From the Email INBox: Speed Available in GT

Gramps...

Get off the Freeway and Stop at the Red Lights, and then go past a School, and Retail area... don't drive a reasonable speed of 35mph which would be the speed if no other is posted and no children are at school, then it would be 25mph... then drive through the main part of town, and as you get past the fork in the road the sped limit goes up to 40, and then you navigate through two stop lights and two lanes becoming one on a narrow land bridge with a curve. Then arrive on a short strip just prior to a STOP LIGHT that is posted as 50MPH...

First of all lets face the reality of the short strip of 50 MPH on the Colton Piece of Barton RD. That speed limit says, Colton PD is not going to do Speed enforcement on a 1/4 mile of road.

Second: The above speed limts preclude the use of LEV's in Grand Terrace. (Light Electric Vehicles). You see, you can't get from the Proposed Grand Terrace Senior Housing or the North End of GT to the South End as a LEV can only go on a street with a speed limit of 35mph or less.

SO:

IF Barton Rd from the West Most Grand Terrace City Line to Mt. Vernon should or could be 35mph, and the area from Past the Fork in the Road Palm/Barton Rd Fork could begin the 40mph section, (LEV's Could use Palm and Preston to get to the Library and Banks and so forth.) Then 40 to 45 the rest of the way from the Preston Fork to the East End of Barton RD.

This would be not only a safe option, but also a logical one. It would allow for the Seniors to use LEV's and this would be GREEN. It would slow down traffic around a school and in busy shopping district, where PEDESTRIANS, and CARS are all on the INCREASE...

The Recommendation was reasonable... and there was a reasonable way of making them fit... BUT NO Reason went right past the City Council... as so much does.

So much for helping Seniors not NEED their individual large cars to go to the market or run errands in town. There is no functional Public Transportation where the Villa's are... Once again they are not seeing past their personal need for speed. There is much more than how "They Like to Drive" to think about.