ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
C H A PT E R 1
INTRODUCTION
C H A PT E R 2
EXISTING CONDITIONS
C H A PT E R 3
OUTREACH
C H A PT E R 4
CITYWIDE INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROGRAM
RECOMMENDATIONS
C H A PT E R 5
SCHOOL PROFILES
C H A PT E R 6
IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE
APPENDIX
A. OUTREACH MATERIALS
B. PARENT SURVEY DATA ENGLISH & SPANISH
C. EAST ALISAL STREET TEMPORARY DEMONSTRATION
D. MCKINNON STREET TEMPORARY DEMONSTRATION
E. PRIORITIZED PROJECT LIST
F. PUBLIC COMMENTS
G. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON DRAFT PLAN
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TABLE
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SALINAS CITY COUNCIL
Kimbley Craig, Mayor
Carla Viviana González, District 1
Tony Barrera, District 2
Steve McShane, District 3
Orlando Osornio, District 4
Christie Cromeenes, District 5
Anthony Rocha, District 6
CITY OF SALINAS
Andrew Easterling, Traffic Engineer
James Serrano,
Transportation Division Manager (retired)
Katherine Bonilla, Engineering Aide
Chistobal Banuelos, Engineering Aide
PROJECT FUNDING PARTNER
California Department of Transportation
Orchid Monroy-Ochoa,
Caltrans District 5 Division of Planning
PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS
Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC)
Board of Directors
TAMC Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Advisory
Committee
Salinas Traffic and Transportation Commission
Alisal Union School District
Salinas City Elementary School District
Salinas Union High School District
Santa Rita Union School District
PARTNER AGENCIES
Transportation Agency for
Monterey County
Todd Muck, Executive Director
Ariana Green, Principal Transportation Planner
Doug Bilse, Principal Engineer
Alissa Guther, Assistant Transportation Planner
Monterey County Health Department
Vicente Lara, Management Analyst III
Angelica Chavez,
Chronic Disease Prevention Coordinator
Christina Santana,
Chronic Disease Prevention Coordinator
Jeff Domalanta,
Chronic Disease Prevention Specialist II
Ecology Action
Amelia Conlen, Planner
Gino Garcia, Assistant Planner
Alejandra Belalcazar, Outreach Specialist
Aaron Cole, Outreach Specialist
Alta Planning + Design Consultant Team
Brett Hondorp, President
Sam Zneimer, Senior Planner
CSU Monterey Bay Sustainable City Year
Program
EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
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The City of Salinas Safe Routes to Schools Plan describes community-identified needs and recommendations to be considered for infrastructure projects and programs that support walking, bicycling, and carpooling to 45 schools in Salinas. The plan also identifies possible funding sources and implementation priorities. The recommendations in this plan are aimed at supporting a healthy community, improving affordable transportation options for low-income and vulnerable residents, and helping the City of Salinas achieve its Vision Zero goal and statewide goals to address climate change by reducing vehicle miles traveled.
This plan was funded with a Sustainable Communities Transportation Planning Grant from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and Measure X local matching funds, and it is aligned with the regional and statewide plans and concepts that are included in the Caltrans District 5 Active Transportation Plan.
I CAN
walk, bike,
and roll to
school safely.
I KNOW
that my trip to school
helps our environment,
builds healthy habits, and
saves my family money.
I HAVE
the skills and confidence
I need to travel to school
safely without using a car.
I AM
more connected to my
neighborhood and
community through my
trip to school.
VISION
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PLAN CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction. The first chapter describes the purpose of the plan, the benefits of walking and biking to school, and the plan’s relationship to other local planning efforts.
Chapter 2: Existing Conditions. This chapter outlines current conditions in the City of Salinas, including community demographics, commute trends, existing bicycle and pedestrian facilities, existing transit services, collision data, and current projects and programs.
Chapter 3: Outreach. The third chapter describes the public outreach process.
It also includes community survey data from the two temporary infrastructure demonstrations that were installed as part of the planning process.
Chapter 4: Citywide Infrastructure and Program
Recommendations. This chapter includes goals related to walking, bicycling, and carpooling to school in Salinas and the process of developing the recommendations in this plan. It also contains recommendations that affect multiple schools, including the network of citywide routes that are recommended for future improvements, streets that have been identified as Safe Routes to Schools corridors, and programmatic recommendations that address education, encouragement, engagement, and equity.
Chapter 5: School Profiles. This chapter contains profiles of each of the 45 school sites, with information on the existing conditions at each school and infrastructure recommendations to make it easier and safer to walk and bike to school. It also includes a guide to the types of infrastructure that are recommended in this plan.
Chapter 6: Implementation and Maintenance. The final chapter discusses opportunities to fund and construct the recommended projects and programs and provides a high-priority project list. It also includes a list of funding sources that the City of Salinas can use to finance the recommended projects and programs, and the methods the City will use to maintain current and future pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.
Appendices: The appendices include outreach materials, survey data from the parent survey and the temporary installations, the complete project list for all 45 schools, and public comments received for all school sites.
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ENCOURAGEMENT:
The majority of children
will arrive at school by
foot, bicycle, scooter,
skateboard, bus, or
carpool
1 SAFETY:
Zero collisions involving
bikes or pedestrians that
result in injury or death
2 EDUCATION:
All children in Salinas
will receive traic
safety education
3 ENGAGEMENT:
Engage the greater
community to create
safe environments
around schools
4 EQUITY:
Ensure all community
members have equitable
access to schools and
Safe Routes to Schools
programming
5 PLAN GOALS
STOP
SCHOOL ZONE
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GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
The City of Salinas and partner agencies have set the following goals and objectives for the future of Safe Routes to Schools, to be accomplished through the projects and programs in this plan.
Goal 1. Encouragement: The majority of children will arrive at school by foot, bicycle, scooter, skateboard, bus, or carpool.
• Objective 1.1: Identify and promote a broad spectrum of projects to provide a connected network of active transportation options along Safe Routes to Schools corridors and connections.
• Objective 1.2: Design and construct street improvements that are accessible and comfortable for all ages and abilities. Incorporate tree planting into active transportation projects to provide shade for people who are walking and bicycling and address City goals for increasing the urban tree canopy. • Objective 1.3: Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC), schools, and the City will support events that encourage active transportation to school, such as “Walk & Roll to School,” at least twice each year.
• Objective 1.4: Work with schools and Safe Routes to Schools partners to provide walking school buses at all elementary schools.
• Objective 1.5: Work with schools and Safe Routes to Schools partners to promote Safe Routes to Schools corridors as the preferred routes to school.
Goal 2. Safety: Zero collisions involving bikes or pedestrians that result in injury or death
• Objective 2.1: Prioritize Safe Routes to Schools projects that address fatal and severeinjury crashes. • Objective 2.2: Enhance low-stress route alternatives to high-stress corridors. • Objective 2.3: Prioritize safety over travel delays, speed, congestion, and convenience in project design.
• Objective 2.4: Crossing guards will be present at all elementary schools.
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Goal 3. Education: All children in Salinas will receive traffic safety education • Objective 3.1: Incorporate bicycle and pedestrian safety education into the curriculum in all elementary schools.
• Objective 3.2: By second grade, all children will receive pedestrian safety training in school; by fifth grade, all children will receive bike safety training in school. • Objective 3.3: By high school, students will know the basics of bike maintenance and have opportunities to practice these skills at school or in the community.
Goal 4. Engagement: Engage the greater community to create safe environments around schools
• Objective 4.1: Run annual community-wide campaigns that encourage neighbors to keep eyes on the streets and drivers to reduce speeds around schools. • Objective 4.2: Enforce traffic laws in school zones without overburdening offenders. One example would be a diversion program that requires school zone traffic offenders to assist with crossing guard duties (Austin, TX program model). • Objective 4.3: Recruit volunteers from the community to assist with Safe Routes to Schools programs such as walking school buses and crossing guards.
Goal 5. Equity: Ensure all community members have equitable access to schools and Safe Routes to Schools programming.
• Objective 5.1: Prioritize infrastructure projects that will serve transportationdisadvantaged and special-needs populations. • Objective 5.2: Provide opportunities for a diverse group of community members to take leadership roles in the development and implementation of Safe Routes to Schools projects and programs. An example would be participation in a Safe Routes to Schools steering committee.
• Objective 5.3: Provide access to active transportation and safety equipment such as bicycles, scooters, helmets, and lights.
SCHOOL ZONE
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OUTREACH SUMMARY
Public input was the foundation of the process for creating the Safe Routes to Schools Plan.
The planning team developed an outreach plan and sought input from community members to understand school transportation needs and barriers and refine the draft recommendations.
Parent and student surveys, presentations at parent meetings, and walking audits with school staff all contributed input on the barriers to walking and biking to schools in Salinas and the types of improvements that community members would like to see.
Parent Outreach
• 140 presentations at virtual parent meetings.
• 2,425 responses to online parent survey
• 1,341 responses to draft recommendations survey
• 35,000+ parents reached through Parentsquare or social media Student Outreach
• 474 responses to student survey
• 17 elementary schools distributed a traffic-safety scavenger hunt activity to students.
Temporary Installations
• 2 demonstration projects on East Alisal Street and McKinnon Street
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS
The recommendations for the 45 school sites in Salinas include the following.
All recommendations require additional planning and feasibility evaluation. • 10 miles of Class IV separated bikeway
• 15.8 miles of bicycle boulevards
• 17 roundabouts
• 13 rectangular rapid flashing beacons
• 180 intersections upgraded to
high-visibility crosswalks
High-visibility Crosswalks
Class III Bike Boulevard Class IV separated bikeway
Rectangular Rapid
Flashing Beacons
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
OUTREACH SUMMARY
140
PRESENTATIONS
RESPONSES
2,425
DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
2
17 474
RESPONSES
1,341
RESPONSES
35,000+
PARENTS REACHED
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CITYWIDE CORRIDOR
RECOMMENDATIONS
The map on page 17 shows existing bicycle and pedestrian facilities along with recommendations for bicycle and
pedestrian corridor improvements throughout the City of Salinas. A description of each facility type can be found below.
BIKE BOULEVARD
Streets with traffic speed and volume management,
designed to create low-stress conditions. In ideal conditions, cyclists share the road with motor vehicles. Bike boulevards manage speeds and volumes using traffic-calming features like diverters, medians, chicanes, and traffic circles. Bike boulevards are usually marked by signs and “sharrows”
and may include branding and wayfinding signs to local
destinations and other low-stress routes.
CLASS I SHARED-USE PATH
Paved rights-of-way that are completely separated from
streets where motor vehicle traffic is prohibited. Shared-use paths are designed for people who are using wheelchairs, walking, bicycling, or skateboarding, or taking other forms of active transportation. Bike paths should offer opportunities not provided by the road system, such as recreational
opportunities or direct high-speed commute routes if crossflow by motor vehicles and pedestrian conflicts can be minimized. The most common applications for shared-use
paths are along waterfronts, canals, utility rights-of-way, abandoned railroad rights-of-way, within school campuses, and within and between parks. There may also be
situations in which such facilities can be provided as part of planned developments.
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CLASS II BICYCLE LANE
On-street facilities that use striping and stencils to designate space for bicycle travel. Bike lanes are intended to delineate the right-of-way assigned to bicyclists and motorists and to provide for more predictable movements by each user. A more important reason for constructing bike lanes is to better accommodate bicyclists through corridors where there is not sufficient room for side-by-side sharing of streets by motorists and bicyclists.
This can be accomplished by reducing the number of lanes, reducing lane width, or prohibiting or reconfiguring parking to delineate bike lanes. In addition, other things can be done on streets with bike lanes to improve the situation for bicyclists that might not be possible on all streets (e.g., improvements to the surface, augmented sweeping programs, special signal facilities). In general, pavement markings alone will not measurably improve bicycling conditions.
CLASS IIB BUFFERED BICYCLE LANE
Buffered bike lanes are conventional bicycle lanes paired with designated buffer spaces separating them from adjacent motor vehicle travel lanes or parking lanes. Buffered bike lanes provide a greater distance between bicyclists and motor vehicle traffic and space for bicyclists to pass each other without encroaching into the motor vehicle lane. Buffered bike lanes appeal to a wider cross-section of users and abilities than conventional bike lanes.
CLASS III BICYCLE ROUTE
Routes designated for bicycle travel, with shared-use pavement markings, that are shared with motor vehicles. Shared lane markings help bicyclists with lateral positioning to reduce their chances of hitting the open door of a parked vehicle, to alert road users of the locations bicyclists are likely to occupy in the roadway, and to encourage safe passing of bicyclists by motorists. Shared-use markings are only feasible on streets with speed limits of 35 mph or less. Bike routes are identified through signage and shared-lane bicycle markings or “sharrows.” Executive Summary 16
CLASS IV CYCLE TRACK
Class IV facilities are protected bike facilities designated for the exclusive use of bicyclists. Cycle tracks are bike facilities separated from motor vehicle traffic by a physical barrier and are distinct from sidewalk and pedestrian areas. Cycle tracks may be one-way or two-way, and may be at street
level, at sidewalk level, or at an intermediate level. If at sidewalk level, a curb or median separates them from motor vehicle traffic, and different pavement colors or textures separate them from the sidewalk. If at street level, they can be separated from motor vehicle traffic by raised curbs or barriers. By separating cyclists from motor vehicle traffic, cycle tracks can offer greater security than bike lanes and are attractive to a wider spectrum of the public. However, cycle tracks can constrain the bikeway and limit the ability of bicyclists to pass each other. Source www.bikepedimages.org Kristen Langford
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SANTA
R TI A ST
W
CURTIS ST
E ROMIE LN
N FIRST ST
GARNER
AVE
VICTOR ST
LARKIN
ST
COLLEGE
DR
CLAY ST
HOMESTEAD AVE
LOS
OLIVOS DR
BUCKHORN
DR
RIKER ST
MADRID
ST
CAMBR IAN DR
UNIVERSITY
AVE
CORNWALL
ST
SWANER AVE
VAN BUREN AV E
SAN MIGUEL AVE
CENTRAL AVE
PAJARO ST
E LAUREL
DR
CHAPARRAL ST
CALIFORNIA
ST
SAN JUAN GRADE RD
W ACACIA ST
AMBROSE
DR
E LAUREL DR TULANE
ST
RIDER AVE
RUSSELL RD
LINCOLN
AVE
BARDIN RD
W LAUREL DR
CHE ROKEE
DR
GEIL ST
EUCALYPTUS DR
CONS
B
T
L
I
V
TUTION D EL
DORADO DR
N SANBORN RD
MCKINNON ST
W ALVIN DR
PASEO
GRANDE
E BOLIVAR
ST
IVER S ON ST
KELTON
DR
NATIVIDAD RD
N MAIN
ST
E ALISAL ST
CHESTNUT
ST
FREEDOM PKWY
SCONBERG
PKWY
TOWT
ST
TYLER
ST
NANTUCKET BLVD
INDEPENDENCE BLVD
LAS
CASI TAS DR
WILLIAMS RD
N DAVIS RD
W
P
E
K
S
W
TRIDGE
Y
SHERWOOD DR
HARDEN PKWY
E BORONDA RD
CANAL
LAKE TRAIL
CARR
CARR LAKE TRAIL
ALISAL
CREEK
ROGGE RD
ROGGE RD
Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
Citywide Corridor Recommendations
Existing Facilities
Class I Shared Use
Path
Class II Bike Lane
Class IIB Buffered
Bike Lane
Class III Bike Route
Class IV Separated
Bikeway
Regional Bike
Route
¯ 0 0.5 1 Miles
Salinas Municipal
Airport
Bike Boulevard
Class I Path
Class I or Sidewalk
Class II Bike Lane
Class II or Bike
Boulevard
Class IIB Buffered
Class IIB or Class IV
Class III Bike Route
Class IV Separated
Bikeway
Class IV or Class I
Recommended Facilities
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SAFE ROUTES TO
SCHOOLS CORRIDORS
Safe Routes to Schools corridors are streets that have been identified as key routes to Salinas schools. These streets may be good candidates for corridor-level improvements in the future to slow traffic speeds, improve intersections and crossings, and create a safe and comfortable environment for students to walk to school. Class I shared-use paths are completely separated from motor vehicles and offer the most comfortable environment for walking and biking.
Existing and recommended shared-use paths are highlighted as Safe Routes to Schools corridors in the map below.
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SANTA
R TI A ST
W CURTIS ST
E ROMIE LN
N FIRST ST
FONTES
LN
GARNER AVE
VICTOR ST
LARKIN ST
COL
D
LEGE
R
CLAY ST
MONTE BEL LA
BLVD
HOMESTEAD AVE
WESTRIDGE
PKWY
LOS
OLIVOS DR
ROCHEX
AVE
WESTMINSTER
DR
BUCKHORN
DR
COUGAR
DR
W
ALISAL ST
RIKER ST
KITTERY
ST
DEL MONTE AVE
CAMBRIAN
DR
SAN VINCENTE AVE
MODOC
AVE
UNIVERSITY
AVE
CORNWALL
ST
SWANER AVE
VAN
BUREN AVE
S WOOD ST
MARYAL DR
LINWOOD DR
SAN MIGUEL AVE
CENTRAL AVE
CAPITOL ST
PALMA DR
PAJARO ST
E LAUREL
DR
CHAPARRAL ST
CALIFORNIA
ST
ARCADIA WAY
TOWT ST
SAN JUAN GRADE RD
TUSCANY BLVD
W ACACIA ST
AMBROSE
DR
E LAUREL DR
REATA
ST
TULANE
ST
RIDER AVE
W LAUREL DR
E
MARKET ST
CHEROKEE
DR
E
CURTIS ST
RUSSELL RD
LINCOLN
AVE
BARDIN RD
RO
RICO G
SSI
REENWAY
CONSTITUTION
BLVD
EL
DORADO DR
N SANBORN RD
MCKINNON ST
E ALISAL ST
W ALVIN DR
PASEO
GRANDE
E BOLIVAR
ST
FREEDOM PKWY
E ALVIN DR
IVERSON
ST
KIP
DR
WILLIAMS RD
CHESTNUT
ST
ROGGE RD
SAUSAL
DR
HARDEN PKWY
NI DEPENDENCE BLVD
TYLER
ST
NANTUCKET BLVD
LAS
CASI T AS DR
N DAVIS RD
JOHN ST
SHERWOOD DR
E BORONDA RD
CANAL
NATIVIDAD RD
LAKE TRAIL
CARR
CARR LAKE TRAIL
ALISAL
CREEK
ROGGE RD
Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
Safe Routes to Schools Corridors
¯ 0 0.5 1 Miles
Salinas Municipal
Airport
Recommended Safe Routes to Schools Corridor
Recommended Class I Shared Use Path
Existing Class I Shared Use Path
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CRITERIA DESCRIPTION MAXIMUM
POINTS
Safety
The following points are awarded for bicycle and pedestrian collisions in the last 5 years within 150 ft of the project, for a max score of 30 points:
• 5 points per fatal collision
• 3 points per severe-injury collision
• 1 point per complaint-of-pain collision
30 Access to Key
Destinations
10 points for every school and 5 points for every park, library, and recreation center within 500 ft of the project, for a max of 15 points. 15 Connectivity
and Low Stress
Network
15 points if the project closes a gap in the existing bicycle or pedestrian network or upgrades an existing facility to a class IV bikeway or class I path.
15 Equity
20 points if the project is located within an area designated as <10% most disadvantaged.
20 10 points if the project is located within an area designated as 10%–25% most disadvantaged.
0 points if the project is not located in a disadvantaged area (>25%).
CommunityIdentified Need
20 points if the project or location was identified by members of the community during project outreach.
20 10 points if the project or location was identified in one or more community planning documents.
Total 100
PROJECT PRIORITIZATION
This prioritized project list is meant to help decisionmakers and City staff prioritize projects and identify the most competitive projects for various grant funding opportunities. The recommended projects were evaluated using five criteria that are aligned with the vision and goals of this plan and with common grant application criteria.
Equity scores are based on the Healthy Places Index map, which shows data on health indicators such as education, income, transportation, and housing. Each project was assigned a number from 0 to 100 based on the criteria in Table 1.
Table 1: Criteria for Project Prioritization
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PRIORITIZED PROJECT LIST
The table below shows the top ten high-priority projects for the City of Salinas. The full project list, including project prioritization scoring, can be found in Appendix E. Tables 3 and 4 show the highest-scoring projects in the small and medium project categories as defined by the California Active Transportation Program, which is one of the primary grant funding sources for active transportation projects.
RANK SCHOOL PROJECT NO. RECOMMENDATION STREET CROSS ST 1 CROSS ST 2 TOTAL EST. COST1 Sherwood Elementary/El Sausal Middle
SE013/ ESM001
Consider protected pedestrian phases at Alisal/Woods, Alisal/Madeira, and Alisal/Hebbron.
Install high-visibility crosswalks and protected bike lanes as outlined in Alisal Vibrancy Plan*. Remove on-street parking in front of El Sausal, and shift bus drop-off from Towt to Alisal.
E Alisal St Kern St Skyway Blvd 100 $2,717,020
2 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary/ Jesse G. Sanchez Elementary MLKA008
Short term: Install Class II bike lanes between Laurel and Del Monte. Long term: Widen sidewalk to create multi-use path from Laurel to Garner. Install bike-conflict markings at recreation center entrance and exit driveways. Install raised median with pedestrian refuge islands.
Sanborn Rd Del Monte Ave Laurel Dr 90 $1,799,520
3 Carr Lake Community Day/Mount Toro High/El Puente
CLCD005
Consolidate bike lanes to one side of the road for a two-way cycle track or multi-use path. Upgrade bike lanes on Natividad between Bernal and Boronda to Class IV separated bikeways and install protected intersection treatments at Bernal to facilitate transition to cycle track.
Sherwood Dr Bernal St Rossi St 86
$12,541,180
4 Creekside Elementary CE016 Upgrade Class II bike lane to Class IV. Constitution Blvd Boronda Rd Indepen- dence 85 $5,458,680 Table 2: High-Priority Project List
*Further planning and feasibility evaluation of the Alisal Vibrancy Plan is currently underway. The final preferred alternative for E Alisal Street has not been determined.
Executive Summary 22 RANK SCHOOL PROJECT NO. RECOMMENDATION STREET CROSS ST 1 CROSS ST 2 TOTAL EST. COST 4 Henry F. Kammann HFK006 Install Class IV separated bikeways or Class I multi- use path. W Laurel Dr Davis Rd N Main St 85 $1,200,000 4 Los Padres Elementary LPE002 Install raised median for entire length of John St with landscaping and lighting. Consider other opportunities for traffic calming. John St Salinas St E Alisal St 85 $3,879,220 4 Sherwood Elementary SE012 Install curb extensions and ramps along John St. John St S Wood St Sanborn Rd 85 $3,102,005 5 Fremont Elementary FE014 Install traffic calming, sharrow marking, and bike boulevard signage. Towt St Market St Laurel Dr 81 $550,800 6 Santa Rita Elementary SRE002
Consider bike boulevard with traffic calming between Main St and Van Buren Ave. Consider street trees. Consider sidewalk widening on south side to install multi-use path.
E Bolivar St Main St Van Buren Ave 79 $1,099,800
6 Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary
VRBE020
Install traffic calming (chicanes and removal of parking at those locations), sharrow markings, and bike route signage.
Del Monte Ave Rider Ave Williams Rd 79 $1,815,600
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RANK SCHOOL PROJECT NO. RECOMMENDATION STREET CROSS ST 1 CROSS ST 2 TOTAL EST. COST1 Sherwood Elementary/ El Sausal Middle
SE013/ESM001
Consider protected pedestrian phases at Alisal/Woods, Alisal/Madeira, and Alisal/Hebbron. Install high-visibility crosswalks and protected bike lanes as outlined in Alisal Vibrancy Plan. Remove onstreet parking in front of El Sausal, and shift bus drop-off from Towt to Alisal.
E Alisal St Work St Skyway Blvd 100 $2,717,020
2 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
MLKA008
Short term: install class II bike lanes between Laurel/Del Monte. Long term: widen sidewalk to create multi-use path between Laurel to Garner. Install bike conflict markings at Recreation Center entrance/edit driveways. Install raised median with pedestrian refuge islands.
Sanborn Rd
Del Monte Ave
Laurel Dr 90 $1,799,520
3 Henry F.
Kammann
HFK006 Install Class IV separated bikeways or Class I multiuse path W Laurel Dr Davis Rd N Main St 85 $1,200,000 Table 3: Top Three Projects in Active Transportation Program Small Project Category RANK SCHOOL PROJECT NO. RECOMMENDATION STREET CROSS ST 1 CROSS ST 2 TOTAL EST. COST1 Creekside Elementary
CE016 Upgrade Class II bike lane to Class IV
Constitution Blvd
Boronda Rd Independence 85 $5,458,680
2 Los Padres Elementary
LPE002
Install raised median for entire length of John St with landscaping/lighting. Consider other opportunities for traffic calming.
John St Salinas St E Alisal St 85 $3,879,220
3 Lincoln Elementary
LE006 Install separated bikeways as proposed in
Active Transportation Plan Pajaro St
E Blanco Rd
E Market St 68 $6,522,660
Table 4: Top Three Projects in Active Transportation Program Medium Project Category
Introduction 25
The City of Salinas Safe Routes to
Schools Plan describes community-identified
needs and recommendations for infrastructure
projects and programs that support walking,
bicycling, and carpooling to 45 schools in Salinas.
The plan also identifies possible funding sources and
implementation priorities. The recommendations
in this plan are aimed at supporting a healthy
community, improving affordable transportation
options for low-income and vulnerable residents,
and helping the City of Salinas achieve its Vision Zero goal and statewide goals to address climate change
by reducing vehicle miles traveled.
Public input was the foundation of the planning
process to identify transportation needs and
opportunities. The recommendations in this plan
were developed exclusively through engagement
with school staff, parents, and other stakeholders.
The recommendations in this report are a
reflection of the community outreach. All of the
recommendations in this report require additional
planning and evaluation to determine if they are
appropriate and feasible.
This plan was funded with a Sustainable
Communities Transportation Planning Grant
from the California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans) and Measure X local matching funds, and
it is aligned with the regional and statewide plans
and concepts that are included in the Caltrans
District 5 Active Transportation Plan. Some of the
recommended improvement opportunities are
1 Active-transportation trips are any trips made by human-powered transporation, including walking, bicycling, and riding scooters and skateboards.
2 California Air Resources Board: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-inventory-data. within Caltrans’s right of way, and as the owner
and operator of the state highway system, Caltrans
will require further analysis of these planning-level
concepts and final approval if the City of Salinas
seeks implementation.
BENEFITS OF SAFE ROUTES
TO SCHOOLS
The simple act of traveling to school can have
a tremendous positive impact on the health of
students and families. Salinas faces challenges
from traffic around schools, youth obesity
rates, and collisions involving youths who are
walking or bicycling. More carpooling and activetransportation1 trips will provide the
following benefits:
• Healthier students: Walking or riding a bike,
scooter, or skateboard to school is good exercise,
improves fitness, and has been demonstrated to
improve academic performance.
• Safer trips: Shifting trips to walking, biking,
or carpooling reduces traffic congestion and
increases safety.
• Lower transportation costs: Carpooling,
walking, and biking provide low- or no-cost
alternatives to driving.
• Cleaner air and environment: Transportation is
the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions
in California.2 Shifting car trips to walking and
biking improves air quality around schools and
helps our planet.
Introduction 26
VISION ZERO
Vision Zero is a strategy for eliminating severe traffic injuries and fatalities while increasing safe, healthy, and equitable mobility, and it has been implemented in cities around the world. Vision Zero starts with the belief that traffic deaths are preventable and brings together traffic engineers, policymakers, and public health professionals to work toward engineering and enforcement solutions. The Salinas City Council adopted a Vision Zero policy in 2020 and adopted a Vision Zero Action Plan in 2021. The action plan identifies the city streets with the highest concentrations of fatal and severe-injury collisions, and actions that can be taken to reduce those. Learn more here:
https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/public-works/current-projects/vision-zero THE SIX E’S OF SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS
This plan’s recommendations are grouped into the Six E’s of Safe Routes to Schools, as defined by the Safe Routes Partnership. The Six E’s are a nationally recognized framework for increasing walking and biking to schools.
• Engagement: Start the process of developing Safe Routes to Schools initiatives by listening to families, students, teachers, and other community members, and include ongoing opportunities for participation in program structures. • Equity: Ensure that Safe Routes to Schools initiatives benefit everyone, with particular attention to low-income students, students of color, students with disabilities, and other transportation-disadvantaged populations. • Engineering: Make physical improvements to streets and neighborhoods that improve traffic flow near schools and make walking and biking safer, more comfortable, and more convenient.
• Education: Provide students and families with the skills to get to school safely, and inform them on the wide range of transportation options. • Encouragement: Provide events, activities, and programs that raise awareness and build support for safe and healthy transportation such as walking and biking. • Evaluation: Regularly assess which approaches to Safe Routes to Schools are more and less successful.
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RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER PLANS
As part of the development of this Safe Routes to Schools Plan, other relevant plans were consulted to ensure consistency with their recommendations. Consistency with these plans is discussed below.
2022 MONTEREY COUNTY REGIONAL
TRANSPORTATION PLAN
The 2022 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) was produced by the Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC). The RTP identifies transportation needs for the county, estimates the available funding through 2045, and sets goals for the future of our transportation system. This Safe Routes to Schools Plan is aligned with the vision and goals of the RTP, including access and mobility, safety and health, and equity.
MONTEREY COUNTY ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION PLAN (ATP)
The 2018 Monterey County ATP, developed by TAMC, identifies gaps in the bicycle and pedestrian network and areas of opportunity for improving the design of bicycle facilities. The ATP is used to pursue grant funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects and to prioritize projects that are funded through Measure X, the Monterey County transportation sales tax measure.
The Safe Routes to Schools Plan aligns with the goals of the ATP, including increased active-transportation trips, improved safety for people who are walking and biking, and equitable access to active-transportation facilities. The ATP project list was reviewed during the development of this plan, and some ATP projects were incorporated into the project list.
CITY OF SALINAS GENERAL PLAN
The Safe Routes to Schools Plan is aligned with the goals of the 2002 General Plan, including the goal of providing a safe and extensive bicycle network and providing safe routes to schools and other destinations for people who are walking. The City of Salinas is currently updating its general plan, and the updated plan will be released after the completion of this Safe Routes to Schools Plan. The recommendations of the Safe Routes to Schools Plan support the guiding principles for the updated general plan as described in Visión Salinas, including goals for connectivity, access, and mobility.
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SALINAS BIKEWAYS PLAN
The 2002 Bikeways Plan describes existing and proposed bicycle facilities within the city, some of which have been installed since the plan was published. Although the TAMC Active Transportation Plan has updated the proposed bicycle network, the Bikeways Plan was also reviewed and used for context during the development of this Safe Routes to Schools Plan.
SALINAS CROSSWALK POLICY GUIDELINES
The Salinas Crosswalk Policy provides a methodology for responding to crosswalk requests and lays out the criteria for the installation of a marked crosswalk. It also includes a toolbox of treatments that can be used to enhance crosswalks. All the recommendations for new marked crosswalks in this plan require further analysis and must meet the guidelines of the crosswalk policy in order to be installed.
SALINAS NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
The Neighborhood Traffic Management Program sets policies for traffic calming in residential neighborhoods and lays out the process for residents to request trafficcalming treatments in their neighborhoods. Neighborhood support and cost-sharing are required for new traffic-calming measures to be installed. The document also includes a toolbox of approved traffic-calming measures. The traffic-calming measures recommended in this Safe Routes to Schools Plan are aligned with the approved measures from the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program. Learn more here:
https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/public-works/current-projects/trafficcalming
SALINAS PEDESTRIAN PLAN
The 2004 Pedestrian Plan outlines goals and strategies for improving walkability in Salinas and reducing collisions with people who are walking. The proposed walking districts and project list were reviewed and used for context during development of this Safe Routes to Schools Plan.
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SPECIFIC AREA AND NEIGHBORHOOD PLANS
Specific plans for various areas of the city were reviewed during the preparation of the Safe Routes to Schools Plan, and relevant bicycle and pedestrian projects were incorporated into the plan’s project list. The plans reviewed included the following:
• Alisal Vibrancy Plan
• Central Area Specific Plan
• Downtown Vibrancy Plan
• East Alisal Street Corridor Plan
• Salinas Bike Lane VMT Banking Projects
• Urban Greening Plan
• West Area Specific Plan
COORDINATION WITH
NEIGHBORING JURISDICTIONS
The City of Salinas Safe Routes to Schools Plan includes recommendations for roadways in unincorporated Monterey County. All recommendations for county roadways were reviewed with County staff.
EXISTING CONDITIONS
Existing Conditions 31
This chapter discusses current conditions in Salinas
related to walking, bicycling, and transit use. This
includes citywide demographics and commute
trends, land use and community destinations,
existing bicycle and pedestrian facilities, current
transit options, collision data related to walking and
bicycling, bicycle and pedestrian projects that are
currently in progress, and existing programs.
DEMOGRAPHICS
Salinas is the largest city in the Monterey Bay region
and was home to an estimated 160,206 residents in
2021.1
The city has a large youth population, with
31% of residents being under the age of 18.2
Seniors represent a smaller proportion of city
residents, with 9% of residents being over the age
of 65.2 The median age of the residents is 30.5,
which is lower than the median age for Monterey
County as a whole.2
Among Salinas residents, 13% identify as white, 80%
as Hispanic or Latino, and 6% as Asian. Forty-one
percent of residents did not finish high school, and
23% completed high school as their highest level
of education. About one-third of residents have at
least some higher education, and 13% have either a
bachelor’s or a graduate degree.2
Active transportation investments are especially
important in disadvantaged communities,
which tend to have higher rates of walking and
bicycling. According to the California Department
of Education, 81% of students in Salinas public
1 State of California Department of Finance, 2021. https://dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/Estimates/ 2 Census American Community Survey 2015–2019 Selected Characteristics of US Populations, Table SO601. 3 State of California Department of Education, 2021. https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/filessp.asp 4 Census American Community Survey 2015–2019 Selected Economic Characteristics, Table DP03. 5 Census American Community Survey 2015–2019 Commuting Characteristics by Sex, Table SO801. schools qualify for free and reduced meals, which is
a sign of low-income status.3 Thirty-nine percent of
households have incomes of less than $50,000 per
year, and 20% of families with children under the
age of 18 have incomes below the poverty level.4
COMMUTE TRENDS
An estimated 67,399 Salinas residents over the age
of 16 are employed, and nearly three-quarters of
those drive to work alone. Salinas has a higher rate
of driving to work alone than the neighboring City
of Monterey but a similar rate to Monterey County as
a whole.5
Overall, 10% of Salinas residents carpool to work,
and 1.1% walk to work. Fewer than 1% bike to work
or take public transit. Before the covid-19 pandemic,
nearly 3% of residents worked from home, and that
number is assumed to have increased since 2020.5
Although some Salinas commuters travel outside
Monterey County for work, the majority (91%) stay
within the county for their work trips. The average
commute time to places of employment for Salinas
residents is 24 minutes. Twenty-six percent of
commuters travel for more than 30 minutes daily,
and 10% of commuters travel for 45 minutes or
more.5
Although commute trips offer the best available
data on travel modes, they represent only a
percentage of trips. Comprehensive data on the
percentage of Salinas residents walking or bicycling
for other daily trips are not available.
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LAND USE AND
COMMUNITY DESTINATIONS
Public K–12 schools are located throughout the City of Salinas, and there are several colleges and universities within the city. Commercial areas are located along North Main Street, East Alisal Street, and Sanborn Road, and in the historic downtown. Other key destinations include parks and recreation centers, libraries, transit centers, and medical facilities.
Figure 1. Work Commute Travel Modes in Salinas
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
2.7%
11% 1.1%
0.1%
0.8%
10.2%
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Worked from Home
Taxicab, Motorcycle, or Other Means
Bicycle
Walked
Public Transportation
Carpooled
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Esri, NASA, NGA, USGS, FEMA, City of Salinas, California State Parks, Esri, HERE, Garmin, SafeGraph, GeoTechnologies, Inc, METI/NASA, USGS, Bureau of Land Management, EPA, NPS, USDA, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
Land Use & Key Destinations
Land Use*
P ar k /O p en S p a ce
Commercia l Area
Ci ty L im i ts
Points of Interest
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College/University
Library
City Hall
Transit Center
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Airport
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EXISTING BICYCLE NETWORK
There are currently four types of bicycle facilities in Salinas: Class I shared-use paths, Class II bicycle lanes, Class IIB buffered bike lanes, and Class IV separated bikeways. Other streets have been designated as Class III bicycle routes or regional routes. See below for definitions of each type of bicycle facility.
CLASS I SHARED-USE PATH
Paved rights-of-way that are completely separated from streets, and where motor vehicle traffic is prohibited. Shared-use paths are designed for people who are using wheelchairs, walking, bicycling, or skateboarding, or taking other forms of active transportation. Bike paths should offer opportunities not provided by the road system, such as recreational opportunities or direct high-speed commute routes if cross-flow by motor vehicles and pedestrian conflicts can be minimized. The most common applications for shared-use paths are along waterfronts, canals, utility rights-of-way, and abandoned railroad rights-of-way, within school campuses, and within and between parks. There may also be situations in which such facilities can be provided as part of planned developments.
CLASS II BICYCLE LANE
On-street facilities that use striping and stencils to designate space for bicycle travel. Bike lanes are intended to delineate the rights-of-way assigned to bicyclists and motorists and to provide for more predictable movements by each user. A more important reason for constructing bike lanes is to better accommodate bicyclists in corridors where there is insufficient room for sideby-side sharing of streets by motorists and bicyclists. This can be accomplished by reducing the number of lanes, reducing lane width, or prohibiting or reconfiguring parking to delineate bike lanes. In addition, other things can be done on streets with bike lanes to improve the situation for bicyclists that might not be possible on all streets (e.g., improvements to the surface, augmented sweeping programs, special signal facilities). In general, pavement markings alone do not measurably enhance bicycling conditions.
Existing Conditions 35
CLASS IIB BUFFERED BICYCLE LANE
Buffered bike lanes are conventional bicycle lanes paired with designated buffer spaces separating them from adjacent motor vehicle travel lanes or parking lanes. Buffered bike lanes provide a greater distance between bicyclists and motor vehicle traffic and space for bicyclists to pass each other without encroaching on the vehicle lane. Buffered bike lanes appeal to a wider cross-section of users and abilities than conventional bike lanes.
CLASS III BICYCLE ROUTE
Routes designated for bicycle travel, with shared-use pavement markings, that are shared with motor vehicles. Shared-lane markings help bicyclists with lateral positioning to reduce their chances of hitting the open door of a parked vehicle, to alert road users to the locations bicyclists are likely to occupy in the roadway, and to encourage safe passing of bicyclists by motorists. Shareduse markings are only feasible on streets with speed limits of 35 mph or less. Bike routes are identified with signage and sharedlane bicycle markings or “sharrows.”
CLASS IV CYCLE TRACK
Class IV facilities are protected facilities designated for the exclusive use of bicyclists. Cycle tracks are separated from motor vehicle traffic by a physical barrier and are distinct from sidewalk and pedestrian areas. Cycle tracks may be one-way or two-way, and may be at street level, at sidewalk level, or at an intermediate level. If at sidewalk level, a curb or median separates them from motor vehicle traffic, and different pavement colors or textures separate them from sidewalks. If at street level, they can be separated from motor vehicle traffic by raised curbs or barriers. By separating cyclists from motor vehicle traffic, cycle tracks offer greater security than bike lanes and are attractive to a wider spectrum of the public. However, cycle tracks can constrain bikeways and limit the ability of bicyclists to pass each other. Source www.bikepedimages.org Kristen Langford
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REGIONAL BIKE ROUTES
The Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC)
developed a Pedestrian and Bicyclist Wayfinding Plan
for Monterey County in 2016, which identified a network of regional bicycle routes. Regional routes connect key destinations within the county and either currently have Class I, Class II, or Class III bicycle facilities, or are planned to have bicycle facilities in the future.
Class I shared-use paths in Salinas are mostly located within parks and open spaces, including the Rossi Rico Linear Parkway, Cesar Chavez Community Park, Constitution Soccer Complex, Natividad Creek Community Park, and the Gabilan Creek Wilderness Sanctuary. There are also several short connectors, such as the path connecting North Salinas High School with Chaparral Street and paths adjacent to East Market Street between Front Street and Sherwood Drive. The Creekbridge neighborhood is especially well-served by Class I paths, with four paths connecting schools, parks, and wilderness areas.
Class II bicycle lanes are located primarily on arterial streets, including Boronda Road, McKinnon Street, Independence Boulevard, Davis Road, and Blanco Road. Over the last five years, the City of Salinas has also installed buffered bicycle lanes on several streets, including Alvin Drive, Linwood Drive, East Rossi Street, John Street, Bardin Road, Constitution Boulevard, portions of Sherwood Drive, Monte Bella Boulevard, Blanco Road, Boronda Road, and East Alisal Street. The City also installed the first parking separated Class IV separated bikeway on East Market Street in front of Fremont Elementary in 2017.
Class III bicycle routes in Salinas have been identified primarily for wayfinding purposes to guide people on bikes to preferred routes when there are no streets with bicycle lanes. Many streets near schools, including Acacia Street, Towt Street, Las Casitas Drive, and Van Buren Avenue, have been identified as bicycle routes.
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ST
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Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
Existing Bikeways
Class I Shared Use
Path
Class II Bike Lane
Class IIB Buffered
Bike Lane
Class III Bike Route
Class IV Separated
Bikeway
Regional Bike Route
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Salinas Municipal
Airport
K-12 School
College/University
Library
City Hall
Transit Center
City Limits
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68 Existing Conditions 38
EXISTING PEDESTRIAN NETWORK
The City of Salinas has good sidewalk coverage, with sidewalk present on nearly all roadways. There is missing sidewalk on some roadways on the edge or outside of city limits, such as East Blanco Road between North Main Street and Blanco Circle, Natividad Road north of Boronda Road, and San Juan Grade Road north of Boronda Road.
Natividad Road and San Juan Grade Road have seen increased pedestrian traffic since the construction of Rancho San Juan High School, which is located on the northern edge of Salinas city limits.
