BRIEF SUMMARY: The LWVDV recognizes the need for both long-term and immediate ongoing solutions to transportation problems.
Position History:
(Adopted 1990; reviewed and affirmed annually)
The LWVDV supports the following objectives:
- Improved public transportation.
- A coordinated transportation system which includes planning and implementation of alternative means of transportation to the private car and adequate provision for pedestrian and bicycle paths.
- Transportation Systems Management programs (TSM) which have wide citizen awareness and participation.
- Measures to reduce traffic congestion, such as carpool lots near peripheral freeway interchanges and satellite parking for public transportation; adequate public transportation to BART stations to reduce traffic congestion; and shuttle bus service from parking areas to shopping areas and to public transportation.
- Long- and short-term planning which includes:
- Solutions to such problems as oversaturation, excessive noise, poor air quality caused by traffic, and a variety of intersection hazards on arterials involving automobiles, pedestrians, and bicyclists.
- Planning and feasibility studies for new arterials or improvement of existing arterials, as well as addition of new and/or improvement of existing traffic control devices.
- Development of circulation plans to relieve areas of traffic congestion.
- Implementation of traffic mitigations identified in new-development EIRs.
- Separation of bicycle and pedestrian circulation from motor traffic and encouragement of safety training for bicyclists.
- Encouragement of multi-use trails with appropriate surfaces for pedestrians, joggers, bicyclists, and equestrians.
- Cooperation between neighboring cities to solve transportation problems through the following measures:
- Joint meetings of neighboring city councils, or their subcommittees, to discuss common transportation problems and possible mitigations.
- Consideration of new roads, improvements to existing roads, and sources of funding. New road construction should be done in conjunction with growth management if the additional capacity created by the improvement is not to disappear.
League to which this content belongs:
Diablo Valley