Traffic Signal Coming to San Pablo and Tsushima
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 8 May 2009 — 1 comment below »
The City is moving forward with a design for a traffic signal to be installed at San Pablo Avenue and Tsushima Street. It appears the need for a controlled intersection results from the projected demand that the future development of Sycamore Crossing (and Sycamore North) will bring. The City is pushing the project to be “shovel-ready” in the case that new infrastructure stimulus money becomes available.
The light will undoubtedly slow down traffic in a stretch of San Pablo Avenue that tends to be very quick. It will also provide for two left turns at the intersection that are currently not available: heading north on San Pablo, and making a left onto Tsushima; and heading east on Tsushima, and making a left on San Pablo.
The item is on the consent calendar for Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
This is very good news. I’m glad to see Tsushima evolving into the vital linking main street as it was originally designed to be in the Central Hercules Plan.