The City of Salinas conducted a sidewalk conditions analysis in 2017 to determine whether existing sidewalks met Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards. Factors such as obstructions, vegetation, and slope were used to score each segment of sidewalk, and these data were used to prioritize sidewalk repair projects.
Curb ramps provide access between the sidewalk and the street for people with disabilities, children on bicycles, and people pushing strollers. Under the ADA, upgraded curb ramps must include warnings that are detectable by people with vision impairments.
As the City repaves streets and installs roadway improvements, upgraded curb ramps are installed at intersections to comply with ADA standards.
In addition to sidewalks, Salinas contains 8.2 miles of Class I shared-use paths. These paths are mostly located in parks and open spaces, including the Rossi Rico Linear Parkway, Cesar Chavez Community Park, Constitution Soccer Complex, Natividad Creek Community Park, and the Gabilan Creek Wilderness Sanctuary. There are also several short connectors, such as the path connecting North Salinas High School with Chaparral Street and paths adjacent to East Market Street between Front Street and Sherwood Drive. The Creekbridge neighborhood is especially well-served by Class I paths, with four paths connecting schools, parks, and wilderness areas.
ADA compliant curb ramps near Monte Bella Elementary Class I path near North Salinas High Existing Conditions 39
EXISTING TRANSIT
SERVICES
Each of the four school districts in Salinas has a
different policy on school busing, though all the
districts provide transportation for students
with disabilities.
Salinas Union High School District (SUHSD) offers
busing to students who live more than two miles
away from their home school, including service to
rural areas outside Salinas. Regular service is offered to all SUHSD schools except for La Paz Middle,
where all students lived within two miles of the
school as of the 2021–22 school year.
Salinas City Unified School District offers bus
transportation for students who live more than
1.25 miles from school. El Gabilan, Kamman,
Laurel Wood, Lincoln, Mission Park, and Sherwood
Elementary Schools are not served by regular bus
routes because all students at those schools lived
within the 1.25-mile boundary during the 2021–22
school year.
Santa Rita Union School District offers bus service
to all students in grades K–3 who live more than
0.75 miles from school, and all students in grades
4–8 who live more than one mile from their school.
Bus routes serve all Santa Rita schools except
Santa Rita Elementary, where all students live
within one mile of the school. Routes include service
to rural neighborhoods north and east of the Bolsa
Knolls neighborhood.
Alisal Union Elementary School District provides
transportation to students in grades K–3 who live at
least one mile from their school, and to all students
in grades 4–6 who live at least 1.5 miles from school.
In addition to transportation offered by school
districts, Monterey-Salinas Transit offers bus
transportation to the public, including some
students traveling to school in Salinas. Youths aged
18 and younger receive discounted fares for all
trips. In summer 2022, bus routes included service
to about half of the middle and high schools.
Rancho San Juan High School, Gutierrez Middle
School, Gavilan View Middle School, Mount Toro
High School, El Puente, Carr Lake Community Day
School, and Washington Middle were not served
directly by MST routes.
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ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY
Bicycle and pedestrian-related collision data can be used to identify high-level collision trends and locations with high rates of bicycle and pedestrian collisions. This analysis uses data from UC Berkeley’s Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS) over the ten-year period from 1/1/2010 to 12/31/2019. It is important to note that the TIMS data include reported injury collisions only. Many bicycle and pedestrian collisions are not reported and therefore are not represented in this analysis.
Salinas has high rates of collisions involving both bicyclists and pedestrians, with 554 pedestrian collisions and 385 bicyclist collisions between 2010 and 2019.6 In the 2018
California Office of Traffic Safety crash rankings report, Salinas ranked among the top ten for pedestrian collisions and third-worst for pedestrian collisions involving youths under 15, among cities of similar size.7
Salinas also ranked in the top ten for bicycle collisions involving youths under 15 and was one of the top five cities for alcohol-related collisions, again in comparison to cities of a similar size.7
People walking and bicycling in Salinas are disproportionately involved in collisions relative to people who are driving. Data from the Salinas Vision Zero Action Plan show that between 2009 and 2018, 38% of serious-injury and fatality collisions in Salinas involved pedestrians and 11% involved bicyclists.8
This is disproportionate to walking and
biking rates in the city; less than 2% of work trips are made by walking or bicycling.9 Youth in Salinas are also disproportionately involved in collisions while walking and biking.
Youths aged 19 or younger are involved in 36% of pedestrian and bicycle collisions.6 In response to these high collision rates, the Salinas City Council adopted a Vision Zero policy in 2020 and developed a Vision Zero Action Plan later that year. The action plan identifies the city streets with the highest concentrations of fatal and severe-injury collisions and actions that can be taken to reduce those collisions. Vision Zero is a strategy for eliminating severe traffic injuries and fatalities while increasing safe, healthy, and equitable mobility, and brings together traffic engineers, policymakers, and public health professionals to work toward education, engineering, and enforcement solutions. 6 Safe Transportation Research and Education Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2021 7 California Office of Traffic Safety, 2018
8 City of Salinas Vision Zero Action Plan, 2021. https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/publicworks/traffic-transportation-engineering/vision-zero 9 Census American Community Survey 2015–2019 Commuting Characteristics by Sex, Table SO801.
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Figure 2. Annual Pedestrian Collisions
Source: UC Berkeley Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS), 2010 - 2019
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY
Over the ten-year study period, there
were 554 pedestrian collisions in
Salinas, with an average of 55 per
year. The number increased to 76
in 2018, but the upward trend did
not continue in 2019. There were 37
fatal pedestrian collisions in the tenyear period. One hundred collisions caused severe injuries, 228 resulted
in some “other visible injury,” and
189 resulted in a “complaint of pain.”
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
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Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
Pedestrian Collisions, 2010 - 2019
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College/University
Library
City Hall
Transit Center
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PEDESTRIAN COLLISION TRENDS
Pedestrian collision locations are shown in Map 3.
Key takeaways of the analysis include the following:
• 46% of fatality collisions in Salinas involved
people walking, though only 12% of collisions
in total involved pedestrians. Pedestrians are
more likely to be killed in collisions than people
who are driving.
• 36% of pedestrian collisions involve youths
aged 19 or younger. People in this age group
were more than twice as likely to be involved
in a pedestrian collision as people in their 20s.
Twenty-two percent of collisions involved youths
under 14.
• North Main Street was the location with the
most pedestrian collisions, with 10% of all
pedestrian collisions occurring on North Main
Street. East Market Street and North Sanborn
Road were the second- and third-most common
pedestrian collision locations.
• North Main Street was the top locations for
fatal pedestrian collisions, followed by East
Laurel Drive and Highway 101.
• The most common type of violation, according
to the reporting law enforcement officer, was
driver failure to yield to pedestrians at a marked
or unmarked crosswalk, which accounted for
40% of all collisions. The second most common
violation was pedestrian failure to yield rightof-way to vehicles when crossing outside of a marked or unmarked crosswalk, which
accounted for 30% of collisions. The third most
common violation was driver speed, which
accounted for 3% of collisions.
Figure 3. Severity of Pedestrian Collisions
Source: UC Berkeley Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS), 2010 - 2019
6.5%
17.4%
39.7%
32.9%
Injury (Complaint of Pain)
Injury (Other Visible)
Severe Injury
Fatal
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BICYCLE SAFETY
Over the ten-year study period, there were 385
bicycle-related injury collisions in Salinas, with an
average of 38 collisions per year. The number of
collisions increased to 61 in 2013, but this trend
did not continue in subsequent years. In 2018, the
number of bicycle-involved collisions increased
again, and more data monitoring will be needed to
see whether this trend continues.
There were five fatal bicycle collisions within the
ten-year period. Thirty-eight collisions caused severe
injuries, 179 resulted in an “other visible injury,” and 163 resulted in a “complaint of pain.”
Figure 4. Severity of Bicycle Collisions
Source: UC Berkeley Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS), 2010 - 2019
10.1%
47.8%
1.3%
43.6%
Injury (Complaint of Pain)
Injury (Other Visible)
Severe Injury
Fatal
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BICYCLE COLLISION TRENDS
Bicycle-related collision locations are shown in
Map 4. Key takeaways from the analysis include
the following:
• 11% of collisions resulting in severe injury or
fatality in Salinas involved people on bikes.
Although bicycle trips make up only a small
percentage of the trips in Salinas, cyclists are
disproportionally involved in severe-injury and
fatal collisions.
• North Main Street was the location with the
most bicycle-related collisions, with 15% of
collisions taking place on this major arterial
street. East Alisal Street and East Market Street
were the second and third most common
collision locations.
• The top five streets for bicycle collisions were
all major arterials that did not have complete
bicycle lanes in 2019. Thirty percent of collisions
took place on these five streets: North Main
Street, East Alisal Street, East Market Street,
John Street, and East Alvin Drive.
• Youths aged 19 or younger were involved in
36% of bicycle collisions. Youths aged 15–19
were the top age group for bicycle collisions
and were involved in 21% of collisions. Male
cyclists were much more likely to be involved in
collisions and made up 73% of crash victims.
• The three most common bicycle collision
factors, according to the reporting law
enforcement officer, were riding or driving on
the wrong side of the road (37%), automobile
right-of-way violations (21%), and traffic signals
and signs (13%).
Figure 5. Annual Bicycle Collisions
Source: UC Berkeley Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS), 2010 - 2019 Injury (complaint of pain)
Injury (other visible)
Severe Injury
Fatal
0 100
200
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
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CURRENT AND RECENTLY
COMPLETED PROJECTS
There are several major projects that have been completed recently or are underway to provide new bicycle and pedestrian facilities in Salinas. The City of Salinas continues to apply for and be awarded grant funding for Safe Routes to Schools improvements.
ALVIN DRIVE/LINWOOD DRIVE SAFE ROUTES TO
SCHOOLS PROJECT
The City of Salinas received a grant to make improvements along the Alvin Drive and Linwood Drive corridors, which are routes to four schools. On Alvin Drive, the project included reducing the number of vehicle lanes from four to two and installing buffered bike lanes, green bicycle boxes and conflict markings, high-visibility crosswalks, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, pedestrian curb ramps, and new traffic signals with pedestrian countdown signal heads. The project also included new bicycle lanes or buffered bicycle lanes and highvisibility crosswalks on Linwood Drive, Maryal Drive, and Chaparral Street. The project started construction in 2020 and was completed in 2021.
BARDIN ROAD SAFE ROUTES TO
SCHOOLS PROJECT
The City of Salinas received federal and local grant funding to redesign Bardin Road near Bardin Elementary and East Alisal Street near the Hartnell College East campus. The project includes two roundabouts, which slow down traffic and reduce the crossing distance for pedestrians. On Bardin Road, the project also includes a reduction in vehicle lanes from four to two, buffered bicycle lanes, high-visibility crosswalks, curb extensions, pedestrian curb ramps, and a rectangular rapid flashing beacon. On East Alisal Street, the project includes buffered bike lanes, high-visibility crosswalks, curb extensions, a rectangular rapid flashing beacon, and a new pedestrian path between the Hartnell College driveway and Sconberg Parkway. The project also includes a new two-lane drop-off and pick-up area in front of Bardin Elementary School. The project started construction in spring 2021 and is expected to be completed in fall 2022.
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BORONDA ROAD CONGESTION
RELIEF PROJECT
The City of Salinas is planning a project to widen
East Boronda Road and install bicycle lanes and a
landscaped median. The project also includes four
roundabouts at the intersections of Boronda Road
with McKinnon Street, El Dorado Drive, Natividad
Road, and Independence Boulevard. These projects
include protected-intersection treatments and highvisibility crosswalks and are intended to increase safety for people walking and biking to McKinnon
Elementary School and Everett Alvarez High School.
This project is in the design and permitting phase,
with construction anticipated in the next few years.
DOWNTOWN COMPLETE STREETS PROJECT
The City of Salinas received federal and local grant funding to redesign the West Alisal Street and Lincoln Street corridors in downtown Salinas. The West Alisal Street phase of the project included a reduction in vehicle lanes from four to two, buffered bicycle lanes, high-visibility crosswalks, and signal improvements. This project provides an improved route for people walking and biking to Roosevelt Elementary, Washington Middle School, and Salinas High School. Construction started in 2020 and finished in spring 2021.
The second phase of the project is planned for Lincoln Street and will include buffered bicycle lanes and high-visibility crosswalks on this key route to Salinas High School.
Construction is planned for Lincoln Street in summer 2022.
EAST LAUREL DRIVE AND CONSTITUTION BOULEVARD
SIDEWALK AND NATIVIDAD TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS
This project was initiated by community members who saw a need for pedestrian improvements on East Laurel Drive near the soccer fields. The project includes new sidewalks, bike paths, lighting, and crosswalk enhancements on East Laurel Drive, and new sidewalk and curb ramps on Constitution Boulevard. This project started construction in spring 2021 and completed construction in fall 2021.
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PEDESTRIAN CROSSING
ENHANCEMENTS PROJECT
The City of Salinas received state grant funding for
improvements to existing uncontrolled crossings:
Sanborn Road at Buckhorn Drive, Natividad Road
at Pacheco Street, West Laurel Drive at Parkside
Street, Wood Street at Santa Maria Street, and
Iverson Street at Lang Street. These crossings
provide access to Oscar Loya Elementary, Kamman
Elementary, Sherwood Elementary, and Washington
Middle School. Improvements will include highvisibility striping, signage, and rectangular rapid flashing beacons. This project is expected to start
construction in winter 2022.
WILLIAMS ROAD RESURFACING AND PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACON
The City of Salinas is planning to repave Williams Road, which is a route to Alisal High School and Alisal Community School. The project will add buffered bicycle lanes on Williams Road, bicycle-conflict markings, high-visibility crosswalks, and a loading zone in front of Alisal High. This project is planned to start construction in 2023.
The uncontrolled crosswalk across from the Alisal High football field is planned to be removed until a pedestrian hybrid beacon can be installed in late 2023. Pedestrian hybrid beacons are overhead beacons that flash red when pedestrians are crossing and signal drivers to stop. This treatment will increase the safety of students crossing at the current crosswalk location.
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VISION ZERO INTEGRATED INTO MAINTENANCE
(VZIM) PROGRAM
Vision Zero Integrated into Maintenance (VZIM) is one of the most cost-effective ways the City can invest in traffic safety. Vision Zero is a multidisciplinary approach to eliminating severe and fatal collisions, but an often-overlooked program with a substantial opportunity to make incremental safety improvements in the City’s pavement maintenance program. What is the difference between the City’s capital improvement program (CIP) and its maintenance program? Reconstructing roads often involves moving flow lines, upgrading drainage systems, rebuilding sidewalks, relocating utilities, and planting trees, all of which are very expensive. Resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation projects are typically regularly planned maintenance projects initiated on the basis of current or anticipated pavement conditions. Maintenance funds are already programmed, and additional striping changes have only a nominal cost to the City. Because of the low additional cost, VZIM is one of the most cost-effective approaches to improving traffic safety.
When a resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation project is planned, the City is given a blank canvas to determine how best to restripe the roadway. This is an opportunity to implement desired traffic-safety improvements, reduce crash frequency and severity, and improve traffic operations. Recent improvements have included road diets with buffered bike lanes on the following streets:
• John Street between Wood Street and East Alisal Street • East Rossi Street between Main Street and Sherwood Drive • Madrid Street between Northridge Mall and Main Street • West Alisal Street between Front Street and Blanco Road Other recent projects have installed narrower lanes and added buffered bike lanes on Blanco Road between San Vincente Avenue and Main Street, and on Constitution Boulevard between East Laurel Drive and East Boronda Road.
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EXISTING PROGRAMS
The City of Salinas offers programs for residents seeking sidewalk repair or traffic calming in their neighborhoods. In addition, a variety of program offerings provide activetransportation education and encouragement to Salinas residents. Some programs are focused on school-aged youths, but there are also programs offering safety information, encouragement, and events for the general public.
CITY PROGRAMS
City Neighborhood Traffic Management Program
The City of Salinas has an adopted the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program to address concerns about traffic speeds and other safety issues on Salinas residential streets. The program is driven by neighbors and requires that the residents themselves support the traffic calming plan. It requires a petition from the community to begin the process and support of at least 50% of neighbors for the proposed changes. Learn more here: https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/public-works/current-projects/ traffic-calming
City Sidewalk Repair Program
Homeowners in the City of Salinas, like those in many communities in California, are responsible for maintaining the sidewalk fronting their property. Some funding is available from the City for a 50/50 sidewalk repair program, in which the City will pay half the cost of curb, gutter, and sidewalk repair, up to a maximum of $2,500. The City also allocates maintenance funds for sidewalk repair through its capital improvement program and pursues funding for sidewalk repair through other sources. Public Works staff members respond to maintenance requests in the order that services are requested.
There is currently a nineteen-year backlog for sidewalk repairs. Learn more here:
https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/public-works/pw-maintenance-services/ document-lists/sidewalk-repair
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EDUCATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAMS
Active Transportation Support Program
The Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC) provides free racks for bicycle and skateboard parking, bike lockers, and bicycle repair stands to businesses, organizations, and schools throughout Monterey County. The goal of the program is to increase the amount of secure bicycle parking and ensure that it is distributed equitably throughout the county. Interested businesses and others can apply for funding to purchase a rack at any time here:
https://www.tamcmonterey.org/bicycle-secure-program.
Bike Smart and Walk Smart
The Bike Smart and Walk Smart programs, led by Ecology Action, provide on-the-ground training in safe walking and bicycling to second- and fifth-grade students, with the goal of empowering students and parents to walk and bike and to reduce collisions. Learn more here:
https://ecoact.org/about-us/community-engagement/youth-programs Blue Zones Project Monterey County
Blue Zones Project is a national organization that works with communities to encourage changes that lead to healthier options for residents. Blue Zones works with governments, employers, restaurants, and school sites to encourage healthy eating, exercise, and community building. Blue Zones was launched in Monterey County in 2019 and works with schools throughout Salinas to encourage healthy habits. Learn more here:
https://info.bluezonesproject.com/montereycounty
Ciclovía Salinas
Ciclovía Salinas is an annual event held on East Alisal Street that creates space for walking and biking, connecting with community and local organizations, and supporting local businesses. Ciclovía events began in Bogotá, Colombia, and have spread around the world. Ciclovía Salinas is the only fully youth-led Ciclovía event and is currently in its ninth year. Learn more here: https://cicloviasalinas.org/ Existing Conditions 53
Go 831
Go831 is a free transportation-demand management program led by the Transportation Agency for Monterey County. The program is offered countywide and provides resources and incentives for commute trips made by biking, walking, carpooling, vanpooling, or public transit. Go831 also provides resources for employers who want to start incentive programs to reduce drive-alone commute trips. Learn more here: http://www.go831.org/ Measure X Safe Routes to Schools Program
Local sales tax Measure X, which was approved by Monterey County voters in 2016, includes $20 million for Safe Routes to Schools projects and programs through 2040. The Transportation Agency for Monterey County has developed a comprehensive Safe Routes to Schools program that offers tools, programming, and resources to schools, guardians, and communities aimed at improving safety and traffic around schools. Learn more here:
https://saferoutesmonterey.org/
OUTREACH
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Public input was the foundation of the process of creating the Safe Routes to Schools Plan. The planning team developed an outreach plan and sought input from community members to accomplish the following outreach goals:
• Adapt outreach strategies during covid-19: Outreach for this plan took place in fall 2020 and spring 2021, during the covid-19 pandemic. The planning team shifted its outreach strategies away from in-person outreach to virtual parent meetings and online surveys.
• Understand school transportation needs and barriers: Parent and student surveys, presentations at parent meetings, and walking audits with school staff all contributed input on the barriers to walking and biking to schools in Salinas and the types of improvements that community members would like to see. This helped the planning team understand the key issues around each school site and the gaps in the biking and walking networks.
• Refine draft recommendations: Maps of the draft recommendations for each school site were sent out to parents along with a short survey asking for their feedback.
Each school was also offered a presentation opportunity at an already-planned parent meeting to share the draft recommendations and hear feedback from parents and school staff. Finally, the planning team hosted two temporary demonstration projects to test the draft recommendations and get feedback from the community.
This feedback was used to adjust the draft recommendations and add new recommendations for locations that were brought up by community members. • Collect representative community input: All outreach materials were provided in English and Spanish, and most parent presentations were given in Spanish. The planning team worked closely with school staff to reach parent communities and provide opportunities for input.
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PUBLIC OUTREACH
Public outreach was originally planned to start in spring 2020 and to focus on in-person community meetings. That strategy was adjusted due to the covid-19 pandemic to focus on presentations at virtual parent meetings and digital parent surveys. Walking audits were held at each school site to review current infrastructure conditions and discuss safety issues with school staff. Finally, the planning team hosted two temporary demonstration projects to test the draft recommendations and get feedback from the community.
WALKING AUDITS
Walking audits were held at each of the 45 schools in fall 2020 and spring 2021. Typically, audits are held during school drop-off or pick-up to observe traffic conditions. This was not possible because school was happening remotely due to covid-19, so instead the planning team met with school staff to observe infrastructure conditions around the school and discuss key safety issues. School principals, community liaisons, and crossing guards shared information on typical traffic patterns and safety issues for people walking and biking. These meetings were held outside, and covid-19 protocols were maintained to ensure participants’ safety.
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PARENT MEETINGS
At the beginning of the planning process, the
team contacted school staff to request time on
the agendas of pre-scheduled virtual parent
meetings, such as coffee klatches, site councils, and
the English Learner Advisory Committee (ELAC).
During the presentations, staff members shared
information about the planning process and asked
parents and school staff for input on any safety
issues or challenges with biking and walking around
the school. After the draft recommendation list was
developed, another round of presentations at virtual
parent meetings was conducted to get feedback
on the draft recommendations. In total, 140 virtual
presentations were given to all 45 schools.
PARENT AND STUDENT SURVEYS
An initial survey was shared with parents through
school communication channels, the project
website, and on social media and received 2,425
responses. The survey asked about how students
typically traveled to school before covid, top
concerns about letting students walk or bike to
school, and current barriers to traveling to school
safely. A similar survey was sent to high school
students, and 474 responses were received. After
the draft recommendation list was developed,
recommendations maps in English and Spanish
were shared with parents along with a short
survey asking for their feedback. 1,341 responses
were received with feedback on the draft
recommendations.
TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS
After the draft recommendations were developed,
the planning team selected two locations
for temporary installation projects. These
installations were designed to test the draft project
recommendations, see how the designs worked in
practice, and get feedback from the community on
whether they should be made permanent. The first
installation took place on East Alisal Street near
Sherwood Elementary from October 14 to October
25, 2021, and the second took place on McKinnon
Street and Westminster Drive near Harden Middle
School from April 20 to May 18, 2022.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
OUTREACH SUMMARY
140
PRESENTATIONS
RESPONSES
2,425
DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
2
17 474
RESPONSES
1,341
RESPONSES
35,000+
PARENTS REACHED
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TEMPORARY INSTALLATION
SURVEY RESULTS
Highlights of the community survey data for the East Alisal Street and McKinnon Street installation projects are provided below. The full survey data can be found in Appendix B.
East Alisal Street
The temporary installation on East Alisal Street was located between Griffin Street and North Hebbron Avenue, a section that connects nearby residents with Sherwood Elementary School. East Alisal Street is one of the top streets for pedestrian and bicycle collisions in Salinas, with 25 pedestrian and 16 bicycle collisions between 2010 and 2019.
East Alisal Street was also identified as a priority during the planning process for the Alisal Vibrancy Plan, which was developed with extensive community input starting in 2017.
The design of the temporary installation was based on a concept plan from the Alisal Vibrancy Plan.
At the time of the installation, there were no bicycle facilities along this section of East Alisal Street. The speed limit was 30 mph, but public comments indicated that drivers frequently travelled faster. The temporary installation included a Class IIB buffered bike lane on one side of the street and a Class IV separated bikeway on the other. The Class IV bikeway was separated from motor vehicles by construction barrels, wave delineators, and decorative planters that were painted by Los Padres Elementary students. To create space for bicycle facilities, the road was narrowed from two travel lanes in each direction to one, with a center turn lane. Green conflict markings were installed at intersections to alert drivers when they crossed bike lanes. The installation also included high-visibility crosswalks at the intersections of East Alisal Street at South Wood Street and Hebbron Avenue, which were installed permanently by the City.
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The East Alisal installation ended early and was in place for less than two weeks before it was damaged by heavy rain. The planning team received 114 community survey responses during the East Alisal Street installation. The following methods were used to promote the project and collect survey responses:
• Distribution of fliers and a survey link through Sherwood Elementary, Los Padres Elementary, and El Sausal Middle School.
• Community ribbon-cutting event, which had approximately 30 attendees. • Door-to-door distribution of fliers with the survey link to neighborhood businesses. • Mass mailings to nearly 5,000 households in the neighborhoods around the demonstration.
• Social media posts.
• Pre-stamped surveys placed along the installation route.
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Figure 6. East Alisal Street Installation Survey Data
Would you like to see the temporary improvements
made permanent?
Figure 7. East Alisal Street Installation Survey Data
How likely would you be to walk or bike through
this area if the changes became permanent?
4%
59%
3%
33%
Yes
Maybe - with some changes
Undecided
No
26%
35%
26%
12%
Definitely
Likely
Not at all likely
Not likely
Survey Results
• Nearly 40% of survey respondents
walked through the installation,
and 74% experienced the
installation in a car. Twelve percent
of respondents bicycled through
the installation.
• More than two-thirds of
respondents reported having
a positive experience with the
high-visibility crosswalks, and
approximately half had a positive
experience with the buffered bike
lane and separated bikeway.
• Just over half of respondents
said that they walked or biked
more because of the temporary
installation.
• Nearly 60% indicated that they
would like to see the temporary
changes made permanent
• 61% said that they would either
definitely or probably use the new
facility if it became permanent.
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East Alisal Street: Next Steps
Before implementing any changes to roadway design, the City of Salinas will conduct additional planning for the East Alisal Street corridor, including additional community outreach. In spring of 2022, the City received grant funding for improvements on East Alisal Street, including litter abatement, new street trees and landscaping, wayfinding signage, public art, sidewalk art to highlight safe routes through the neighborhood, and community education programming. Improvements are expected to be implemented in 2023.
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McKinnon Street and Westminster Drive
McKinnon Street and Westminster Drive were selected as the second installation location to test out concepts that were being considered for a possible grant application.
McKinnon Street and Westminster Drive provide routes to Harden Middle School, North Salinas High, and McKinnon Elementary, and to McKinnon Park and El Dorado Park.
At the time of the installation, McKinnon Street was a two-lane roadway with sidewalks and Class II bicycle lanes. The speed limit was 35 mph, but public comments indicated that drivers frequently travelled faster. Westminster Drive was a two-lane residential street with on-street parking on both sides. For the temporary installation on McKinnon Street, the bike lanes on both sides were upgraded to Class IV separated bikeways, which have barriers between the motor vehicle lanes and the bicycle lanes. The temporary installation also included green conflict markings at intersections and driveways along McKinnon Street, and curb extensions and high-visibility crosswalks at two intersections along Westminster Drive.
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The McKinnon Street installation was in place for a month, and the planning team received 251 community survey
responses. The following methods were used to promote the project and collect survey responses:
• Distribution of fliers and survey links through Harden Middle School, North Salinas High, and Natividad
Elementary.
• Mailer distribution with the survey link to approximately 2,700 households in the neighborhoods around the
demonstration.
• Virtual community meeting to explain the purpose of the demonstration, what to expect, and how to give input.
• Social media campaign.
• Pre-stamped surveys placed along the installation route. • In-person outreach to parents and students around
Harden Middle School.
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9%
60% 11%
20%
Yes
Maybe - with some changes
Undecided
No
26%
37%
18%
18%
Definitely
Likely
Not likely
Not at all likely
Figure 8. McKinnon Street Installation Survey Data
Would you like to see the temporary improvements
made permanent?
Figure 9. McKinnon Street Installation Survey Data
How likely would you be to walk or bike through this
area if the changes became permanent?
Survey Results
Two-thirds of survey respondents drove through the installation, 41% walked, and 22% bicycled. • Nearly 70% of respondents had a positive response to both the high-visibility crosswalks and the separated bikeways, saying either “I love it” or “I like it” to those temporary changes.
• Just under half of respondents said that they walked or biked more because of the temporary installation.
• 60% indicated that they would like to see the temporary changes made permanent. • 64% said that they would either definitely or probably use the new facility if it became permanent.
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McKinnon Street: Next Steps
McKinnon Street is scheduled for resurfacing in the next few years, and the City of Salinas plans to implement striping changes during that project, including buffered bicycle lanes and high-visibility crosswalks. Because of the positive response to the temporary demonstration, the City has also applied for grant funding to install Class IV separated bikeways on McKinnon Street and a multi-use path on Harden Parkway.
CITYWIDE
INFRASTRUCTURE
PROGRAM
RECOMMENDATIONS
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This chapter contains recommendations that affect multiple schools in the City of Salinas.
These include recommendations for new biking and walking facilities, and programmatic recommendations that address education, encouragement, engagement, equity, and maintenance. The maps in this chapter show the network of citywide routes that are recommended for future improvements to this plan and streets that serve as key routes to school, which have been identified as Safe Routes to Schools corridors.
The vision for all students and families following the
implementation of the City of Salinas Safe Routes to Schools Plan is as follows:
• I can walk or bike to school safely.
• I know that my trip to school helps our environment, builds healthy habits, and saves my family money.
• I am more connected to my neighborhood and community through my trip to school. • I have the skills and confidence I need to travel to school safely without using a car.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
The City of Salinas and partner agencies have set the following goals and objectives for the future of Safe Routes to Schools, to be accomplished through the projects and programs in this plan.
Goal 1. Encouragement: The majority of children will arrive at school by foot, bicycle, scooter, skateboard, bus, or carpool.
• Objective 1.1: Identify and promote a broad spectrum of projects to provide a connected network of active transportation options along Safe Routes to Schools corridors and connections.
• Objective 1.2: Design and construct street improvements that are accessible and comfortable for all ages and abilities. Incorporate tree planting into active transportation projects to provide shade for people who are walking and bicycling and address City goals for increasing the urban tree canopy.
I CAN
walk, bike,
and roll to
school safely.
I KNOW
that my trip to school
helps our environment,
builds healthy habits, and
saves my family money.
I HAVE
the skills and confidence
I need to travel to school
safely without using a car.
I AM
more connected to my
neighborhood and
community through my
trip to school.
VISION
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• Objective 1.3: Transportation Agency for
Monterey County (TAMC), schools, and the
City will support events that encourage active
transportation to school, such as “Walk & Roll to
School,” at least twice each year.
• Objective 1.4: Work with schools and Safe
Routes to Schools partners to provide walking
school buses at all elementary schools.
• Objective 1.5: Work with schools and Safe
Routes to Schools partners to promote Safe
Routes to Schools corridors as the preferred
routes to school.
Goal 2. Safety: Zero collisions involving bikes
or pedestrians that result in injury or death
• Objective 2.1: Prioritize Safe Routes to
Schools projects that address fatal and severeinjury crashes. • Objective 2.2: Enhance low-stress route
alternatives to high-stress corridors.
• Objective 2.3: Prioritize safety over travel
delays, speed, congestion, and convenience in
project design.
• Objective 2.4: Crossing guards will be present at
all elementary schools.
Goal 3. Education: All children in Salinas will
receive traffic safety education
• Objective 3.1: Incorporate bicycle and
pedestrian safety education into the curriculum
in all elementary schools.
• Objective 3.2: By second grade, all children will
receive pedestrian safety training in school; by
fifth grade, all children will receive bike safety
training in school.
• Objective 3.3: By high school, students will
know the basics of bike maintenance and have
opportunities to practice these skills at school or
in the community.
Goal 4. Engagement: Engage the
greater community to create safe environments
around schools
• Objective 4.1: Run annual community-wide
campaigns that encourage neighbors to keep
eyes on the streets and drivers to reduce speeds
around schools.
• Objective 4.2: Enforce traffic laws in school
zones without overburdening offenders.
One example would be a diversion program that
requires school zone traffic offenders to assist
with crossing guard duties (Austin, TX
program model).
• Objective 4.3: Recruit volunteers from the
community to assist with Safe Routes to Schools
programs such as walking school buses and
crossing guards.
Goal 5. Equity: Ensure all community
members have equitable access to schools and Safe
Routes to Schools programming.
• Objective 5.1: Prioritize infrastructure projects
that will serve transportation-disadvantaged
and special-needs populations.
• Objective 5.2: Provide opportunities for a diverse
group of community members to take leadership
roles in the development and implementation of
Safe Routes to Schools projects and programs.
An example would be participation in a Safe
Routes to Schools steering committee.
• Objective 5.3: Provide access to active
transportation and safety equipment such as
bicycles, scooters, helmets, and lights.
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 71
ENCOURAGEMENT:
The majority of children
will arrive at school by
foot, bicycle, scooter,
skateboard, bus, or
carpool
1 SAFETY:
Zero collisions involving
bikes or pedestrians that
result in injury or death
2 EDUCATION:
All children in Salinas
will receive traic
safety education
3 ENGAGEMENT:
Engage the greater
community to create
safe environments
around schools
4 EQUITY:
Ensure all community
members have equitable
access to schools and
Safe Routes to Schools
programming
5 PLAN GOALS
STOP
SCHOOL ZONE
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 72
RECOMMENDATIONS PROCESS
The recommendations in this Safe Routes to Schools Plan were developed in response to public input on the barriers to getting to each school site safely. Public comments from parent surveys, parent meetings, and walking audits were reviewed and recommendations were developed based on the community input. This process included the evaluation of existing conditions around each school. All of the recommendations in this report require additional planning and evaluation to determine if they are appropriate and feasible.
After the draft recommendations were developed, recommendation maps in English and Spanish were shared with each school site along with a short survey asking for feedback.
Each school was also offered another round of bilingual parent presentations to share the draft recommendations and collect feedback from parents and school staff. The planning team reviewed the feedback on the draft recommendations and adjusted the recommendations where feasible.
All recommendations are planning-level and require further analysis prior to construction.
CITYWIDE CORRIDOR RECOMMENDATIONS
The map on page 75 shows existing bicycle and pedestrian facilities along with recommendations for bicycle and pedestrian corridor improvements throughout the City of Salinas. A description of each facility type can be found below.
BIKE BOULEVARD
Streets with traffic speed and volume management,
designed to create low-stress conditions. In ideal
conditions, cyclists share the road with motor vehicles.
Bike boulevards manage speeds and volumes using
traffic-calming features like diverters, medians,
chicanes, and traffic circles. Bike boulevards are usually marked by signs and “sharrows” and may include
branding and wayfinding signs to local destinations
and other low-stress routes.
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 73
CLASS I SHARED-USE PATH
Paved rights-of-way that are completely separated
from streets where motor vehicle traffic is prohibited.
Shared-use paths are designed for people who
are using wheelchairs, walking, bicycling, or
skateboarding, or taking other forms of active
transportation. Bike paths should offer opportunities
not provided by the road system, such as recreational
opportunities or direct high-speed commute routes if
cross-flow by motor vehicles and pedestrian conflicts
can be minimized. The most common applications for
shared-use paths are along waterfronts, canals, utility rights-of-way, abandoned railroad rights-of-way, within school campuses, and within and between parks.
There may also be situations in which such facilities
can be provided as part of planned developments.
CLASS II BICYCLE LANE
On-street facilities that use striping and stencils to
designate space for bicycle travel. Bike lanes are
intended to delineate the right-of-way assigned to
bicyclists and motorists and to provide for more
predictable movements by each user. A more
important reason for constructing bike lanes is to
better accommodate bicyclists through corridors
where there is not sufficient room for side-by-side
sharing of streets by motorists and bicyclists. This can be accomplished by reducing the number of lanes,
reducing lane width, or prohibiting or reconfiguring
parking to delineate bike lanes. In addition, other
things can be done on streets with bike lanes to
improve the situation for bicyclists that might not
be possible on all streets (e.g., improvements to the
surface, augmented sweeping programs, special signal
facilities). In general, pavement markings alone will
not measurably improve bicycling conditions. The City
of Salinas will look for future opportunities to convert Class II bicycle lanes to Class IV separated bikeways or Class I paths.
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 74
CLASS IIB BUFFERED BICYCLE LANE
Buffered bike lanes are conventional bicycle lanes paired with designated buffer spaces separating them from adjacent motor vehicle travel lanes or parking lanes. Buffered bike lanes provide a greater distance between bicyclists and motor vehicle traffic and space for bicyclists to pass each other without encroaching into the motor vehicle lane. Buffered bike lanes appeal to a wider cross-section of users and abilities than conventional bike lanes.
CLASS III BICYCLE ROUTE
Routes designated for bicycle travel, with shared-use pavement markings, that are shared with motor vehicles. Shared lane markings help bicyclists with lateral positioning to reduce their chances of hitting the open door of a parked vehicle, to alert road users of the locations bicyclists are likely to occupy in the roadway, and to encourage safe passing of bicyclists by motorists. Shared-use markings are only feasible on streets with speed limits of 35 mph or less. Bike routes are identified through signage and shared-lane bicycle markings or “sharrows.”
CLASS IV CYCLE TRACK
Class IV facilities are protected bike facilities designated for the exclusive use of bicyclists. Cycle tracks are bike facilities separated from motor vehicle traffic by a physical barrier and are distinct from sidewalk and pedestrian areas. Cycle tracks may be one-way or two-way, and may be at street level, at sidewalk level, or at an intermediate level. If at sidewalk level, a curb or median separates them from motor vehicle traffic, and different pavement colors or textures separate them from the sidewalk. If at street level, they can be separated from motor vehicle traffic by raised curbs or barriers. By separating cyclists from motor vehicle traffic, cycle tracks can offer greater security than bike lanes and are attractive to a wider spectrum of the public. However, cycle tracks can constrain the bikeway and limit the ability of bicyclists to pass each other.
Source www.bikepedimages.org
Kristen Langford
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 75
SANTA
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W
CURTIS ST
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N FIRST ST
GARNER
AVE
VICTOR ST
LARKIN
ST
COLLEGE
DR
CLAY ST
HOMESTEAD AVE
LOS
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BUCKHORN
DR
RIKER ST
MADRID
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CAMBR IAN DR
UNIVERSITY
AVE
CORNWALL
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SWANER AVE
VAN BUREN AV E
SAN MIGUEL AVE
CENTRAL AVE
PAJARO ST
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CHAPARRAL ST
CALIFORNIA
ST
SAN JUAN GRADE RD
W ACACIA ST
AMBROSE
DR
E LAUREL DR TULANE
ST
RIDER AVE
RUSSELL RD
LINCOLN
AVE
BARDIN RD
W LAUREL DR
CHE ROKEE
DR
GEIL ST
EUCALYPTUS DR
CONS
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TUTION D EL
DORADO DR
N SANBORN RD
MCKINNON ST
W ALVIN DR
PASEO
GRANDE
E BOLIVAR
ST
IVER S ON ST
KELTON
DR
NATIVIDAD RD
N MAIN
ST
E ALISAL ST
CHESTNUT
ST
FREEDOM PKWY
SCONBERG
PKWY
TOWT
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TYLER
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NANTUCKET BLVD
INDEPENDENCE BLVD
LAS
CASI TAS DR
WILLIAMS RD
N DAVIS RD
W
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TRIDGE
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SHERWOOD DR
HARDEN PKWY
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CANAL
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CARR LAKE TRAIL
ALISAL
CREEK
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ROGGE RD
Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
Citywide Corridor Recommendations
Existing Facilities
Class I Shared Use
Path
Class II Bike Lane
Class IIB Buffered
Bike Lane
Class III Bike Route
Class IV Separated
Bikeway
Regional Bike
Route
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Salinas Municipal
Airport
Bike Boulevard
Class I Path
Class I or Sidewalk
Class II Bike Lane
Class II or Bike
Boulevard
Class IIB Buffered
Class IIB or Class IV
Class III Bike Route
Class IV Separated
Bikeway
Class IV or Class I
Recommended Facilities
101
183
68 Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 76
SAFE ROUTES TO
SCHOOLS CORRIDORS
Safe Routes to Schools corridors are streets that have been identified as key routes to Salinas schools. These streets may be good candidates for corridor-level improvements in the future to slow traffic speeds, improve intersections and crossings, and create a safe and comfortable environment for students to walk to school. Class I shared-use paths are completely separated from motor vehicles and offer the most comfortable environment for walking and biking. Existing and recommended shared-use paths are highlighted as Safe Routes to Schools corridors in the map below.
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 77
SANTA
R TI A ST
W CURTIS ST
E ROMIE LN
N FIRST ST
FONTES
LN
GARNER AVE
VICTOR ST
LARKIN ST
COL
D
LEGE
R
CLAY ST
MONTE BEL LA
BLVD
HOMESTEAD AVE
WESTRIDGE
PKWY
LOS
OLIVOS DR
ROCHEX
AVE
WESTMINSTER
DR
BUCKHORN
DR
COUGAR
DR
W
ALISAL ST
RIKER ST
KITTERY
ST
DEL MONTE AVE
CAMBRIAN
DR
SAN VINCENTE AVE
MODOC
AVE
UNIVERSITY
AVE
CORNWALL
ST
SWANER AVE
VAN
BUREN AVE
S WOOD ST
MARYAL DR
LINWOOD DR
SAN MIGUEL AVE
CENTRAL AVE
CAPITOL ST
PALMA DR
PAJARO ST
E LAUREL
DR
CHAPARRAL ST
CALIFORNIA
ST
ARCADIA WAY
TOWT ST
SAN JUAN GRADE RD
TUSCANY BLVD
W ACACIA ST
AMBROSE
DR
E LAUREL DR
REATA
ST
TULANE
ST
RIDER AVE
W LAUREL DR
E
MARKET ST
CHEROKEE
DR
E
CURTIS ST
RUSSELL RD
LINCOLN
AVE
BARDIN RD
RO
RICO G
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CONSTITUTION
BLVD
EL
DORADO DR
N SANBORN RD
MCKINNON ST
E ALISAL ST
W ALVIN DR
PASEO
GRANDE
E BOLIVAR
ST
FREEDOM PKWY
E ALVIN DR
IVERSON
ST
KIP
DR
WILLIAMS RD
CHESTNUT
ST
ROGGE RD
SAUSAL
DR
HARDEN PKWY
NI DEPENDENCE BLVD
TYLER
ST
NANTUCKET BLVD
LAS
CASI T AS DR
N DAVIS RD
JOHN ST
SHERWOOD DR
E BORONDA RD
CANAL
NATIVIDAD RD
LAKE TRAIL
CARR
CARR LAKE TRAIL
ALISAL
CREEK
ROGGE RD
Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
Safe Routes to Schools Corridors
¯ 0 0.5 1 Miles
Salinas Municipal
Airport
Recommended Safe Routes to Schools Corridor
Recommended Class I Shared Use Path
Existing Class I Shared Use Path
101
183
68 Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 78
POLICY AND PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS
The recommendations below are for all school sites and are arranged by implementing agency and type of program. Some recommendations are listed under multiple organizations that could take the lead on implementation.
