuck
Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk [Ann Sullivan]; John Cherbone; Jill Hunter;
Iveta Harvancik; Kristin Borel; Ostrov_Louise@cusdk8.org
Subject: Re: [McAuliffe] Re: Intersection at Titus and Prospect Ave.
As Mette mentioned, this issue has been dealt with before.
Here are some potential solutions:
1. Find a McAuliffe parent who will manage this issue.
2. This person contacts the previous McAuliffe parent who managed this
issue, for input and insight.
3.I believe the last time STOP signs or a Traffic Light were requested
for Titus and Prospect. We got a brighter side walk, the divider and plants.
4.Revisit the City with our requests. Which if I heard correctly is
better signage and hopefully a the least STOP signs on Prosepct at Titus.
5.Report back to the community what the City feedback is.
I nominate you Mani. :-)
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Kristin Borel
From: Nancy Roberts [Nan.Roberts@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 8:50 PM
To: Dave Anderson; 'Larson -Roberts, Nancy L'; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City
Clerk [Ann Sullivan]; John Cherbone; Jill Hunter
Cc: Iveta Harvancik; Kristin Borel; 'Mani Jayaraman'
Subject: RE: Pedestrian Safety on Crosswalk Prospect Ave and Titus Ave
Dear Mr. Anderson,
Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter.
This has been a very dangerous and long standing need that has gone overlooked for way too
long.
A swift, well targeted, and uncompromising intervention will very likely save a life.
Sincerely,
Nancy Roberts
From: Dave Anderson [mailto:davea@saratoga.ca.us]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 5:13 PM
To: Larson -Roberts, Nancy L; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk
[Ann Sullivan]; John Cherbone; JiII Hunter
Cc: Nancy Roberts; Iveta Harvancik; Kristin Borel
Subject: RE: Pedestrian Safety on Crosswalk Prospect Ave and Titus Ave
Dear Ms. Roberts;
I will have our staff research the issue of a "safety zone" on Prospect Avenue near McAuliffe school. I
will have the Public Works staff contact you on Monday with the results of their research.
Regards,
Dave Anderson
City Manager
PS, Please let the parents involved in this "letter writing campaign" know that they have been heard and
that the City is proposing a number of ways we can work together to make this a safer crossing. Please
take Crystal Morrow and Joan Smith off the distribution list, and add our Vice -Mayor, Jill Hunter at
jhunter@saratoga.ca.us Senior Civil Engineer, Iveta Harvancik at: iharvancik@saratoga.ca.us Also,
please include the staff liaison to the City's Traffic Safety Commission, Kristin Borel at:
kborel@saratoga.ca.us
10/27/2010
From: Melanie Schrader [mailto:melaniex1000@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:55 AM
To: Nasim Hashemi; Jerry W. Witherspoon
Cc: Dave Anderson; Mani Jayaraman; McAuliffe@yahoogroups.com; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard
Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk [Ann Sullivan]; John Cherbone; Jill Hunter; Iveta Harvancik; Kristin
Borel; Ostrov_Louise@cusdk8.org
Subject: Re: [McAuliffe] Re: Intersection at Titus and Prospect Ave.
And in the meantime, please use the traffic light at Johnson to cross the
street. Yes, it's a few more blocks & takes a few more minutes, but until this
situation has been resolved, don't risk your life or your children's by crossing
in an unsafe place just to save a little time.
:) Melanie
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Kristin Borel
From: Mani Jayaraman [manijayaraman@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:58 PM
To: Dave Anderson
Cc: Carrie Oleary; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk [Ann Sullivan];
John Cherbone; Jill Hunter; Iveta Harvancik; Kristin Borel; McAuliffe@yahoogroups.com; melissa
montelongo
Subject: Re: Intersection at Titus and Prospect Ave. San Jose
Dear Dave,
Thank you for your email. I'm happy to hear that Sheriff dept. will provide immediate assistance
to address this serious safety issue and I look forward hearing about the permanent measures that
the City of Saratoga is planning, to make this intersection safer for pedestrians.
Regards,
Mani
PS: This is not a letter writing campaign for me. This is more of a "Holyshit! Me and my son
almost got killed crossing the street on a designated crosswalk. Let me hope the people in charge
will do something permanent about this real and immediate threat to our lives campaign"
Pm pasting a note from an eyewitness to my near miss (just in case anyone is under the
impression that it was a fantasy cooked up for a "letter writing campaign").
Mani,
I saw this happen and it was mortifying. However, it is a normal occurrence. Even with our
own beloved MCA parents. Everyday there is someone driving on Prospect with their phone
attached to their ear using their elbow to steer and turn.
