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Fifth Street work will resume after UCD graduation
City Manager Steve Pinkerton announced at Tuesday’s Davis City Council meeting that the road re-striping for the Fifth Street safety improvements will not take place until after UC Davis commencement ceremonies are complete in mid-June.
The announcement was largely greeted with approval by the majority of the City Council, but bicycle advocates like Mont Hubbard and Steve Tracy of Davis Bicycles! were none too pleased, saying the delay in implementing the project will prolong an unsafe situation, given the number of collisions between motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians along the thoroughfare.
The Fifth Street corridor safety improvement project, stretching from A to L streets, will give motorists one lane of traffic in each direction, provide bike lanes and turn-outs, protected signalized left turns for motorists and reduce speed from 30 mph to 25 mph.
The project is many years in the making due to controversy over whether the re-striping will create a bottleneck on one of the city’s major east-west arterials. City staff and bicycle advocates differ on traffic modeling for the area.
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