TRANSPORTATION AGENCY FOR
MONTEREY COUNTY (TAMC)
Education
• Support the Street Smarts traffic-safety
education campaign, including information on
how to use new infrastructure like roundabouts,
Class IV separated bikeways, and pedestrian
hybrid beacons.
• Install traffic gardens at elementary
schools and parks to provide space for traffic
safety education.
• Promote the TAMC program that allows citizens
to report sidewalk and bicycle facility hazards on
Salinas roadways.
Encouragement
• Work with schools districts to develop
SchoolPool carpooling programs, with
incentives for participation such as priority
parking spaces and drop-off lanes.
• Support development and programming
for walking school buses at Monterey
County schools.
• Develop a bar-code scanner program that
notifies parents when students arrive at school.
• Develop a pilot program to structure school
drop-off times and locations by grade level and
align it with education programs.
• Promote the TAMC Safe Routes website
(https://saferoutesmonterey.org/) as a
community resource for establishing walking
school buses, finding safety information, etc.
• Continue to provide bike and skateboard racks
to schools, libraries, parks, and community
centers through the Active Transportation
Support program.
Equity
• Design and implement public outreach and
engagement that is broadly accessible and
provides means for all to participate.
• Provide an equitable share of transportation
investments to underserved, racially diverse
communities to improve their health, safety,
and quality of life.
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 79
SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Education
• Incorporate traffic safety education into
school curriculums.
• Partner with TAMC and other Safe Routes
to Schools partners to provide bicycle and
pedestrian safety education and training at
every elementary school.
Encouragement
• Adopt a district-wide policy supporting active
transportation projects and programs.
• Establish a Safe Routes to Schools contact at
the district level to act as the point person for
education, programs, and events.
• Provide orientation for principals and school
staff on Safe Routes to Schools programs and
best practices, including traffic management.
• Where a bus stop for one school is near another
school, relocate the bus stop or adjust pick-up
times to reduce school congestion.
• Promote events that encourage active
transportation, such as Walk and Bike to
School Day.
• Use the TAMC Bicycle Secure program to provide
secure bike, scooter, and skateboard parking at
each school site.
• Consider the use of electric school buses.
Engagement
• Reassess crossing guard funding and recruiting
structures to allow at least one crossing guard
per school for both morning drop-off and
afternoon pick-up times, or develop a
volunteer crossing guard program to recruit and
motivate volunteers.
CITY OF SALINAS: POLICE,
RECREATION AND COMMUNITY
SERVICES, AND PUBLIC WORKS
DEPARTMENTS
Education
• Continue Police Department programming to
educate students and community members
about bicycle and pedestrian safety.
• Train police officers to teach traffic safety, with
a focus on driver safety, and accurately report
collisions involving bicyclists or pedestrians.
• Incorporate bike/walk safety trainings or helmet
giveaways into Recreation and Community
Services Department messaging, after-school
programs, and events.
• Promote the Salinas Connect app and website,
which allows citizens to report sidewalk and
bicycle facility hazards on city roadways.
Encouragement
• Incorporate tree planting into active
transportation projects to provide shade for
people who are walking and bicycling and
address City goals for increasing the urban
tree canopy.
• Support and promote bike and pedestrian
encouragement activities such as Bike Month,
Ciclovía, and Walk and Bike to School Day.
• Apply for Bicycle
Friendly Community
designation through
the League of
American Bicyclists
(could involve city
staff and community
volunteers).
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 80
SCHOOL SITES
Education
• Distribute a traffic circulation plan and bike and
pedestrian safety information to parents with the
goal of promoting positive behavior during dropoff and pick-up. Distribute information at the beginning of the school year through all possible
communication channels (email, handouts,
parent meetings, back to school nights, etc.).
• Hold school safety assemblies for students at
the beginning of the school year to go over safe
walking, biking, and drop-off practices.
• Pass out bike maps, resource lists, and bike cage
information to students every fall, and conduct
annual bike safety clinics.
• Incorporate active transportation into social and
emotional learning curriculums.
• Incorporate Chalk Your Walk programs into
arts curriculums.
• Develop a curriculum for teaching students
about the climate impacts of transportation,
transportation infrastructure, and the
built environment.
• For high school students, promote bus routes
for school transportation, develop carpool
incentive programs, and offer bike maintenance
courses through a Regional Occupation Center
(ROP) program.
• For high school students, expand health
leadership groups to include active
transportation issues, such as student bike/
pedestrian counts, active transportation projects,
and Safe Routes to Schools support for
younger students.
• Provide information to school staff about activetransportation and carpooling options, including electric bikes.
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 81
Encouragement
• Incorporate active transportation and support for Walk and Bike to School Day into existing school health policies.
• Designate an administrative staff member as the Safe Routes to Schools contact at each school.
• Work to achieve Blue Zones Project school certification. • Host biannual Walk and Bike to School Day events.
• Develop walking and rolling school bus programs with incentives for participation.
• Develop SchoolPool carpooling programs with incentives for participation, including priority parking spaces and drop-off lanes. • Establish and encourage use of Park and Walk/Ride locations. • Promote and incentivize middle- and high-school bike clubs, mountain bike clubs, and skateboard clubs.
• Promote and incentivize family walking and biking groups to encourage more eyes on the street, potentially through existing parent groups.
• Stagger school start times between grade levels to disperse drop-off traffic.
• Stagger school start times for schools within two blocks of each other. • Adjust school delivery times to avoid drop-off periods. • Develop partnerships with arts programs to install public art along routes to schools.
• Add active-transportation information to school staff signatures. • Pursue grant funding through the Specialized Outride program to bring bikes and bike education to middle schools.
Engagement
• When possible, have school staff or volunteers help with traffic control in school parking lots for 15 minutes before and after school. • Pursue the AAA School Safety Patrol program to engage students in transportation safety (Monterey Park Elementary is a model). • Non-Profits and Monterey County Health Department
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 82
NON-PROFITS AND MONTEREY
COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Education
• Develop an annual crossing guard
training program.
• Develop programs and events to provide parents
and guardians with traffic safety education, such
as the following:
▪ Community traffic safety education events
on weekends.
▪ Traffic safety messaging at established parent
meetings and events, such as back-to-school
nights and spring open houses.
▪ Locate traffic-safety education staff members
at schools to talk to parents during drop-off.
▪ Work with parent leaders to develop parentdriven programs. ▪ Provide training and tips on using the school
drop-off loop.
• Provide driver safety training targeting youths
and seniors. Consider partnering with the
Salinas Police Department or insurance
companies to provide discounts
for participation.
• Provide bike and pedestrian safety training
during after-school programs, such as the YMCA
and the Boys and Girls Club.
• Provide pedestrian safety education and
training for second graders, including classroom
education and on-blacktop or neighborhood
walking instruction.
• Provide bicycle safety education and training
for fifth graders, including classroom education
and on-bike safety rodeos taught by certified
safety instructors.
• Develop a vertical education program with
specific safety messaging for every grade level.
• Develop programs or events to provide familyfocused bike- and walk-safety trainings. • Pass out bike maps, resource lists, and bike cage
information to students every fall, and conduct
annual bike safety clinics. Work with Family
Resource Centers to offer bike and pedestrian
education and support.
• Develop a curriculum for teaching students
about the climate impacts of transportation,
transportation infrastructure, and the built
environment.
• For high school students, promote bus routes for
school transportation, develop carpool incentive
programs, and offer bike maintenance courses
through an ROP program.
• For high school students, expand health
leadership groups to include active
transportation issues, such as student bike/
pedestrian counts, active transportation
projects, and Safe Routes to Schools support for
younger students.
• Support the Street Smarts traffic safety
education campaign, including information on
how to use new infrastructure like roundabouts
and sharrows.
• Promote the Salinas Connect app which allows
citizens to report sidewalk hazards.
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 83
Encouragement
• Provide orientation for principals and school
staff on Safe Routes to Schools programs and
best practices.
• Develop year-round walking or rolling school
bus programs with incentives
for participation.
• Develop a walking/rolling school bus
toolkit and training presentation for
parent volunteers.
• Develop SchoolPool carpooling programs,
with incentives for participation such as
priority parking spaces and drop-off lanes.
• Develop a social media campaign focused on
students and school staff to encourage more
biking and walking.
• Consider a program to provide free bus
passes to students.
• Offer middle- and high-school bike clubs,
mountain bike clubs, scooter clubs, and
skateboard clubs.
• Coordinate family walking and biking groups
to encourage more eyes on the street.
• Develop and promote earn-a-bike or bikeloan programs in which students earn a bike by riding frequently or maintaining perfect
attendance. Explore partnerships with
the Salinas Police Department to provide
abandoned bikes to students.
• Organize helmet giveaway events for
students and families.
• Develop programs to install public art along
routes to schools.
• Consider a neighborhood grant program
to support programs such as walking
school buses.
• Partner with local bike shops on bike
encouragement programs.
Equity
• Include members of disadvantaged
communities as stakeholders, and
consider language accessibility in program
development. Emphasize the relationship
between health and active transportation in
all program messaging.
• Provide bilingual materials and staff for
all programs.
• Conduct an audit of past policies that have
limited access to safe transportation options,
and propose new policies to address
these inequities.
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 84
MONTEREY-SALINAS TRANSIT (MST)
Encouragement
• Consider a program to provide free bus passes to students. • Expand bus routes to serve middle and high schools that are not currently served by MST, including Rancho San Juan High School, Gutierrez Middle School, Gavilan View Middle School, and Mount Toro High School.
Citywide Infrastructure and Program Recommendations 85
MAINTENANCE
RECOMMENDATIONS
Maintenance is a continual challenge for the City of Salinas, and there is currently insufficient funding to maintain all streets, sidewalks, and bicycle facilities to the level desired by staff and community members. This plan recommends pursuing additional funding for roadway maintenance to ensure that bicycle and pedestrian facilities throughout the city are safe and accessible. See Chapter 6 for current maintenance funding sources. This plan also recommends that the City of Salinas finalize and implement the Salinas Reconfiguration of Street Sweeping Routes and Signage Plan. The City will sweep residential streets two times monthly and commercial streets four times monthly.
No parking signs shall be installed to provide the street sweeper with curb access during designated street sweeping days.
Any complete streets improvements built on Caltrans rights-of-way should be maintained by the State of California.
SCHOOL PROFILES
School Profiles 87
The school-level infrastructure recommendations
listed in this chapter are the core of the Safe Routes
to Schools Plan. They were designed to address
the specific challenges at each school site, with the
goal of increasing the safety of families walking and
biking and encouraging more active-transportation
trips to school. This chapter includes information on
the current conditions at each school, observations
from the walking audit, and the list of infrastructure
recommendations. Schools are organized
alphabetically. School-specific non-infrastructure
recommendations are also listed under each
school’s profile. Citywide non-infrastructure
recommendations are listed in Chapter 4.
A guide to the various types of infrastructure
treatments included in this chapter starts on
page 88.
RECOMMENDATIONS
PROCESS
The recommendations in this Safe Routes to
Schools Plan were developed in response to public
input on the barriers to getting to each school
site safely. Public comments from parent surveys,
parent meetings, and walking audits were reviewed
and recommendations were developed based on
the community input. This process included an
evaluation of the existing conditions around each
school. All of the recommendations in this report
require additional planning and evaluation to
determine if they are appropriate and feasible.
After the draft recommendations were developed,
recommendation maps in English and Spanish
were shared with each school site along with a
short survey asking for feedback. Each school was
also offered another round of bilingual parent
presentations to share the draft recommendations
and collect feedback from parents and school staff.
The planning team reviewed the feedback on the
draft recommendations and adjusted them
where feasible.
All recommendations are planning-level and
require further analysis before construction. All
recommendations of new marked traffic-control
devices, including crosswalks, require further
analysis and must meet the guidelines of the
California Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices
and City of Salinas policies in order to be installed.
All traffic-calming recommendations in this plan are
subject to the Neighborhood Traffic Management
Program, which addresses concerns about traffic
speeds and other safety issues on Salinas residential
streets. This program is driven by neighbors and
requires that the residents themselves support the
traffic-calming plan. It requires a petition from the
community to begin the process and support from
at least 50% of neighbors for the proposed changes.
City staff prioritizes streets with higher traffic speeds and volumes.
There are several recommendations in this plan for
new curb markings to create loading zones near
schools. The City has an established program and
procedure available for new special curb markings,
and schools can begin the process by submitting
an application to the City. The cost of installing
and maintaining special curb markings is paid by
the applicant. There is a fee for the application
and an annual renewal fee to refresh the markings.
All curb markings require Transportation and
Traffic Commission and city council approval to be
legitimate and enforceable.
School Profiles 88
GUIDE TO BICYCLE & PEDESTRIAN
INFRASTRUCTURE RECOMMENDATIONS
Bicycle boulevards are streets
with low traffic volumes and
speeds where full bike lanes are
not feasible and cyclists share the
road with motor vehicles. Bike
boulevards are usually marked by
signs and shared-use pavement
markings, or “sharrows,” and
include traffic-calming measures
like diverters, medians, chicanes,
and traffic circles.
Class I shared-use paths are
paved rights-of-way, completely
separated from streets, which
support multi-use recreation and
transportation opportunities for
walkers, bicyclists, skaters, and
wheelchair users.
Bike lane conflict markings are
used to highlight “conflict zones,”
or places where traffic lanes
and bike lanes cross. This helps
drivers know where to expect
people on bikes.
Class II bike lanes are on-street
bicycle facilities that use striping
and stencils to designate space
for bicycle travel.
Center medians provide space to
locate pedestrian safety features,
traffic-control devices, amenities,
and landscaping, and they can
provide traffic calming.
Class IIB buffered bicycle lanes
include a striped buffer between
the bike lane and the vehicle lane,
which provides greater separation
and comfort for people biking.
School Profiles 89
Class III bicycle routes are
designated for bicycle travel with
signage and shared-use pavement
markings, or “sharrows,” and are
shared with motor vehicles.
High-visibility crosswalks,
or “ladder style” crosswalks,
are more visible to drivers than
crosswalks consisting of just
two lines.
Class IV separated bikeways or
cycle tracks include a physical
barrier such as parked cars,
planters, or plastic posts between
the bicycle lane and the vehicle
lane, providing separation and
safety for cyclists.
Leading pedestrian intervals
allow pedestrians to start crossing
an intersection a few seconds
before cars are given a green
light, making them more visible to
drivers who are making a left turn.
Curb extensions are installed
at intersections or mid-block
crosswalks to shorten the crossing
distance for people walking and
make them more visible to people
driving.
Pedestrian countdown signal
heads allow pedestrians to
see how many seconds remain
before the light changes and
whether there is enough time to
cross safely.
Pedestrian refuge islands are
protected spaces in the center
of a crosswalk that reduce the
pedestrians’ crossing distance and
exposure to vehicle traffic.
Protected intersections keep
people who are biking separate
from motor vehicles up until the
intersection. They have been
shown to improve safety for
people walking and biking.
Pedestrian hybrid beacons are
lights used to control traffic at
unsignalized locations to help
pedestrians cross the street. They
are often used on larger roadways
with three or more lanes.
Source:
pedbikeimages.org, Mike Cynecki
Source www.bikepedimages.org
Kristen Langford
Source:
www.bikepedimages.org,
Toole Design Group
School Profiles 90
Rectangular rapid flashing
beacons (RRFBs) are used at
uncontrolled intersections or midblock crosswalks to alert drivers to people who are waiting to cross
the street.
Roundabouts are circular
intersections where drivers
travel counterclockwise
around a center island. They
have been shown to reduce
crashes and improve safety for
people walking.
Raised crosswalks are higher
sections of pavement with
marked crosswalks. They are used
to encourage drivers to slow down
and to make people walking more
visible to drivers.
Shared-lane markings (“sharrows”)
are used on streets where bicycles
and motor vehicles share the same
travel lane. Sharrows direct bicyclists
to the safest position in the roadway,
alert drivers that bicyclists may be
sharing the lane, and encourage safe
passing of bicyclists by motorists.
Traffic calming consists of various measures, such
as speed humps, traffic circles, and chicanes, used to
slow vehicle traffic on residential streets and improve safety and conditions for walkers and cyclists. Trafficcalming measures must be requested and supported by neighborhood residents in order to be installed.
Speed feedback signs are a
traffic-control device used to
reduce vehicle speeds by giving
drivers who are traveling over
the posted or advisory speed a
targeted message, such as “YOUR
SPEED XX”.
Traffic circles are small roundabouts installed
on neighborhood streets to slow traffic
and create a safer and more comfortable
environment for people walking and biking.
Source: City of Capitola
Source: City of Capitola
Protected pedestrian signal
phases are traffic signals that
direct people walking to cross at
different times from drivers who
are making left turns.
School Profiles 91
ALISAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Alisal Community School is located in East Salinas,
adjacent to Alisal High School, and draws students
primarily from the surrounding neighborhoods (see
map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Alisal Community School parents were asked to
complete a bilingual survey about their attitudes
toward walking and biking to school in March 2021,
and 107 surveys were received. The full survey report
is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 10, below.
Figure 10. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. Cars parked at intersections make it harder to see people walking
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
697
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
92.4%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
83%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 107 SURVEY RESPONSES)
60%
MY CHILD
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
CROSSING
GUARDS
ADULTS TO
WALK OR BIKE
WITH
DISTANCE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
School Profiles 92
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Miles
Legend
Students
Alisal Community SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 12 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 101 students≤ 1/2 miles: 480 students School Profiles 93
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• At the time of the audit, Alisal Community
School had a small drop-off loop off Del Monte
Avenue and a parking lot off Williams Road.
Parking spaces in the lot were reserved for staff.
The school had plans to develop a larger dropoff loop off Del Monte Avenue. • At the time of the audit, drop-off took place
in the employee parking lot, which was not
intended for drop-off traffic. As a result, there
was severe congestion before and after school.
Drop-off will move in the future to Del Monte
Avenue.
• School bus drop-off takes place on Del Monte
Avenue.
• Williams Road is a major arterial street, part of
the city’s truck route network, and a primary
emergency response route. There is traffic
congestion on Williams Road before and after
school.
• Some of the drop-offs occur on-street along Del
Monte Avenue and Williams Road.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100–500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Parents expressed concerns about the intersection of Williams Rd and Del Monte Ave School Profiles 94
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are complete sidewalks on both sides of
Del Monte Avenue and Williams Road.
• The intersection of Del Monte Avenue and
Williams Road is signalized and has standard
striped crosswalks.
• There are no marked crosswalks across Del
Monte Avenue between Williams Road and Towt
Street.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bike lanes on both sides of
Williams Road. There are no bicycle facilities
on Del Monte Avenue or other neighborhood
streets.
The intersection of Del Monte Ave and Towt St is used by large numbers of pedestrians and drivers School Profiles 95
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND ALISAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL The following table lists recommendations for Alisal Community School, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 96
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
AC001 Williams Rd at Del
Monte Ave
Large numbers of
vehicles and pedestrians
at intersection. Parents
do not feel safe crossing.
Install yellow high-visibility
crosswalks per planned redesign
of Williams Rd. Implement lead
pedestrian interval, and install
pedestrian countdown signal
heads.
$218,140 City
AC002
Del Monte Ave
from Williams Rd
to Towt St
Reports of speeding.
Install traffic calming (chicanes
and removal of parking at those
locations), sharrow markings, and
bike route signage.
$652,800 City
AC003 Del Monte Ave at
Towt St
High pedestrian volumes
traveling to multiple
schools.
Upgrade crosswalks to highvisibility, construct curb
extensions with ramps.
$268,000 City
AC004
Del Monte Ave
from Williams Rd
to Towt St
Additional school
signage needed.
Install additional school zone
signage assembly A. $3,400 City
AC005
Del Monte Ave
between Williams
Rd and Burke St
Students crossing
outside of marked
crosswalks.
Consider pedestrian crossing
enhancements per city policy. $10,000 City
AC007 Del Monte Ave at
Dallas Ave
Low pedestrian visibility
at side streets.
Install high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Dallas Ave. $4,000 City
AC008 Del Monte Ave at
New Deal Ave
Low pedestrian visibility
at side streets.
Install high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across New Deal Ave. $4,000 City
AC009 Del Monte Ave at
Burke St
Low pedestrian visibility
at side streets.
Install high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Burke St. $4,000 City
AC010
Del Monte Ave
from Williams Rd
to Towt St
Low pedestrian visibility
at side streets.
Perform intersection sight
distance analysis and consider
installation of red curb at
intersections.
$700 City
AC011 Towt St at Cortez
St
Low pedestrian visibility
at side streets.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
and curb extension across Cortez
St.
$204,000 City
AC012
Dallas Ave from
Del Monte Ave to
Cortez St
Key pedestrian route
to school, reports of
speeding.
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents.
$157,800 City
AC013
New Deal Ave
from Del Monte
Ave to Cortez St
Key pedestrian route
to school, reports of
speeding.
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents.
$157,800 City
School Profiles 97
ALISAL HIGH SCHOOL
Alisal High is located in east Salinas and draws most of its students from the surrounding neighborhoods (see
map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Alisal High parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in March 2021, and 74 surveys were
received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 11, below.
Figure 11. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
GRADE LEVELS
9-12
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
2838
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
82%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
80%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 74 SURVEY RESPONSES)
51%
Students walking currently share space with cars in
the eastern entrance to campus
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
DISTANCE
MY CHILD
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
School Profiles 98
SalinasSafe Routesto School Plan
Adams St
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Pueblo Dr
Cherokee Dr
Osage Dr
Navajo Dr
Chaparral St
Harden Pkwy
McKinnon St
E Alvin Dr
Adams St
N 1st St
N Main St
El Camino Real
Harden Ranch
Plaza
Heald
College-Salinas
Main Canal
Tyler St
Rainier Dr
Iris Dr
Noice Dr
Rico St
Boeing Ave
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Chaparral St
Navajo Dr
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Tulane St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
Clay St
Griffin St
Winham St
W Rossi St
Rianda St
Rico St
Riker St
Central Ave
California St
Harvest St
Auburn St
Main St
Pajaro St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Lincoln Ave
Sun St
W San Luis St
Work St
E Market St
W Market St
N Main St
Front St
Salinas St S Main St
Sherwood Dr
John St
W Alisal St
Monterey St
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Salinas
Geil S
W
t
Acacia St San Marcos Dr
Lang St
Pajaro St
E Acacia St
W Romie Ln
California St
Maple St
Carmel Ave
E Romie Ln
Grove St
Harvest St
Sierra Dr
Hawthorne St
Oak St
Orange Dr
San Angelo Dr
Willow St
Chestnut St
S Main St S Main St
Abbott St
E Blanco Rd
S Main St
Claremont
Manor
Neighborhood
Park
Salinas Valley
Memorial
Hospital
Emerald Dr
Arcadia Way
Calaveras Dr
Coventry St
Glendora Way
Inglewood St
Pescadero Dr
Independence Blvd
Victoria Ave
Los Coches Ave
Cambrian Dr
Sutter St
Klamath Dr
E Alvin Dr
Humboldt Dr
Natividad Rd Natividad Rd
E Boronda Rd
El Dorado
Community Park
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Ali sal Creek
Oregon St
Fremont St
Eucalyptus Dr
Towt St
Roosevelt St
N Hebbron Ave
St Edwards Ave
Kings St
Kern St
Kern St
Fir st Ave
Acosta Plz
Meadow Dr
N Pearl St
S Filice St John St
E Market St
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
S Sanborn Rd
E Alisal St
El Camino Real
Cesar E Chavez
Community Park
Alisal Creek
101
101
Merrill St
Airport Blvd
Schilling Pl
Vertin Ave
Work St
Blanco Cir
Terven Ave
Johnson Pl
Growers St
Brunken Ave
Harkins Rd
Abbott St
S Sanborn Rd
El Camino Real
Ioof Cemetery
Spreckels
Junction
Natividad Creek
Gabilan Creek
Bradbury St Nantucket Blvd
E Boronda Rd
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Steinbeck
Neighborhood
Park
Pacific Ave
Antigua Ave
Atlantic St
Eagle Dr
Rider Ave
N Sanborn Rd
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Towt St
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
E Boronda Rd
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Freedom Pkwy
Natividad Creek
Park
Sycamore Rd
Del Monte Ave
Second Ave
Margaret St
Toro Ave Skyway Blvd
First Ave
Cross Ave
Kimmel St
Paloma Ave
Green St
Mae Ave
Monte Bella Blvd
Dallas Ave
Bardin Rd
E Alisal St
E Laurel Dr Williams Rd Williams Rd
Alisal Rd
Closter Park
Alisal
Alisal Creek
Moffett St
Airport Blvd
Skyway Blvd
Salinas
Fairways Golf
Course
Hartnell
College-Alisal
Campus
Salinas
Municipal
Airport
Old Stage Rd Old Stage Rd
Williams Rd Williams Rd
Old Stage Rd
Williams Ranch
Park
Palermo Dr
Freedom Pkwy
Sconberg Pkwy
Alisal Rd Alisal Rd
Willia ms Rd
Alisal Creek
Alisal Creek
Williams Rd
Old Stage Rd
Alisal Creek
Old Stage Rd
Alisal Creek
Zabala Rd
Alisal Creek
Foothill Dr
Old Stage Rd
Zabala Rd
Old Stage Rd
Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community Students
Alisal High School
Public LibrariesCommunity CentersParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 1010 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 1259 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 606 students
School Profiles 99
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Alisal High is located on Williams Road, a fivelane roadway with parking on both sides.
Williams Road is a major arterial street and is
very congested before and after school.
• There is a drop-off area and parking lot on
the school campus. There is a parking lot on
the west side of campus that is reserved for
staff. Left turns are permitted out of the school
parking lot.
• The morning sun creates visibility problems for
eastbound traffic at certain times of the year.
• Bus drop-off takes place on school campus, in
the long drop-off area between the two parking
lots.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 35 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Williams
Road near the school.
• There are standard yellow crosswalks across
two legs of the intersection of Williams Road and
Monte Bella Boulevard.
• There is a standard yellow mid-block crosswalk
on Williams Road near the school’s football field.
• There are no marked crosswalks on Freedom
Parkway between Sanborn Road and Williams
Road.
• There are curb ramps in place at intersections
surrounding the school.
• There is a pedestrian pathway to the school
campus from Camarillo Court, and another path
connecting Tecopa Way to Williams Road near
the entrance to campus.
• The back entrance to campus, off Camarillo
Court, has lots of traffic before and after
school from both Alisal High and Cesar Chavez
Elementary.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bike lanes on Williams Road
near the school and on Freedom Boulevard.
Freedom Parkway is a four-lane roadway that some students cross to get to school School Profiles 100 RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND ALISAL HIGH SCHOOL The following table lists recommendations for Alisal High, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 101
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
AH001
Williams Rd
from Del Monte
Ave to Freedom
Parkway
High traffic volumes and
speeds.
Install planned Class IIB buffered
bike lanes on Williams Rd
between Freedom and Bardin.
Allow for loading and unloading
only, and restrict long-term
parking on Williams Rd in front of
Alisal High. Install raised median
with street trees between Del
Monte Ave and Monte Bella Blvd.
Replace missing street trees.
$513,380 City
AH002 Williams Rd at Del
Monte Ave
Large numbers of
vehicles and pedestrians
at intersection. Parents
do not feel safe crossing.
Install yellow high-visibility
crosswalks per redesign of
Williams Rd. Implement lead
pedestrian interval, and install
pedestrian countdown signal
heads.
$218,140 City
AH003 Williams Rd at
Monte Bella Blvd
Large numbers of
vehicles and pedestrians
at intersection.
Restricting left turns
removes conflict point.
Upgrade existing crosswalks with
high-visibility yellow crosswalk.
Continue to restrict left turns into
the high school at Monte Bella
Blvd from Williams Rd.
$14,000 City
AH004
Williams Rd at
existing midblock crosswalk
Collision history in
crosswalk.
Enhance crosswalk with
pedestrian hybrid beacon and
pedestrian refuge island. Note:
Crosswalk markings should
be removed until the planned
enhancements are installed and
operational.
$800,000 City
AH005
Williams Rd
at Freedom
Parkway
Large numbers of
vehicles and pedestrians
at intersection. Reports
of drivers not respecting
pedestrians.
Conduct intersection control
evaluation analysis to study
installation of roundabout.
Upgrade to yellow high-visibility
crosswalks.
$60,000 City
AH006
Williams Rd
at Freedom
Parkway
Drivers may not know
they’re in a school zone
until they are very close
to campus.
Install additional school zone
signage assembly A. $1,700 City
AH007
Freedom
Parkway from
Constitution Blvd
to Williams Rd
Large four-lane roadway
with low traffic volume.
Student was hit crossing
at Torona Way and
Cougar Drive.
Upgrade existing Class II bike lane
to buffered bike lanes. Evaluate
for potential reduction in the
number of lanes, Class IV cycle
track, and pedestrian crossing
locations.
$426,740 City
AH008 Freedom Parkway
at Williams Rd
Transition across right
turn lane is challenging
for people on bikes.
Install bike-lane conflict striping
across right turn lane transition,
and conflict striping across
the intersection to match the
receiving buffered bike lane.
$18,000 City
School Profiles 102
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
AH009
Burke St/back
entrance to
school
Entrance is not currently
ADA accessible.
Improve lighting and connection
from Burke to make it ADA
accessible.
$39,000 School
AH011 Freedom Parkway
at Estrella Way
Students walking to
Alisal High and La Paz
Middle
Install high-visibility crosswalk,
and construct curb extensions
with curb ramps across Estrella.
$130,000 City
AH012 School parking
lot
No dedicated space for
students to walk into
campus from the east.
Construct formal pedestrian
pathway through eastern
driveway into campus. Consider
removing parking spaces next to
portables, and repurpose space
for pedestrian path.
$10,000 School
AH013 School parking
lot
Difficult for drivers to
leave the school parking
lot, conflicts with
pedestrians crossing.
Consider creating a new rightturn-only lane from the school parking lot and closing driveway
access at Monte Bella Blvd to
reduce conflicts with students
crossing. Evaluate Williams Rd
crosswalk location and signal
operations with any changes to
lane configurations. Direct dropoff to school campus.
$11,700 School
AH014 Camarillo Court
at Moreno Dr
Traffic from both Alisal
High and Cesar Chavez
Elementary
Add bike route signage, sharrow
striping, and traffic calming if
requested and supported by
neighborhood residents.
$550,800 City
AH015
Gaviota Dr from
Paseo Grande to
Tecopa Way
Key drop-off location,
reports of speeding.
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents.
$214,200 City
AH016 Camarillo Court
at back entrance
Low visibility for students
walking after dark.
Add pedestrian-scale lighting to
improve back entrance to school. $83,200 School
School Profiles 103
BARDIN ELEMENTARY
Bardin Elementary is located at the eastern edge of
Salinas. Most Bardin students live in the surrounding
neighborhoods (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Bardin parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in March 2021, and 75 surveys were
received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 12, below.
Figure 12. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
The project includes a new drop-off lane in front of
the school.
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
675
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
82.2%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
79%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 75 SURVEY RESPONSES)
33%
CROSSING
GUARDS
CONVENIENCE
OF DRIVING
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
ADULTS TO
WALK OR
BIKE WITH
DISTANCE
MY CHILD
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
School Profiles 104
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Miles
Legend
Students
Bardin SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 65 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 307 students≤ 1/2 miles: 228 students School Profiles 105
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• At the time of the audit, Bardin Elementary had
one small drop-off loop at the front of campus
off Bardin Road and a side entrance through the
school parking lot.
• Drivers have been observed coming southbound
on Bardin Road and making U-turns past the
median at the intersection of Bardin Road and
East Alisal Street to get back on northbound
Bardin Road and enter the school drop-off loop.
• Drivers have been observed parking along
Bardin Road and dropping students off at the
curb.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 35 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• A complete sidewalk is in place on the northeast
side of Bardin Road, adjacent to the school
campus.
• There is no sidewalk or pedestrian facility on the
southwest side of Bardin Road directly across
the street from campus.
• The intersection of Bardin Road and East
Alisal Street is a minor-street stop-controlled
T-intersection. A project is currently in
construction to replace the intersection with a
roundabout.
• At the time of the audit, there was one faded
standard crosswalk on the north leg of the
Bardin Road/East Alisal Street intersection,
which led directly to the front of school.
• There are several pedestrian gates into campus,
including one at Bardin Road and another
through the school’s main parking lot.
Bicycling Conditions
• At the time of the audit, there were no bicycle
facilities on Bardin Road. The project currently
in construction includes buffered bike lanes
on Bardin Road, which are included in the
recommendation table and map below.
• At the time of the audit, there were Class II
bicycle lanes on East Alisal Street near the
school. The current project will upgrade these to
buffered bicycle lanes.
Roundabouts are currently in construction near Bardin Elementary.
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 106 BARDIN ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Bardin, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 107
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
BE001
Alisal Rd at
school parking
lot entrance
Conflict point
between pedestrians
and vehicles
Install high-visibility yellow crosswalk
across entrance. $4,000 School
BE002 E Alisal St at
Bardin Rd
Project currently in
construction.
Install double roundabout
configuration at intersection, and
include new striping plan and
roadway reconfiguration per Alisal
Vibrancy Plan and current Bardin SRTS
project.
Project
Funded City
BE003
E Alisal St
from Sconberg
Parkway to
Tampa St
Project currently in
construction.
Install new sidewalk on the south side
of the roadway and Class I shared-use
path between Margaret St and Bardin
Rd, per Bardin SRTS project. Long
term: Extend shared-use path from
Margaret St to Skyway Blvd.
Project
Funded City
BE004
E Alisal St from
Bardin Rd to
Skyway Blvd
Project currently in
construction.
Install buffered bike lanes, per Bardin
SRTS project.
Project
Funded City
BE005 E Alisal St at
Margaret St
Project currently in
construction.
Install high-visibility crosswalk,
curb extensions, and rectangular
rapid flashing beacon, along with
appropriate yield signage and striping.
Project
Funded City
BE006
Bardin Rd
from Sconberg
Parkway to
Williams Rd
Project currently in
construction.
Reconfigure roadway to one lane in
each direction with a center turn lane,
per Bardin SRTS project.
Project
Funded City
BE007
Bardin Rd at
school drop-off
loop
Parents parking in
drop-off loop.
Install no-parking signage to reduce
parent parking in loop. $850 School
BE008
Bardin Rd from
Alisal Rd to
Williams Rd
Project currently in
construction.
Install high-visibility crosswalk across
side streets with curb extensions and
curb ramps, per Bardin SRTS project.
Install marked crosswalks across
Bardin Rd at Toro Ave and Countryside
Drive.
Project
Funded City
BE009 Bardin Rd at
Williams Rd
Project currently in
construction.
Install high-visibility crosswalks and
upgrade curb ramps at three of the
corners. Include curb extensions
at southwest corners, and remove
dedicated right turn pocket/lane per
Bardin SRTS plan. Install conflict-area
striping for the buffered bike lane
approach to the intersection. Evaluate
intersection for lead pedestrian
interval feasibility.
Project
Funded City
School Profiles 108
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
BE010
Bardin Rd from
Alisal Rd to
Williams Rd
Project currently in
construction.
Install Class II buffered bikeway along
with accompanying striping, per
Bardin SRTS project.
Project
Funded City
BE011
Paloma Ave
from Quilla St to
Margaret St
Reports of speeding. Install traffic calming if requested and supported by neighborhood residents. $754,800 City
BE012
Paloma Ave from
Market St to Toro
Ave
Reports of speeding,
complex intersection.
Work with neighborhood residents
to develop access control plan
that includes pedestrian-safety
improvements and additional
intersection control.
$40,000 City
BE013
Sconberg
Parkway from
Alisal Rd to Monte
Bella Blvd
No bicycle connection
to Monte Bella
neighborhood.
Install Class II bike lane and signage
(extended project further with new
development).
$46,580 City
School Profiles 109
BORONDA MEADOWS ELEMENTARY
Boronda Meadows is located at the western edge
of Salinas and draws most of its students from the
surrounding neighborhoods. Many students must
cross North Davis Road to reach the school, and some
must cross Highway 101 (see map on the following
page).
PARENT SURVEY
Boronda Meadows parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in September 2020, and 83
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 13, below.
Figure 13. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. A Class I path is recommended on Davis Rd south of the school
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
756
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
82.1%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
83%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 83 SURVEY RESPONSES)
6%
VIOLENCE
OR CRIME
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC ALONG
ROUTE SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
DISTANCE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC ALONG
ROUTE
School Profiles 110
Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Salinas City Elementary School District,Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
BorondaMeadowsPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 84 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 458 students≤ 1/2 miles: 171 students School Profiles 111
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Boronda Meadows is located off North Davis
Road, a four-lane arterial roadway that runs the
length of western Salinas. North Davis Road is
congested before and after school.
• There is a large, two-lane drop-off area on the
school campus. There are two parking lots on
the north side of campus that are reserved for
staff and visitors. Left turns out of the school
parking lot are allowed at the intersection of
North Davis Road and Larkin Street. There is an
additional exit from the school parking lot that
allows right turns only onto North Davis Road.
• Bus drop-off takes place in a smaller loading
area on the east side of campus.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 500–100 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Larkin
Street and North Davis Road near the school.
The sidewalk ends on the west side of North
Davis Road south of the school campus at West
Rossi Street.
• There are standard white crosswalks on all
legs of the Larkin Street and North Davis Road
intersection to the east of the school driveway
entrance. All crosswalk stripes are faded.
• There are curb ramps at the Larkin Street and
North Davis Road intersection, but they are not
updated to current ADA standards.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bicycle lanes on North Davis
Road. Bike lane striping is faded.
• There are no bicycle facilities on Larkin Street or
other residential roadways near the school.
The central intersection on the school campus is large and requires several staff to manage traffic
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 112 BORONDA MEADOWS ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Boronda Meadows, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 113
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
BME001 School parking
lot
Large and complex
intersection requiring
several school staff
members to manage.
Consider installing a roundabout in
the school parking lot intersection. $195,000 School
BME002 N Davis Rd at
Larkin St
High traffic volumes
at intersection,
congestion before and
after school.
Conduct traffic analysis at this
intersection. Upgrade crosswalks to
yellow high-visibility.
$18,750 City
BME003 N Davis Rd Connection to
regional bike route.
Install Class I shared-use path on
west side of Davis Road to connect to
Marina/Salinas multi-modal corridor.
Consider street trees and landscaping.
$235,000 City
School Profiles 114
CARR LAKE COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL
Carr Lake is an alternative middle and high school
located in central Salinas. The school has a small
number of students who live throughout the city
(see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Carr Lake parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in March 2021, but no responses
were received.
GRADE LEVELS
7-12
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
17 STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
94.1%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
29%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
No data received
There is missing sidewalk on the north side of Sherwood Place School Profiles 115 Salinas Safe Routes to School Plan
183
San Jon Rd
Castroville Rd
Castroville Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Davis Rd Davis Rd
Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
183
Boronda Rd
Madison Ln
Fontes Ln
El Rancho Way
W Rossi St
Sloat Dr
Post Dr
Cherokee Dr
Adams St
Victor St
N Davis Rd
Larkin St
Colton Dr
Hyland Dr
N Davis Rd
El Camino Real
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Boronda
Lemos Ave
Vil la St
Clark St
Fairfax Dr
Central Ave
Carmelita Dr
Homestead Ave
W Rossi St
Park St
Nacional St
West St
A r cher St
W Acacia St
Via Maria
San Simeon Dr
Marion Ave
St Ann Dr
Bruce Ave Lorimer St
W Market St
W Alisal St
Castroville Rd
Davis Rd
Davis Rd
Hartnell College
Los Olivos Dr Iverson St
Chaucer Dr
Riker St
San Vincente Ave
Dickens Dr
Palma Dr
Kipling St
W Acacia St
Capistrano Dr
Hitchcock Rd
W Alisal St
W Blanco Rd
Blanco Rd
Pueblo Dr
Cherokee Dr
Osage Dr
Navajo Dr
Chaparral St
Harden Pkwy
McKinnon St
E Alvin Dr
Adams St
N 1st St
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
Harden Ranch
Plaza
Northridge Mall
Heald
College-Salinas
Main Canal
Tyler St
Rainier Dr
Iris Dr
Noice Dr
Rico St
Boeing Ave
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Chaparral St
Navajo Dr
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Tulane St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
Clay St
Griffin St
Winham St
W Rossi St
Rianda St
Rico St
Riker St Riker St
Central Ave
California St
Harvest St
Auburn St West St
Main St
Pajaro St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Lincoln Ave
Sun St
W San Luis St
Work St
E Market St
W Market St
N Main St
Front St
Salinas St S Main St
Sherwood Dr
John St
W Alisal St
Monterey St
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Salinas
Padre Dr Geil S
W
t
Acacia St San Marcos Dr
Lang St
Pajaro St
E Acacia St
W Romie Ln
California St
Maple St
Carmel Ave
E Romie Ln
Grove St
Harvest St
Sierra Dr
Hawthorne St
Oak St
Orange Dr
San Angelo Dr
Willow St
Chestnut St
S Main St S Main St
Abbott St
E Blanco Rd
S Main St
Claremont
Manor
Neighborhood
Park
Salinas Valley
Memorial
Hospital
Emerald Dr
Arcadia Way
Calaveras Dr
Coventry St
Glendora Way
Inglewood St
Pescadero Dr
Independence Blvd
Victoria Ave
Los Coches Ave
Cambrian Dr
Sutter St
Klamath Dr
E Alvin Dr
Humboldt Dr
Natividad Rd Natividad Rd
E Boronda Rd
El Dorado
Community Park
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Ali sal Creek
Oregon St
Fremont St
Eucalyptus Dr
Towt St
Roosevelt St
N Hebbron Ave
St Edwards Ave
Kings St
Kern St
Kern St
First Ave
Acosta Plz
Meadow Dr
N Pearl St
S Filice St John St
E Market St
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
S Sanborn Rd
E Alisal St
El Camino Real
Cesar E Chavez
Community Park
Alisal Creek
101
101
Merrill St
Airport Blvd
Schilling Pl
Vertin Ave
Work St
Blanco Cir
Terven Ave
Johnson Pl
Growers St
Brunken Ave
Harkins Rd
Abbott St
S Sanborn Rd
El Camino Real
Ioof Cemetery
Spreckels
Junction
Natividad Creek
Gabi al n Creek
Bradbury St Nantucket Blvd
E Boronda Rd
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Steinbeck
Neighborhood
Park
Pacific Ave
Antigua Ave
Atlantic St
Eagle Dr
Rider Ave
N Sanborn Rd
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Towt St
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
E Boronda Rd
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Freedom Pkwy
Natividad Creek
Park
Sycamore Rd
Del Monte Ave
Second Ave
Margaret St
Toro Ave Skyway Blvd
First Ave
Cross Ave
Kimmel St
Paloma Ave
Green St
Mae Ave
Monte Bella Blvd
Dallas Ave
Bardin Rd
E Alisal St
E Laurel Dr Williams Rd Williams Rd
Alisal Rd
Closter Park
Alisal
Alisal Creek
Moffett St
Airport Blvd
Skyway Blvd
Salinas
Fairways Golf
Course
Hartnell
College-Alisal
Campus
Salinas
Municipal
Airport
Old Stage Rd
Williams Rd
Williams Ranch
Park
Palermo Dr
Freedom Pkwy
Sconberg Pkwy
Alisal Rd Alisal Rd Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community StudentsCarr Lake Community Day SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity CentersParksSalinas Boundary Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 3 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 2 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 4 students
School Profiles 116
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Carr Lake School is located on Sherwood Place,
a two-lane roadway with some parking on
both sides of the street. Sherwood Place is very
congested before and after school.