I am so glad you guys are ok
I will send a message to the city as well Until then we need as a community to respect the law.
Respect the speed limit and stay offyour phone!! If the call is so important that you would
endanger other peoples lives and your OWN KIDS lives invest some money in an earpiece.
Both hands on the steering wheel.
Best,
Melissa
On 10/22/2010 05:33 PM, Dave Anderson wrote:
Dear Ms. O'Leary;
In response to your email message I have asked Captain Calderone to assist in slowing
down traffic and ensuring pedestrian safety using the crosswalk at Titus and Prospect Ave
during school drop off and pickup next week. In addition, a number of other parents have
brought up other issues that may take longer to implement. I want to let you know that
your voices have been heard and that the City has taken and will take a number of steps to
make this area safer. Staff will compile the various requests and research some of the
other issues involved and send an email out to the parents that have written to express
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their concern on Monday.
Regards,
Dave Anderson
City Manager
PS, Please let the parents involved in this "letter writing campaign" know that they have been
heard and that the City is proposing a number of ways we can work together to make this a safer
crossing. Please take Crystal Morrow and Joan Smith off the distribution list, and add our Vice -
Mayor, Jill Hunter at jhunter@saratoga.ca.us Senior Civil Engineer, Iveta Harvancik at:
iharvancik@saratoga.ca.us Also, please include the staff liaison to the City's Traffic Safety
Commission, Kristin Borel at: kborel@saratoga.ca.us
On 10/22/2010 05:33 PM, Dave Anderson wrote:
Dear Ms. O'Leary;
In response to your email message I have asked Captain Calderone to assist in slowing down traffic
and ensuring pedestrian safety using the crosswalk at Titus and Prospect Ave during school drop
off and pickup next week. In addition, a number of other parents have brought up other issues
that may take longer to implement. I want to let you know that your voices have been heard and
that the City has taken and will take a number of steps to make this area safer. Staff will compile
the various requests and research some of the other issues involved and send an email out to the
parents that have written to express their concern on Monday.
Regards,
Dave Anderson
City Manager
PS, Please let the parents involved in this "letter writing campaign" know that they have been
heard and that the City is proposing a number of ways we can work together to make this a safer
crossing. Please take Crystal Morrow and Joan Smith off the distribution list, and add our Vice -
Mayor, Jill Hunter at ihunter@saratoga.ca.us Senior Civil Engineer, Iveta Harvancik at:
iharvancik@saratoga.ca.us Also, please include the staff liaison to the City's Traffic Safety
Commission, Kristin Borel at: kborel@saratoga.ca.us
From: Carrie Oleary [mailto:carrieolearyC@gmaiLcom]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 4:05 PM
To: Crystal Morrow; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk [Ann
Sullivan]; Dave Anderson; John Cherbone; Joan Smith
Cc: Mani Jayaraman
Subject: Intersection at Titus and Prospect Ave. San Jose
Dear All,
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A fellow parent, Mani Jaramayaraman, recently wrote to you explaining the safety
dangers our children and parents are facing when we cross from the north side of
Prospect Avenue to the south side to make our way to Christa McAuliffe School,
located at 12211 Titus Ave in Saratoga. I'm writing to echo his sense of urgency
we need traffic calming at that intersection, with clear signage and enforcement of
the 25mph zone outside of schools, and better protection for pedestrians using the
crosswalk.
Our school serves children ranging from kindergarten to 8th grade, and many live in
the local neighborhood of West San Jose that lies between Prospect and Rainbow
Ave. We would like to enjoy the sense of community of walking our younger
children to school, and the pride of seeing our older children walk themselves to
school in our safe neighborhood. High school students attending Lynbrook also
make their way across the intersection, often alone, running to get across safely.
The intersection is the sight of an accident waiting to happen.
As Mani wrote, we recognize that we can also help as a school community, by
having parents crossing students before and after school at the crosswalk. But we
would like to see some help with slowing the cars, and with police patrolling the
area to emphasize sensible precautions around children attempting to get to school
safely.
Thank you for all you do for our community!
Sincerely,
Carrie O'Leary
mom of Myles (3rd grade) and Eleanor (1st grade)
10/27/2010
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Kristin Borel
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Attachments:
Dear All,
Mani Jayaraman [manijayaraman@yahoo.com]
Sunday, October 24, 2010 2:19 PM
Dave Anderson
McAuliffe@yahoogroups.com; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City
Clerk [Ann Sullivan]; John Cherbone; Jill Hunter; Iveta Harvancik; Kristin Borel;
Ostrov_Louise@cusdk8.org
Re: Intersection at Titus and Prospect Ave.