• There are several schools on Sherwood Place,
and there are multiple drop-off areas and
parking lots among their campuses. There is
a parking lot on the north side of campus that
is shared with staff and visitors. Left turns are
permitted out of the school parking lot.
• Bus drop-off takes place on the back side of
the school campus. Bus transportation is
offered only to students who live outside a
two-mile radius.
• At the time of the audit, the traffic lines
on Sherwood Drive were faded and
need repainting.
• The area in front of the school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 500–100 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15 mph or 25 mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on the south side of
Sherwood Place but none on the north side.
• There are sidewalks on both sides of the street
on Sherwood Drive between East Bernal Drive
and Highway 101. South of the highway, there is
missing sidewalk on the west side of Sherwood
Drive to Rossi Street.
• There are no high-visibility yellow crosswalks
near the school campus. There is a standard
white crosswalk on Sherwood Place near the
entrance to the Mount Toro High parking lot.
• There are curb ramps at the intersection of
Sherwood Drive and Sherwood Place.
• Some students cut through the surrounding
fields to get to campus.
• Mount Toro High is not served by a MST
bus route.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on
Sherwood Place.
• There are buffered Class II bicycle lanes on
Sherwood Drive between Sherwood Place and
East Laurel Drive, and Class II bicycle lanes south
of the school to East Rossi Street.
• There are dashed green conflict markings on
Sherwood Drive at the intersection of
Sherwood Place.
School Profiles 117
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND CARR LAKE COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL The following table lists recommendations for Carr Lake, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 118
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
CLCD001 Sherwood Pl Missing sidewalk Fill in sidewalk gaps on north side near Sherwood Dr. $60,000 City
CLCD002 Sherwood Pl Flooding during rainy
season.
Upgrade stormwater retention and
runoff reduction along Sherwood Pl. $2,000,000 City
CLCD003
Sherwood Pl at
existing midblock crosswalk
Connection to
regional bike route.
Install Class I shared-use path on
west side of Davis Road to connect
to Marina/Salinas multi-modal
corridor. Consider street trees and
landscaping.
$235,000 City
CLCD004 Sherwood Dr
MST bus blocks
traffic turning right
onto Sherwood Pl.
Relocate bus stop to north side of
Sherwood Pl to enhance visibility
at intersection, and construct
bus pullout on north side of
intersection.
$75,000 City
CLCD005
Sherwood Dr
from Bernal St
and Rossi St
Large four-lane
roadway with high
traffic volumes and
speeds.
Consolidate bike lanes to one side
of the road for a two-way cycle track
or shared-use path. Upgrade bike
lanes on Natividad between Bernal
and Boronda to Class IV separated
bikeways, and install protected
intersection treatments at Bernal to
facilitate transition to cycle track.
$12,541,180 City
CLCD006 Sherwood Dr at
Sherwood Pl
Difficult for drivers
to turn in and out of
Sherwood Pl.
Re-evaluate intersection control
evaluation analysis to study options
for intersection control.
$40,000 City
CLCD007 Behind school
Students walking
across agricultural
fields to reach the
schools.
Install trails or shared-use paths to
connect to Sherwood, Laurel Dr, and
Madeira Ave.
$2,100,000 City
CLCD008
Service roads
near canal
between Rossi
St and Main St
and Main St and
Sherwood Dr
Sherwood Dr over
Hwy 101 has high
traffic volumes and
speeds.
Create Class I shared-use path
on service roads/ROW adjacent
to canal, as identified in Urban
Greening Plan.
$1,800,000 City
CLCD009
Service road
near canal at
Main St
If a shared-use path
were installed, a
connection would be
needed across North
Main St.
Consider redesign of Casentini St/
Main St intersection to incorporate
bicycle crossing. Consider removing
parking and installing a raised
shared-use path on both sides of
Main St to connect the Class I path
to the Casentini intersection.
$305,000 City
School Profiles 119
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
CLCD010 El Puente
Campus
No marked crosswalk
for people walking to
campus.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
to connect sidewalk with front of
campus.
$4,000 City
CLCD011 Sherwood Drive
at Bernal St
Main crossing point
for people walking
from neighborhoods
northwest of school.
Install lead pedestrian interval
and conduct counts to determine
whether protected phase is needed.
$240,000 City
School Profiles 120
CESAR CHAVEZ ELEMENTARY
Chavez Elementary is located in east Salinas. The
campus is adjacent to La Paz Middle School to the
north and Soberanes Park to the east. Most of its
students live in surrounding neighborhoods (see map
on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Chavez parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in March 2021, and 49 surveys were
received back. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 14, below.
Figure 14. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Bike lanes are recommended on Towt St between
Freedom Parkway and Paseo Grande
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
801
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
91.3%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
87%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 49 SURVEY RESPONSES)
40%
ADULTS TO
WALK OR
BIKE WITH
WEATHER
OR CLIMATE
AMOUNT
OF TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
MY CHILD
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
DISTANCE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
School Profiles 121 Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Alisal Union School District, Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Cesar E. Chavez ElementaryPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles 18 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 56 students≤ 1/2 miles: 642 students School Profiles 122
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Cesar Chavez Elementary is located on Towt
Street, a two-lane collector street with low
traffic volumes.
• Most drop-off takes place in the school’s drop-off
loop adjacent to its main parking lot.
• Some drop-off also occurs on Towt Street in
front of the school.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are complete sidewalks on both sides of
Towt Street.
• There are standard yellow crosswalks on three
legs of the intersection of Towt Street and Mae
Avenue at the west end of the school, and on all
legs of the intersection of Towt Street and Paseo
Grande in front of Soberanes Park.
• Students walking to school can enter through
the front on Towt Street or through the side
entrance off Mae Avenue.
• The south side of Towt Street directly across
from school has a wall separating it from the
residential neighborhood along Moreno Drive.
Students walking out of this neighborhood do so
using either Moreno Way or Paseo Grande.
• Towt Street and Del Monte Avenue carry school
traffic to several schools in the area. The
intersection of Towt and Del Monte is heavily
used by families walking to school.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 500–100 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15 mph or 25 mph
speed limits.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Towt Street or
other residential roadways near the school.
• There are Class II bicycle lanes on
Freedom Parkway.
The intersection of Towt St and Moreno St is recommended for high-visibility crosswalks and curb extensions School Profiles 123
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND CHAVEZ ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Chavez Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 124
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
CECE001
Towt St from
Freedom
Parkway to Del
Monte Ave
No bike facilities, key
route to multiple schools
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents.
$510,000 City
CECE002 Towt St at
Moreno St
Primary school crossing.
High volumes of
pedestrians and vehicles.
Upgrade crosswalks to highvisibility, and construct curb extensions with ramps.
$268,000 City
CECE003 Towt St at Del
Monte Ave
High volumes of
pedestrians and vehicles
traveling to multiple
schools.
Upgrade crosswalks to highvisibility, and construct curb extensions with ramps.
$268,000 City
CECE004 Towt St at Paseo
Grande
High volumes of
pedestrians and vehicles.
Upgrade crosswalks to highvisibility, and construct curb extensions with ramps.
$268,000 City
CECE005
Towt St at
Freedom
Parkway
Route for students
walking to Cesar Chavez
and Alisal High.
Construct curb extensions with
curb ramps across Towt St.
Include appropriate yield signage
and striping.
$128,850 City
CECE006
Towt St from
Freedom
Parkway to Paseo
Grande
No bike facilities, limited
demand for parking. Install Class II bike lanes. $42,240 City CECE007 Mae Ave at Del
Monte Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalks,
and construct curb extensions
across Mae Ave.
$208,000 City
CECE008 Mae Ave at C St Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install raised high-visibility
crosswalk across C St, and
construct curb ramps.
$175,000 City
CECE009 Mae Ave at D St Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install raised high-visibility
crosswalks across D St, and
construct curb ramps.
$175,000 City
CECE010 Josephine St at
D St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalks to high
visibility, and construct curb
extensions with ramps.
$268,000 City
CECE011 Gallindo St at C St Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
across C St, and construct curb
ramps.
$30,000 City
CECE012 Gallindo St at D
St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
across D St, and construct curb
ramps.
$30,000 City
School Profiles 125
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
CECE013 Josephine St at
C St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install raised high-visibility
crosswalk across Josephine St,
and construct curb ramps.
$175,000 City
CECE014 Kilbreth Ave at
Del Monte Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk,
and construct curb extensions
with curb ramps across Kilbreth
Ave.
$130,000 City
CECE015 Galindo St at Del
Monte Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk,
and construct curb extensions
with curb ramps across Galindo.
$130,000 City
CECE016 School campus
Traffic in school loops
backs up through school
parking lot onto Towt St.
Implement valet program or park
and walk program N/A School
School Profiles 126
CREEKSIDE ELEMENTARY
Creekside is located in northeast Salinas and
draws students primarily from the surrounding
neighborhoods (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Creekside parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in March 2021, and 63 surveys were
received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 15, below.
Figure 15. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Opening a back entrance to school is recommended
to reduce traffic on Kittery St
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
667
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
58.1%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
75%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 63 SURVEY RESPONSES)
32%
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
DISTANCE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
TIME
School Profiles 127 Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Alisal Union School District, Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Creekside ElementaryPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 100 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 121 students≤ 1/2 mile: 380 students School Profiles 128
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Creekside Elementary is located on Kittery
Street, a two-lane residential street. The
school is immediately adjacent to Creekbridge
Neighborhood Park.
• There is a drop-off loop at the front of the school
campus. Parents also drop students off in the
staff parking lot next to the drop-off loop.
• There is a bus drop-off loop on the south side of
campus off Beacon Hill Drive.
• There are speed bumps in front of the school on
Kittery Street.
• The area in front of the school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100–500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There is continuous sidewalk on both side of
Kittery Street, Beacon Hill Drive, and other
residential roadways around the campus.
• There is a yellow high-visibility crosswalk across
Kittery Street at Crestview Street, in front of the
school. There is also a regular yellow crosswalk
across Crestview at Kittery.
• There is a crosswalk on the school campus
where the drop-off loop and staff parking lot
meet, which connects to the crosswalk across
Kittery Street.
• There are regular crosswalks across Snug Harbor
Street and Newington Street at Kittery Street,
and across two legs of the intersection of Kittery
Street and Beacon Hill Drive.
• There is a shared-use path running between
Nantucket Boulevard and Crestview Street.
• There are no marked crossings at the eastern
intersection of Beacon Hill and Constitution.
This is a route to school for many families.
There is not currently a marked crosswalk for people walking to school from the Massachusetts Dr neighborhood Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on residential
roadways near the school. There are
Class II buffered bicycle lanes on
Constitution Boulevard.
• There is a shared-use path running between
Nantucket Boulevard and Crestview Street.
School Profiles 129
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND CREEKSIDE ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Creekside Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 130
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
CE001 Kittery St at
Crestview St
Need to update school
signage.
Install school crossing signs on
both sides of Kittery St (crossing
assembly A).
$1,700 City
CE002
Beacon Hill Dr
from Declaration
St to Kittery St
Traffic congestion on
Kittery St in front of
school.
Add loading-zone curb markings
and signage for drop-off and
pick-up (on side adjacent to the
school).
$4,100 School/City
CE003
Beacon Hill Dr
from Constitution
Blvd to
Constitution Blvd
Reports of speeding.
Install sharrow markings, signage,
and traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents.
$244,800 City
CE004
Beacon Hill Dr
from Constitution
Blvd to
Constitution Blvd
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Add high-visibility crosswalks to
all side streets. $112,000 City
CE005
Beacon Hill Dr
from Declaration
St to Kittery St
Reports of speeding. Add speed feedback sign. $10,700 City CE006
Fitzgerald St at
greenway path
crossing
No marked crosswalks
for greenway path.
Install raised crosswalk with
high visibility, yield signage, and
striping.
$154,700 City
CE007
Snug Harbor St
at greenway path
crossing
No marked crosswalks
for greenway path.
Install raised crosswalk with
high visibility, yield signage, and
striping.
$154,700 City
CE008 Freedom Parkway
at Williams Rd
Transition across right
turn lane is challenging
for people on bikes.
Install bike-lane conflict striping
across right turn lane transition,
and conflict striping across
the intersection to match the
receiving buffered bike lane.
$154,700 City
CE009
Newington St at
greenway path
crossing
No marked crosswalks
for greenway path.
Install raised crosswalk with
high visibility, yield signage, and
striping.
$154,700 City
CE010 Kittery St at Snug
Harbor
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalk to highvisibility, and construct curb extensions across side street.
$104,000 City
CE011 Kittery St at
Crestview St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalk to highvisibility, and construct curb extensions across side street.
$104,000 City
CE012 Kittery St at
Newington St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalk to highvisibility, and construct curb extensions across side street.
$104,000 City
School Profiles 131
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
CE013 Nantucket at
Declaration St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalks to highvisibility, and construct curb extensions (where not in conflict
with bike lanes or future Class IV).
$216,000 City
CE014 Constitution Blvd
No marked crossing for
people walking to school
from Massachusetts Dr
neighborhood.
Evaluate pedestrian crossing
opportunities between
Massachusetts Dr neighborhood
and Creekbridge neighborhood.
Install conflict striping across
intersections to connect bike
lanes or future Class IV.
$22,660 City
CE015
Beacon Hill Dr
at Constitution
(west
intersection)
Large intersection,
concerns with safety,
and reports of speeding
traffic.
Install conflict striping across
intersections to connect bike
lanes or future Class IV. Install
pedestrian refuge island on
north leg. Consider for protected
intersection treatments.
$1,412,660 City
CE016
Constitution Blvd
from Boronda Rd
to Independence
Large four-lane roadway
with high traffic volumes
and speeds.
Upgrade Class II bike lane to Class
IV. $5,458,680 City
CE017
Freedom Parkway
at Constitution
Blvd
People walking from
Massachusetts Drive
neighborhood have to go
out of their way to cross
Constitution.
Install crossing on third leg of
intersection to connect to trail
that connects to Massachusetts
Drive. Add pedestrian refuge
island and conflict striping across
intersection.
$105,000 City
CE018 Constitution Blvd
at Cape Cod Way
Long crossing distance
for pedestrians.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
and curb extensions across Cape
Cod Way, and install conflict
striping for bike lane or future
Class IV.
$110,720 City
CE019
Crestview St from
Kittery St to Great
Island St
No bicycle facilities to
connect to greenway
path
Create bicycle boulevard by
installing traffic calming, sharrow
markings, and signage, and
connect to greenway path.
$244,800 City
CE020 School campus Limited bike parking on
campus.
Upgrade bike racks and bike cage
on campus $8,000 School
CE021 School campus
Traffic congestion on
Kittery St in front of
school.
Provide access to the school from
the back side of campus to let
students avoid school drop-off
traffic.
$8,500 School
CE022 Kittery St at
Fitzgerald St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
and curb extensions across
Fitzgerald. Upgrade to highvisibility crosswalk, and install curb extensions across Kittery St.
$112,000 City
School Profiles 132
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
CE024 Kittery St at
Beacon Hill Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalks
and curb extensions on three legs
of intersection.
$162,000 City
CE025
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Traffic congestion on
Kittery St in front of
school.
Install path to connect back
entrance to school with
Declaration Street.
$20,000 City
School Profiles 133
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING ACADEMY
King Academy is located in east Salinas. The campus
is adjacent to the Alisal Union District offices and
Jesse G. Sanchez Elementary. The two schools draw
students from surrounding neighborhoods (see map
on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
King Academy parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 108 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 16, below.
Figure 16. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
612
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
88.7%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
89%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 108 SURVEY RESPONSES)
74 MY CHILD %
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
DISTANCE
CROSSING
GUARDS AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
School Profiles 134
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Students
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Public LibrariesCommunity Centers ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 11 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 32 students≤ 1/2 miles: 515 students School Profiles 135
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• North Sanborn Road is a major arterial street
with high traffic volumes.
• Drivers enter the drop-off loop off North
Sanborn Road and turn right for Martin Luther
King Jr. Academy or left for Sanchez Elementary.
Staff members assist with traffic flow in the
drop-off loops during school drop-off and
pick-up.
• The other entrance to the King Academy parking
lot is on Acosta Plaza. Drivers are encouraged to
exit the school parking lot here.
• There is a speed feedback sign on Sanborn Road
near Mohar Street. Parents reported issues with
speeding and drivers making U-turns around the
center medians on Sanborn Road to access the
school parking lot.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100–500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Families cross Garner Ave at Pacific Ave
School Profiles 136
Pedestrian Conditions
• The school has pedestrian access points from
North Sanborn Rd and Acosta Plaza.
• There is continuous sidewalk on both sides of
Sanborn Road between East Laurel Drive and
Garner Ave, and on nearby residential streets.
There is some broken sidewalk on Acosta Plaza
behind the school.
• Acosta Plaza west of the school campus is a
private road with narrow sidewalks on
both sides.
• The streets across from the school (Kimmel
Street, Alma Avenue, Montana Street, and Mohar
Street) have rolled curbs on both sides of the
street. Drivers sometimes park on the landscape
strip or sidewalk.
• There is a standard yellow crosswalk across two
legs of the signalized intersection of Sanborn
Road and Kimmel Street. There are no other
striped crosswalks on Sanborn Road between
Acosta Street and Garner Avenue.
• ADA ramps have been installed at the
intersection of Sanborn Road and
Kimmel Street.
• There is a pedestrian entrance to campus from
the parking lot on Acosta Plaza.
• The “Breadbox” Recreation Center, which is next
to the school, is another place where parents
drop off and pick up students. There have been
conflicts reported between drivers pulling into
the recreation center parking lot and pedestrians
crossing the entrance and exit driveways.
• Parents with students have been seen crossing
Sanborn Road outside of marked crosswalks
to get to school between Mohar Street and
Montana Street.
• A crossing guard is present before and after
school at Sanborn Road and Kimmel Street.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on North Sanborn
Road or other residential streets near the school.
Class II bike lanes are recommended for Sanborn Ave
School Profiles 137
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING ACADEMY The following table lists recommendations for King Academy, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 138
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
MLKA001 Garner Ave at
Pacific Ave
Pedestrians crossing
Garner Ave at Pacific.
No marked crosswalk,
reports of speeding and
of drivers not yielding.
Install planned all-way stop
with high-visibility crosswalks
and nearside bus bulbouts/curb
extensions.
$119,400 City
MLKA002 Garner Ave at
Atlantic St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install new high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Atlantic. $4,000 City
MLKA003 Garner Ave at
Sieber St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install new high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Sieber St. $4,000 City
MLKA004 Garner Ave at
Sanborn Rd
Key pedestrian route
to school. Not enough
space for pedestrians at
northeast corner.
Upgrade to high-visibility yellow
crosswalk on all legs. Install curb
extension at northeast corner
to reduce crossing distance on
Garner Ave.
$66,000 City
MLKA005 Sanborn Rd at
Alma Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Alma. $4,000 City
MLKA006 Sanborn Rd at
Kimmel St
Key pedestrian crossing
to school. Students don’t
have enough time to
cross.
Optimize signal timing and
improve coordination with nearby
signals. Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalks for both legs. Install
leading pedestrian interval and
consider protected left turn from
Sanborn to Kimmel.
$188,000 City
MLKA007 Sanborn Rd at
Montana St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Montana. $4,000 City
MLKA008
Sanborn Rd from
Del Monte Ave to
Laurel Dr
No bicycle facilities.
Short term: Install Class II bike
lanes between Laurel and
Del Monte. Long term: Widen
sidewalk to create shared-use
path between Laurel and Garner.
Install bike conflict markings at
recreation center entrance and
exit driveways. Install raised
median with pedestrian refuge
islands.
$1,799,520 City
MLKA009
Garner Ave from
Sanborn Rd to
end of street (to
the north)
No bicycle facilities,
reports of speeding.
Install traffic calming, sharrow
markings, and bicycle boulevard
signage.
$938,400 City
MLKA010
Acosta Plaza
from Garner Ave
back entrance to
school
Key pedestrian route to
school, broken sidewalk. Repair sidewalk. $180,000 City School Profiles 139
DR. OSCAR F. LOYA ELEMENTARY
Loya Elementary is located at the eastern edge of
Salinas next to Williams Park. Its students come
primarily from the surrounding neighborhoods (see
map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Loya Elementary parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 59 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 17, below.
Figure 17. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
The school has had a hard time retaining crossing
guards at the intersection of Sanborn Rd and
Buckhorn Dr
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
716
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
87.1%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
78%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 59 SURVEY RESPONSES)
45 SPEED OF %
TRAFFIC ALONG
ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC ALONG
ROUTE
DISTANCE
MY CHILD
ALREADY WALKED
OR BIKED
TO/FROM
SCHOOL
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
School Profiles 140
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Students
Dr. Oscar Loya SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 79 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 118 students≤ 1/2 mile: 444 students School Profiles 141
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• The main entrance to Loya elementary is on
Cougar Drive. Drivers have the option of pulling
into the drop-off loop or dropping off on Cougar
Drive in front of the school.
• There is a gate at the side of the school where
the bus drop-off loop is located on Elk Drive.
There is also a back entrance to campus through
the park, from Falcon Drive.
• Badger Way and Falcon Drive are the
nearest access points in and out of this
residential neighborhood.
• The school has a small parking lot that is shared
between parents and staff. Many staff members
use on-street parking.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are complete sidewalks on Cougar Drive,
Elk Drive, and other residential roadways near
the school.
• There are standard yellow crosswalks across two
legs of the intersection of Cougar Drive at Badger
Way in front of the school.
• There is a high-visibility crosswalk on the school
campus where the drop-off loop and the staff
parking lot meet. This crosswalk connects
pedestrians coming from the street into the
school frontage.
• There is a paved pathway on the north side of
the campus (back of the school) that connects
Falcon Drive and the school through
Williams Park.
• Many students cross Sanborn Road at Buckhorn
Drive. Sanborn Road is a five-lane roadway with
a 35-mph speed limit at Buckhorn Drive.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Cougar Drive,
Falcon Drive, Elk Drive, or other residential
roadways near the school.
• There are Class II bike lanes on North Sanborn
Road, East Boronda Road, Williams Road, and
Freedom Parkway, which surround the school on
four sides.
Encouraging parent drop-off on Elk Dr and Falcon Dr would help reduce traffic in front of the school
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 142 LOYA ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Loya Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 143
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
DOLA001 Buckhorn Dr at
Bison Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install raised high-visibility
crosswalk and curb extension
across Bison Way.
$249,000 City
DOLA002
Buckhorn Dr
from Rider Ave to
Falcon Dr
Key route to school, no
bicycle facilities.
Install traffic calming and create
bike boulevard. $1,081,200 City
DOLA003
Buckhorn Dr from
Saguaro Dr to
Sanborn Rd
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install raised crosswalks and
high-visibility crosswalks on side
streets
$1,043,000 City
DOLA004
Cougar Dr
from Freedom
Parkway to Elk Dr
Reports of speeding.
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents, and additional school
zone signage.
$122,400 City
DOLA005 Cougar Dr at
Badger Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions to improve
crossing. $100,000 City
DOLA006 Cougar Dr at
Badger Way Updated signage needed. Install school crossing signage (assembly B). $1,700 City DOLA007 Cougar Dr at Elk
Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school. Install curb extensions across Elk. $100,000 City DOLA008 Cougar Dr at
Cougar Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions across
Cougar Way. $100,000 City
DOLA009 Cougar Dr at
Raven Ct
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions across
Raven Ct, both legs. $200,000 City
DOLA010 Elk Dr and Falcon
Dr
Traffic congestion on
Cougar Dr in front of
school during drop-off
and pick-up.
Add loading-zone signage on
Elk Drive and Falcon Drive, and
encourage drop-off on these
streets.
$850 School/City
DOLA011 Falcon Dr at
Buckhorn Dr
Back entrance to school.
Reports of speeding and
drivers doing donuts in
the intersection.
Evaluate all-way stop or consider
traffic circle. $200,000 City
DOLA012 Falcon Dr at Elk
Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school. Install curb extensions across Elk. $100,000 City School Profiles 144
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
DOLA013
Falcon Dr from
Bison Way to
Buckhorn Dr
Reports of speeding.
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents.
$122,400 City
DOLA014 School loop on
Cougar Drive
Parents entering through
parking lot exit.
Upgrade “Do Not Enter” sign at
parking lot exit to standard sign. $850 School
DOLA015 School loop on
Cougar Dr
Traffic congestion on
Cougar Dr in front of
school during drop-off
and pick-up.
Consider working with parent
volunteers or PTA on a valet dropoff program in the main school loop. Close middle entrance/exit
to loop to shift traffic away from
main school crosswalk.
$8,500 School
DOLA016 Sanborn Rd at
Buckhorn Dr
Key pedestrian route
to school. Sanborn is a
five-lane roadway at this
intersection. Reports of
speeding and drivers not
yielding to pedestrians.
Install planned pedestrian hybrid
beacon, and upgrade to highvisibility yellow crosswalk across Buckhorn Drive.
$708,000 City
DOLA017 Sanborn Rd at
Buckhorn Dr
Difficult to find crossing
guards who are willing to
work this intersection.
Continue recruiting for crossing
guard support. N/A School
DOLA018
Sanborn Rd
from Freedom
Parkway to
Boronda Rd
Large four-lane roadway
with high traffic volumes
and speeds.
Install Class IV separate bikeway
or Class IIB buffered bike lanes
and conflict striping.
$1,665,360 City
DOLA019 Sanborn Rd at
Boronda Rd Planned city project. Install roundabout. $2,500,000 City DOLA020
Williams Rd
from Freedom
Parkway to
Boronda Rd
Large four-lane roadway
with high traffic volumes
and speeds.
Install Class II buffered bikeway
and conflict striping. Consider
upgrading to Class IV bikeway.
$1,850,400 City
School Profiles 145
DUAL IMMERSION ACADEMY OF SALINAS (DIAS)
Dual Immersion Academy of Salinas (DIAS) is located
on the western edge of Salinas and draws students
from throughout the city. Only a few live in the
surrounding neighborhoods, and most live more
than one mile from the school (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
DIAS parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September 2020, and 13 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 18, below.
Figure 18. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. Access to the pedestrian bridge over Calle Del Adobe goes through school property and is currently closed
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
142
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
55.6%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
32%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 13 SURVEY RESPONSES)
8%
DISTANCE
SIDEWALKS
OR
PATHWAYS
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
School Profiles 146
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Students
DIAS Boronda SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 56 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 26 students≤ 1/2 miles: 20 students School Profiles 147
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• DIAS is located on Fontes Lane, a two-lane
residential roadway with no parking allowed on
either side of the street along school frontage.
• The campus is in a residential neighborhood and
is separated from the rest of Salinas by North
Davis Road and Highway 101. Calle Del Adobe is
the main route to the school.
• There is a drop-off loop in the school parking lot,
along with parking for visitors and staff.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 25 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There is continuous sidewalk on both sides of
Fontes Lane and Addington Lane.
• Some sidewalk segments are narrow and
obstructed by mailboxes and utility posts.
• Several intersections around the school have
upgraded ADA ramps.
• The pedestrian overpass behind the school on
Calle del Adobe is closed due to vandalism.
Pedestrians have been seen crossing Calle
Del Adobe near the overpass; there are no
pedestrian crossing facilities across Calle Del
Adobe at this location.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Fontes Lane,
Addington Lane, Calle Del Adobe, or other
roadways surrounding the school.
• The nearest bicycle facilities are Class II bike
lanes on North Davis Road.
There are bus stops for other schools at the intersection of Fontes Ln and Addington Ln
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 148 DUAL IMMERSION ACADEMY OF SALINAS The following table lists recommendations for DIAS, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 149
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
DIAS001 Parking lot
Drivers who want to park
contribute to congestion
in the school loop. No
pathway for pedestrians
into campus.
Restripe parking lot to allow
access to parking spaces adjacent
to the street without driving
through the loop adjacent to
the school. Establish a preferred
walking route through the parking
lot with painted walkways, quickbuild materials, or constructed sidewalk.
$104,000 School
DIAS002 Empty parcel
behind school
The school does not
want a pedestrian
overcrossing to provide
access to the campus.
Bridge is currently closed
due to vandalism.
Reconstruct fencing and establish
a path through the empty lot
to allow bridge access without
accessing school property.
Explore potential to expand staff
parking lot. Pursue easement to
allow access to Apostolic Lane if
necessary.
$24,450 County
DIAS003 Back entrance
Bridge provides access
for students who want
to cross Calle Del Adobe.
The school does not
want a pedestrian
overcrossing to provide
access to campus.
Install gate connecting school
campus to foot bridge. $8,500 School
DIAS004 Fontes/
Addington
Bus stops for Boronda
Meadows and North
Salinas High are located
here. No marked
crosswalks, buses block
visibility.
Install curb extensions and
marked crossings over Addington
Lane and Fontes Lane. Alternative
recommendation: Shift bus stops
to Calle Del Adobe.
$112,000 County
DIAS005 Fontes Lane Vegetation obstructing
sidewalk.
Work with neighboring property
owners to cut back vegetation to
remove sidewalk obstructions.
$3,800 School
DIAS006
Fontes/Nancy,
Jennifer, and
Randall
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install or update curb ramps, and
install marked crossings on side
streets.
$22,000 School
School Profiles 150
EL GABILAN ELEMENTARY
El Gabilan is located in north Salinas and draws most
of its students from the surrounding neighborhoods
(see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
El Gabilan parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September 2020, and 85 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 19, below.
Figure 19. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
736
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
65.8%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
83%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 85 SURVEY RESPONSES)
43%
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
DISTANCE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
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Students
El Gabilan SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 45 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 128 students≤ 1/2 miles: 485 students School Profiles 152
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• El Gabilan is located on Linwood Drive, a twolane residential roadway with a center median and parking on both sides of the street.
• There are a recently upgraded drop-off loop and
a small parking lot along the school frontage.
Left turns are not allowed out of the school
drop-off loop. There is an additional parking lot
on the north side of campus that is reserved
for staff.
• Parents drop students off on the west side of
Linwood Drive, and they walk across the street
to the school campus.
• Some students travel on Laurel Drive to reach
the school campus.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There is continuous sidewalk on both sides of
Linwood Drive and other residential streets near
the school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk across
Linwood Drive at Sequoia Street.
• At the time of the audit, there were faded white
crosswalks on two legs of the intersection of
Linwood Drive and East Laurel Drive.
• There are missing curb ramps at many
intersections surrounding the school.
• The school has placed signs in the median
discouraging pedestrians from walking over the
median and across Linwood Drive, but many
pedestrians ignore them.
Bicycling Conditions
• At the time of the audit, there were no bicycle
facilities on Linwood Drive or other residential
roadways near the school. The Linwood Drive
Safe Routes to Schools project installed buffered
bike lanes on Linwood Drive in 2021.
Buffered bike lanes and high-visibility crosswalks were recently installed on Linwood Drive School Profiles 153
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND EL GABILAN ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for El Gabilan, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 154
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
EGE001 Linwood Dr
No bicycle facilities.
Vegetation obstructing
school signage.
Install planned buffered bike
lanes and traffic calming on
Linwood. Plant trees in the
median for street enclosure and
tree canopy. Trim vegetation
that obstructs school speed limit
signs.
Bike lanes
funded.
Remaining
cost $10,000
City
EGE002 Linwood Dr at
Sequoia St
Key pedestrian crossing
to school.
Install pedestrian refuge island
and yellow high-visibility
crosswalk across Linwood, and
high-visibility crosswalk across
Sequoia. Install school assembly
signage.
$4,850 City
EGE003
Williams Rd at
Moa Linwood Dr
at Chaparral St
nte Bella Blvd
Key pedestrian crossing
to school.
Install yellow, high-visibility
crosswalks on all four legs of
intersection, with pedestrian
refuge islands at both Linwood Dr
crossings. Install school assembly
signage.
$216,850 City
EGE004 Linwood Dr at
Rainier Dr
Key pedestrian crossing
to school.
Upgrade crosswalks to yellow
high-visibility. $16,000 City
EGE005 Linwood Dr at
Elwood St
Key pedestrian route
to school, reports of
speeding.
Install yellow, high-visibility
crosswalks on three legs of the
intersection with pedestrian
refuge island at the Linwood Dr
crossing. Install school assembly
signage.
$112,850 City
EGE006 Laurel Dr at
Linwood St
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
drivers not yielding to
pedestrians.
Upgrade crosswalks to highvisibility and reconstruct
pedestrian curb ramps. Install
pedestrian refuge island at
Linwood Dr crossing. Implement
leading pedestrian interval.
$299,000 City
EGE007 Laurel Dr at
Maryal Dr
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install protected pedestrian signal
phasing $200,000 City
EGE008 West Laurel
Drive
Four-lane roadway with
higher traffic volumes
and speeds.
Install Class IIB buffered or
separated bike lanes. $17,069,940 City
EGE009 Natividad Rd
Six-lane roadway with
higher traffic volumes
and speeds.
Install separated bikeway. $19,429,200 City
EGE010 Natividad Rd at
Pacheco St
Six-lane roadway with
higher traffic volumes
and speeds. Route to
soccer complex.
Install planned crosswalk
improvements (rectangular rapid
flashing beacon and pedestrian
refuge island).
$160,000 City
School Profiles 155
EL PUENTE SCHOOL
El Puente is an alternative middle and high school
located in central Salinas. The school draws
students from throughout the city (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
El Puente parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in March 2021, and 5 surveys were
received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 20, below.
Figure 20. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
The existing crosswalk is recommended for highvisibility striping and curb extensions
GRADE LEVELS
7-12
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
339
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
67.1%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
20%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 5 SURVEY RESPONSES)
40%
ADULTS TO
WALK OR
BIKE WITH
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
TIME
DISTANCE
CROSSING
GUARDS
School Profiles 156
SalinasSafe Routesto School Plan
San Jon Rd
Castroville Rd
Castroville Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Davis Rd Davis Rd
Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
183
Boronda Rd
Madison Ln
Fontes Ln
El Rancho Way
W Rossi St
Sloat Dr
Post Dr
Cherokee Dr
Adams St
Victor St
N Davis Rd
Larkin St
Colton Dr
N Davis Rd
El Camino Real
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Boronda
Lemos Ave
Vil la St
Clark St
Fairfax Dr
Central Ave
Carmelita Dr
Homestead Ave
W Rossi St
Park St
Nacional St
West St
A r cher St
W Acacia St
Via Maria
San Simeon Dr
Marion Ave
St Ann Dr
Bruce Ave Lorimer St
W Market St
W Alisal St
Castroville Rd
Davis Rd
Davis Rd
Hartnell College
Los Olivos Dr Iverson St
Chaucer Dr
Riker St
San Vincente Ave
Dickens Dr
Palma Dr
Kipling St
W Acacia St
Capistrano Dr
Hitchcock Rd
W Alisal St
W Blanco Rd
Blanco Rd
Pueblo Dr
Cherokee Dr
Osage Dr
Navajo Dr
Chaparral St
Harden Pkwy
McKinnon St
E Alvin Dr
Adams St
N 1st St
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
Harden Ranch
Plaza
Northridge Mall
Heald
College-Salinas
Main Canal
Tyler St
Rainier Dr
Iris Dr
Noice Dr
Rico St
Boeing Ave
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Chaparral St
Navajo Dr
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Tulane St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
Clay St
Griffin St
Winham St
W Rossi St
Rianda St
Rico St
Riker St Riker St
Central Ave
California St
Harvest St
Auburn St West St
Main St
Pajaro St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Lincoln Ave
Sun St
W San Luis St
Work St
E Market St
W Market St
N Main St
Front St
Salinas St S Main St
Sherwood Dr
John St
W Alisal St
Monterey St
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Salinas
Padre Dr Gei
W
l St
Acacia St San Marcos Dr
Lang St
Pajaro St
E Acacia St
W Romie Ln
California St
Maple St
Carmel Ave
E Romie Ln
Grove St
Harvest St
Sierra Dr
Hawthorne St
Oak St
Orange Dr
San Angelo Dr
Willow St
Chestnut St
S Main St S Main St
Abbott St
S Main St
Claremont
Manor
Neighborhood
Park
Salinas Valley
Memorial
Hospital
Emerald Dr
Arcadia Way
Calaveras Dr
Coventry St
Glendora Way
Inglewood St
Pescadero Dr
Independence Blvd
Victoria Ave
Los Coches Ave
Cambrian Dr
Sutter St
Klamath Dr
E Alvin Dr
Humboldt Dr
Natividad Rd Natividad Rd
E Boronda Rd
El Dorado
Community Park
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Ali sal Creek
Oregon St
Fremont St
Eucalyptus Dr
Towt St
Roosevelt St
N Hebbron Ave
St Edwards Ave
Kings St
Kern St
Kern St
Fir st Ave
Acosta Plz
Meadow Dr
N Pearl St
S Filice St John St
E Market St
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
S Sanborn Rd
E Alisal St
El Camino Real
Cesar E Chavez
Community Park
Alisal Creek
101
101
Airport Blvd
Vertin Ave
Work St
Terven Ave
Johnson Pl
Brunken Ave
Abbott St
S Sanborn Rd
El Camino Real
Ioof Cemetery
Spreckels
Junction
Natividad Creek
Gabilan Creek
Bradbury St Nantucket Blvd
E Boronda Rd
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Steinbeck
Neighborhood
Park
Pacific Ave
Antigua Ave
Atlantic St
Eagle Dr
Rider Ave
N Sanborn Rd
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Towt St
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
E Boronda Rd
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Freedom Pkwy
Natividad Creek
Park
Sycamore Rd
Del Monte Ave
Second Ave
Margaret St
Toro Ave Skyway Blvd
First Ave
Cross Ave
Kimmel St
Paloma Ave
Green St
Mae Ave
Monte Bella Blvd
Dallas Ave
Bardin Rd
E Alisal St
E Laurel Dr Williams Rd Williams Rd
Alisal Rd
Closter Park
Alisal
Alisal Creek Moffett St
Airport Blvd
Skyway Blvd
Salinas
Fairways Golf
Course
Hartnell
College-Alisal
Campus
Salinas
Municipal
Airport
Old Stage Rd
Williams Rd
Williams Ranch
Park
Palermo Dr
Freedom Pkwy
Sconberg Pkwy
Alisal Rd Alisal Rd Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community StudentsEl Puente SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity CentersParksSalinas Boundary Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 7 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 61 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 201 students
School Profiles 157
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• El Puente School is located on Sherwood Place,
a two-lane roadway with some parking on both
sides. Sherwood Place is very congested before
and after school.
• There are several schools located on Sherwood
Place, with multiple drop-off areas and parking
lots throughout their campuses. There is a
parking lot on the north side of campus that
is shared with staff and visitors. Left turns are
permitted out of the school parking lot.
• Bus drop-off takes place on the back side of the
school campus. Bus transportation is offered
only to students who live outside a two-mile
radius.
• At the time of the audit, traffic lines on
Sherwood Dr were faded and need repainting.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on the south side of
Sherwood Place but none on the north side.
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Sherwood
Drive between East Bernal Drive and Highway
101. South of the highway, there is sidewalk
missing on the west side of Sherwood Drive to
Rossi Street.
• There are no high-visibility yellow crosswalks
near the school campus. There is a standard
white crosswalk on Sherwood Place near the
entrance to the Mount Toro High parking lot.
• There are curb ramps at the intersection of
Sherwood Drive and Sherwood Place.
• Some students cut through the surrounding
fields to get to campus.
• El Puente is not served by a MST bus route.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Sherwood
Place.
• There are buffered Class II bicycle lanes on
Sherwood Drive between Sherwood Place and
East Laurel Drive, and Class II bicycle lanes south
of the school to East Rossi Street.
• There are dashed green conflict markings on
Sherwood Drive at the intersection of Sherwood
Place.
A high-visibility crosswalk is recommended to connect the sidewalk with the school campus
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND EL
School Profiles 158 PUENTE SCHOOL The following table lists recommendations for El Puente, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 159
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
EP001 Sherwood Pl Missing sidewalk Fill in sidewalk gaps on north side near Sherwood Dr. $60,000 City
EP002 Sherwood Pl Flooding during rainy
season.
Upgrade stormwater retention and
runoff reduction along Sherwood Pl. $2,000,000 City
EP003
Sherwood Pl at
existing midblock crosswalk
Connection to
regional bike route.
Install Class I shared-use path on
west side of Davis Road to connect
to Marina/Salinas multi-modal
corridor. Consider street trees and
landscaping.
$235,000 City
EP004 Sherwood Dr
MST bus blocks
traffic turning right
onto Sherwood Pl.
Relocate bus stop to north side of
Sherwood Pl to enhance visibility
at intersection, and construct
bus pullout on north side of
intersection.
$75,000 City
EP005
Sherwood Dr
from Bernal St
and Rossi St
Large four-lane
roadway with high
traffic volumes and
speeds.
Consolidate bike lanes to one side
of the road for a two-way cycle track
or shared-use path. Upgrade bike
lanes on Natividad between Bernal
and Boronda to Class IV separated
bikeways, and install protected
intersection treatments at Bernal to
facilitate transition to cycle track.
$12,541,180 City
EP006 Sherwood Dr at
Sherwood Pl
Difficult for drivers
to turn in and out of
Sherwood Pl.
Re-evaluate intersection control
evaluation analysis to study options
for intersection control.
$40,000 City
EP007 Behind school
Students walking
across agricultural
fields to reach the
schools.
Install trails or shared-use paths to
connect to Sherwood, Laurel Dr, and
Madeira Ave.
$2,100,000 City
EP008
Service roads
near canal
between Rossi
St and Main St
and Main St and
Sherwood Dr
Sherwood Dr over
Hwy 101 has high
traffic volumes and
speeds.
Create Class I shared-use path
on service roads/ROW adjacent
to canal, as identified in Urban
Greening Plan.
$1,800,000 City
EP009
Service road
near canal at
Main St
If a shared-use path
were installed, a
connection would be
needed across North
Main St.
Consider redesign of Casentini St/
Main St intersection to incorporate
bicycle crossing. Consider removing
parking and installing a raised
shared-use path on both sides of
Main St to connect the Class I path
to the Casentini intersection.
$305,000 City
School Profiles 160
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
EP010 El Puente
Campus
No marked crosswalk
for people walking to
campus.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
to connect sidewalk with front of
campus.
$4,000 City
EP011 Sherwood Drive
at Bernal St
Main crossing point
for people walking
from neighborhoods
northwest of school.
Install lead pedestrian interval
and conduct counts to determine
whether protected phase is needed.
$240,000 City
School Profiles 161
EL SAUSAL MIDDLE
El Sausal is located in east Salinas and draws most of
its students from the surrounding neighborhoods (see
map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
El Sausal parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in March 2021, and 26 surveys were
received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 21, below.
Figure 21. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Bicycle boulevard treatments are recommended on
Eucalyptus Dr and Towt St
GRADE LEVELS
7-8
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
1102
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
90.7%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
73%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 26 SURVEY RESPONSES)
35%
DISTANCE
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
CHILD’S
BEFORE OR
AFTER-SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
ADULTS TO
WALK OR BIKE
WITH
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
MY CHILD
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
School Profiles 162
SalinasSafe Routesto School Plan
183
Boronda Rd
Madison Ln
Fontes Ln
El Rancho Way
W Rossi St
Sloat Dr
Post Dr
Cherokee Dr
Adams St
Victor St
N Davis Rd
Larkin St
Colton Dr
N Davis Rd
El Camino Real
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Boronda
Lemos Ave
Vil la St
Clark St
Fairfax Dr
Central Ave
Carmelita Dr
Homestead Ave
W Rossi St
Park St
Nacional St
West St
A r cher St
W Acacia St
Via Maria
San Simeon Dr
Marion Ave
St Ann Dr
Bruce Ave Lorimer St
W Market St
W Alisal St
Castroville Rd
Davis Rd
Davis Rd
Hartnell College
Los Olivos Dr Iverson St
Chaucer Dr
Riker St
San Vincente Ave
Dickens Dr
Palma Dr
Kipling St
W Acacia St
Capistrano Dr
Hitchcock Rd
W Alisal St
W Blanco Rd
Blanco Rd
68 Hitchcock Rd
Monterey Salinas Hwy
Springtown
Pueblo Dr Osage Dr
Navajo Dr
Chaparral St
Adams St
Main Canal
Tyler St
Rainier Dr
Iris Dr
Noice Dr
Rico St
Boeing Ave
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Chaparral St
Navajo Dr
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Tulane St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
Clay St
Griffin St
Winham St
W Rossi St
Rianda St
Rico St
Riker St Riker St
Central Ave
California St
Harvest St
Auburn St West St
Main St
Pajaro St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Lincoln Ave
Sun St
W San Luis St
Work St
E Market St
W Market St
N Main St
Front St
Salinas St S Main St
Sherwood Dr
John St
W Alisal St
Monterey St
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Salinas
Padre Dr Gei
W
l St
Acacia St San Marcos Dr
Lang St
Pajaro St
E Acacia St
W Romie Ln
California St
Maple St
Carmel Ave
E Romie Ln
Grove St
Harvest St
Sierra Dr
Hawthorne St
Oak St
Orange Dr
San Angelo Dr
Willow St
Chestnut St
S Main St S Main St
Abbott St
E Blanco Rd
S Main St
Claremont
Manor
Neighborhood
Park
Salinas Valley
Memorial
Hospital
68 Hunter Ln
Independence Blvd
Los Coches Ave
Cambrian Dr
Sutter St
E Alvin Dr
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Ali sal Creek
Oregon St
Fremont St
Eucalyptus Dr
Towt St
Roosevelt St
N Hebbron Ave
St Edwards Ave
Kings St
Kern St
Kern St
First Ave
Acosta Plz
Meadow Dr
N Pearl St
S Filice St John St
E Market St
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
S Sanborn Rd
E Alisal St
El Camino Real
Cesar E Chavez
Community Park
Alisal Creek
101
101
Merrill St
Airport Blvd
Schilling Pl
Vertin Ave
Work St
Blanco Cir
Terven Ave
Johnson Pl
Growers St
Brunken Ave
Harkins Rd
Abbott St
S Sanborn Rd
El Camino Real
Ioof Cemetery
Spreckels
Junction
Merrill St
Nutting St
Dayton St
Harkins Rd
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Steinbeck
Neighborhood
Park
Pacific Ave
Antigua Ave
Atlantic St
Eagle Dr
Rider Ave
N Sanborn Rd
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Towt St
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
E Boronda Rd
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Freedom Pkwy
Natividad Creek
Park
Sycamore Rd
Del Monte Ave
Second Ave
Margaret St
Toro Ave Skyway Blvd
First Ave
Cross Ave
Kimmel St
Paloma Ave
Green St
Mae Ave
Monte Bella Blvd
Dallas Ave
Bardin Rd
E Alisal St
E Laurel Dr Williams Rd Williams Rd
Alisal Rd
Closter Park
Alisal
Alisal Creek
101
Moffett St
Airport Blvd
Skyway Blvd
Salinas
Fairways Golf
Course
Hartnell
College-Alisal
Campus
Salinas
Municipal
Airport
Alisal Creek
El Camino Real
Old Stage Rd
Williams Rd Williams Rd
Old Stage Rd
Williams Ranch
Park
Palermo Dr
Freedom Pkwy
Sconberg Pkwy
Alisal Rd Alisal Rd Alisal Rd
Alisal Creek
Williams Rd
Old Stage Rd
Alisal Creek
Alisal Creek
Zabala Rd
Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community StudentsEl Sausal Middle SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity CentersParksSalinas Boundary Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 294 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 505 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 205 students
School Profiles 163
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• El Sausal is located on East Alisal Street, a fivelane roadway with parking on both sides. East Alisal Street is very congested before and after
school.
• There is a drop-off area at the school frontage.
There is a parking lot on the west side of campus
that is reserved for staff. Left turns are permitted
out of the school parking lot.
• Bus drop-off takes place on Towt Street,
adjacent to the school campus.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 30 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of East Alisal
Street near the school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk across
Towt Street to the east of the school frontage,
and another on Towt Street and 1st Avenue.
There is also a marked yellow crosswalk across
East Alisal Street at Towt Street, and updated
curb ramps and a curb extension to reduce
crossing distances.
• There are yellow crosswalks across Eucalyptus
Drive at East Alisal Street and at Connely Street.
• There are missing curb ramps at many
intersections surrounding the school.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on East Alisal
Street or other residential roadways near
the school.
• A recent Safe Routes to Schools project installed
separated bikeways on East Market Street, on
the backside of the school.
Students cross East Alisal at Eucalyptus Dr to go to the grocery stores after school
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND EL
School Profiles 164 SAUSAL MIDDLE The following table lists recommendations for El Sausal, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 165
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
ESM001 E Alisal St
Five-lane roadway with
higher traffic volumes
and speeds. Heavy traffic
congestion before and
after school.
Install roadway reconfiguration
and Class IV bikeway per Alisal
Corridor Plan. Remove on-street
parking in front of school, and
shift bus drop-off from Towt St to
E Alisal St.
$1,236,340 City
ESM002
Eucalyptus Dr at
school parking
lot driveway
School parking area
has rolled curb and no
defined entrances and
exits.
Install stop or yield signs at
driveway exits. $1,700 School
ESM003
Eucalyptus Dr
from Parkway Rd
to E Alisal St
Heavy congestion on East
Alisal before and after
school. Space is available
for drop-off on Towt St
and Eucalyptus Dr, but
is limited by resident
parking.
Install loading-zone curb
markings and signage along
the east side of Eucalyptus Dr
for drop-off and pick-up. Install
formal pedestrian entrance
to campus from Eucalyptus
Dr. Consider shade trees,
landscaping, and wider sidewalk.
$185,165 School /sity
ESM004 Eucalyptus Dr at
Connely St
Reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians in
the crosswalk.
Install raised crosswalk with
yellow high-visibility crossing.
Construct curb extensions to
tighten corner turning radius, and
add marked crossings on Connely
St. Add school crossing signage
on both sides of the street.
$159,700 City
ESM005 Eucalyptus Dr Reports of speeding.
Resurface street. Install traffic
calming and create bike
boulevard.
$2,021,925 City
ESM006 Eucalyptus Dr at
E Alisal St
Students running across
E Alisal St after being
dropped off or to go to
the grocery store after
school.
Consider pedestrian facility, per
city policy. Consider median
to restrict left turns out of
Eucalyptus Dr. Upgrade crosswalk
on Eucalyptus Dr to high-visibility,
and construct curb extensions.
$114,500 City
ESM007
Eucalyptus Dr at
school parking
lot driveway
Limited parking on
campus. Parking area
has rolled curb and no
defined entrances or
exits.
Reconstruct driveway entrances
to staff parking lot, and redesign
parking lot with reconfigured
stalls restricted to teachers. Due
to the rolled curb, the street
or sidewalk may need to be
reconfigured as well.
$96,600 School
ESM008 General
Heavy congestion on East
Alisal before and after
school.
Work with nearby churches, such
as Vineyard Christian and Iglesia
Bautista Del Sur, to establish parkand-walk programs.
N/A
School/TAMC/
nonprofit
partners
School Profiles 166
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
ESM009 Towt St at E Alisal
St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalk on E Alisal
St with yellow high-visibility
markings.
$8,000 City
ESM010 Towt St at 1st Ave Key pedestrian route to
school.
Add school crossing signage on
both sides of the street. $1,700 City
ESM011 Towt St at Myrtle
St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions and
formalize pedestrian island to
narrow the intersection. Install
high-visibility crosswalks and
curb ramps across Myrtle.
$230,000 City
ESM012
Towt St from E
Alisal St to Market
St
Heavy congestion on East
Alisal before and after
school. Space is available
for drop-off on Towt St
and Eucalyptus Dr but
is limited by resident
parking. Reports of
speeding.
Install traffic calming and
speed humps, and create bike
boulevard. Install loading-zone
curb markings and signage along
the west side of Towt St for dropoff and pick-up. Install a formal pedestrian entrance to campus
from Towt St. Consider shade
trees, landscaping, and wider
sidewalk.
$957,295 City/school
School Profiles 167
EVERETT ALVAREZ HIGH
Alvarez High is located in north Salinas and draws
students from the surrounding neighborhoods
and from east Salinas between Sanborn Road and
Natividad Creek (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Alvarez High parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 51 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 22, below.
Figure 22. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Parents park in the bike lane on Nantucket Blvd,
making it difficult for buses to enter and exit the
school campus
GRADE LEVELS
9-12
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
2645
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
62.9%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
26%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 51 SURVEY RESPONSES)
22%
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
DISTANCE
School Profiles 168
SalinasSafe Routesto School Plan
Espinosa Rd Espinosa Rd
El Camino Real
Madison Ln
Fontes Ln
El Rancho Way
W Rossi St
Sloat Dr
Post Dr
Cherokee Dr
Adams St
Victor St
N Davis Rd
Larkin St
Colton Dr
N Davis Rd
El Camino Real
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Boronda
Vil la St
Clark St
W Rossi St
W Market St
Davis Rd
Harrison Rd
El Camino Real
101
Paul Ave
Van Buren Ave
E Bolivar St Louis e St
Swaner Ave
Arthur St
Roundtree Dr
Outlook Ln
Lenny St
Harrison Rd
San Juan Grade Rd
Russell Rd
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
Espinosa Rd
El Camino Real
Santa Rita
Pueblo Dr
Cherokee Dr
Osage Dr
Navajo Dr
Chaparral St
Harden Pkwy
McKinnon St
E Alvin Dr
Adams St
N 1st St
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
Harden Ranch
Plaza
Northridge Mall
Heald
College-Salinas
Main Canal
Tyler St
Rainier Dr
Iris Dr
Noice Dr
Rico St
Boeing Ave
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Chaparral St
Navajo Dr
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Tulane St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
W Rossi St Rico St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Sun St
W Market St
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Kelton Dr
Penzance St
Rogge Rd
Paul Ave
Jade Dr
Natividad Rd
Bolsa Knolls
Emerald Dr
Arcadia Way
Calaveras Dr
Coventry St
Glendora Way
Inglewood St
Pescadero Dr
Independence Blvd
Victoria Ave
Los Coches Ave
Cambrian Dr
Sutter St
Klamath Dr
E Alvin Dr
Humboldt Dr
Natividad Rd Natividad Rd
E Boronda Rd
El Dorado
Community Park
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Oregon St
N Madeira Ave
St Edwards Ave
Kern St
Acosta Plz
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
Old Natividad Rd
Natividad Rd
Old Stage Rd
Natividad Creek
Gabi al n Creek
Bradbury St Nantucket Blvd
E Boronda Rd
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Steinbeck
Neighborhood
Park
Pacific Ave
Antigua Ave
Atlantic St
Eagle Dr
Rider Ave
N Sanborn Rd
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Towt St
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
E Boronda Rd
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Freedom Pkwy
Natividad Creek
Park
Del Monte Ave
Kimmel St
Green St
Mae Ave
Dallas Ave
Williams Rd
Closter Park
Nativ idad Creek
Natividad Creek
Old Stage Rd
Natividad
Old Stage Rd Old Stage Rd
Williams Rd Williams Rd
Old Stage Rd
Williams Ranch
Park
Freedom Pkwy
Gabilan Creek
Willia ms Rd
Alisal Creek
Alisal Creek
Williams Rd
Old Stage Rd
Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community StudentsEverett Alvarez High SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity CentersParksSalinas Boundary Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 298 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 388 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 1154 students
School Profiles 169
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Alvarez High is located on Independence
Boulevard, a four-lane roadway that narrows to
two lanes south of Nantucket Boulevard. There
is no parking on either side of Independence
Boulevard near the school. Independence
Boulevard is very congested before and
after school.
• There is a drop-off loop and two large parking
lots on the school campus. The northern
parking lot, on the west side of campus, is
reserved for staff and visitors, and the southern
lot is reserved for students. Left turns are
permitted out of the school parking lot onto
Coventry Street.
• Bus drop-off takes place on the campus. Buses
enter from Nantucket Boulevard and exit onto
Independence Boulevard at Coventry Street.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 30 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of
Independence Boulevard and Nantucket
Boulevard near the school.
• There are high-visibility yellow crosswalks on
two legs of the intersection of Independence
Boulevard and Danbury Street.
• There are yellow crosswalks on all legs of the
intersection of Independence Boulevard and
Nantucket Boulevard.
• There are curb ramps at many intersections
surrounding the school.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bicycle lanes on Independence
Boulevard and Nantucket Boulevard near
the school.
Large numbers of students cross Nantucket Blvd after school
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 170 EVERETT ALVAREZ HIGH The following table lists recommendations for Alvarez High, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 171
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
EAH001
Boronda Rd from
Natividad Rd to
Hemingway Dr
Arterial street with higher
traffic volumes and
speeds.
Upgrade bike lanes to buffered
bike lanes or Class IV separated
bikeway.
$4,626,000 City
EAH002 Boronda Rd at
Natividad Rd
Traffic congestion at
intersection. Install planned roundabout. $5,000,000 City EAH003
Gabilan Creek
from Boronda Rd
to Lexington Dr
Project identified in
Urban Greening Plan.
Install a Class I shared-use path
along Gabilan Creek. Include a
crossing at Danbury St.
$1,200,000 City
EAH004
Independence
Blvd from
Boronda Rd to
Constitution Blvd
Four-lane roadway.
Reports of speeding.
Drivers drop off students
in bike lanes on both
sides of the street.
Consider reducing roadway to two
lanes and upgrading bike lanes
to Class IV separated bikeway.
Conduct queueing analysis and
bicycle and pedestrian counts,
and consider options, including
installation of right turn lane for
northbound traffic into school
loop, and drop-off lane adjacent
to school frontage.
$512,3340 City
EAH005
Independence
Blvd at Boronda
Rd
Traffic congestion at
intersection. Difficult for
drivers to reach left turn
lane during school dropoff and pick-up.
Install planned roundabout. $8,000,000 City
EAH007
Independence
Blvd at Danbury
St
High volumes of
pedestrians and motor
vehicles. Difficult for
vehicles to exit school
campus, drivers not
yielding to pedestrians in
the crosswalk.
Conduct warrant study for
traffic signal or pedestrian
hybrid beacon. If traffic signal
is warranted, install marked
crosswalks on all legs of
intersection. Allow right-turn
access only in and out of Danbury
St. Evaluate for additional lighting
at intersection
$83,850 City
EAH008
Independence
Blvd at Nantucket
Blvd
Key pedestrian route.
Traffic congestion before
and after school.
Consider roundabout to improve
traffic flow and pedestrian safety. $195,000 City
EAH009
Nantucket
Blvd between
Independence
Blvd and
Hemingway Dr
Large numbers of
students crossing at
school bus driveway
entrance, near New
Haven Way.
Consider pedestrian facility, per
city policy. $10,000 City
EAH0010 Nantucket Blvd Key pedestrian route to
school. Install additional school signage. $3,400 City
School Profiles 172
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
EAH011 Nantucket Blvd
Parents parked in bike
lanes on both sides of
street before and after
school. Difficult for buses
to go around parked
cars to enter campus.
Students biking on
sidewalk.
Upgrade bike lanes to buffered
bike lanes or Class IV separated
bikeway
$3,700,800 City
EAH012 Nantucket Blvd at
Hemingway Dr
Reports of speeding,
drivers not yielding to
pedestrians, and drivers
doing donuts in the
intersection.
Consider roundabout or
traffic circle at Nantucket
and Hemingway as future
development is constructed.
$2,500,000 City
EAH013
Trail network
behind Steinbeck
Elementary from
Snug Harbor to
school
Pedestrians walking
down steep dirt path to
reach New Salem Drive.
Evaluate pedestrian demand and
consider formalized connection
between Crestview St and
Provincetown Dr.
$1,000,000 City
EAH014 School
Heavy traffic congestion
on Independence Blvd
before and after school
Consider installing additional
entrance to school parking lot
from Nantucket Blvd.
$8,500 School
EAH015 Inglewood St and
Coventry St
Heavy traffic congestion
at intersection of
Danbury/Independence
Blvd. Right-turn-only
not feasible without
removing traffic
diverters.
Remove the traffic diverters
on Inglewood and Coventry
Streets to enable right-turn-only
at Danbury and Independence
Streets. Conduct neighborhood
outreach prior to changes, and
consider traffic-calming measures
if requested and supported by
neighborhood residents.
$30,000 City
The intersection of Independence Blvd and Danbury St has high volumes of people walking and driving before and after school
School Profiles 173
FRANK PAUL ELEMENTARY
Frank Paul Elementary is located next to Frank Paul
Park in a residential area in northeast Salinas. It draws students from the surrounding neighborhood (see
map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Frank Paul parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in March 2021, and 41 surveys were
received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 23, below.
Figure 23. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Analysis for a stop sign or rectangular rapid flashing
beacon is recommended for the crosswalk on Rider
Ave. at Mazatlan Wy.
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
817
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
98.3%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
79%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 41 SURVEY RESPONSES)
64%
MY CHILD
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
DISTANCE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
School Profiles 174
Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Alisal Union School District,Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Frank Paul SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 19 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 64 students≤ 1/2 mile: 582 students School Profiles 175
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• There is a small drop-off loop on the school
campus off Rider Avenue.
• There is a small parking lot designated for staff
off Rider Avenue. Parents have been observed
using this lot for student drop-off and pick-up.
• There is a bus drop-off zone on Rider Avenue in
front of the school. There is on-street parking on
the rest of Rider Avenue and Antigua Avenue.
• There is a newer drop-off loop and parking lot at
the back of campus off Antigua Avenue.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are continuous sidewalks on Rider
Avenue, Antigua Avenue, and other roadways
near the school.
• There are high-visibility crosswalks across Rider
Avenue at Mimbrera Way and Mazatlan Way.
• Pedestrians have been observed walking across
unmarked areas of Rider Avenue between
Mazatlan Way and Mimbrera Way.
• There is no pedestrian access from Frank Paul
Park to the school campus.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Rider Avenue,
Antigua Avenue, or other residential roadways
near the school.
• The nearest bicycle facilities are Class II bicycle
lanes on Freedom Parkway.
Students walk to Frank Paul Elementary and La Paz Middle on Antigua Ave.
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 176 FRANK PAUL ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Frank Paul Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 177
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
FPE001
Rider Ave
at Freedom
Parkway
Part of possible redesign
of Freedom Parkway.
Conduct intersection control
evaluation analysis to study
installation of a roundabout.
$235,000 City
FPE002
Rider Ave from
Freedom Parkway
to Mazatlan Way
No bicycle facilities near
school.
Install bike lane. Transition to bike
boulevard west of Mazatlan. $947,400 City
FPE003 Rider Ave at
Antigua Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalk with highvisibility yellow markings. $4,000 City FPE004 Rider Ave at
Mazatlan Way
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
speeding on Rider Ave.
Conduct a warrant study for
a stop sign. If not warranted,
evaluate crosswalk for a
rectangular rapid flashing beacon.
Upgrade crosswalk with highvisibility yellow, and install curb ramp on south side of Rider Ave.
Install yield markings and curb
extensions to shorten crossing
distance on Mazatlan Way.
$164,000 City
FPE005 Rider Ave at
Mazatlan Way
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
speeding on Rider Ave.
Maintain crossing guard even after
installation of recommendations. N/A School
FPE006 Rider Ave at
Mimbrera Way
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
speeding on Rider Ave.
Upgrade crosswalk to high
visibility. Install curb ramp on
south side of Rider Ave, and
install curb extension to shorten
crossing distance on Mimbrera
Way
$117,000 City
FPE007
Rider Ave from
Freedom Parkway
to Amarillo Way
Drivers coming from
the east may not know
they’re entering a school
zone.
Install additional school zone
signage. $3,400 City
FPE008 Rider Ave at
Amarillo Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalk with highvisibility yellow, and install curb extensions across Amarillo Way.
$204,000 City
FPE009
Antigua Ave from
Rider Ave to
Sanborn Rd
Key route to Frank Paul
Elementary and La Paz
Middle. No bike facilities.
Create a bicycle route with
signage and sharrow markings. $19,600 City
FPE010
Antigua Ave from
Palmera Ave to
Sanborn Rd
Key pedestrian route to
Frank Paul Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Widen sidewalk. $30,000 City
School Profiles 178
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
FPE011 Sanborn Rd at
Antigua Ave
Key pedestrian route to
La Paz Middle. Five-lane
roadway with high traffic
volumes and speeds.
Conduct warrant for traffic signal
or installation of pedestrian
hybrid beacon signal. If neither
is warranted, install pedestrian
refuge island, upgrade to highvisibility yellow crosswalk, and add another flashing beacon to
refuge island. Include appropriate
yield signage and striping.
$737,000 City
FPE013
&
FPE017
Antigua Ave at La
Cuesta Ct (both
intersections)
Key pedestrian route to
Frank Paul Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Install raised crosswalks with
high-visibility yellow striping
across both intersections with La
Cuesta Ct.
$298,000 City
FPE014 Antigua Ave at
Antigua Cir
Key pedestrian route to
Frank Paul Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Install high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Antigua Cir. $4,000 City
FPE015 Antigua Ave at
Bernardo Ave
Key pedestrian route to
Frank Paul Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Consider raised intersection with
high-visibility crosswalks on
all legs, or install high-visibility
yellow crosswalk and construct
curb extensions on all legs
and raised crosswalks across
Bernardo Ave.
$796,000 City
FPE016 Antigua Ave at
Vera Cruz Cir
Key pedestrian route to
Frank Paul Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Install raised crosswalk with highvisibility yellow crosswalk and curb extensions across Vera Cruz
Cir.
$249,000 City
School Profiles 179
FREMONT ELEMENTARY
Fremont Elementary is in a high-density residential
neighborhood in east Salinas. It draws students
primarily from the surrounding neighborhoods (see
map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Fremont Elementary parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 34 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 24, below.
Figure 24. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Curb extensions are recommended for the crosswalk
at Towt St and Kentucky Ave
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
815
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
87.7%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
95%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 34 SURVEY RESPONSES)
70%
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
CROSSING
GUARDS
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
SIDEWALKS
OR PATHWAYS
CHILD’S
BEFORE OR
AFTER-SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES
ADULTS TO
WALK OR BIKE
WITH
School Profiles 180
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Miles
Legend
Students
Fremont SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 22 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 42 students≤ 1/2 miles: 729 students School Profiles 181
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• A Safe Routes to Schools project was completed
in 2017 to reduce the number to travel lanes
from four to two and install a new center
turn lane.
• There is a drop-off loop and parking in front of
the campus on East Market Street. Drivers are
also encouraged to use designated drop-off
spaces along East Market Street immediately in
front of the school.
• School-zone speed limit signs are not currently
present on East Market Street.
• Parents can also drop off students in the back of
campus, off Cooper Avenue.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 30 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• Students walk to school from the
surrounding neighborhoods and enter campus
through entrances on East Market Street or
Cooper Avenue.
• There are complete sidewalks on both sides of
East Market Street, Towt Street, and residential
roadways near the school.
• There is a yellow high-visibility crosswalk at
Market Street and 2nd Avenue, which serves as a
key access point for pedestrians.
• The 2017 project included upgraded curb ramps
and high-visibility crosswalks at intersections on
East Market Street near the school.
• Pedestrians have been observed walking across
unmarked areas of Market Street in front of
the school.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class IIB buffered bike lanes on
Market Street between North Sanborn Road
and Williams Road, with a segment of Class IV
separated bikeway in front of the school.
• There are no bicycle facilities on other
residential roadways near the school.
Curb ramps, high-visibility striping and a rectangular rapid flashing beacon are recommended on Laurel St at 2nd Ave
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 182 FREMONT ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Fremont Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 183
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
FE001 2nd St at Quilla St Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalks
and curb extensions, or consider
installing a neighborhood traffic
circle.
$216,000 City
FE002
Cooper Ave from
Towt St to 2nd
Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school. Install school zone signage. $1,700 City
FE003 Laurel Dr at 2nd
Ave
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
drivers not yielding
to pedestrians in the
crosswalk.
Evaluate pedestrian crossing
demand. If this is the highest-use
crosswalk on Laurel Dr, upgrade
to yellow high-visibility crosswalk
and install curb ramps and
rectangular rapid flashing beacon.
$54,000 City
FE004 Laurel Dr at
Midway Ave
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
drivers not yielding
to pedestrians in the
crosswalk.
Evaluate pedestrian crossing
demand. If lower than on 2nd
Ave, consider crosswalk removal
to direct pedestrians to the safest
crosswalk.
$14,000 City
FE006 Laurel Dr at
Williams Rd
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install white high-visibility
crosswalk across Laurel Dr. $8,000 City
FE007
Laurel Dr from
Williams Rd to
Sanborn Rd
No bicycle facilities.
Install Class IV separated bikeway
and recommended roadway
reconfiguration.
$2,914,380 City
FE018 Williams at
Grandhaven
No marked crosswalk,
reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians.
Consider pedestrian facility, per
city policy. $10,000 City
FE009
Market St at
school entrance
area
Parents parking in bus
loading zones, not clearly
marked.
Install “Bus Stop No Parking”
signage so vehicles do not block
bus parking space.
$850 City
FE010 Market St at
Williams Rd
Some students crossing
here.
Reconstruct the slip lane to
provide pedestrian crossing, and
include conflict striping. Upgrade
all legs of the intersection to highvisibility crosswalks. $270,000 City
FE011 +
FE016
Towt St at Oregon
St
Reports of students
crossing Towt St, no
marked crosswalk.
Install high-visibility crosswalk,
curb ramps, and curb extensions
across Oregon St. Consider
pedestrian facility, per city policy.
$140,000 City
FE012 Towt St at Cooper
Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk,
curb ramps, and curb extensions
across Cooper Ave.
$130,000 City
School Profiles 184
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
FE013 Towt St at Laurel
Dr
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
drivers not yielding
to pedestrians in the
crosswalk.
Upgrade to yellow high-visibility
crosswalk and curb ramps. $68,000 City
FE014
Towt St from
Market St to
Laurel Dr
Key route to school. No
bicycle facilities present,
reports of speeding.
Install traffic calming, sharrow
markings, and bike boulevard
signage.
$550,800 City
FE015 Towt St at
Kentucky Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school
Install curb extensions across
Towt St and high-visibility
crosswalk on Kentucky Ave.
$104,000 City
FE017 Oregon St Reports of speeding
Install traffic calming measures
if requested and supported by
neighborhood residents, or
consider speed enforcement on
Oregon St.
$15,000 City
School Profiles 185
GAVILAN VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL
Gavilan View is located outside Salinas city limits on
the north side of the city. It draws students from the
surrounding neighborhoods and the neighborhood
around New Republic Elementary (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Gavilan View parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in September 2020, and 21
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 25, below.
Figure 25. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. There are currently sidewalk gaps on both sides of Russell Rd near the school
GRADE LEVELS
7-8
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
588
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
74%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
61%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 21 SURVEY RESPONSES)
24%
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
DISTANCE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
School Profiles 186
Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Santa Rita Unified School District,Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Gavilan View Middle SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 217students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 235 students
≤ 1/2 miles: 124 students
School Profiles 187
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Gavilan View Middle is located on Russell Road,
a three-lane roadway that serves as a northern
boundary of the city of Salinas. Parking is
allowed on both sides of the street, and Russell
Road is very congested before and after school.
• There are two drop-off areas and several parking
lots on the school campus. The parking lots on
the east and south sides are shared between
staff and visitors. Left turns are permitted out of
the school parking lot.
• The morning sun creates some visibility
problems for eastbound traffic at certain times
of the year.
• Bus drop-off takes place on Van Buren Ave,
adjacent to the school campus.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 25 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are no sidewalks on the north side
of Russell Road between North Main Street
and San Juan Grade Road except along the
school frontage. On the south side, there are
some segments of formal sidewalk in front of
residential properties and dirt paths in
other areas.
• There are complete sidewalks on Van Buren
Avenue and other residential streets south of
the school.
• There are yellow crosswalks on three legs of
the intersection of Russell Road and Van Buren
Avenue. School staff assists with crossing at the
intersection during dismissal time.
• There are curb ramps at the intersection near
the school.
• Students have been observed crossing Russell
Road between North Main Street and the school,
outside of marked crosswalks.
• Gavilan View Middle is not served by a MST
bus route.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Russell Road or
other roadways near the school.
Conflicts were reported between vehicles turning left and pedestrians crossing at the intersection of Russell and Van Buren
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 188 GAVILAN VIEW MIDDLE The following table lists recommendations for Gavilan View Middle, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 189
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
GVM001 Van Buren Ave
Key route to school.
No bicycle facilities.
Students cross midblock to reach marked
crosswalk on the west
side of the intersection
of Van Buren Ave and
Russell Rd.
Consider bike boulevard on Van
Buren Ave. Consider pedestrian
facility, per city policy, on Van
Buren between Bolivar and
Russell Rd.
$1,975,600 City
GVM002 Russell Rd at Van
Buren Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school, high volumes
of students crossing.
Vehicle left turns onto
Russell Rd conflict
with pedestrians in the
crosswalk. Pedestrian
signal phase does not
allow enough time to
cross. U-turns allowed,
intersection feels very
unsafe.
Install curb extensions, curb
ramps, high-visibility crossings,
leading pedestrian intervals,
protected pedestrian signal
phase, and pedestrian countdown
signal heads. Consider protected
intersection treatments.
$1,917,140 City/county
GVM003
Russell Rd from
North Main Street
to San Juan
Grade Rd
Sidewalk gaps on both
sides of the street.
Students cross mid-block
to reach the sidewalk
on the north side of the
street.
Install sidewalk or pedestrian
path to ensure continuous
sidewalk on one or both sides of
the street.
$1,320,000 City/county
GVM004 Russell Rd
Reports of speeding as
vehicles enter and exit
the freeway. Double- and
triple-parking happens
on the north side of
Russell Road before and
after school.
Install school zone speed limit
signage and speed feedback
sign, and consider traffic calming
(speed-reduction markings).
Consider channelized drop off
lane on north side of Russell Road
adjacent to school.
$29,600 County
GVM005 Russell Rd at San
Juan Grade Rd
Key pedestrian route to
Gavilan View Middle and
Rancho San Juan High.
Construct ADA curb ramps,
and upgrade to high-visibility
crossings. Install leading
pedestrian interval and
pedestrian countdown signal
heads. Consider protected
intersection treatments or curb
extensions, taking truck and bus
turning radius into account.
$1,515,105 City/county
GVM006
Russell Rd from
North Main Street
to San Juan
Grade Rd
No bicycle facilities.
Install Class I shared-use path or
protected two-way bike facility
along Russell Rd (the south side
has few driveways).
$2,035,440 City/county
GVM007 Russell Rd
Reports of students
crossing here. No
sidewalk on north side of
street between Paul Ave
and school.
Consider possible marked
crossing on Russell Rd between
Eisenhower St and Paul Ave.
Evaluate pedestrian crossing
demand and MUTCD compliance.
$14,000 City/county
School Profiles 190
HARDEN MIDDLE
Harden Middle is located in north Salinas and draws
students from neighborhoods throughout north
Salinas (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Harden parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in March 2021, and 31 surveys were
received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 26, below.
Figure 26. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Parents park in the bike lane after school, blocking
the bus stop
GRADE LEVELS
7-8
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
1279
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
75%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
42%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 31 SURVEY RESPONSES)
26%
CHILD’S
BEFORE OR
AFTER-SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
TIME
CONVENIENCE
OF DRIVING
DISTANCE
School Profiles 191 Salinas Safe Routes to School Plan
Espinosa
Lake
Rodgers Rd
Rodgers Rd
San Jon Rd
San Jon Rd
Castroville Rd
Castroville Rd
Espinosa Rd Espinosa Rd
Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
183
Boronda Rd
Madison Ln
Fontes Ln
El Rancho Way
W Rossi St
Sloat Dr
Post Dr
Cherokee Dr
Adams St
Victor St
N Davis Rd
Larkin St
Colton Dr
N Davis Rd
El Camino Real
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Boronda
Vil la St
Clark St
W Rossi St
Nacional St
West St
Via Maria
W Market St
Castroville Rd
Davis Rd
Harrison Rd
101
Paul Ave
Van Buren Ave
E Bolivar St Louis e St
Swaner Ave
Arthur St
Roundtree Dr
Outlook Ln
Lenny St
Harrison Rd
San Juan Grade Rd
Russell Rd
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
Espinosa Rd
El Camino Real
Santa Rita
Pueblo Dr
Cherokee Dr
Osage Dr
Navajo Dr
Chaparral St
Harden Pkwy
McKinnon St
E Alvin Dr
Adams St
N 1st St
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
Harden Ranch
Plaza
Northridge Mall
Heald
College-Salinas
Main Canal
Tyler St
Rainier Dr
Iris Dr
Noice Dr
Rico St
Boeing Ave
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Chaparral St
Navajo Dr
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Tulane St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
W Rossi St Rico St
Riker St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Sun St
E Market St
W Market St
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Kelton Dr
Penzance St
Rogge Rd
Paul Ave
Jade Dr
Natividad Rd
Bolsa Knolls
Emerald Dr
Arcadia Way
Calaveras Dr
Coventry St
Glendora Way
Inglewood St
Pescadero Dr
Independence Blvd
Victoria Ave
Los Coches Ave
Cambrian Dr
Sutter St
Klamath Dr
E Alvin Dr
Humboldt Dr
Natividad Rd Natividad Rd
E Boronda Rd
El Dorado
Community Park
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Oregon St
St Edwards Ave
Kern St
Acosta Plz
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
Cesar E Chavez
Community Park
Old Natividad Rd
Natividad Rd
Old Stage Rd
Natividad Creek
Gabi al n Creek
Bradbury St Nantucket Blvd
E Boronda Rd
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Steinbeck
Neighborhood
Park
Pacific Ave
Antigua Ave
Atlantic St
Eagle Dr
Rider Ave
N Sanborn Rd
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Towt St
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
E Boronda Rd
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Freedom Pkwy
Natividad Creek
Park
Del Monte Ave
Second Ave
Kimmel St
Green St
Mae Ave
Monte Bella Blvd
Dallas Ave
E Laurel Dr
Williams Rd
Closter Park
Alisal
Nativ idad Creek
Natividad Creek
Old Stage Rd
Natividad
Old Stage Rd
Williams Rd
Williams Ranch
Park
Palermo Dr
Freedom Pkwy
Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community StudentsHarden Middle SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity CentersParksSalinas Boundary Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 103 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 429 students
1 ≥ 2 miles: 429 students
School Profiles 192
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Harden is located on McKinnon Street, a twolane roadway with no parking on either side.
McKinnon Street is very congested before and
after school.
• There are two drop-off areas and parking lots on
the school campus. The smaller loop is reserved
for bus drop-off, and the smaller parking lot is
reserved for staff and visitors. The larger loop is
designated for student drop-off. Left turns are
prohibited out of the larger parking lot.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 35 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are complete sidewalks on both sides of
McKinnon Street near the school.
• There is a high-visibility crosswalk across
McKinnon Street at Westminster Drive.
• There are yellow high-visibility crosswalks on all
legs of the intersection of McKinnon Street and
East Alvin Drive.
• There are standard crosswalks on all legs of
the intersection of McKinnon Street and
Harden Parkway.
• There are curb ramps at most of the
intersections surrounding the school.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bicycle lanes on McKinnon
Street and Harden Parkway. There are also Class
II buffered bicycle lanes on East Alvin Drive.
• There are no bicycle facilities on Westminster
Drive or other residential roadways near
the school.
The crosswalk at McKinnon St and Westminster Dr was the top safety concern for school staff School Profiles 193
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND HARDEN MIDDLE The following table lists recommendations for Harden Middle, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 194
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
HM001 E Alvin Dr at
McKinnon St
High volumes of
pedestrians and vehicles.
Conflicts between
students crossing and
drivers turning left.
Evaluate intersection for leading
pedestrian interval or split signal
phasing.
$200,000 City
HM002
Harden Parkway
from Main St to El
Dorado Dr
Four-lane roadway with
low traffic volumes.
Evaluate for possible road
reconfiguration (road diet) and
Class IV bike lanes.
$4,903,560 City
HM003 Harden Parkway
at McKinnon St
Students crossing, long
pedestrian crossing
distances.
Conduct intersection control
evaluation for possible traffic
signal or roundabout. Upgrade to
high-visibility crosswalks, and add
a marked crosswalk to the fourth
leg of the intersection.
$215,000 City
HM004
McKinnon St from
Harden Parkway
to E Alvin Dr
Drivers parked in the bike
lane before and after
school.
Install Class IV bikeway or Class
I shared-use path and conflict
striping at intersections and
driveways.
$1,080,000 City
HM005
McKinnon St from
Harden Parkway
to E Alvin Dr
Reports of speeding. Install speed feedback signs north and south of school campus. $1,700 City
HM006
McKinnon St from
Boronda Rd to
Harden Parkway
Standard Class II bike
lanes provide less
separation from cars
than buffered bike lanes.
Install Class II buffered bike lane. $255,420 City
HM007
McKinnon St from
Harden Parkway
to E Alvin Dr
Broken sidewalk. Repair broken sidewalk. $125,000 City
HM008 McKinnon St at
Westminster Dr
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
speeding traffic and
drivers not yielding to
pedestrians, especially
when students are
crossing outside of dropoff and pick-up times.
Install rectangular rapid flashing
beacon for McKinnon St crossing
and assembly B signage to
complement existing assembly
A. Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk and curb extensions
across Westminster Dr. Include
bikeway conflict striping through
the intersection.
$149,480 City
HM009
School Driveway
exit on McKinnon
St
Drivers trying to turn left
out of school parking lot
create traffic back-up in
school loop.
Redesign school driveway exit to
discourage left turns, and install
right-turn-only signage.
$2,850 School
School Profiles 195
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
HM010
Westminster Dr
from McKinnon St
to Cambridge Ct
Key pedestrian route to
Harden Middle, North
Salinas High, and El
Dorado Park.
Install curb extensions and highvisibility crosswalks on all side streets.
$728,000 City
HM011
Westminster Dr
from McKinnon St
to Cambridge Ct
Key pedestrian route to
Harden Middle, North
Salinas High, and El
Dorado Park.
a Install traffic calming if
requested and supported by
neighborhood residents, and
bicycle route sharrows and
signage.
$612,000 City
School Profiles 196
JESSE G. SANCHEZ ELEMENTARY
Sanchez Elementary is located in the heart of east
Salinas. It is located in the same complex as the Alisal Union District offices and Martin Luther King Academy.
The two schools draw students from the surrounding
neighborhoods (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Sanchez Elementary parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 61 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 27, below.
Figure 27. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
High-visibility crosswalks and leading pedestrian
intervals are recommended for the intersection of
Sanborn Rd at Kimmel St
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
832
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
98.5%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
85%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 61 SURVEY RESPONSES)
65%
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
DISTANCE
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE CHILD’S
BEFORE OR
AFTER-SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES
School Profiles 197 Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Alisal Union School District, Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Jesse G. Sanchez SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 35 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 60 students≤ 1/2 miles: 651 students School Profiles 198
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Sanchez Elementary is located on North
Sanborn Road, a five-lane arterial street with
high traffic volumes. There is limited on-street
parking on the school side of the street.