Propect_Westbound.pdf; Propect_Eastbound.pdf
I'm attaching pictures which illustrates the challenge even responsible drivers face.
a) There is a little hill at the Prospect and Johnson intersection which makes it impossible to see
what's ahead (the crosswalk at Prospect and Titus). As drivers approach the Prospect Johnson
intersection westbound, there are no visible signs which informs the driver that there is an
unguarded crosswalk less than 100 meters after that intersection. This can be seen in slides titled
Prospect westbound 1 and 2.
b) Once they pass the intesection there are signs on the right side indicationg the lower speed
limit of 25 mph and that there is cross walk ahead. Unfortunately these signs are obscured by
overgrown trees. The signs on the ground are too close to the intersection and drivers don't see
them until they are right on top of the sign. Coming to a stop from here before the
crosswalk,which is — 50 meters away, at 40 mph, is a challenging task to say the least.
The east bound direction there is no hill, but the challenges for the drivers remain the same.
Installing clearly visible signs before the lighted intersections informing the drivers that there is
a school zone ahead with 25 mph speed limit and that there is a School cross walk would go a
long way towards improving pedestrian safety at the Prospect -Titus crosswalk.
Regards,
Mani
--- On Fri, 22/10/10, Mani Jayaraman <manijayaraman@yahoo.coin> wrote:
From: Mani Jayaraman <manijayaraman cuyahoo.com>
Subject: Pedestiran Saftety on Crosswalk Prospect Ave @ Titus ave
To: cmorrow@saratoga.ca.us, kk2king@saratoga.ca.us, cpage@aratoga.ca.us,
hmiller@saratoga.ca.us, mcappello@saratoga.ca.us, ctclerk@saratoga.ca.us,
davea@saratoga.ca.us, jcherbone@saratoga.ca.us, jsmith@saratoga.ca.us
Cc: hoipoon@vahoo.com, mcauliffeweb(mcauliffek8.com
Date: Friday, 22 October, 2010, 1:26 PM
Dear All,
I'm writing to bring to your attention to a very hazardous situation at the Prospect Avenue and
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Titus Avenue intersection in Saratoga . There is an unguarded pedestrian crosswalk at this
intersection which leads to Christa McAuliffe School . I and many other parents use this
crosswalk with our kids to get to the school. On a regular basis, cars drive past this crosswalk
without waiting for the pedestrians at speeds which are hazardous and borderline criminal. On
Wednesday, 20th October, I and my son were almost run over by an SUV. The vehicle came to
screeching halt mere few feet from us while we were using the crosswalk. Upon sharing this
incident with other parents, I found out that these close calls happen too often. I doubt us or any
pedestrian would survive a collision if it were to happen.
This situation is worse in the westbound direction due to the following reasons.
1) Speed limit of 40 mph: This is an avenue in a residential neighborhood and near a school and
speed limit of 40 mph seems way too high in my opinion.
2) There are no clear signs warning drivers that they are approaching a across walk used by
school children ahead of time.
3) Existing signs are obscured by overgrown trees.
The above issues can be addressed by
a) Reducing the speed limit to 25 mph around this cross walk. The high school kids down the
road enjoy this luxury and I can think of no good reason this safety measure should not be
provided to the younger children.
b) Post bigger, more visible signs indicating that there is a pedestrian crosswalk ahead. This will
allow the drivers to be more aware of the hazard to the pedestrians.
c) Trim the trees obscuring the current signs.
d) Traffic enforcement with police once a week.
While I realize that option (a) can take time, the other three can't happen soon enough. I realize
that there is a monetary cost in carrying out the above fixes and I hope that concern for
pedestrian safety outweighs that cost. If no corrective action is taken to address this hazard, a
serious and possibly fatal collision involving a pedestrian and a car is a certainty. It is not
question of if, it is matter of when. The cost to the city from any legal action arising from such an
incident, would far outweigh any expense in preventing such an incident. I sincerely hope that
necessary remedies are carried out before any untoward incident.
Sincerely,
Mani Jayaraman
Concerned Parent.
10/27/2010
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Kristin Borel
From: John Cherbone
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 12:17 PM
To: Kathleen King
Cc: Manny Cappello; Jill Hunter; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Dave Anderson; Kristin Borel; Iveta
Harvancik
Subject: RE: Crosswalk at Titus and Prospect
Hi Kathleen,
100% correct. We always ask the schools for support letters on Safe Routes to School Grants, but the
more support letters the better. We will have the issue heard at our next TSC Meeting in a little over a
week from now.