• There are two entrances to the school parking
lot from Sanborn Road, and separate dropoff loops for Sanchez Elementary and Martin Luther King Jr. Academy. Staff members assist
with traffic flow at the drop-off loops during
mornings and afternoons.
• Bus drop-off takes place in the school
drop-off loop.
• There are speed feedback signs on Sanborn
Road on either side of the school campus.
• The area in front of the school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• The main entrance to the school is on North
Sanborn Rd, and there are two side entrances
from Acosta Plaza.
• There are continuous sidewalks on both sides
of Sanborn Road and smaller residential streets
near the school. There are sections of broken
sidewalk on Acosta Plaza on the back side of
the campus.
• The streets across Sanborn from the school
(Mohar Street, Montana Street) each have rolled
curbs on both sides.
• There are standard yellow crosswalks on two
legs of the intersection of Sanborn Road at
Kimmel Street. There are no other marked
crosswalks on Sanborn Road between Acosta
Street and Garner Avenue.
• ADA curb ramps have been installed at the
intersection of Sanborn Road and
Kimmel Street.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on North Sanborn
Road or other residential streets near the school.
The Breadbox Recreation Center is used by parents to drop off students School Profiles 199
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND SANCHEZ ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Dual Language, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 200
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
JGSE001 Sanborn Rd at
Mohar St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to yellow high-visibility
crosswalk over Mohar St. $4,000 City
JGSE002 Sanborn Rd at
Mohar St
Conflicts between drivers
pulling into recreation
center to drop off
students and pedestrians
crossing driveway.
Explore prohibiting left turn into
the recreation center (Bread Box)
driveway during school pick-up
and drop-off.
$850 City
JGSE003 Sanborn Rd at
Acosta Pl
Large numbers of
pedestrians crossing,
not enough time to cross
during pedestrian signal
phase. Traffic backs up
from Laurel Dr through
this intersection.
Optimize signal timing and
improve coordination with nearby
signals. Conduct traffic modeling
to evaluate impacts of pedestrianexclusive signal phase. Upgrade to yellow high-visibility crosswalk
on all legs of the intersection.
$31,750 City
JGSE004 Sanborn Rd at
Laurel Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk on all legs of the
intersection.
$18,000 City
JGSE005 Sanborn Rd at
Kimmel St
Key pedestrian crossing
to school. Not enough
time to cross during
pedestrian signal phase.
Optimize signal timing and
improve coordination with nearby
signals. Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalks for both legs. Install
leading pedestrian interval, and
consider protected left turn from
Sanborn to Kimmel.
$188,000 City
JGSE006
Sanborn Rd
at Madeira
Ave/Oregon St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk on all legs of the
intersection.
$16,000 City
JGSE007 Machado Way at
Acosta Pl
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk across Machado Way. $4,000 City
JGSE008 Machado Way at
Mohar St
Key pedestrian route to
school. Install curb ramps. $52,000 City
JGSE009 Machado Way at
Montana St
Key pedestrian route to
school. Install curb ramps. $52,000 City
JGSE010 Machado Way at
Kimmel St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk on all legs, and install
curb ramps across Machado Way.
$60,000 City
School Profiles 201
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
JGSE011
Sanborn Rd
from driveway
entrance/exit
loop to near
Mohar
Drivers turning left out of
loop block traffic flow. Install right-turn-only signage. $850 School JGSE012
Sanborn Rd from
Del Monte Ave to
Laurel Dr
No bicycle facilities.
Short term: Install Class II bike
lanes between Laurel and
Del Monte. Long term: Widen
sidewalk to create shared-use
path between Laurel and Garner.
Install bike conflict markings
at recreation center entrance/
exit driveways. Installed raised
median with pedestrian refuge
islands.
$1,799,520 City
School Profiles 202
JOHN E. STEINBECK ELEMENTARY
Steinbeck Elementary is located in northeast Salinas
next to Steinbeck Park and close to Everett Alvarez
High School. It draws students primarily from the
surrounding neighborhoods (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Steinbeck Elementary parents were asked to complete
a bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking and biking to school in March 2021, and 45 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 28, below.
Figure 28. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Pedestrians use steep informal paths to reach New
Salem Dr
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
639
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
56.5%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
71%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 83 SURVEY RESPONSES)
22%
CROSSING
GUARDS
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
DISTANCE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
School Profiles 203 Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Alisal Union School District, Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
John E. Steinbeck SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 69 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 105 students≤ 1/2 mile: 350 students School Profiles 204
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Steinbeck Elementary is located on Burlington
Drive, a residential street with on-street parking.
There is heavy school drop-off traffic on
Burlington Drive before and after school.
• There is a parking lot and small drop-off loop
off Burlington Drive, which is heavily congested
before and after school. There is a second dropoff loop on the north side of campus, along New Salem Drive, which is designated for bus dropoff only. • School drop-off also takes place on
Burlington Drive.
• The area in front of the school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There is continuous sidewalk on both sides of
Burlington Drive, New Salem Drive, and other
residential roadways around the school.
There is also continuous sidewalk on both sides
of Independence Boulevard to the west of
the school.
• There are standard crosswalks on two legs
of the intersection of Burlington Drive and
Provincetown Drive.
• There is a Class I shared-use path along the
back side of campus, running from Nantucket
Boulevard to Independence Boulevard near
Constitution Boulevard. There are paved
connections to the adjacent neighborhood at
Round Hill Farms Road, and several informal dirt
paths connecting to Round Hill Farms Road and
Crestview Street.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bike lanes on Independence
Boulevard and Nantucket Boulevard.
• There are no bicycle facilities on other
residential roadways near the school.
School staff and parents reported issues with speeding around the school School Profiles 205
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND STEINBECK ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Steinbeck Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 206
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
JESE001
Burlington
Dr from
Provincetown Dr
to end of street
Reports of speeding.
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents.
$204,000 City
JESE002 Burlington Dr at
Provincetown Dr
Traffic congestion in
the intersection. Key
pedestrian route to
school.
Install traffic circle, and include
high-visibility crosswalks and
signage. Consider shifting
crossing across Provincetown
Dr to Lexington if all-way stop
control is implemented at
Lexington Drive.
$214,400 City
JESE003
Independence
Blvd at
Provincetown Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school. Students directed
to cross at north leg for
the shortest route to
campus.
Mark safe route to school along
north side of the intersection
with signage or decorative
crosswalk (school would need to
sponsor and maintain decorative
crosswalk).
$5,850 City/school
JESE004
Independence
Blvd from
Boronda Rd to
Constitution Blvd
Four-lane roadway,
reports of speeding.
Consider reducing roadway to
two lanes and upgrading bike
lanes to Class IV separated
bikeway. Add conflict striping at
bus stop areas.
$5,042,340 City
JESE005
Lexington Dr at
Provincetown Dr
(furthest west)
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to raised high-visibility
crosswalk on Provincetown. $149,000 City
JESE006
Lexington Dr at
Hancock St (both
intersections)
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to raised high-visibility
crosswalk on Hancock St. $298,000 City
JESE007
Lexington Dr at
Newport Ct (both
intersections)
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to raised high-visibility
crosswalk on Newport Ct. $298,000 City
JESE008 Lexington Dr at
Waterbury Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to raised high-visibility
crosswalk on Waterbury Way. $149,000 City
JESE009 New Salem Dr at
New Britain Cir
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalk with yellow
high-visibility striping across New
Britain Cir.
$4,000 City
JESE010
New Salem Dr
from Burlington
Dr to end of street
Reports of speeding,
students dropped off
here.
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents.
$158,100 City
School Profiles 207
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
JESE011 New Salem Dr at
New Haven Way
Key pedestrian route
to school, reports of
drivers not yielding
to pedestrians in the
crosswalk.
Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalks, and construct curb
extensions and ramps.
$147,000 City
JESE012 Parking lot
Current drop-off system
implemented by staff
was working well at
the time of the audit.
Signage reinforces this
system.
Install signs in advance of drop-off
loop: “Stay in car until drop-off
zone.”
$850 School
JESE013 Provincetown Dr
at Lexington Dr
Current crossing of
Provincetown Dr does
not meet the city’s
crosswalk policy.
Evaluate for an all-way stop.
If warranted, install marked
crossing on Provincetown
Drive. Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk and curb extensions
across Lexington Dr.
$109,000 City
JESE014 Provincetown Dr Broken sidewalk. Repair broken sidewalk sections. $125,000 City JESE015 Trail network
behind school
Heavy traffic congestion
in front of school. Use of
trail would encourage
more walking and biking
trips.
Install wayfinding from trail to
school entrance. Locate bike
parking near trail entrance.
$12,250 City
JESE016 Trail network
behind school
Trail is used mainly by
high school students,
sometimes for illicit
activities.
Improve trail network behind
school with paved pathway,
pedestrian-scale lighting, and
other improvements, per Urban
Greening Plan.
$264,000 City
JESE017 Trail network
behind school
Pedestrians walking
down steep dirt path to
reach Provincetown Dr.
Evaluate pedestrian demand,
and consider a formalized
connection between Crestview
and Provincetown. This would
also serve Alvarez High students.
$150,000 City
JESE018 School campus
Heavy traffic congestion
in front of school. Use of
trail would encourage
more walking and biking
trips.
Install additional school entrance
at back of campus to allow access
to school from trail.
$8,500 School
School Profiles 208
JOHN GUTIERREZ MIDDLE
John Gutierrez Middle is located just outside
Salinas city limits, to the north of the city. It draws students from the surrounding neighborhoods and
neighborhoods south of McKinnon Elementary (see
map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
John Gutierrez parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in September 2020, and 24
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 29, below.
Figure 29. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
The intersection of Rogge Rd and San Juan Grade Rd
was reported as a safety concern
GRADE LEVELS
7-8
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
660
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
63.5%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
29%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 24 SURVEY RESPONSES)
4%
DISTANCE
SIDEWALKS
OR
PATHWAYS
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
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Legend
Students
Bolsa Knolls Middle SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 339 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 80 students
≤ 1/2 miles: 114 students
John Gutierrez Middle
School Profiles 210
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• John Gutierrez Middle is located on Rogge
Road, a two-lane roadway. There is no on-street
parking between San Juan Grade Road and the
school except for a drop-off area in front of the
school. Rogge Road is very congested before and
after school.
• There is a drop-off area and parking lot on the
school campus that is shared between staff
and visitors. Left turns are prohibited out of the
parking lot.
• The morning sun creates visibility problems for
eastbound traffic at certain times of the year.
• There is another district facility west of the
school where bus drop-off takes place.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 25 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Rogge Rd
between San Juan Grade Road and the school
campus, with the exception of missing sidewalk
at the intersection of San Juan Grade and Rogge.
There is no sidewalk on the north side of Rogge
Road east of the school campus.
• There is intermittent sidewalk on San Juan
Grade Road between Rogge Road and
Russell Road.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk with
updated curb ramps across Rogge Rd to the east
of the school driveway exit.
• There are missing curb ramps at many
intersections in the residential neighborhood
south of the school.
• Gutierrez Middle is not served by a MST
bus route.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bicycle lanes on Rogge Rd
between San Juan Grade road and the school
campus, but they end east of the school.
• There are no bicycle facilities on San Juan Grade
Road or the residential roadways near
the school.
The crosswalk at Rogge Rd and Bollenbacher Dr is used by Gutierrez Middle and La Joya students School Profiles 211
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND JOHN GUTIERREZ MIDDLE The following table lists recommendations for John Gutierrez Middle, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 212
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
JGM001 Rogge Rd at
Bollenbacher Dr
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
speeding and drivers not
yielding to pedestrians in
the crosswalk.
Install curb ramps and highvisibility crossings on all three approaches. Consider curb
extensions. Curb extensions must
be designed to accommodate bus
turning radius. Assign a crossing
guard to this corner.
$127,000 County/school
JGM002 Rogge Rd
Incomplete bike lanes
between San Juan Grade
Rd and middle school.
Consider buffered bike lanes or
a separated two-way bike facility
on Rogge Rd between Natividad
Rd and San Juan Grade. Include
bike lane conflict markings at
intersections.
$1,480,320 County
JGM003 Rogge Rd Missing and broken
sidewalk.
Widen sidewalk, reconstruct
broken sidewalk, and fill sidewalk
gaps between San Juan Grade Rd
and Rancho San Juan High School
$590,000 County
JGM005 Rogge Rd at San
Juan Grade Rd
Key pedestrian route
to middle school and
Rancho San Juan High.
Reports of drivers not
stopping or yielding
to pedestrians in the
crosswalk.
Construct curb extensions with
ADA ramps. Consider roundabout,
signal warrant analysis, or
flashing pedestrian beacon.
Consider removal of long rightturn-only lane on northbound San Juan Grade Rd between Cornwall
and Rogge Village Way, and use
the space to upgrade bike lane
to Class IIB buffered or Class IV
separated bikeway.
$335,000 County
JGM006 Rogge Rd Reports of speeding.
Consider traffic-calming measures
between San Juan Grade Rd and
Rancho San Juan High School,
such as lane width reduction.
$77,880 County
School Profiles 213
HENRY F. KAMMANN ELEMENTARY
Kammann Elementary is located in northwest Salinas
next to Laurel Park and draws most of its students
from the surrounding neighborhoods (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Kammann parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September 2020, and 87 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 30, below.
Figure 30. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Curb extensions and high-visibility crosswalks are
recommended at the intersection of Rochex Ave at
Tyler St
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
792
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
79.5%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
94%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 87 SURVEY RESPONSES)
20%
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
DISTANCE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
CONVENIENCE
OF DRIVING
School Profiles 214
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Miles
Legend
Students
Kammann SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles14 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 323 students≤ 1/2 miles: 420 students School Profiles 215
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Kammann Elementary is located on Rochex
Avenue, a two-lane residential roadway with
parking on both sides of the street.
• There are two small drop-off loops and parking
lots on the school campus frontage. There is a
small parking lot on the west side of campus
that is reserved for staff. Left turns are allowed
out of the school parking lot.
• Bus drop-off takes place on Rochex Avenue,
directly in front of school entrance.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
• As of 2022, the Salinas City Virtual Academy was
located at Kammann, increasing the need for
parking for staff and parents.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Rochex
Avenue and other residential streets near the
school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk across
Rochex Avenue at 4th Street, east of the school
driveway entrance.
• There are standard yellow crosswalks on three
legs of the intersection of Rochex Avenue and
Tyler Street.
• There are missing curb ramps at many
intersections surrounding the school.
• The school tries to maintain a crossing guard
at the intersection of 4th Street and Rochex
Avenue.
• Students who live across Laurel Drive and attend
Kammann typically cross Laurel at Parkside
Street.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Rochex Avenue,
Tyler Street, or other residential roadways near
the school.
A rectangular rapid flashing beacon is planned for the crosswalk on Laurel Dr at Parkside St
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 216 KAMMANN ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Kammann, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 217
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
HFK001 Tyler St behind
school
Heavy traffic congestion
on Rochex Ave in front
of the school. Reports of
speeding on Tyler St.
Develop Park and Walk program
with drop-off at this location.
Consider bike boulevard with
traffic calming on Tyler.
$1,387,200 City
HFK002 Rochex Ave at
Tyler St
Reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians
and of drivers
doing donuts in the
intersection.
Install curb ramps or curb
extensions to align curbs, highvisibility yellow crosswalks, and advance stop bars.
$276,000 City
HFK003
Rochex Ave from
Tyler St to N 4th
St
Reports of speeding,
students dropped off
across Rochex and
running across the street
to school. The number of
driveway entrances and
exits complicates traffic
on Rochex Ave.
Consider constructing a center
median with street trees on
Rochex Ave to slow traffic.
Consolidate the number of
driveways onto campus.
$26,960 City
HFK004 4th St at Rochex
Ave
Cars parked at northeast
corner of the intersection
limit visibility of the
crosswalk. Cars exiting
school driveway can’t
see pedestrians waiting
to cross.
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents. Install curb extensions
to shorten crossing distance and
increase visibility, and consider
rectangular rapid flashing beacon
or raised crossing. Install ADAcompliant curb ramps.
$456,520 City
HFK005 Tyler St at W
Laurel Dr
Pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade curb ramps, install highvisibility crosswalks and advance limit lines. Upgrade pedestrian
heads at signal to include leading
pedestrian interval.
$268,000 City
HFK006 W Laurel Dr
Five-lane roadway,
higher traffic volumes
and speeds.
Install Class IV separated
bikeways or Class I multi-use
path.
$1,200,000 City
HFK007 Curtis St
No bicycle facilities on
neighborhood streets
near the school.
Consider bike boulevard with
curb extensions and high-visibility
crosswalks at all intersections
from 1st St to Tyler St.
$1,160,000 City
HFK008 Cherokee Dr
No bicycle facilities on
neighborhood streets
near the school, reports
of speeding.
Consider bike boulevard.
Consider road closure with bike
and pedestrian access at Ebro
Circle to reduce cut-through
traffic.
$3,060,000 City
HFK009 Cherokee Dr at
Inca Way
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions and highvisibility crosswalks $216,000 City School Profiles 218
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
HFK010 Tulane St
No bicycle facilities on
neighborhood streets
near the school.
Consider bike boulevard with
curb extensions and high-visibility
crosswalks at all intersections.
$1,178,400 City
HFK011 4th St at W Curtis
St
No bicycle facilities on
neighborhood streets
near the school, traffic
calming needed to create
bike boulevard.
Consider neighborhood traffic
circle. $195,000 City
HFK012 N 1st St
No bicycle facilities on
neighborhood streets
near the school.
Consider bike boulevard with
curb extensions and tree wells. $3,447,200 City
HFK013 N 1st St at Navajo
Dr
No bicycle facilities on
neighborhood streets
near the school, traffic
calming needed to create
bike boulevard.
Consider neighborhood traffic
circle. $195,000 City
HFK014 W Alvin Dr
Recent Safe Routes to
Schools project ends at N
Main St.
Consider extending Safe Routes
to Schools corridor on E Alvin and
installing buffered bike lanes and
high-visibility crossings.
$1,361,580 City
HFK015
Madrid St from
Cherokee Dr to
mall entrance
driveway
Bike lanes end at mall
entrance driveway.
Consider bike lanes or bike
boulevard. $408,000 City
HFK016 W Laurel Dr at
Parkside St
Key pedestrian route to
school. Uncontrolled
crosswalk, reports of
speeding and drivers not
yielding to pedestrians.
Install planned rectangular rapid
flashing beacon and pedestrian
refuge island at Laurel/Parkside.
$140,000 City
School Profiles 219
LA JOYA ELEMENTARY
La Joya is located outside Salinas city limits, to
the north of the city. It draws students from the
surrounding neighborhoods and from rural areas
north of Salinas (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
La Joya parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September 2020, and 79 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 31, below.
Figure 31. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Curb extensions are recommended on Bollenbacher
Dr in front of the school to prevent parking in the red zone
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
544
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
76.9%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
67%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 79 SURVEY RESPONSES)
14%
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
DISTANCE
SIDEWALKS
OR PATHWAYS
School Profiles 220
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Miles
Legend
Students
La Joya SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 153 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 142 students
≤ 1/2 miles: 220 students
School Profiles 221
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• La Joya Elementary is located on Bollenbacher
Drive, a two-lane residential roadway with
parking on both sides. Bollenbacher Drive is very
congested before and after school.
• There is a drop-off area and small parking lot
on the school campus. The parking lot is shared
with staff and visitors. Left turns are prohibited
out of the school parking lot.
• The morning sun creates visibility problems for
eastbound traffic along Rogge Road at certain
times of the year.
• Bus drop-off takes place in the school drop
-off loop.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 25 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of
Bollenbacher Drive and other residential streets
near the school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk
on Rogge Road at Bollenbacher Drive and a
standard yellow crosswalk on Bollenbacher Dr at
Pingree Way.
• There are missing curb ramps at most
intersections surrounding the school.
• Staff members assist during the morning dropoff to valet students into campus.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bicycle lanes on Rogge Road
between San Juan Grade Road and the campus,
but they end east of the school.
• There are no bicycle facilities on Bollenbacher
Drive, San Juan Grade Road, or other residential
roadways near the school.
The crossings of San Juan Grade Rd were identified as a safety concern
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND LA
School Profiles 222 JOYA ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for La Joya Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 223
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
LJE001 Bollenbacher Dr
at Pingree Way
Key pedestrian route
to school. Parents park
in red zone, which
blocks visibility of the
crosswalk. Reports of
drivers not respecting
students in the
crosswalk.
Update crosswalk to yellow highvisibility, and add high-visibility crosswalk across Pingree Wy.
Construct curb extensions with
ADA ramps on all corners and
wide curb extension at school
frontage to prevent parking in red
zone.
$224,000 County
LJE002 Bollenbacher Dr No bicycle facilities near
school.
Widen sidewalk on east side
of Bollenbacher Dr between
Penzance and Rogge Rd to allow
for student bicycle access.
$80,000 County
LJE003 Bollenbacher Dr
at Penzance St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Construct curb extensions with
ADA ramps and install highvisibility crossings on all legs of the intersection.
$132,000 County
LJE004
Penzance St at
San Juan Grade
Rd
Pedestrian route to the
three schools. Reports of
speeding and of drivers
not respecting students
in the crosswalk.
Construct curb extensions with
ADA ramps and install highvisibility crosswalks across San Juan Rd and on both sides of
Penzance St. Include rectangular
rapid flashing beacon and median
pedestrian refuge for San Juan
Grade Rd crossing.
$396,000 County
LJE005
Cornwall St at
San Juan Grade
Rd
Pedestrian route to the
three schools. Reports of
speeding and of drivers
not respecting students
in the crosswalk.
Construct curb extensions with
ADA ramps and install highvisibility crosswalks on San Juan Rd and both sides of Cornwall St.
Include rectangular rapid flashing
beacon and median pedestrian
refuge for San Juan Grade Rd
crossing.
$396,000 County
LJE006 Cornwall St No sidewalk.
Install sidewalk or shared-use
path on north side of the street
between Bellinzona Ave and
Kelton Dr.
$495,000 County
LJE007 Kelton Dr No bicycle facilities near
school.
Consider bike boulevard on
Kelton Dr between Penzance and
Rogge.
$255,000 County
LJE008 Kelton Dr at
Rogge Rd
Key pedestrian route to
three schools. Parked
cars limit visibility of
students crossing.
Install curb ramps, curb
extensions, and marked crosswalk
across Kelton at Rogge. Perform
intersection sight distance
analysis, and consider installation
of red curb at intersection.
$114,790 County
School Profiles 224
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
LJE009 San Juan Grade
Rd Reports of speeding. Install traffic calming, including narrowed travel lanes. $166,320 County LJE010 San Juan Grade
Rd
Key pedestrian route
to La Joya Elementary,
Gutierrez Middle, and
Rancho San Juan High.
No sidewalks.
Construct sidewalks along
segments where none exists
between Russell Rd and Rogge
Village Wy. Consider shared-use
path for bicycle use.
$750,000 County
LJE011 General
Reports of speeding on
neighborhood streets.
Traffic from three schools
combines.
Conduct neighborhood trafficcalming plan, and consider bike boulevard treatments. Consider
Bollenbacher Dr, Jade St, and
Penzance St as possible locations
for traffic calming.
$45,000 County
LJE012 Penzance St Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions with
ADA ramps and high-visibility
crossings on cross streets
between Paul Ave and Jade Dr.
$1,682,000 County
School Profiles 225
LA PAZ MIDDLE
La Paz Middle is located in east Salinas and
draws most of its students from the surrounding
neighborhoods (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
La Paz parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in March 2021, and 28 surveys were
received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 32, below.
Figure 32. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. Widening the sidewalk to create a shared use path is recommended on Paseo Grande, which is a route to
three schools
GRADE LEVELS
7-8
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
1114
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
87.3%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
98%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 28 SURVEY RESPONSES)
46%
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
DISTANCE
School Profiles 226
SalinasSafe Routesto School Plan
El Camino Real
Cherokee Dr
Adams St
Victor St
Larkin St
Colton Dr
El Camino Real
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Homestead Ave
W Rossi St
West St
Lorimer St
Riker St
Capistrano Dr
Pueblo Dr
Cherokee Dr
Osage Dr
Navajo Dr
Chaparral St
Harden Pkwy
McKinnon St
E Alvin Dr
Adams St
N 1st St
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
Harden Ranch
Plaza
Northridge Mall
Heald
College-Salinas
Main Canal
Tyler St
Rainier Dr
Iris Dr
Noice Dr
Rico St
Boeing Ave
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Chaparral St
Navajo Dr
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Tulane St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
Clay St
Griffin St
Winham St
W Rossi St
Rianda St
Rico St
Riker St Riker St
Central Ave
California St
Harvest St
Auburn St West St
Main St
Pajaro St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Lincoln Ave
Sun St
W San Luis St
Work St
E Market St
W Market St
N Main St
Front St
Salinas St S Main St
Sherwood Dr
John St
W Alisal St
Monterey St
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Salinas
Padre Dr
Geil S
W
t
Acacia St San Marcos Dr
Lang St
Pajaro St
E Acacia St
W Romie Ln
California St
Maple St
Carmel Ave
E Romie Ln
Grove St
Harvest St
Sierra Dr
Hawthorne St
Oak St
Orange Dr
Willow St
Chestnut St
S Main St S Main St
Abbott St
Salinas Valley
Memorial
Hospital
Emerald Dr
Arcadia Way
Calaveras Dr
Coventry St
Glendora Way
Inglewood St
Pescadero Dr
Independence Blvd
Victoria Ave
Los Coches Ave
Cambrian Dr
Sutter St
Klamath Dr
E Alvin Dr
Humboldt Dr
Natividad Rd Natividad Rd
E Boronda Rd
El Dorado
Community Park
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Ali sal Creek
Oregon St
Fremont St
Eucalyptus Dr
Towt St
Roosevelt St
N Hebbron Ave
St Edwards Ave
Kings St
Kern St
Kern St
Fir st Ave
Acosta Plz
Meadow Dr
N Pearl St
S Filice St John St
E Market St
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
S Sanborn Rd
E Alisal St
El Camino Real
Cesar E Chavez
Community Park
Alisal Creek
101
101
Airport Blvd
Vertin Ave
Work St
Terven Ave
Johnson Pl
Brunken Ave
S Sanborn Rd
El Camino Real
Spreckels
Junction
Natividad Creek
Gabi al n Creek
Bradbury St Nantucket Blvd
E Boronda Rd
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Steinbeck
Neighborhood
Park
Pacific Ave
Antigua Ave
Atlantic St
Eagle Dr
Rider Ave
N Sanborn Rd
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Towt St
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
E Boronda Rd
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Freedom Pkwy
Natividad Creek
Park
Sycamore Rd
Del Monte Ave
Second Ave
Margaret St
Toro Ave Skyway Blvd
First Ave
Cross Ave
Kimmel St
Paloma Ave
Green St
Mae Ave
Monte Bella Blvd
Dallas Ave
Bardin Rd
E Alisal St
E Laurel Dr Williams Rd Williams Rd
Alisal Rd
Closter Park
Alisal
Alisal Creek
Moffett St
Airport Blvd
Skyway Blvd
Salinas
Fairways Golf
Course
Hartnell
College-Alisal
Campus
Salinas
Municipal
Airport
Old Stage Rd Old Stage Rd
Williams Rd Williams Rd
Old Stage Rd
Williams Ranch
Park
Palermo Dr
Freedom Pkwy
Sconberg Pkwy
Alisal Rd
Willia ms Rd
Alisal Creek
Alisal Creek
Williams Rd
Old Stage Rd
Alisal Creek
Old Stage Rd
Alisal Creek
Alisal Creek
Foothill Dr
Old Stage Rd
Zabala Rd
Old Stage Rd Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community StudentsLa Paz Middle SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity CentersParksSalinas Boundary Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 608 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 486 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 29 students
School Profiles 227
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• La Paz Middle is located on North Sanborn Road,
a four- to five-lane roadway with no parking
on either side. North Sanborn Road is very
congested before and after school.
• There are two drop-off areas and two parking
lots on the school campus. There is a small
parking lot on the west side of campus that is
reserved for staff. Left turns are prohibited out of
the school parking lot.
• Bus drop-off takes place in the drop-off loop on
the west side of campus, off Sherwood Lane.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of North
Sanborn Road, Paseo Grande, and other
residential streets near the school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk with
rectangular rapid flashing beacons across
North Sanborn Road to the west of the school
driveway entrance.
• There are marked yellow crosswalks at the
intersection of Paseo Grande and Towt Street.
This intersection also serves Cesar
Chavez Elementary.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bicycle lanes on North Sanborn
Road between Del Monte Avenue and Boronda
Road and on Freedom Parkway.
• There are no bicycle facilities on Paseo Grande
or other residential streets near the school.
Analysis for a traffic signal or pedestrian hybrid beacon is recommended for Sanborn Rd at Antigua Ave
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND LA
School Profiles 228 PAZ MIDDLE The following table lists recommendations for La Paz Middle, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 229
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
LPM001
Antigua Ave from
Rider Ave to
Sanborn Rd
Key route to Frank Paul
Elementary and La Paz
Middle. No bike facilities.
Create a bicycle route with
signage and sharrow markings. $19,600 City
LPM002 Freedom Parkway
at Estrella Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility yellow
crosswalk and construct curb
extensions across Estrella Way.
$104,000 City
LPM003
Antigua Ave from
Palmera Ave to
Sanborn Rd
Key pedestrian route to
Frank Paul Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Widen sidewalk. $30,000 City
LPM004 Sanborn Rd at
Antigua Ave
Key pedestrian route
to school. Five-lane
roadway with high traffic
volumes and speeds.
Reports of speeding and
of drivers not yielding
to pedestrians in the
crosswalk.
Conduct warrant for traffic signal
or installation of pedestrian
hybrid beacon signal. If neither
is warranted, install pedestrian
refuge island and add an
additional flashing beacon to
refuge island. Include appropriate
yield signage and striping.
$737,000 City
LPM005 Sanborn Rd at
Paseo Grande
Heavy traffic congestion
before and after school,
reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians in
the crosswalk.
Extend median to prevent left
turns onto Paseo Grande. Extend
the queue space for the left turn
pocket at Sanborn/Antigua.
$500 City
LPM007
&
LPM022
Antigua Ave at La
Cuesta Ct (both
intersections)
Key pedestrian route to
Frank Paul Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Install raised crossing with highvisibility yellow crosswalk on La Cuesta Ct.
$298,000 City
LPM008 Antigua Ave at
Antigua Cir
Key pedestrian route to
Frank Paul Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Install high-visibility yellow
crosswalk on Antigua Cir. $4,000 City
LPM009 Antigua Ave at
Bernardo Ave
Key pedestrian route to
Frank Paul Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Consider raised intersection
with high-visibility crosswalks
on all legs, or install highvisibility yellow crosswalks and curb extension on all legs
of the intersection, and raised
crosswalks across Bernardo Ave.
$796,000 City
LPM010 Antigua Ave at
Vera Cruz Cir
Key pedestrian route to
Frank Paul Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Install raised, high-visibility
yellow crosswalk on Vera Cruz Cir.,
and construct curb extensions.
$249,000 City
LPM011 Sanborn Rd at
Boronda Rd Planned city project. Install roundabout and appropriate striping. $5,000,000 City LPM012 Paseo Grande at
Estrella Way
Key pedestrian route to
Cesar Chavez Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Upgrade to high-visibility yellow
crosswalk on Estella Way. $4,000 City
School Profiles 230
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
LPM013 Paseo Grande at
Estrella Way
Key pedestrian route to
Cesar Chavez Elementary
and La Paz Middle.
Consider pedestrian facility, per
city policy. $10,000 City
LPM014
Sanborn Rd
at Freedom
Parkway
Reports of high traffic
speeds and of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians in
the crosswalks.
Update signal to include leading
pedestrian interval, and install
pedestrian countdown signal
heads.
$400,000 City
LPM015 Sanborn Rd at
Paseo Grande
Heavy traffic congestion
before and after school,
reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians in
the crosswalk.
Install curb extensions across
Paseo Grande, and upgrade
to raised high-visibility yellow
crosswalk.
$249,000 City
LPM016 Sanborn Rd at
Del Monte Ave
Reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians in
the crosswalk.
Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk and conflict striping for
proposed Class IV bikeway.
$5,000 City
LPM017 Sanborn Rd at
Sherwood Ln
Reports of drivers
making U-turns while
students are crossing.
This entrance to the
school is designated for
buses only.
Upgrade to high-visibility yellow
crosswalk on Sherwood Ln.
Expand center median further
west of this intersection to
prevent U-turns.
$6,000 City
LPM018
Sanborn Rd from
Del Monte Ave to
Buckhorn Dr
Four-lane roadway with
higher traffic volumes
and speeds. Reports of
speeding.
Upgrade Class II bike lane to Class
IV separated bikeway. Include
conflict striping at intersections.
Consider Class IV or buffered bike
lane west of Del Monte Ave, with
2-way center turn lane.
$3,469,500 City
LPM019
Bus driveway and
drop-off zone
from Sherwood
Ln to school
entrance off
Sanborn Rd
The bus driveway is a
one-way loop and is used
by parents, sometimes in
the wrong direction. The
end of the bus drop-off
area is a key pedestrian
route to school.
Add more bus-only signage at
entry on Sherwood Lane. At the
end of the bus drop-off lane,
install flexible posts to narrow
the exit, and install exit-only/
one-way-road signage to prevent
vehicles from turning incorrectly
into the bus lane and to provide
additional protection for
pedestrians in the crosswalk.
$3,050 City
LPM020
Parking lot
entrance at Paseo
Grande
Heavy traffic congestion
on Paseo Grande before
and after school.
Include exit-only signage, and
consider narrowing the exit with
delineators to limit the ability
of vehicles to enter from Paseo
Grande.
$1,150 City
LPM021
Paseo Grande
from Sanborn Rd
to Towt St
Key route to Cesar
Chavez Elementary,
La Paz Middle, and
Alisal High. No bicycle
facilities.
Widen sidewalk on west side of
street to create Class I shared-use
path. Install signage and safety
improvements to designate
Antigua, Sanborn, Paseo Grande,
Moreno, and Camarillo Court as
an SRTS route.
$121,700 City
School Profiles 231
LAUREL WOOD ELEMENTARY
Laurel Wood is located in west Salinas next to Laurel
Wood Park and draws most of its students from
the surrounding neighborhoods (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Laurel Wood parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in September 2020, and 60
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 33, below.
Figure 33. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
There is a school bus stop at the intersection of
Victor St and Larkin St
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
484
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
69.8%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
81%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 60 SURVEY RESPONSES)
28%
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
TIME
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
DISTANCE
School Profiles 232
Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Salinas City Elementary School District,Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Laurel WoodPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 37 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 44 students≤ 1/2 miles: 350 students School Profiles 233
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Laurel Wood is located on Larkin Street, a
two-lane residential roadway with parking on
both sides.
• There are a drop-off area and small parking
lot on the school campus, which are closed to
parents before and after school. Parking on
campus is reserved for staff.
• Drop-off takes place on Larkin Street in front of
the school and on Flint Way on the west side
of campus.
• There was no regular bus service to Laurel Wood
at the time of the school audit.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Larkin
Street and other residential streets near
the school.
• There are yellow high-visibility crosswalks on
three legs of the intersection of Larkin Street and
Flint Way, to the west of the school
driveway entrance.
• There is a pedestrian pathway to the school
campus from Victor Street and through Laurel
Wood Neighborhood Park.
• There is pedestrian access into campus through
the side gate off Flint Way/Colton Drive.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Larkin Street or
other residential roadways near the school.
• The nearest bicycle facilities are Class II bicycle
lanes on North Davis Road.
The main school crosswalk on Larkin St at Flint Wy
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 234 LAUREL WOOD ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Laurel Wood, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 235
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
LWE001 Larkin St
Several reports of
speeding on Larkin. No
bicycle facilities near
school. Students crossing
outside of marked
crosswalks between
Victor St and Flint Wy.
Consider bike boulevard with
traffic-calming measures along
Larkin between N Davis Rd and
Victor St. Consider crosswalk
across Larkin St at Victor St,
O’Farrell Ct, or Sherman Dr. Install
curb extensions at intersections
along Larkin St from Mason Way
to Victor St to shorten crossing
distance on side streets.
$2,032,000 City
LWE002 Victor St
No bicycle facilities
near school. Reports of
speeding on Victor St.
No marked crossing to
connect segments of
Rossi Linear Park.
Consider bike boulevard with
traffic calming measures. Install
curb extensions at all side streets
along Victor from Geneva to
Larkin. Install raised crossing and
continuous sidewalk across Victor
at Rossi Linear Park.
$1,928,500 City
LWE003 Lombard St
No marked crossing to
connect segments of
Rossi Linear Park.
Close Lombard St at Rossi Linear
Park and extend greenway. N/A City
LWE004 Rico Circle Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install marked crosswalk and
ADA-compliant curb ramps across
Rico Circle.
$30,000 City
LWE005 Rico St
No marked crossing to
connect segments of
Rossi Linear Park.
Install marked crossing with curb
extensions or other crosswalk
enhancements to connect Rossi
Linear Park.
$104,000 City
LWE006 Larkin St at Flint
Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalks,
curb extensions, and updated
ramps.
$268,000 City
LWE007 Victor St at Larkin
St
Traffic congestion on
Larkin St before and after
school. Bus drop-off at
Victor and Larkin leads
to large numbers of
students crossing.
Encourage parent drop-off at
this location to alleviate front
of school traffic. Install curb
extensions and high-visibility
crossing across Victor. Consider
marked crosswalk across Larkin
St.
$108,000 School/city
LWE008 Flint Way at
Colton Dr
Traffic congestion on
Larkin St before and after
school.
Encourage use of this as a dropoff location to ease traffic on Larkin St. Reconstruct sidewalk
and replace street trees.
$190,000 School/city
LWE009 Victor St at Van
Ness Ct
No marked crosswalks
on Victor St.
Consider pedestrian facility across
Victor St, per city policy to provide
access to park and school.
$10,000 City
School Profiles 236
LINCOLN ELEMENTARY
Boronda Meadows is located at the western edge
of Salinas and draws most of its students from the
surrounding neighborhoods. Many students must
cross North Davis Road to reach the school, and
some must cross Highway 101 (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Lincoln parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September 2020, and 98 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 34, below.
Figure 34. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. Chestnut St is a key route to Lincoln Elementary and Salinas High
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
581
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
43.7%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
48%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 98 SURVEY RESPONSES)
25%
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
TIME
DISTANCE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
School Profiles 237 Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Salinas City Elementary School District, Transportation Agency for Monterey County
Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Lincoln ElementaryPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles 109 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 101 students≤ 1/2 miles: 178 students School Profiles 238
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Lincoln is located on California Street, a
two-lane residential roadway with parking on
both sides.
• There are designated loading spaces along the
school frontage on California Street. There is a
small parking lot and drop-off loop on the north
side of campus and a small lot on the south side
that is reserved for staff.
• There is no regular bus service to Lincoln, but
occasional bus drop-offs take place on California
Street adjacent to the school campus.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 25 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of California
Street and other residential roadways near
the school.
• There is a high-visibility crosswalk across
California Street at Chestnut Street in front of
the main school entrance. There are also marked
crosswalks across California Street at Willow
Street and across Maple Street at Front Street.
• There are yellow crosswalks on three legs of the
intersection of California Street and Maple Street
and on all legs of the intersection of California
Street and Pine Street.
• A crossing guard assists pedestrians at the
intersection of California Street and
Willow Street.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on California Street
or other roadways near the school.
Widening the sidewalk to create a shared-use path is recommended for California St School Profiles 239
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND LINCOLN ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Lincoln, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 240
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
LE001
California St from
Maple St to Pine
St
Reports of speeding
on California St. Key
pedestrian route to
school.
Consider traffic calming on
California St on the blocks near
the school if requested and
supported by neighborhood
residents. Install curb extensions
and high-visibility crossings on
California at Maple, Chestnut,
Willow, and Pine.
$1,270,200 City
LE009
California Ave
from John St to
Romie Ln
No bicycle facilities near
school.
Widen sidewalk on school side
to create a multi-use path.
Install continuous sidewalk at
intersections.
$300,000 City
LE002 California St at
John St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install pedestrian countdown
signal heads and evaluate for
leading pedestrian interval.
$200,000 Caltrans
LE003
Drop-off loop in
school parking
lot
Small parking lot
with limited space to
maneuver. Limited
visibility at exit.
Restripe parking lot to reduce
drop-off area to one lane. Trim
vegetation to maintain visibility
at exit.
$6,440 School
LE004 Chestnut St at
Pajaro St
Key pedestrian route to
Lincoln Elementary and
Salinas High.
Consider pedestrian facilities, per
city policy. $10,000 City
LE005 Maple St at Front
St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Consider pedestrian facilities, per
city policy. $10,000 City
LE010 Carmel Ave at
Maple St
Reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians.
Install raised crosswalk on Carmel
Ave at Maple. $145,000 City
LE006 Pajaro St No bicycle facilities near
school.
Install separated bikeways as
proposed in Active Transportation
Plan.
$6,522,660 City
LE007 East Romie Lane Reports of speeding.
Install planned road diet to
provide space for buffered bike
lanes.
$1,099,080 City
LE018 General area
Traffic congestion on
California St before and
after school.
Implement Park and Walk
program to ease congestion
at school frontage, and utilize
surrounding areas and side
streets.
N/A School
School Profiles 241
LOMA VISTA ELEMENTARY
Loma Vista is located in north Salinas and draws most
of its students from surrounding neighborhoods,
though a cluster of them live near Cesar Chavez
Community Park in east Salinas (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Loma Vista parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September 2020, and 94 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 35, below.
Figure 35. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Broken sidewalk on Compton Way
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
556
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
87.6%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
65%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 94 SURVEY RESPONSES)
26%
DISTANCE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
SAFETY OF ALONG ROUTE
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
CONVENIENCE
OF DRIVING
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
School Profiles 242
Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Salinas City Elementary School District,Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Loma VistaPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 17 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 104 students≤ 1/2 miles: 257 students School Profiles 243
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Loma Vista Elementary is located where Sausal
Drive and Cambrian Drive meet. Both streets are
two-lane residential roadways with parking on
both sides of the street.
• There is a small drop-off area and parking lot on
the school frontage. There is a parking lot in the
back of campus that is reserved for staff. At the
time of the audit, the parking lot and loop were
blocked off for parents and drop-off took place
on the street.
• Bus drop-off takes place in the drop-off loop.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Sausal
Drive/Cambrian Drive near the school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk on
Sausal Drive directly in front of school and next
to the school driveway entrance.
• There are no painted crosswalks at the
nearby intersections.
• There is a pedestrian pathway and gate to the
back of the campus from Compton Way, which
was closed at the time of the audit.
• A crossing guard assists pedestrians at the
intersection of Cambrian Drive and Sausal Drive.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Sausal Drive or
other roadways near the school.
Opening the back entrance to campus is recommended to reduce traffic on Sausal Dr
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 244 LOMA VISTA ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Loma Vista, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 245
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
LVE001 School drop-off
loop
Heavy traffic
congestion on Sausal
Dr in front of school.
Consider moving bus drop-off (El
Sausal Drive across from the school
might be a good location) and letting
parents drop off in the loop.
$75,000 School
LVE002
Glendora Way
at Compton
Way
Key pedestrian route
to school.
Consider continuous sidewalk at
Redondo Way, Coventry St, and back
entrance to campus.
$13,500 City
LVE003 Sidewalk at
back of school Broken sidewalk. Reconstruct sidewalk where needed on Compton Way and Glendora Way. $125,000 City LVE004 Back entrance
of school
Heavy traffic
congestion on Sausal
Dr in front of school.
Reopen back entrance with a gate
that can be unlocked and opened
during drop-off and pick-up hours.
Encourage parent drop-off at this
location.
$8,500 School
LVE005 Pescadero Dr Key pedestrian route
to school.
Install marked crosswalks on side
streets. Install curb extensions at
intersections of Los Coches and
Sausal.
$232,000 City
LVE006 Pescadero Dr at
Compton Way
Pedestrian route to
school.
Evaluate sight-distance criteria and
consider daylighting intersections or
installing curb extensions to improve
visibility.
$101,525 City
LVE007 Cambrian Dr at
Sausal Dr
Key pedestrian route
to school.
Consider continuous sidewalk or
raised crosswalk in front of school. $5,000 City
LVE008 Cambrian Dr at
Saucito Ave
No bicycle facilities
near school. Reports
of speeding.
Consider bike boulevard. Install
marked high-visibility crosswalk on
side streets (Saucito and El Sur), and
consider continuous sidewalks.
$910,600 City
LVE009 Los Coches Ave
at Cambrian Dr
Key pedestrian route
to school.
Install curb extension and highvisibility crosswalk. $104,000 City LVE010 Cambrian Dr at
Atherton Way
Key pedestrian route
to school.
Conduct all-way stop warrant
analysis. $5,000 City
LVE013 Saratoga Dr at
Cambrian Dr
Key pedestrian route
to school. Connection
to Castleton St and
Gabilan Creek Trail.
Consider pedestrian crossing
enhancements, per city policy. $10,000 City
School Profiles 246
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
LVE011 Natividad Rd
Six-lane roadway with
higher traffic volumes
and speeds.
Install Class IV separated bikeway. $2,313,000 City
LVE012 Natividad Rd at
Los Coches Ave
Six-lane roadway
with higher traffic
volumes and speeds.
Pedestrian route to
school.
Consider center median pedestrian
refuges, curb extensions, protected
pedestrian phasing, and leading
pedestrian interval.
$766,000 City
School Profiles 247
LOS PADRES ELEMENTARY
Los Padres is located in east Salinas and draws most of its students from the surrounding neighborhoods (see
map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Los Padres parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September of 2020, and 114
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 36, below.
Figure 36. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Parents reported concerns about safety and
maintenance on the path behind the school
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
807
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
79.8%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
78%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 114 SURVEY RESPONSES)
35% SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
DISTANCE
School Profiles 248
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Students
Los Padres ElementaryPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles 115 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 165 students≤ 1/2 miles: 465 students School Profiles 249
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Los Padres Elementary is located on John Street,
a two-lane arterial roadway with a center turn
lane and parking on both sides. John Street is
very congested before and after school.
• There is a drop-off area and a large parking lot
on the school campus frontage. Left turns are
allowed out of the school parking lot.
• Bus drop-off takes place at the end of the dropoff loop, which is also used by parents. • There are speed feedback signs on John Street
on either side of the school campus.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of John Street
and other residential roadways near the school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk with
rectangular rapid flashing beacons across John
Street to the east of the school driveway exit.
• There are marked crosswalks on all legs of the
intersection of John Street and East Alisal Street.
• There are high-visibility crosswalks on all legs
of the intersection of John Street and South
Sanborn Road.
• There is a pedestrian pathway to the school
campus from Beverly Drive, which passes over
Alisal Creek.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bicycle lanes on John
Street between South Wood Street and East
Alisal Street.
• There are no bicycle facilities on other roadways
near the school.
A road diet, bike lanes, and rectangular rapid flashing beacons were installed on John St
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND LOS
School Profiles 250 PADRES ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Los Padres, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school. .
School Profiles 251
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
LPE001 John St at school
frontage
Reports of speeding and
drivers not yielding to
pedestrians.
Install curb extensions and
pedestrian refuge island. $200,000 City
LPE002 John St Reports of speeding.
Install raised median for
entire length of John St, with
landscaping and lighting.
Consider other opportunities for
traffic calming.
$3,879,220 City
LPE003
Intersection of E
Alisal St/John St/
Williams Rd
Intersection is confusing
to drivers. Long crossing
distances for pedestrians.
Intersection redesign, including
slip lane closure, sight distance
analysis, squaring of vehicle
approaches and pedestrian
crossings, and construction of
curb extensions.
$701,000 City
LPE004 Side streets along
John St
Key pedestrian route to
school. Low visibility at
intersections.
Perform intersection sight
distance analysis and consider
installation of red curb to daylight
the intersections of McGowan Dr
and John Circle.
$1,000 City
LPE005 John St at
McGowan Dr
Drivers may not realize
they are approaching a
school zone.
Install planned school assembly
B signage in advance of existing
crosswalk.
$850 City
LPE006 School campus Congestion in parking lot
before and after school.
Implement rolling drop-off
program. Hire people or recruit
volunteers to supervise drop-off
and pick-up.
N/A School
LPE007 Alisal Creek
Opportunity for shareduse path and alternative
route to school.
Consider shared-use path with
lighting along Alisal Creek. $4,892,800 City
LPE008 Alleyway behind
school
Safety concerns in alley,
overgrown vegetation,
and no lighting.
Repave and widen alleyway path.
Repair or re-install fencing. Install
landscaping to shield path from
golf course. Consider opening
school gate to allow access to
campus. Install pedestrian-scale
lighting.
$183,800 City
LPE009 Mayfair Dr
Students who live on
Mayfair Dr have no direct
route to campus.
Consider acquiring right-of-way
for pedestrian access to school
campus from Mayfair Dr.
N/A City
School Profiles 252
MCKINNON ELEMENTARY
McKinnon is located in the northern edge of Salinas
and draws most of its students from the neighborhood
directly south of the school (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
McKinnon parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September 2020, and 46 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 37, below.
Figure 37. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
A Class I path is recommended between Boronda Rd
and the school
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
492
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
69.5%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
67%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 46 SURVEY RESPONSES)
20%
CROSSING
GUARDS
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
DISTANCE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
School Profiles 253 Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Santa Rita Unified School District, Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
McKinnon ElementaryPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 116 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 174 students
≤ 1/2 miles: 154 students
School Profiles 254
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• McKinnon Elementary is located on McKinnon
St, a two-lane roadway. There is no on-street
parking on McKinnon south of Boronda Road.
McKinnon Street is very congested before and
after school.
• There are two drop-off areas and parking lots
on the school campus. There is a parking lot on
the north side of campus that is reserved for
staff. Left turns are permitted out of the school
parking lot.
• Bus drop-off takes place in the drop-off area on
the north side of campus.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 25 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There is a sidewalk only on the east side of
McKinnon St near the school. The West Area
Specific Plan calls for sidewalks on both sides of
the street when future development
is completed.
• There are standard white crosswalks on three
legs of the intersection of McKinnon Street and E
Boronda Road. Curb ramps are in place at
this intersection.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bicycle facilities on McKinnon
St south of Boronda Road.
• There are Class II bicycle facilities on Boronda
Road near the school.
A roundabout is planned for the intersection of McKinnon St and Boronda Rd School Profiles 255
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND MCKINNON ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for McKinnon Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 256
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
MKE001 McKinnon St in
neighborhood
Buffered or separated
bike lanes provide more
separation from traffic
than Class II bike lanes.
Reports of speeding.
Install traffic calming and Class
IIB buffered bike lanes or two-way
separated bikeway.
$1,595,970 City
MKE002 McKinnon St. at
front of school
No bicycle facilities on
McKinnon St north of
Boronda Rd.
Install improvements per West
Area Specific Plan: Class II bike
lanes, street trees, and multi-use
community path on east side of
street to provide access to school.
$176,400 City
MKE003 Boronda Rd at
McKinnon St
Key pedestrian route
to school. Higher traffic
volumes and speeds.
Install planned changes re.
Boronda Road Congestion Relief
Project, including high-visibility
crosswalks, Class IIB buffered bike
lanes, and protected intersection.
Project
Funded City
MKE007 Boronda Rd at
McKinnon St
Roundabouts are new for
many Salinas residents.
When roundabout is installed,
give information to parents on
how to use roundabouts and
station a crossing guard at this
intersection.
N/A School
MKE004
E Boronda Rd
from Dartmouth
to Hemingway
Higher traffic volumes
and speeds. Shareduse paths provide more
separation for people on
bikes.
Expand sidewalk to Class I shareduse path.
$2,415,000
City
MKE008
E Boronda Rd at
San Juan Grade
Rd
Pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalks to highvisibility. $28,000 City
MKE005 McKinnon St at
Pennsylvania Dr
Pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalks to highvisibility. $4,000 City
MKE006 Chardonnay Dr at
McKinnon St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
across Chardonnay Dr. $4,000 City
MKE009 Dartmouth Way
Heavy traffic congestion
at intersection of
McKinnon and Boronda.
Dartmouth Way could be
another way to enter and
exit the neighborhood.
Remove traffic diverters on
Dartmouth Way. $3,800 City
School Profiles 257
MISSION PARK ELEMENTARY
Mission Park is located in south Salinas and
draws most of its students from the surrounding
neighborhoods (see map on the following page). It is
located near Notre Dame High to the south,
Palma School to the east, and Washington Middle to
the north.
PARENT SURVEY
Mission Park parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in September of 2020, and 74
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 38, below.
Figure 38. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Parents turning left back up traffic in the school
parking lot
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
699
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
50.5%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
71%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 74 SURVEY RESPONSES)
26%
TIME
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE DISTANCE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
School Profiles 258
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Legend
Mission Park Elementary
Students
Public LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles 44 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 233 students≤ 1/2 miles: 264 students School Profiles 259
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Mission Park Elementary is located on West
Acacia Street, a two-lane residential roadway
with parking on both sides.
• There is a two-lane drop-off area and parking lot
on the school campus frontage. There is a small
parking lot on the west side of campus that is
reserved for staff. Left turns are prohibited out of
the school parking lot.
• There is no regular bus service to Mission Park,
but special education bus drop-off takes place in
the drop-off loop used by parents.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of West Acacia
Street and other residential roadways near
the school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk on
West Acacia Street at Maron Street to the west
of the school driveway exit. At the time of the
audit, there was a crossing guard stationed at
this intersection before school only.
• There are yellow crosswalks on several side
streets near the school, including San Vicente
Avenue, Bruce Avenue, and Crespi Way.
• There are missing curb ramps at many of the
intersections surrounding the school.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on West Acacia
Street or other roadways near the school.
A pedestrian refuge island is recommended for the crosswalk in front of the school
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 260 MISSION PARK ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Mission Park, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 261
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
MPE001 School drop-off
loop
Congestion in school
parking lot before school.
Consider rolling drop-off program
and drop-off monitors to
streamline drop-off and pick-up.
N/A School
MPE002 School exit
driveway
Drivers turning left out of
driveway back up traffic
in loop.
Install stop sign at school
driveway exit. Redesign exit to
restrict left turns (for example, see
New Republic Elementary)
$2,170 School
MPE003 W Acacia St at
Marion St
Heavy traffic congestion
to the three nearby
schools. Vegetation
obstructs visibility.
Upgrade crosswalk to yellow highvisibility, and install pedestrian island and advance yield lines.
Trim vegetation to increase
visibility.
$109,800 City
MPE004 W Acacia St
No bicycle facilities
near school. Reports of
speeding on Acacia.
Consider bike boulevard. Study
options for widening sidewalk to
create a shared-use path.
$4,347,200 City
MPE005 Riker St No bicycle facilities near
school. Consider a bike boulevard. $2,713,200 City
MPE006 Iverson St No bicycle facilities near
school. Consider a bike boulevard. $1,407,600 City
MPE007 W Acacia St at
Sierra Madre
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions to shorten
crossing distance on Sierra Madre. $200,000 City
MPE008 W Acacia St at
Bruce Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb ramps and highvisibility crosswalk on Bruce. $30,000 City MPE009 San Vicente Ave
at Palma Dr
a Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions at all four
corners of the intersection. $200,000 City
MPE010 W Acacia St at
San Vicente Ave
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
speeding on Acacia.
Install curb extensions, tighten
curb radius, and install highvisibility crosswalks. Consider a neighborhood traffic circle.
$411,000 City
MPE011 W Acacia St at
Iverson St
Key pedestrian route
to Mission Park and
Washington Middle.
Reports of speeding.
Square the intersection, close the
slip lanes, and shorten crossing
distances with curb extensions.
Consider a neighborhood traffic
circle.
$645,000 City
School Profiles 262
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
MPE012 W Acacia St at
Junipero Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb ramps and continuous
sidewalk with high-visibility
crosswalk on Junipero.
$34,500 City
MPE013 West Acacia St at
Crespi Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb ramps and continuous
sidewalk with high-visibility
crosswalk on Crespi.
$34,500 City
MPE014 Blanco Rd at
Iverson St
Pedestrian route to
school. Higher traffic
volumes and speeds.
Install protected pedestrian signal
phasing. $200,000 City
School Profiles 263
MONTE BELLA ELEMENTARY
Monte Bella Elementary is located on the eastern edge
of Salinas. Most Monte Bella students live in
the surrounding neighborhoods (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Monte Bella parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 66 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 39, below.
Figure 39. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Families cross Tuscany Blvd at Canelli Ct to reach the
school and park
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
776
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
79.8%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
89%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 66 SURVEY RESPONSES)
22%
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
DISTANCE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
School Profiles 264
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Legend
Students
Monte Bella ElementaryPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles 56 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 147 students≤ 1/2 miles: 543 students School Profiles 265
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Monte Bella is located on Tuscany Boulevard,
a two-lane residential street with parking on
both sides.
• There are two drop-off areas and two parking
lots on the school campus. Drivers access the
school via Tuscany Boulevard. School staff use
cones to prevent left turns out of the drop
-off loop.
• Tuscany Boulevard is a small residential street
with low traffic.
• Drop-off occurs in both of the drop-off areas. At
the time of the audit, school staff were trying
out a new system of organizing pick-up by
grade level, and parents were asked to circle the
drop-off loop until their student was ready to be
picked up.
• Drivers have also been seen dropping off
curbside along the surrounding streets to avoid
the school’s drop-off loop.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 25 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are complete sidewalks on Tuscany
Boulevard, Monte Bella Boulevard, and other
roadways near the school.
• There are high-visibility yellow crosswalks
across Tuscany Boulevard at Tuscany Way and
Freedom Parkway
• There are pedestrian pathways to campus
from Monte Bella Park, which is adjacent to the
school. There is a back gate to campus, which
was closed at the time of the audit.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bike lanes on both sides of
Tuscany Boulevard, Monte Bella Boulevard, and
Freedom Parkway north of the school.
Analysis for a roundabout is recommended for Freedom Parkway at Tuscany Blvd
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 266 MONTE BELLA The following table lists recommendations for Monte Bella, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 267
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
MBLE001
Freedom Parkway
from Tuscany
Blvd to Padova
Dr (eventually
to Sconberg
Parkway)
Four-lane roadway with
higher traffic speeds.
Consider road diet on Freedom
from Tuscany, and installation of
Class IV separated bikeways.
$462,600 City
MBLE002 Freedom Parkway
at Tuscany Blvd
Difficult for drivers to
turn left from Tuscany
onto Freedom, which
backs up traffic on
Tuscany and in the
school parking lot.
Consider study for roundabout.
Restripe the bikeway approach
and right-hand-turn conflict area.
The right-turn lane outside of the
dedicated bikeway is not the best
design (flip placement and put
the crossover further north of the
intersection, and the crossover
should include conflict striping).
Add conflict striping across
Freedom Pkwy.
$45,400 City
MBLE003 School parking
lot
Goal of creating a oneway loop to reduce
congestion at the
intersection of Tuscany
Blvd and Tuscany Way.
Install raised crosswalk to align
with Tuscany Way crossing.
Remove speed humps. Remove
“No left turn” unless roundabout
is installed. Make eastern
driveway exit only.
$151,500 School
MBLE004
Tuscany Blvd
from Freedom
Parkway to Monte
Bella Blvd
Reports of speeding.
Consider traffic calming for two
vehicular travel lanes in a way
that does not affect bike lanes.
$255,000 City
MBLE005 Tuscany Blvd Heavy traffic congestion
in school parking lot.
Install loading-zone curb
markings and signage at curb
along school frontage.
$5,700 School/city
MBLE006
&
MBLE010
Tuscany Blvd at
Canelli Ct
Key pedestrian route to
school and park.
Add high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Canelli Ct.
Consider other pedestrian
crossing enhancements per city
policy.
$14,000 City
MBLE007 Tuscany Blvd at
Tuscany Wy Reports of speeding. Install raised crosswalk. $145,000 City MBLE008
Monte Bella Blvd
at Palermo Dr
(north leg)
Pedestrian route to
school and park. Reports
of speeding.
Evaluate for all-way stop control.
If warranted, install marked highvisibility crosswalks on all legs and ADA compliant ramps. If not
warranted, consider pedestrian
facility, per city policy.
$53,000 City
MBLE009 Pardova Drive
Traffic congestion on
Tuscany Blvd in front of
school.
Open back gate to campus to
provide an alternative to the
traffic in front of the school.
$8,500 School
School Profiles 268
MONTEREY PARK ELEMENTARY
Monterey Park is located in south Salinas and
draws most of its students from south Salinas
neighborhoods, with less than half of the students
living within a mile of the school (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Monterey Park parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in September of 2020, and 58
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 40, below.
Figure 40. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Curb extensions and high-visibility striping are
recommended for the crosswalk in front of the
school
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
556
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
82.3%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
44%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 58 SURVEY RESPONSES)
7%
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
AMOUNT
OF TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
DISTANCE
VIOLENCE
OR CRIME
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
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Legend
Monterey Park
Students
Public LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles 234 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 77 students≤ 1/2 miles: 168 students School Profiles 270
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Monterey Park Elementary is located on San
Miguel Avenue, a two-lane residential roadway
with parking on both sides.
• There is a drop-off area and parking lot on the
school campus frontage. There is a secondary
staff parking lot on the southeast side of
campus. Left turns are permitted out of the
school parking lot.
• Bus drop-off takes place on San Miguel Avenue
just past the school, adjacent to the park.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of San Miguel
Avenue and other roadways near the school.
• There is a yellow crosswalk on San Miguel
Avenue at Alameda Avenue to the east of the
school driveway entrance.
• There are yellow crosswalks on two legs of the
intersection of San Miguel Avenue and San
Juan Drive.
• There are curb ramps at intersections
surrounding the school, but most are not up to
current ADA standards.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on San Miguel
Avenue or other roadways near the school.
There are currently no marked crosswalks at the intersection of San Miguel Ave at San Fernando Ave School Profiles 271
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND MONTEREY PARK ELEMENTARY he following table lists recommendations for Monterey Park, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 272
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
MPKE001 San Miguel Ave
Consider bike boulevard
on San Miguel Ave.
Consider widening
the sidewalk along
Claremont Manor Park to
create shared-use path.
Install planned Class IIB buffered
bike lanes on Williams Rd
between Freedom and Bardin.
Allow for loading and unloading
only, and restrict long-term
parking on Williams Rd in front of
Alisal High. Install raised median
with street trees between Del
Monte Ave and Monte Bella Blvd.
Replace missing street trees.
$967,400 City
MPKE002 San Miguel Ave Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions, ADA ramps
and/or continuous sidewalks on
San Miguel Ave at San Pedro, San
Juan, Wilgart, San Fernando, Via
Paraiso, and Los Palos.
$1,287,000 City
MPKE003 San Miguel Ave at
San Juan Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions with
tightened curb radii and ADA
ramps. Install high-visibility
crosswalks
$216,000 City
MPKE004 San Miguel Ave at
San Fernando Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install high visibility crosswalks
and construct curb extensions $216,000 City
MPKE005 San Miguel Ave at
Alameda Ave
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions on all
corners, pedestrian refuge island,
high-visibility crosswalks, and
curb ramps. Widen pedestrian
entrance to school at this location
$247,000 City
MPKE008 La Mesa St Reports of speeding
Install traffic calming measures
if requested and supported by
neighborhood residents.
$897,000 City
MPKE006 E Romie Ln
Higher traffic speeds.
No bicycle facilities near
school.
Install planned road diet to
provide space for buffered bike
lanes
$1,099,080 City
MPKE007 E Romie Ln at Los
Palos Dr
Higher traffic speeds.
Concerns about safety of
students crossing.
Consider installing high-visibility
crosswalks and ADA ramps per
City policy
$70,000 City
School Profiles 273
MOUNT TORO HIGH
Mount Toro High is located in central Salinas and
draws students from throughout the city (see map on
the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Mount Toro parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 6 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 41, below.
Figure 41. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
MST buses have blocked traffic waiting to turn onto
Sherwood Place
GRADE LEVELS
9-12
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
193
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
77.8%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
19%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 6 SURVEY RESPONSES)
0%
DISTANCE
TIME
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
ADULTS TO
WALK OR BIKE
WITH
School Profiles 274
SalinasSafe Routesto School Plan
183
San Jon Rd
Castroville Rd
Castroville Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Davis Rd Davis Rd
Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
183
Boronda Rd
Madison Ln
Fontes Ln
El Rancho Way
W Rossi St
Sloat Dr
Post Dr
Cherokee Dr
Adams St
Victor St
N Davis Rd
Larkin St
Colton Dr
N Davis Rd
El Camino Real
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Boronda
Lemos Ave
Vil la St
Clark St
Fairfax Dr
Central Ave
Carmelita Dr
Homestead Ave
W Rossi St
Park St
Nacional St
West St
A r cher St
W Acacia St
Via Maria
San Simeon Dr
Marion Ave
St Ann Dr
Bruce Ave Lorimer St
W Market St
W Alisal St
Castroville Rd
Davis Rd
Davis Rd
Hartnell College
Los Olivos Dr Iverson St
Chaucer Dr
Riker St
San Vincente Ave
Dickens Dr
Palma Dr
Kipling St
W Acacia St
Capistrano Dr
W Alisal St
W Blanco Rd
Blanco Rd
Pueblo Dr
Cherokee Dr
Osage Dr
Navajo Dr
Chaparral St
Harden Pkwy
McKinnon St
E Alvin Dr
Adams St
N 1st St
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
Harden Ranch
Plaza
Northridge Mall
Heald
College-Salinas
Main Canal
Tyler St
Rainier Dr
Iris Dr
Noice Dr
Rico St
Boeing Ave
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Chaparral St
Navajo Dr
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Tulane St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
Clay St
Griffin St
Winham St
W Rossi St
Rianda St
Rico St
Riker St Riker St
Central Ave
California St
Harvest St
Auburn St West St
Main St
Pajaro St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Lincoln Ave
Sun St
W San Luis St
Soledad St
Work St
E Market St
W Market St
N Main St
Front St
Salinas St S Main St
Sherwood Dr
John St
W Alisal St
Monterey St
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Salinas
Padre Dr Geil S
W
t
Acacia St San Marcos Dr
Lang St
Pajaro St
E Acacia St
W Romie Ln
California St
Maple St
Carmel Ave
E Romie Ln
Grove St
Harvest St
Sierra Dr
Hawthorne St
Oak St
Orange Dr
San Angelo Dr
Willow St
Chestnut St
S Main St S Main St
Abbott St
S Main St
Claremont
Manor
Neighborhood
Park
Salinas Valley
Memorial
Hospital
Emerald Dr
Arcadia Way
Calaveras Dr
Coventry St
Glendora Way
Inglewood St
Pescadero Dr
Independence Blvd
Victoria Ave
Los Coches Ave
Cambrian Dr
Sutter St
Klamath Dr
E Alvin Dr
Humboldt Dr
Natividad Rd Natividad Rd
E Boronda Rd
El Dorado
Community Park
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Ali sal Creek
Oregon St
Fremont St
Eucalyptus Dr
Towt St
Roosevelt St
N Hebbron Ave
St Edwards Ave
Kings St
Kern St
Kern St
Fir st Ave
Acosta Plz
Meadow Dr
N Pearl St
S Filice St John St
E Market St
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
S Sanborn Rd
E Alisal St
El Camino Real
Cesar E Chavez
Community Park
Alisal Creek
101
101
Airport Blvd
Vertin Ave
Work St
Terven Ave
Johnson Pl
Brunken Ave
Abbott St
S Sanborn Rd
El Camino Real
Ioof Cemetery
Spreckels
Junction
Natividad Creek
Gabilan Creek
Bradbury St Nantucket Blvd
E Boronda Rd
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Steinbeck
Neighborhood
Park
Pacific Ave
Antigua Ave
Atlantic St
Eagle Dr
Rider Ave
N Sanborn Rd
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Towt St
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
E Boronda Rd
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Freedom Pkwy
Natividad Creek
Park
Sycamore Rd
Del Monte Ave
Second Ave
Margaret St
Toro Ave Skyway Blvd
First Ave
Cross Ave
Kimmel St
Paloma Ave
Green St
Mae Ave
Monte Bella Blvd
Dallas Ave
Bardin Rd
E Alisal St
E Laurel Dr Williams Rd Williams Rd
Alisal Rd
Closter Park
Alisal
Alisal Creek Moffett St
Airport Blvd
Skyway Blvd
Salinas
Fairways Golf
Course
Hartnell
College-Alisal
Campus
Salinas
Municipal
Airport
Old Stage Rd
Williams Rd
Williams Ranch
Park
Palermo Dr
Freedom Pkwy
Sconberg Pkwy
Alisal Rd
Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community StudentsMount Toro High SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity CentersParksSalinas Boundary Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 8 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 28 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 107 students
School Profiles 275
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Mount Toro High is located on Sherwood Place,
a two-lane roadway with some parking on both
sides. Sherwood Place is very congested before
and after school.
• There are several schools on Sherwood Place,
with multiple drop-off areas and parking lots
throughout their campuses. There is a parking
lot on the north side of Mount Toro campus that
is shared with staff and visitors. Left turns are
permitted out of the school parking lot.
• Bus drop-off takes place on the back side of the
school campus.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on the south side of
Sherwood Place but none on the north side.
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Sherwood
Drive between East Bernal Drive and Highway
101. South of the highway, there is missing
sidewalk on the west side of Sherwood Drive to
Rossi Street.
• There are no high-visibility yellow crosswalks
near the school campus. There is a standard
white crosswalk on Sherwood Place near the
entrance to the Mount Toro High parking lot.
• There are curb ramps at the intersection of
Sherwood Drive and Sherwood Place.
• Mount Toro High is not served by a MST
bus route.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on
Sherwood Place.
• There are buffered Class II bicycle lanes on
Sherwood Drive between Sherwood Place and
East Laurel Drive, and Class II bicycle lanes
south of the school to East Rossi Street.
• There are dashed green conflict markings on
Sherwood Drive at the intersection of
Sherwood Place.
A two-way cycle track or Class I path is recommended for Sherwood Dr.
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 276 MOUNT TORO HIGH The following table lists recommendations for Mount Toro High, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 277
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
MTH001 Sherwood Pl Missing sidewalk. Fill in sidewalk gaps on north side near Sherwood Dr. $60,000 City
MTH002 Sherwood Pl Flooding during rainy
season.
Upgrade stormwater retention
and runoff reduction along
Sherwood Place.
$2,000,000 City
MTH003
Sherwood Pl
at mid-block
crosswalk
Reports of drivers not
paying attention to
pedestrians in crosswalk,
pedestrian hit in
crosswalk.
Update crosswalk to high
visibility, and construct curb
extensions on either side. Add
yield lines and school crossing
signage assembly A.
$109,700 City
MTH004 Sherwood Dr
MST bus blocks traffic
turning right onto
Sherwood Pl.
Relocate bus stop to north side of
Sherwood Pl to enhance visibility
at intersection, and construct
bus pullout on north side of
intersection.
$75,000 City
MTH005
Sherwood Dr
from Bernal St
and Rossi St
Large four-lane roadway
with high traffic volumes
and speeds.
Consolidate bike lanes to one side
of the road for a two-way cycle
track or Class I shared-use path.
Upgrade bike lanes on Natividad
between Bernal and Boronda
to Class IV separated bikeways,
and install protected intersection
treatments at Bernal to facilitate
transition to cycle track.
$12,541,180 City
MTH006 Sherwood Drive
at Sherwood Pl
Difficult for drivers
to turn in and out of
Sherwood Place.
Re-evaluate ICE analysis to study
options for intersection control. $40,000 City
MTH007 Mount Toro
parking lot
No marked crosswalk
for people walking to
campus.
Install striping and signage to
create a recommended path
of travel through parking lot,
including crosswalk to connect
ramps.
$15,700 School
MTH008 Behind school
Students walking across
agricultural fields to
reach the schools.
Install trails or shared-use paths
to connect to Sherwood, Laurel,
and Madeira Ave.
$2,100,000 City
MTH009
Service roads
near canal
between Rossi
St and Main St,
and Main St and
Sherwood Dr
Sherwood Drive over
Hwy 101 has high traffic
volumes and speeds.
Create Class I shared use path
on service roads/ROW adjacent
to canal, as identified in Urban
Greening Plan.
$1,800,000 City
School Profiles 278
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
MTH010 Service road near
canal at Main St
If a shared-use path were
installed, connection
would be needed across
North Main St.
Consider redesign of Casentini
St/Main St intersection to
incorporate bicycle crossing.
Consider removing parking and
installing a raised shared-use
path on both sides of Main St to
connect the Class I path to the
Casentini intersection.
$305,000 City
MTH011 Sherwood Drive
at Bernal St
Main crossing point
for people walking
from neighborhoods
northwest of school.
Install lead pedestrian interval
and conduct counts to determine
whether protected phase is
needed.
$440,000 City
School Profiles 279
NATIVIDAD ELEMENTARY
Natividad is located in north Salinas and draws most
of its students from the surrounding neighborhoods
(see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Natividad parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September of 2020, and 80 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 42, below.
Figure 42. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
A high-visibility crosswalk was installed across E
Alvin Dr at Modoc Ave
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
685
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
88.2%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
91%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 80 SURVEY RESPONSES)
56%
DISTANCE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
MY CHILD
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
ADULTS TO
WALK OR BIKE
WITH
School Profiles 280
Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Salinas City Elementary School District,Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Natividad ElementaryPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 41 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 201 students≤ 1/2 miles: 425 students School Profiles 281
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Natividad Elementary is located on Modoc
Avenue, a two-lane residential roadway with
parking on both sides. Modoc Avenue is very
congested before and after school.
• There is no formal drop-off loop on campus.
There is a small parking lot on the north side of
campus and another parking lot on the south
side that is reserved for staff. Left turns are
permitted out of the school parking lot.
• There is also access to the school at the deadend on Tampico Avenue. • Bus drop-off takes place on Modoc Avenue in
front of the school campus.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Modoc
Avenue and other roadways near the school.
• Alvin Drive was recently renovated by the city
of Salinas. This included a road diet, buffered
bicycle lanes, high-visibility crosswalks, curb
extensions, new traffic signals, and improved
pedestrian signal phasing.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk with
rectangular rapid flashing beacon across Alvin
Drive at Modoc Avenue.
• There are yellow crosswalks on Modoc Avenue
and Glacier Drive at the front of the school and
on two legs of the intersection of Modoc Avenue
and Rainier Drive.
• There are ADA-compliant curb ramps at
intersections surrounding the school.
Bicycling Conditions
• Class II buffered bicycle lanes were recently
installed on East Alvin Drive and Linwood Drive,
and there are Class II bicycle lanes on El Dorado
Drive.
• There are no bicycle facilities on Modoc Avenue
or other residential roadways near the school.
Curb extensions are recommended on Modoc Ave to prevent parking up to the school crosswalk
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 282 NATIVIDAD ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Natividad, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 283
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
NE001 General Congestion on Modoc
Ave in front of school.
Work with churches on Alvin
Drive to develop park-and-walk
program.
N/A
School/TAMC/
nonprofit
partners
NE002
Parking lot on
north end of
campus
No drop-off loop on
campus, congestion on
Modoc Ave in front of
school.
Consider converting to drop-off
loop, keeping the back spaces for
staff parking.
$2,640 School
NE003 School frontage Congestion on Modoc
Ave in front of school.
Implement staggered start times
or incentive program for early
arrival.
N/A School
NE004 Linwood Dr at
Rainier Dr
Pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalks to yellow
high-visibility (per Linwood SRTS
project).
Project
Funded City
NE005 Rainier Dr at
Modoc Ave
Pedestrian route to
school.
Update crosswalks to yellow highvisibility. $8,000 City NE006 Modoc Ave at
Alvin Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions and
pedestrian refuge island with
additional rectangular rapid
flashing beacon signage in center
median.
$200,850 City
NE008 Modoc Ave at
Glacier Dr
Parents parking in
red zone, which
limits visibility of the
crosswalk.
Install wide curb extension to
narrow crossing distance and
prevent parking in red zone.
$100,000 City
NE009
Modoc Ave from
Alvin Dr to Rainier
Dr
Reports of speeding.
Consider street trees and
traffic calming if requested and
supported by neighborhood
residents.
$284,600 City
NE010
Glacier Dr from
Modoc Av to
Plumas Way
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions at all
intersections. $400,000 City
NE011 Chaparral St No bicycle facilities south
of the school.
Consider bike boulevard with
traffic calming or additional
speed humps.
$2,162,400 City
NE012 El Dorado Dr Connection to El Dorado
Park.
Upgrade bike lanes to Class IV
separated bikeway, buffered bike
lane, or two-way cycle track.
$3,562,020 City
School Profiles 284
NEW REPUBLIC ELEMENTARY
New Republic is located in north Salinas and
draws most of its students from the surrounding
neighborhoods (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
New Republic parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in September 2020, and 21
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 43, below.
Figure 43. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
Curb stops discourage left turns out of the school
parking lot
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
624
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
60.8%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
59%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 21 SURVEY RESPONSES)
42%
DISTANCE SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
AMOUNT
OF TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
SIDEWALKS
OR
PATHWAYS
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
School Profiles 285 Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Santa Rita Unified School District, Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
New Republic ElementaryPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 179 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 83 students≤ 1/2 miles: 285 students School Profiles 286
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• New Republic Elementary is located on Arcadia
Way, a two-lane residential roadway with
parking on both sides. Arcadia Way is very
congested before and after school.
• There are two drop-off areas and parking lots
on the school campus. The drop-off loop on
the north side of campus, off Arcadia Way, is
designated for parents, and parking spaces
are open to parents and staff. Left turns are
prohibited out of the parking lot.
• The loop on the east side of campus, off Emerald
Drive, is reserved for buses, and parking is
reserved for staff. School staff used cones to
block off the loop to parents.
• The morning sun creates visibility problems for
eastbound traffic at certain times of the year.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Arcadia
Way and other roadways near the school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk with
curb extensions across Arcadia Way to the west
of the school driveway entrance.
• There are yellow crosswalks on Emerald Drive,
Wimbledon Way, and Kent Street where they
intersect with Arcadia Way.
• There are curb extensions with curb ramps at the
intersection of Arcadia Way and Wimbledon Way.
Curb ramps are in place at intersections in the
neighborhood surrounding the school.
• At the time of the audit, there were no crossing
guards stationed at New Republic. School staff
helped control traffic and cross students in the
school drop-off loop.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Arcadia Way or
other residential roadways near the school.
• The nearest bicycle facilities are Class II bicycle
lanes on El Dorado Drive.
Parents park in the bus loading zone, which blocks school bus access School Profiles 287
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND NEW REPUBLIC ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for New Republic Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 288
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
NRE001
Arcadia Way from
El Dorado Dr to
Natividad Rd
Reports of speeding and
cut-through traffic.
Install traffic calming along
Arcadia Wy if requested and
supported by neighborhood
residents.
$540,600 City
NRE002 Arcadia Way at
Kent St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Conduct all-way stop warrant.
Consider marked crosswalk on
Arcadia Way, per city policy.
$13,000 City
NRE003 Arcadia Way at El
Dorado Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school and El Dorado
Park.
Install curb extensions, highvisibility crossings, and rectangular rapid flashing beacon.
$148,000 City
NRE004 Arcadia Way at
Klamath Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install marked crosswalk on
Klamath Dr and ADA-compliant
curb ramps.
$30,000 City
NRE005 Natividad Rd at
Arcadia Way
Some students cross
Natividad. Six-lane
roadway with higher
traffic volumes and
speeds.
Consider re-grading roadway
to remove large grade-break at
center of crosswalk (near center
median). Widen median to
provide pedestrian refuge island.
Upgrade crosswalks to highvisibility.
$118,000 City
NRE006 El Dorado Dr
No bicycle facilities near
school. Route to school
and El Dorado Park.
Upgrade bike lanes to Class IV
separated bikeway, buffered bike
lane, or two-way cycle track.
$3,562,020 City
NRE007 Emerald Dr Parents parked in bus
loading zone.
Install “Do not enter” pavement
markings across driveway
entrance and larger or more
frequent “Do not enter” and “Bus
only” signage. Install drop-off
zone at curb along Emerald Dr on
school side of street.
$15,530 School
School Profiles 289
NORTH SALINAS HIGH
North Salinas High is located in north Salinas and
draws students from the surrounding neighborhoods
(see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
North Salinas High parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 24 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 44, below.
Figure 44. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
There is no dedicated route for students biking on
the path south of the school to enter the school
campus
GRADE LEVELS
9-12
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
2216
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
66%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
58%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 24 SURVEY RESPONSES)
29%
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
MY CHILD
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
CONVENIENCE
OF DRIVING
DISTANCE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
School Profiles 290
SalinasSafe Routesto School Plan
183
Rodgers Rd
San Jon Rd
San Jon Rd
Castroville Rd
Castroville Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Espinosa Rd
Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
183
Boronda Rd
Madison Ln
Fontes Ln
El Rancho Way
W Rossi St
Sloat Dr
Post Dr
Cherokee Dr
Adams St
Victor St
N Davis Rd
Larkin St
Colton Dr
N Davis Rd
El Camino Real
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Boronda
Lemos Ave
Vil la St
Clark St
Central Ave
Homestead Ave
W Rossi St
Park St
Nacional St
West St
A r cher St
Via Maria
St Ann Dr
Lorimer St
W Market St
Castroville Rd
Davis Rd
Davis Rd
Hartnell College
101
Paul Ave
Van Buren Ave
E Bolivar St Louis e St
Swaner Ave
Arthur St
Roundtree Dr
Outlook Ln
Lenny St
Harrison Rd
San Juan Grade Rd
Russell Rd
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
Espinosa Rd
El Camino Real
Santa Rita
Pueblo Dr
Cherokee Dr
Osage Dr
Navajo Dr
Chaparral St
Harden Pkwy
McKinnon St
E Alvin Dr
Adams St
N 1st St
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
Harden Ranch
Plaza
Northridge Mall
Heald
College-Salinas
Main Canal
Tyler St
Rainier Dr
Iris Dr
Noice Dr
Rico St
Boeing Ave
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Chaparral St
Navajo Dr
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Tulane St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
Griffin St
W Rossi St
Rianda St
Rico St
Riker St
Central Ave
California St
Main St
Pajaro St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Lincoln Ave
Sun St
E Market St
W Market St
N Main St
Front St
Salinas St
Sherwood Dr
W Alisal St
Monterey St
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Kelton Dr
Penzance St
Rogge Rd
Paul Ave
Jade Dr
Natividad Rd
Bolsa Knolls
Emerald Dr
Arcadia Way
Calaveras Dr
Coventry St
Glendora Way
Inglewood St
Pescadero Dr
Independence Blvd
Victoria Ave
Los Coches Ave
Cambrian Dr
Sutter St
Klamath Dr
E Alvin Dr
Humboldt Dr
Natividad Rd Natividad Rd
E Boronda Rd
El Dorado
Community Park
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Oregon St
Fremont St
Eucalyptus Dr
Towt St
Roosevelt St
N Hebbron Ave
St Edwards Ave
Kings St
Kern St
Kern St
First Ave
Acosta Plz
N Pearl St
E Market St
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
Cesar E Chavez
Community Park
Old Natividad Rd
Natividad Rd
Old Stage Rd
Natividad Creek
Gabilan Creek
Bradbury St Nantucket Blvd
E Boronda Rd
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Steinbeck
Neighborhood
Park
Pacific Ave
Antigua Ave
Atlantic St
Eagle Dr
Rider Ave
N Sanborn Rd
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Towt St
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
E Boronda Rd
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Freedom Pkwy
Natividad Creek
Park
Sycamore Rd
Del Monte Ave
Second Ave
Margaret St
Toro Ave
First Ave
Cross Ave
Kimmel St
Green St
Mae Ave
Monte Bella Blvd
Dallas Ave
Bardin Rd
E Laurel Dr Williams Rd Williams Rd
Closter Park
Alisal
Natividad Creek
Old Stage Rd
Natividad
Old Stage Rd
Williams Rd
Williams Ranch
Park
Palermo Dr
Freedom Pkwy
Sconberg Pkwy
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Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 360 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 917 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 572 students
School Profiles 291
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• North Salinas High is located between Alvin
Drive and Kip Drive. Alvin Drive was recently
renovated by the city of Salinas. This included a
road diet, buffered bicycle lanes, high-visibility
crosswalks, curb extensions, new traffic signals,
and improved pedestrian signal phasing. Kip
Dive is a two-lane residential roadway with
parking on both sides. Both Alvin and Kip Drive
are very congested before and after school.