Sincerely,
John
From: kk2king@saratoga.ca.us [mailto:kk2king@saratoga.ca.us]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 3:21 PM
To: Lori Krauss; Crystal Morrow; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk [Ann Sullivan];
Dave Anderson; John Cherbone; Joan Smith
Subject: Re: Crosswalk at Titus and Prospect
I am sorry you feel this way because we have tried to improve areas around all the schools in
Saratoga.
The City does not pay for crossing guards in Saratoga. The school districts pay for their own
crossing guards. As to road crossings and signals, all efforts go through the traffic safety
committee. All signals have to meet warranted state requirements before a signal is installed.
Most lighted crosswalks have been paid for by grants similar to Safe Route to School grants.
Recent work on Prospect has been paid for by Saratoga City without any funding from san Jose
even though we share the areas
John or Dave, do you have anything to add?
Do we have grant requests in for the streets off Prospect that parents could help us with?
Kathleen King
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
From: "Lori Krauss" <lorikrauss@pacbell.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:50:55 -0700
To: <cmorrow@saratoga.ca.us>; <kk2king@saratoga.ca.us>; <cpage@saratoga.ca.us>;
<hmiller@saratoga.ca.us>; <mcappello@saratoga.ca.us>; <ctclerk@saratoga.ca.us>;
<davea@saratoga.ca.us>; <jcherbone@saratoga.ca.us>; <jsmith@saratoga.ca.us>
Subject: Crosswalk at Titus and Prospect
Dear Fellow Residents:
As noted by some other parents, I too wanted to chime in. I am a Saratoga resident with
children in the Cupertino school district. I have noticed over the years that the Saratoga schools
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have much better traffic and crosswalk coverage...and feel like we are the poor, neglected
stepchildren. When I am travelling after school to the crosswalk on Saratoga Avenue near St.
Andrews, there is even a crossing guard, in addition to a light. We have NO crossing guard, No
Iight....Nothing. My children would love to ride their bikes to school, but I can't let them because the
traffic is so crazy and they would need to ride on the wrong side of the street until they got to Miller,
unless they go through the neighborhood. Over the last 9 years at McAuliffe, I have seen countless
close calls. No one seems to stop for kids. I have often wondered why there is a light at Johnson,
where there is no through street, but there is not one at Titus where there is a school?
Please give us Cupertino school based residents of Saratoga the same consideration you give the
residents with children in the Saratoga schools. Keep our kids safe.
Thank you.
Lori Krauss
Lori Krauss - lorikrauss@pacbell.net
(408) 420-6251
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From: Jerry W. Witherspoon [mailto:jerry.witherspoon@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 9:10 PM
To: Dave Anderson; Mani Jayaraman
Cc: McAuliffe@yahoogroups.com; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk
[Ann Sullivan]; John Cherbone; Jill Hunter; Iveta Harvancik; Kristin Borel; Ostrov_Louise@cusdk8.org
Subject: Re: [McAuliffe] Re: Intersection at Titus and Prospect Ave. [2 Attachments]
I keep getting all of this info about the problem but I have yet to see anything being done to
contact the responsible agencies. What are the police and the school district doing about the
safety of our children?
Jerry
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Kristin Borel
From: Dave Anderson
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 5:13 PM
To: Larson -Roberts, Nancy L; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk [Ann
Sullivan]; John Cherbone; Jill Hunter
Cc: Nancy Roberts; lveta Harvancik; Kristin Borel
Subject: RE: Pedestrian Safety on Crosswalk Prospect Ave and Titus Ave
Dear Ms. Roberts;
I will have our staff research the issue of a "safety zone" on Prospect Avenue near McAuliffe school. I
will have the Public Works staff contact you on Monday with the results of their research.
Regards,
Dave Anderson
City Manager
PS, Please let the parents involved in this "letter writing campaign" know that they have been heard and
that the City is proposing a number of ways we can work together to make this a safer crossing. Please
take Crystal Morrow and Joan Smith off the distribution list, and add our Vice -Mayor, Jill Hunter at
ihunter@saratoga.ca.us Senior Civil Engineer, Iveta Harvancik at: iharvancik@saratoga.ca.us Also,
please include the staff liaison to the City's Traffic Safety Commission, Kristin Borel at:
kborel@saratoga.ca.us
From: Larson -Roberts, Nancy L [mailto:nancy.l.larson-roberts@Imco.com]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 3:49 PM
To: Crystal Morrow; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk [Ann
Sullivan]; Dave Anderson; John Cherbone; Joan Smith
Cc: Nancy Roberts
Subject: Pedestiran Saftety on Crosswalk Prospect Ave and Titus Ave
Dear All,
This has been an extremely long standing problem. For decades now, Prospect at McAuliffe
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should have been declared a school zone. Every other school has a safety school zone. Why not
McAuliffe? They've been there for decades now. There's been abundant time.
There have been way too many close calls for anyone to deny this as an urgent need.
A lack of immediate action on your part will be considered a rejection of all related requests for
• intervention.
Please do not force a tragedy by failing to act with the greatest urgency and resolve this situation
demands.
Sincerely,
Nancy Roberts
Would write even if I wasn't a concerned parent.
Nancy Roberts
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Kristin Borel
From: Dave Anderson
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 5:33 PM
To: Carrie Oleary; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk [Ann Sullivan];
John Cherbone; Jill Hunter
Cc: Mani Jayaraman; Iveta Harvancik; Kristin Borel
Subject: RE: Intersection at Titus and Prospect Ave. San Jose
Dear Ms. O'Leary;
In response to your email message I have asked Captain Calderone to assist in slowing down traffic and
ensuring pedestrian safety using the crosswalk at Titus and Prospect Ave during school drop off and
pickup next week. In addition, a number of other parents have brought up other issues that may take
longer to implement. I want to let you know that your voices have been heard and that the City has
taken and will take a number of steps to make this area safer. Staff will compile the various requests
and research some of the other issues involved and send an email out to the parents that have written
to express their concern on Monday.
Regards,
Dave Anderson
City Manager
PS, Please let the parents involved in this "letter writing campaign" know that they have been heard and
that the City is proposing a number of ways we can work together to make this a safer crossing. Please
take Crystal Morrow and Joan Smith off the distribution list, and add our Vice -Mayor, Jill Hunter at
jhunter@saratoga.ca.us Senior Civil Engineer, Iveta Harvancik at: iharvancik@saratoga.ca.us Also,
please include the staff liaison to the City's Traffic Safety Commission, Kristin Borel at:
kborel@saratoga.ca.us
From: Carrie Oleary [mailto:carrieoleary@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 4:05 PM
To: Crystal Morrow; Kathleen King; Chuck Page; Howard Miller; Manny Cappello; City Clerk [Ann
Sullivan]; Dave Anderson; John Cherbone; Joan Smith
Cc: Mani Jayaraman
Subject: Intersection at Titus and Prospect Ave. San Jose
Dear All,
A fellow parent, Mani Jaramayaraman, recently wrote to you explaining the safety dangers
our children and parents are facing when we cross from the north side of Prospect
Avenue to the south side to make our way to Christa McAuliffe School, located at 12211
Titus Ave in Saratoga. I'm writing to echo his sense of urgency - we need traffic calming
at that intersection, with clear signage and enforcement of the 25mph zone outside of
schools, and better protection for pedestrians using the crosswalk.
Our school serves children ranging from kindergarten to 8th grade, and many live in the
local neighborhood of West San Jose that lies between Prospect and Rainbow Ave.
We would like to enjoy the sense of community of walking our younger children to
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school, and the pride of seeing our older children walk themselves to school in our safe
neighborhood. High school students attending Lynbrook also make their way across the
intersection, often alone, running to get across safely. The intersection is the sight of an
accident waiting to happen.
As Mani wrote, we recognize that we can also help as a school community, by having parents
crossing students before and after school at the crosswalk. But we would like to see some
help with slowing the cars, and with police patrolling the area to emphasize sensible
precautions around children attempting to get to school safely.
Thank you for all you do for our community!
Sincerely,
Carrie O'Leary
mom of Myles (3rd grade) and Eleanor (1st grade)
10/27/2010
Kristin Borel
From: Dave Anderson
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:31 AM
To: Kristin Borel; John Cherbone; Iveta Harvancik
Subject: FW: Intersection at Titus and Prospect Ave. San Jose
FYI
Original Message
From: Nasim Hashemi [mailto:nasim@hashemi.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 8:16 AM
To: Dave Anderson
Subject: Re: Intersection at Titus and Prospect Ave. San Jose
Hi Dave,
Thank you for your email. I was disappointed when the City spent all this money fixing up the intersection with
the divider and plants. I had hoped for a traffic light on that intersection, apparently that was not a choice they
could implement?!!
I make a left turn there around two times every school day. As much as I look and am aware and careful, once I
almost ran a child over who rode his bike down the pedestrian lane.
I never understood why they decided not to put a traffic light there and instead spent all this time and money
"fixing" up the intersection with the divider and plants. If you find out would you please share.
Thank you,
Nasim :-)
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