• On the north side of the campus off Alvin Drive,
there is a large parking lot for parents and
students and a small parking lot reserved for
staff. Bus drop-off takes place in a small loop in
the center of campus which is accessed via Alvin
Drive. Left turns are permitted out of the school
parking lot.
• On the east side of campus off Kip Drive, there
is a small drop-off loop and another parking lot,
which is reserved for staff.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Kip Drive,
Alvin Drive, and other roadways near the school.
• There are high-visibility yellow crosswalks on
all legs of the intersection of Alvin Drive and
McKinnon Street.
• There are updated curb ramps at intersections
on Alvin Drive surrounding the school.
• There is a bicycle and pedestrian path
connecting Kip Drive to Maryal Drive and
providing access to the neighborhood south of
the school.
• At the time of the audit, school staff acted as
crossing guards at the crosswalk between the
student parking lot off Alvin Drive and
the campus.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are buffered bicycle lanes on Alvin Drive.
There are no bicycle facilities on Kip Drive.
• There is a bicycle and pedestrian path
connecting Kip Drive to Maryal Drive, providing
access to the neighborhood south of the school.
The intersection of E Alvin Dr and McKinnon St was the biggest concern for school staff
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 292 NORTH SALINAS HIGH The following table lists recommendations for North Salinas High, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 293
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
NSH001 E Alvin Dr at
McKinnon St
High volumes of
pedestrians and vehicles.
Conflicts between drivers
turning left and students
crossing.
Install intersection improvement
per Alvin Dr/Linwood SRTS
project, including high-visibility
yellow crosswalks yellow.
Evaluate intersection for leading
pedestrian interval or split
pedestrian signal phasing.
$200,000 City
HFK014 W Alvin Dr
Recent Safe Routes to
Schools project ends at N
Main St.
Consider extending Safe Routes
to Schools corridor on E Alvin and
installing buffered bike lanes and
high-visibility crossings.
$344,380 City
NSH002
Kip Dr from E
Alvin Dr to Block
Ave/shared-use
path
Broken sidewalk across
from campus. Students
crossing Kip outside of
marked crosswalks. No
bicycle connection to
trail south of campus.
Install traffic calming and create a
Class III bike route with sharrows
and signage to connect to trail/
alley and to bikeways on Maryal
Dr and Chaparral Ave. Repair
broken sidewalk.
$315,200 City
NSH003
Block Ave from
Kip Dr to Parsons
Ave
Limited space for dropoff on Kip. Goal of
encouraging drop-off
in school parking lot off
Alvin Dr and providing
more space for walking
and biking.
Consider restricting traffic on
Kip Dr to one-way northbound
between Block Dr and school
loop exit, and restrict access
between Kip and Block to
biking and walking. Coordinate
with fire department and
follow neighborhood trafficmanagement process.
N/A City
NSH004 Shires Way at
Block Ave
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
and curb extensions. $158,000 City
NSH005 Maryal Dr at
Chaparral St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalks
and curb extension on all legs of
the intersection.
$216,000 City
NSH006
Maryal Dr from
Chaparral St to
Laurel Dr
No bicycle facilities on
this section of Maryal.
Provides connection to
trail south of school.
Install traffic calming and create
a Class III bike route with greenbacked sharrows and signage. $652,800 City NSH007
Chaparral St
from Maryal Dr to
Linwood Dr
No bicycle facilities on
Chaparral. Provides
connection to trail south
of school.
Install a Class III bike route with
green-backed sharrows and
signage.
$14,000 City
NSH008 Rainier Dr at
Amador Cir
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
and curb extensions across
Amador Cir.
$104,000 City
School Profiles 294
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
NSH009 Rainier Dr at
Parsons Ave
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
and curb extensions across
Parsons Ave.
$104,000 City
NSH010 Rainier Dr at
Linwood Dr
Pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade crosswalks to highvisibility, per Linwood SRTS project. Consider installing a
traffic circle.
$211,000 City
NSH011
Main St from E
Alvin Dr to Laurel
Dr
Six-lane roadway with
higher traffic volumes
and speeds.
Remove on-street parking to
install Class IV bikeway and
accompanying signage and
striping.
$2,729,340 City
NSH012 School campus at
trail entrance
No bicycle facilities
between trail and school
campus.
Widen pathway between staff
parking lot and trail entrance
to allow for bicycle access.
Consider narrowing staff lot to
create additional space. Look
into complete streets treatments
to separate pedestrian/bike
space from vehicle space at path
entrance and parking lot exit.
$53,350 School
NSH013 School campus
No bicycle facilities
between trail and school
campus.
Upgrade bike parking on campus,
and create signed route from Kip
St to bike parking.
$8,000 School
NSH014
Trail/alley from
Kip Dr to Maryal
Dr
Popular walking and
biking route. Install improved lighting. $62,400 City
NSH015 Staff parking lot
entrance
School staff monitor staff
parking lot to prevent
parent parking. An
automated gate would
free up staff time for
traffic monitoring.
Install keycard-activated gate for
staff parking. $1,000 School
School Profiles 295
OASIS CHARTER
Oasis Charter School is a charter school located on the northwestern edge of Salinas. It draws students from
throughout the city of Salinas and the surrounding
areas. None of its students live within two miles of
the school.
PARENT SURVEY
Oasis parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September 2020, but no survey
responses were received.
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
244
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
64.7%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
0%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
0%
The bike lanes on Westridge Parkway end at the city limits School Profiles 296
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Oasis is located on Westridge Parkway, a fivelane roadway that channels traffic in and out of the adjacent residential neighborhood and the
commercial shopping centers along North
Davis Road.
• Oasis is located in a former shopping center,
with parking located around the school building.
Drivers enter the parking lot from the west side
of campus, and different drop-off areas are
designated for different grade levels.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 25 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• At the time of the audit, none of its students
lived within two miles of the school, and all
students were driven to school.
• There is complete sidewalk on the northern leg
of Westridge Parkway between North Davis Road
and the school campus. Sidewalk is missing
west of the school entrance and on the western
portion of Westridge Parkway.
• There is intermittent sidewalk on Brooks Road
and Boronda Road south of the school campus.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bike lanes on Westridge
Parkway between North Davis Road and the
school’s east entrance.
• There are Class II bike lanes on North
Davis Road.
• There are no bicycle facilities on residential
roadways near the school.
The school has developed a well-organized system for drop-off School Profiles 297
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND OASIS CHARTER SCHOOL The following table lists recommendations for Oasis Charter, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 298
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
OC001
Westridge
Parkway from city
limits to Boronda
Rd
Bike lanes end at city
limits.
Install Class III bikeway and traffic
calming. $173,400 Countya
OC003
Westridge from
Davis to City
limits
Four-lane roadway with
higher traffic speeds.
Consider road diet or Class IIB
buffered bike lanes. $199,320 City
OC004 West Alvin Dr
No connection for
walking or biking over
Hwy 101.
Conduct feasibility analysis
for bicycle and pedestrian
overcrossing over SR 101 at Alvin
Dr.
$10,000 City
OC002 School parking
lot
Drop-off/pick-up system
was working well at the
time of the audit.
Continue current drop-off/pick-up
system. N/A School
School Profiles 299
RANCHO SAN JUAN HIGH
Rancho San Juan is located on the northern edge of
Salinas and draws students from both the surrounding
neighborhoods and Salinas neighborhoods north of
East Alvin Drive (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Rancho San Juan parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in September 2020, and 11
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 45, below.
Figure 45. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. There are significant sidewalk gaps on San Juan Grade Rd
GRADE LEVELS
9-12
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
1240
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
85.3%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
23%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 11 SURVEY RESPONSES)
0%
CONVENIENCE
OF DRIVING
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
TIME
DISTANCE
School Profiles 300
SalinasSafe Routesto School Plan
San Jon Rd
Ralph Ln
Espinosa Rd
El Camino Real
Espinosa Rd
Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
Boronda Rd
Fontes Ln
El Rancho Way
Post Dr
Cherokee Dr
Adams S
N
t
Davis Rd
El Camino Real
Boronda
Harrison Rd
Queen of Haven
Cemetery
Harrison Rd
Martines Rd
Harrison Rd
El Camino Real
101
Paul Ave
Van Buren Ave
E Bolivar St Louis e St
Swaner Ave
Arthur St
Roundtree Dr
Outlook Ln
Lenny St
Harrison Rd
San Juan Grade Rd
Russell Rd
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
Espinosa Rd
El Camino Real
Santa Rita
Pueblo Dr
Cherokee Dr
Osage Dr
Navajo Dr
Chaparral St
Harden Pkwy
McKinnon St
E Alvin Dr
Adams St
N 1st St
N Main St
E Boronda Rd
El Camino Real
Harden Ranch
Plaza
Northridge Mall
Heald
College-Salinas
Tyler St
N
Rainier Dr
oice Dr
Boeing Ave
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Polk St
Chaparral St
Navajo Dr
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Tulane St
Parkside St
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
E Laurel Dr
San Juan Grade Rd
Middlefield Rd
San Juan Grade Rd
Club at Crazy
Horse Ranch
Gabilan Acres
Kelton Dr
Penzance St
Rogge Rd
Paul Ave
Jade Dr
Natividad Rd
Bolsa Knolls
Emerald Dr
Arcadia Way
Calaveras Dr
Coventry St
Glendora Way
Inglewood St
Pescadero Dr
Independence Blvd
Victoria Ave
Los Coches Ave
Cambrian Dr
Sutter St
Klamath Dr
E Alvin Dr
Humboldt Dr
Natividad Rd Natividad Rd
E Boronda Rd
El Dorado
Community Park
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Natividad
Medical Center
Gabilan Creek
Hebert Rd
Gabilan Creek
Middlefield Rd
Old Stage Rd
Old Natividad Rd
Natividad Rd
Old Stage Rd
Natividad Creek
Gabi al n Creek
Bradbury St Nantucket Blvd
E Boronda Rd
Creekbridge
Neighborhood
Park
Steinbeck
Neighborhood
Park
Beacon Hill Dr
E Boronda R
Natividad Creek d
Park
Nativ idad Creek
Natividad Creek
Old Stage Rd
Natividad
Old Stage Rd Old Stage Rd Old Stage Rd
Gabilan Creek
Williams Rd
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Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 85 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 200 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 1047 students
School Profiles 301
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Rancho San Juan is located on Rogge Road, a
two-lane roadway with no parking on either
side. Rogge Road is the northern border of the
city of Salinas and is very congested before and
after school.
• There are three drop-off areas and a large
parking lot on the school campus that is open
to staff and visitors. One drop-off loop is
designated for buses. Left turns are permitted
out of the school parking lot.
• The morning sun creates visibility problems for
eastbound traffic at certain times of the year.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 25 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are complete sidewalks on the south
side of Rogge Road adjacent to the school. The
sidewalk is broken in some locations. There are
no sidewalks on the north side of Rogge Road
between Gutierrez Middle and Natividad Road.
• There is intermittent sidewalk on San Juan
Grade Road between Rogge Road and Russell
Road, and a segment of missing sidewalk at the
intersection of San Juan Grade and Rogge Road.
• There are curb ramps at some intersections
surrounding the school.
• At the time of the audit, school staff members
helped to control traffic in the school loop and
acted as crossing guards at the crosswalk in the
school loop.
• Rancho San Juan High is not served by a MST
bus route.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bicycle lanes on Rogge Road
between San Juan Grade Road and Gutierrez
Middle, but they end east of the middle
school campus.
• There are no bicycle facilities on San Juan Grade
Road or the residential roadways near
the school.
Bike lanes on Rogge Rd end at Gutierrez Middle School
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 302 RANCHO SAN JUAN HIGH The following table lists recommendations for Rancho San Juan, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 303
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
RSJH001 General
Students who live within
two miles of school can’t
take the bus, but many
have limited options for
walking and biking.
Create carpooling program
focused on students who live too
far to walk or bike to school.
N/A
School/TAMC/
nonprofit
partners
RSJH002 Neighborhood
around La Joya
Reports of speeding on
neighborhood streets.
Traffic from three schools
combines.
Conduct neighborhood trafficcalming plan, and consider bike boulevard treatments. Consider
Bollenbacher Dr, Jade St, and
Penzance St as possible locations
for traffic calming.
$45,000 County
RSJH003 Rogge Rd at
Bollenbacher
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports
of speeding and of
drivers not yielding
to pedestrians in the
crosswalk.
Install curb ramps and highvisibility crossings at all three approaches. Consider curb
extensions. Curb extensions must
be designed to accommodate bus
turning radius. Assign crossing
guard to this corner.
$127,000 County
RSJH004 Rogge Rd
Incomplete bike lanes
between San Juan Grade
Rd and high school.
Install Class IIB buffered bike
lanes or separated two-way bike
facility on Rogge Rd between
Natividad Rd and San Juan
Grade. Include bike lane conflict
markings at major and minor
intersections.
$1,480,320 County
RSJH005 Rogge Rd Missing and broken
sidewalk.
Widen sidewalk, reconstruct
buckling sidewalk, and fill
sidewalk gaps between San Juan
Grade Rd and Rancho San Juan
High School.
$590,000 County
RSJH006 Rogge Rd
No bicycle facilities on
Rogge Rd east of high
school
Install Class I shared-use path
along south side of Rogge Rd
between Natividad Rd and
Rancho San Juan High School.
$560,000 City
RSJH007 Rogge Rd at San
Juan Grade Rd
Key pedestrian route
to middle school and
Rancho San Juan High.
Reports of drivers not
stopping or yielding
to pedestrians in the
crosswalk.
Construct curb extensions
with ADA ramps. Consider
roundabout or signal warrant
analysis. Consider removal of
long right-turn-only trap lane
on northbound San Juan Grade
between Cornwall and Rogge
Village Way, and use space to
upgrade and widen bike lane
to Class IIB buffered or Class IV
separated bikeway.
$335,000 County
School Profiles 304
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
RSJH008 Rogge Rd Reports of speeding.
C onsider traffic-calming
measures between San Juan
Grade Rd and Rancho San Juan
High School, such as lane width
reduction.
$77,880 County
RSJH009
Russell Rd from
North Main St to
San Juan Grade
Rd
Route to high school and
Gavilan View Middle.
Sidewalk gaps on both
sides of the street. No
bicycle facilities present.
Install sidewalk or pedestrian
path to ensure continuous
sidewalk on one or both sides of
the street. Add Class I shared-use
path or protected two-way bike
facility along Russell Rd (south
side has few driveways).
$1,320,000 County/city
RSJH010 San Juan Grade
Rd
Key pedestrian route
to three schools. No
sidewalks.
Construct sidewalks along
segments where no sidewalk
exists between Russell Rd and
Rogge Village Way. Consider
shared-use path for bicycles.
Install traffic calming, including
narrowed travel lanes.
$750,000 County
RSJH011
San Juan Grade
Rd from Boronda
Rd to Russell Rd
Key pedestrian route
to high school. Missing
sidewalk.
Construct sidewalk on both sides
of street. $910,000 City
RSJH012
San Juan Grade
Rd at Penzance
and Cornwall
Pedestrian route to the
three schools. Reports of
speeding and of drivers
not respecting students
in the crosswalk.
Construct curb extensions with
ADA ramps, and install highvisibility crosswalks across San Juan Rd and on both sides of
Penzance and Cornwall. Include
rectangular rapid flashing beacon
and median pedestrian refuge for
San Juan Grade Rd crossing.
$826,000 County
RSJH013 School driveways Conflict point between
pedestrians and vehicles.
Install high-visibility crosswalks
across school driveways. $16,000 School
RSJH014 Natividad Rd No bike or pedestrian
facilities on Natividad Rd.
When development is
constructed, install bike lanes and
8-foot sidewalks on both sides of
street, as outlined in West Area
Specific Plan.
$1,200,800 City
School Profiles 305
ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY
Roosevelt Elementary is located in central Salinas
and draws most of its students from the surrounding
neighborhoods (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Roosevelt parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September 2020, and 42 surveys
were received.The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 46, below.
Figure 46. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
The bus drop-off location makes it difficult to see
families who are crossing Capitol St at Gabilan
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
621
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
88.7%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
70%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 42 SURVEY RESPONSES)
37 DISTANCE %
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
CROSSING
GUARDS
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
School Profiles 306
Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Salinas City Elementary School District,Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Roosevelt Elementary
Students
Public LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles 110 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 201 students≤ 1/2 miles: 231 students School Profiles 307
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Roosevelt Elementary is located on Capitol
Street, a two-lane roadway near downtown
Salinas with parking on both sides. Capitol
Street is very congested before and after school.
• There is no drop-off loop or parent parking lot
on the school campus. There is a parking lot on
the south side of campus that is reserved for
staff and is access controlled.
• Bus drop-off takes place adjacent to the school
campus on Capitol Street.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Capitol
Street and Central Avenue near the school.
• There are standard yellow crosswalks on all legs
of the intersection of Central Avenue and
Capitol Street.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk with
rectangular rapid flashing beacons across West
Alisal Street at Capitol Street.
• There are curb ramps in place at intersections
around the school.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II buffered bicycle lanes on West
Alisal Street, south of the school.
• There are no bicycle facilities on Central Avenue,
Capitol Street, or other residential roadways
near the school.
Curb extensions, street trees, and bike lane or bike boulevard treatments are recommended for Central Ave
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 308 ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Roosevelt Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 309
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
RE001 Capitol St at
school frontage
No drop-off loop on
campus, limited parking
available.
Enforce loading zones at school
frontage on Capitol Street, and
add loading zone on an adjacent
side street like Central Avenue.
$1,700 City/school
RE002 Capitol St at
Central Ave
Reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians in
the crosswalk.
Install curb extensions and highvisibility crosswalks. $216,000 City RE003 Central Ave No bicycle facilities near
school.
Conduct feasibility study for bike
lanes or bike boulevard. Consider
expanding sidewalk adjacent
to Central Park to create Class I
shared-use path.
$93,000 City
RE004 Central Ave Key pedestrian route to
school.
Consider curb extensions at
intersections with Homestead
Ave, Lorimer St, West St, Riker St,
and Capitol St. Extend downtown
lighting along Central. Consider
curb extensions with pedestrian
refuge island at Central/Villa.
Install street trees where feasible.
$1,518,000 City
RE005 Gabilan St Pedestrian route to
school.
Consider curb extensions and
traffic calming on Gabilan Street
if requested and supported by
neighborhood residents.
$961,000 City
RE006 Capitol St at
Gabilan St
Pedestrians crossing
here, limited visibility
due to current bus stop
location.
Conduct stop warrant at
intersection. If stop is warranted,
install marked crosswalk and shift
school bus loading zone to the
south to increase visibility at the
corner.
$14,700 City
School Profiles 310
SALINAS HIGH
Salinas High is located near old town Salinas
and draws most students from the surrounding
neighborhoods (see map on the following page). Some
students live in east Salinas and cross Highway 101 to
get to school.
PARENT SURVEY
Salinas High parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 57 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 47, below.
Figure 47. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. An all-way stop warrant evaluation is recommended for the intersection of Riker St at Giel St
GRADE LEVELS
9-12
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
2608
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
50.6%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
42%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 57 SURVEY RESPONSES)
9%
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND
CROSSINGS
DISTANCE
School Profiles 311 Salinas Safe Routes to School Plan
McFadden Rd
Armstrong Rd Armstrong Rd
Blanco Rd
Salinas River
Salinas River
G17
Reservation Rd
Castroville Rd
Castroville Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Davis Rd Davis Rd
Salinas River
Foster Rd
Reservation Rd
Davis Rd
183
Boronda Rd
Madison Ln
Fontes Ln
El Rancho Way
W Rossi St
Sloat Dr
Post Dr
Adams St
Victor St
N Davis Rd
Larkin St
Colton Dr
N Davis Rd
El Camino Real
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Boronda
Lemos Ave
Vil la St
Clark St
Fairfax Dr
Central Ave
Carmelita Dr
Homestead Ave
W Rossi St
Park St
Nacional St
West St
A r cher St
W Acacia St
Via Maria
San Simeon Dr
Marion Ave
St Ann Dr
Bruce Ave Lorimer St
W Market St
W Alisal St
Castroville Rd
Davis Rd
Davis Rd
Hartnell College
Los Olivos Dr Iverson St
Chaucer Dr
Riker St
San Vincente Ave
Dickens Dr
Palma Dr
Kipling St
W Acacia St
Capistrano Dr
Hitchcock Rd
W Alisal St
W Blanco Rd
Blanco Rd
68 68
Foster Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Monterey Salinas Hwy
Springtown
Main Canal
Tyler St
Iris Dr
Rico St
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
Clay St
Griffin St
Winham St
W Rossi St
Rianda St
Rico St
Riker St Riker St
Central Ave
California St
Harvest St
Auburn St West St
Main St
Pajaro St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Lincoln Ave
Sun St
W San Luis St
Work St
E Market St
W Market St
N Main St
Front St
Salinas St S Main St
Sherwood Dr
John St
W Alisal St
Monterey St
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Salinas
Padre Dr Geil S
W
t
Acacia St San Marcos Dr
Lang St
Pajaro St
E Acacia St
W Romie Ln
California St
Maple St
Carmel Ave
E Romie Ln
Grove St
Harvest St
Sierra Dr
Hawthorne St
Oak St
Orange Dr
San Angelo Dr
Willow St
Chestnut St
S Main St S Main St
Abbott St
E Blanco Rd
S Main St
Claremont
Manor
Neighborhood
Park
Salinas Valley
Memorial
Hospital
68 Hunter Ln
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Ali sal Creek
Oregon St
Fremont St
Eucalyptus Dr
N Madeira Ave
Towt St
Roosevelt St
N Hebbron Ave
St Edwards Ave
Kings St
Kern St
Kern St
Fir st Ave
Acosta Plz
Meadow Dr
N Pearl St
S Filice St John St
E Market St
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
S Sanborn Rd
E Alisal St
El Camino Real
Cesar E Chavez
Community Park
Alisal Creek
101
101
Merrill St
Airport Blvd
Schilling Pl
Vertin Ave
Work St
Blanco Cir
Terven Ave
Johnson Pl
Growers St
Brunken Ave
Harkins Rd
Abbott St
S Sanborn Rd
El Camino Real
Ioof Cemetery
Spreckels
Junction
Hunter Ln
Merrill St
Nutting St
Dayton St
Harkins Rd Harkins Rd
Pacific Ave
Antigua Ave
Atlantic St
Eagle Dr
Rider Ave
N Sanborn Rd
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Towt St
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
E Boronda Rd
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Freedom Pkwy
Natividad Creek
Park
Sycamore Rd
Del Monte Ave
Second Ave
Margaret St
Toro Ave Skyway Blvd
First Ave
Cross Ave
Kimmel St
Paloma Ave
Green St
Mae Ave
Dallas Ave
Bardin Rd
E Alisal St
E Laurel Dr Williams Rd Williams Rd
Alisal Rd
Closter Park
Alisal
Alisal Creek
101
Moffett St
Airport Blvd
Skyway Blvd
Salinas
Fairways Golf
Course
Hartnell
College-Alisal
Campus
Salinas
Municipal
Airport
Alisal Creek
Alisal Creek
Harris Rd
El Camino Real El Camino Real Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community StudentsSalinas High SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity CentersParksSalinas Boundary Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 251 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 857 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 969 students
School Profiles 312
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Salinas High is located on South Main Street,
a five-lane state highway with no on-street
parking. South Main Street is congested before
and after school.
• There is a large one-way drop-off lane and
parking lot on the school campus. The parking
lot on the east side of campus is open to staff
and students and the parking lot on the south
side, off Geil Street, is reserved for staff only. Left turns are permitted out of the school parking lot.
• At the time of the audit, school staff helped
control traffic in the drop-off loop.
• Bus drop-off takes place in the drop-off loop.
• There is a back entrance to campus on Lang
Street at Capitol Street, and loading zone
signage is in place adjacent to the school.
• As of the writing of this plan, the speed limit in
front of the school is 25 miles per hour.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are complete sidewalks on both sides of
South Main Street and other roadways near
the school.
• There are yellow crosswalks on all legs of the
signalized intersection of South Main Street and
the school loop exit (Avenue B).
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk with
rectangular rapid flashing beacons across South
Main Street and Maple Street to the north of the
school driveway exit.
• There is a marked crosswalk across South Main
Street at Clay Street.
• There are updated curb ramps at intersections
on South Main Street near the school.
• At the time of the audit, there were no crossing
guards stationed around the school.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on South Main
Street or other roadways near the school.
School staff reported conflicts between students crossing and drivers exiting the school drop-off loop School Profiles 313
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND SALINAS HIGH The following table lists recommendations for Salinas High, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 314
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
SH001
Riker St from
Alisal St to Blanco
Rd
No bicycle facilities
near school. Reports of
speeding.
Install traffic calming, such as
chicanes and Class III bikeway. $2,142,000 City
SH002 Clay St from Main
St to Iverson St
No bicycle facilities near
school.
Install traffic calming, such as
chicanes or mid-block medians,
and install bike boulevard and
street trees.
$1,102,200 City
SH003 Main St from
John St to Geil St
Main St crossings are
principal’s top concern.
Long crossing distances,
reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians.
Install Complete Streets
improvements, such as raised
median. If Caltrans is unable to
construct improvements, consider
relinquishing Main St to city of
Salinas. Consider speed feedback
signs on either side of school.
Consider lane width reduction to
match downtown section of Main
St.
$94,200 Caltrans
SH004 Main St at
Chestnut St
Reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians.
Conflicts between
drivers turning left and
pedestrians crossing.
Pedestrians have to wait
a long time for walk
signal.
Adjust signal operations to
separate pedestrian and vehicle
traffic. Consider protected
pedestrian phase, leading
pedestrian interval, and no right
on red.
$200,850 Caltrans
SH005 Main St at Maple
St
Reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians.
Pedestrians have to wait
a long time for walk
signal.
Consider removal of left-turn
pocket and installation of
pedestrian median island.
Conduct analysis for pedestrian
hybrid beacon or rectangular
rapid flashing beacon in center
median.
$141,320 Caltrans
SH006
Main St at
Winham St/Clay
St
Crosswalk does not
comply with city policy.
Consider crosswalk removal: This
crosswalk is less than 300 ft from
John St. Work with community to
determine need for left turns from
Winham and Clay, and consider
right-turn-only.
$15,040 Caltrans /city
SH007 Giel St from Main
St to Iverson St
No bicycle facilities near
school.
Install traffic calming to create
bike boulevard with striping and
signage.
$918,000 City
SH008 Riker St at Lang
St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions, and
update existing crosswalks
to high-visibility. Evaluate for
additional pedestrian facilities
per city policy.
$226,000 City
School Profiles 315
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
SH009 Riker St at Giel St
Key pedestrian route
to high school and
Washington Middle
School. Drivers were
confused and were
stopping even though
there was no stop sign.
Conduct an all-way stop warrant
evaluation. Install curb extensions
and update crosswalks to highvisibility. Evaluate for additional pedestrian facilities per city
policy.
$231,000 City
SH010 Riker St at W
Acacia St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions, yellow
high-visibility crosswalks, and
school crossing signage assembly
A.
$219,400 City
SH011
Chestnut St
from Clay St to
California St
No bicycle facilities near
school.
Install traffic calming to create
bike boulevard with striping and
signage. Connect to future Class
IV bikeway on Pajaro St.
$550,800 City
SH012
Lincoln Ave
from Alisal St to
Avenue A
No bicycle facilities near
school.
Install Class IIB buffered bike
lanes. $236,070 City
SH013 Salinas St from
Alisal St to Clay St
No bicycle facilities near
school. Install Class III bikeway. $14,700 City
SH014 Lincoln Ave at
Clay St
Offset intersection. Key
pedestrian route to
school.
Consider removing slip lane and
reconstructing intersection. Install
high-visibility crosswalk and
construct curb extensions.
$466,000 City
SH015
Acacia St from
Main St to Alisal
St
No bicycle facilities near
school. Consider bike boulevard. $1,978,800 City
SH016 Clay St at Church
St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk and install curb
extension across Church St.
$108,000 City
SH017
Pajaro St from
Market St to
Romie Ln
No bicycle facilities near
school. Install Class IV bikeway. $6,522,660 City
SH018 Clay St at Cayuga
St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Construct curb extensions to
narrow crossing distance on
Cayuga St, and install highvisibility crosswalk across Cayuga. $218,000 City
School Profiles 316
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
SH019 Clay St at Capitol
St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Consider pedestrian facility,
per city policy. Construct curb
extensions to narrow crossing
distance on Capitol St, and install
high-visibility crosswalk across
Capitol.
$218,000 City
SH020 Clay St at Riker St Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions and yellow
high-visibility crosswalks on
all legs of the intersection, and
school crossing signage assembly
A. Coordinate any changes with
Salinas Fire Department.
$219,400 City
SH021 Clay St at West St Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions and yellow
high-visibility crosswalk across
West.
$104,000 City
SH022 Cayuga St
Traffic congestion
at current drop-off
locations.
Add access to school campus. $8,500 School
SH023 Geil St at Capitol
St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions and yellow
high-visibility crosswalk across
Capitol.
$104,000 City
School Profiles 317
SANTA RITA ELEMENTARY
Santa Rita Elementary is located in north Salinas
and draws most of its students from the surrounding
neighborhoods (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Santa Rita Elementary parents were asked to complete
a bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking and biking to school in September 2020, and 5 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 48, below.
Figure 48. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. There are several back entrances to Santa Rita that could be opened to reduce traffic in front of the
school
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
660
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
81.3%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
86%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 5 SURVEY RESPONSES)
20%
VIOLENCE OR
CRIME
TIME
DISTANCE
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
CONVENIENCE
OF DRIVING
CHILD’S
BEFORE OR
AFTER-SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
School Profiles 318
Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Santa Rita Unified School District,Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Santa Rita ElementaryPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 11 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 18 students
≤ 1/2 miles: 550 students
School Profiles 319
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Santa Rita Elementary is located on Santa Rita
Street, a two-lane residential roadway with
parking on both sides. Santa Rita Street is very
congested before and after school.
• There is a drop-off area and parking lot on
the school campus. The parking lot is shared
between staff and visitors. Left turns are
permitted out of the school parking lot.
• The morning sun creates visibility problems for
eastbound traffic on E Bolivar Street at certain
times of the year.
• Special education bus drop-off takes place
on the small bus loop on the north side of the
school campus.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Santa Rita
Street and other roadways near the school.
There is broken sidewalk on Jackson Street on
the backside of campus.
• There is a high-visibility crosswalk on Santa
Rita Street at Lamar Street, south of the school
driveway entrance.
• There is a marked yellow crosswalk on East
Bolivar Street at Santa Rita Street.
• There are curb ramps at the intersections of
Santa Rita Street at Bolivar Street and Lamar
Street. There are no curb ramps at other
intersections surrounding the school.
• There are several pedestrian entrances to the
school campus from Swaner Avenue, Jackson
Street, and East Bolivar Street that were closed
at the time of the school audit.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Santa Rita
Street or other roadways near the school.
• The nearest bicycle facility is Class II bike lanes
on Boronda Road.
Pedestrian improvements are recommended for the intersection of Bolivar St and N Main St
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 320 SANTA RITA ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Santa Rita Elementary, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 321
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
SRE001 E Bolivar St at
Santa Rita St
Key pedestrian route to
school. Visibility issues
for drivers approaching
the intersection, reports
of speeding.
Update curb ramps, update
existing crosswalk to highvisibility, and add high-visibility crossing on Santa Rita. Consider
curb extensions at this corner for
visibility. Conduct all-way stop
warrant analysis.
$139,000 City
SRE002 E Bolivar St No bicycle facilities near
school.
Consider bike boulevard with
traffic calming between Main
St and Van Buren Ave. Consider
street trees. Consider sidewalk
widening on south side to install
Class I shared-use path.
$1,099,800 City
SRE003 E Bolivar St Key pedestrian route to
school.
Construct curb ramps or curb
extensions along Bolivar for
sidewalk connectivity.
$969,000 City
SRE004 E Bolivar St at
Roundtree Dr
Potential to reduce
traffic on Santa Rita St
by opening additional
school entrances. Large
student population
in neighborhood off
Roundtree Ln.
Construct curb extensions, and
consider pedestrian facility,
per city policy, across Bolivar
St at Roundtree Dr to connect
to pedestrian path/bridge that
accesses the back of campus.
Open gate to campus during
morning and afternoon arrival
and departure times.
$110,000 City/school
SRE005 E Bolivar St at
Perez St Reports of speeding. Install traffic circle. $195,000 City SRE006 E Bolivar St at
Van Buren Ave
Key pedestrian route to
Santa Rita and Gavilan
View Middle.
Construct curb extensions,
curb ramps, and high-visibility
crossings at all three approaches.
$158,000 City
SRE007 Swaner Ave at
Pierce St
Potential to reduce
traffic on Santa Rita St
by opening additional
school entrances.
Construct curb ramps and raised
crossings on Swaner Ave at Pierce
St, to connect to pedestrian path
that accesses the back of campus.
Open gate to campus during
morning and afternoon arrival
and departure times.
$171,000 City/school
SRE008 Jackson St
Potential to reduce
traffic on Santa Rita St
by opening additional
school entrances. Broken
sidewalk.
Open gate to campus during
morning and afternoon arrival
and departure times. Reconstruct
sidewalk where buckling.
$133,500 City/school
SRE009 Santa Rita St at E
Lamar St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Construct curb extensions with
updated curb ramps, and stripe
high-visibility crossing onto
Lamar St at this corner.
$130,000 City
School Profiles 322
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
SRE010 North Main St at
E Lamar St
Uncontrolled crossing.
Roadway has higher
traffic volumes and
speeds.
Remove or upgrade crosswalk.
Direct pedestrians to Bolivar St
crossing.
$2,170 City
SRE011 E Bolivar St at N
Main St
Pedestrian route to
school. Longer crossing
distances.
Upgrade pedestrian heads to
include leading pedestrian
interval and countdown signal
heads.
$200,140 City
SRE012 Drainage parallel
to Sucre Court
Opportunity to provide
shared-use path. Could
provide partial route to
Rancho San Juan High.
Consider shared-use path
between North Main and Santa
Rita, potentially extending to
Russell Rd.
$130,000 City
SRE013 Santa Rita St No bicycle facilities near
school.
Consider bike boulevard with
traffic calming between Bolivar St
and Swaner Ave. Consider speed
cushions, curb extensions, and
street trees.
$666,400 City
SRE014 Swaner Ave at
Jackson St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Construct curb extensions,
curb ramps, and high visibility
crossings on Jackson St/Jackson
Circle. Replace faded street sign.
Repave or resurface cracked
pavement.
$310,550 City
SRE015 Swaner Ave No bicycle facilities near
school.
Consider bike boulevard with
traffic calming and speed
cushions between Santa Rita and
Van Buren. Update ADA ramps at
all intersections.
$1,042,600 City
School Profiles 323
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY
Sherwood is located in east Salinas and draws most of
its students from the surrounding neighborhoods (see
map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Sherwood parents were asked to complete a bilingual
survey about their attitudes toward walking and
biking to school in September of 2020, and 171
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 49, below.
Figure 49. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
High-visibility crosswalks were installed on E Alisal St as part of the temporary installation project
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
1001
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
93.8%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
93%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 171 SURVEY RESPONSES)
65%
MY CHILD
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG ROUTE
DISTANCE
School Profiles 324
Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Salinas City Elementary School District,Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Sherwood
Students
Public LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles 41 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 35 students≤ 1/2 miles: 899 students School Profiles 325
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Sherwood Elementary is located on South
Wood Street, a two-lane residential roadway
with parking on both sides. South Wood Street
connects to freeway on- and off-ramps, and
freeway traffic combined with school traffic
lead to very congested conditions before and
after school.
• There are three parking lots on the school
campus. The small lot on the northwest side and
the larger lot on the southeast side are reserved
for staff. Some school drop-off takes place in the
larger lot on the southwest side, which is open
to parents and visitors. Left turns are permitted
out of the school parking lot.
• Bus drop-off for special-needs students takes
place in the parent parking lot.
• The school is working on plans for a drop-off
loop on the school campus.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of
South Wood Street and other roadways near
the school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk across
South Wood Street at Santa Maria Street, to the
north of the school driveway exit.
• There are yellow high-visibility crosswalks on
three legs of the intersection of South Wood
Street and East Alisal Street, which were
installed during the temporary demonstration
project on East Alisal Street.
• There are yellow crosswalks on two legs of
the intersection of South Wood Street and
John Street.
• There are curb ramps in place at intersections on
South Wood Street and East Alisal Street.
There are no curb ramps at intersections on
John Street.
• There are back entrances to campus from South
Pearl Street and Hebbron Avenue, which were
not open at the time of the school audit.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on South Wood
Street or East Alisal Street.
• The nearest bicycle facility is Class II bicycle
lanes on John Street.
The intersection of S Wood St and John St is a key pedestrian route to school and a freeway on-ramp
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 326 SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Sherwood, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 327
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
SE001 School frontage
Traffic congestion on S
Wood St and in school
parking lot before and
after school.
Develop drop-off loop in
accordance with existing plans.
Consider a rolling drop-off
program more efficient drop-off
and pick-up in the loop.
N/A School
SE002
S Wood St from E
Alisal St to John
St
Reports of speeding and
U-turns in front of the
school.
Consider a hardened centerline
to prevent U-turns, and trafficcalming measures. Consider curb extensions, chicanes, and speed
humps.
$846,400 City
SE003 S Wood St at
John St
Key pedestrian route
to school and location
of freeway on-ramp.
Reports of drivers not
yielding to pedestrians.
Upgrade crosswalks to high
visibility and install ADA curb
ramp at northwest corner. Install
school assembly signage and
advance stop bars ahead of
crosswalks. Consider roundabout
or consider removing painted
pork chop islands and installing
curb extensions to shorten
crossing distances.
$209,850 City/ Caltrans
SE004 S Wood St near
John St Reports of speeding. Move speed limit sign to more visible location. $850 City SE005
Williams Rd
at Freedom
Parkway
Large numbers of
vehicles and pedestrians
at intersection. Reports
of drivers not respecting
pedestrians.
Conduct intersection control
evaluation analysis to study
installation of roundabout.
Upgrade to yellow high-visibility
crosswalks.
$60,000 City
SE006 S Wood St at
Santa Maria St
Reports of speeding
and drivers not yielding
to pedestrians in the
crosswalk.
Install planned rectangular rapid
flashing beacon and yellow highvisibility crosswalk. Consider continuous sidewalk.
$48,500 City
SE007 S Wood St at San
Benito St
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Consider continuous sidewalk
across San Benito $4,500 City
SE008
Smith St from E
Alisal St to James
St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Conduct stop warrant evaluations
at all intersections. $5,000 City
SE009 &
SE010 S Hebbron Ave
Traffic congestion on S
Wood St and in school
parking lot before and
after school.
Open back entrance to school
at Hebbron or Pearl St or both.
Install curb extensions and ramps
along Hebbron.
$1,203,500 School/city
School Profiles 328
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
SE012 John St
Key pedestrian route
to school, traffic
congestion.
Install curb extensions and ramps
along John St. $3,102,000 City
SE013
E Alisal St from
Kern St to Skyway
Blvd
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
speeding and drivers not
yielding to pedestrians in
the crosswalk.
Consider protected pedestrian
phases at Alisal/Woods,
Alisal/Madeira, and
Alisal/Hebbron. Install highvisibility crosswalks and
protected bike lanes as outlined
in Alisal Vibrancy Plan.
$1,480,680 City
School Profiles 329
UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY
University Park is located in southwest Salinas and
draws students from the surrounding neighborhoods
and the area near the Rossi Rico Parkway (see map on
the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
University Park parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in September of 2020, and 15
surveys were received. The full survey report is in
Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 50, below.
Figure 50. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. Opening the school entrance at Palma Dr is recommended to reduce traffic in front of the school
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
522
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
78.7%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
52%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 15 SURVEY RESPONSES)
0%
SIDEWALKS
OR
PATHWAYS
DISTANCE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
School Profiles 330
Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Salinas City Elementary School District,Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
University Park
Students
Public LibrariesCommunity Centers
ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles 173 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 87 students≤ 1/2 miles: 183 students School Profiles 331
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• University Park Elementary is located on West
Acacia Street, a two-lane residential roadway
with parking on both sides. West Acacia Street is
very congested before and after school.
• There is a drop-off area and small parking lot in
the front of the school campus. There is also a
parking lot on the south side of campus that is
reserved for staff. Left turns are permitted out of
the school parking lot.
• Bus drop-off takes place on Acacia Street to the
west of the drop-off loop.
• The morning sun creates visibility problems for
eastbound traffic at certain times of the year.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of West Acacia
Street and other roadways near the school.
• There is a high-visibility yellow crosswalk across
University Avenue at Palma Drive on the south
side of the school. There is an alternate entrance
to campus at this location which was closed at
the time of the audit.
• There are marked crosswalks on three legs of the
intersection of West Acacia Street and University
Avenue. One leg of the intersection has highvisibility striping. There was a crossing guard at this intersection before and after school at the
time of the audit.
• There are missing curb ramps at many
intersections surrounding the school.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on West Acacia
Street or other residential roadways near
the school.
• The nearest bicycle facilities are Class II bicycle
lanes on South Davis Road and buffered bicycle
lanes on West Alisal Street.
Curb extensions are recommended at the intersection of University Ave and W Acacia St
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 332 UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for University Park, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 333
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
UPE001 School frontage
Students crossing
without marked
crosswalk. Congestion in
school drop-off loop.
Consider pedestrian facility, per city
policy, across West Acacia St near
location of sidewalk and access
route into campus. Propose dropoff along school side of W Acacia.
Construct pedestrian access path or
sidewalk across lawn and parking
lot.
$32,920 City/school
UPE002 W Acacia St at
University Ave
Key pedestrian route
to school. Reports of
speeding.
Refresh crosswalks with highvisibility striping, construct curb extensions and ramps.
$251,000 City
UPE003 University Ave
at Ambrose Dr
Pedestrian route to
school.
Evaluate for all-way stop. Install
curb extensions. $105,000 City
UPE004 University Ave
at Palma Dr
Congestion on W Acacia
St and in school loop.
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Open gate to campus at this
location. Provide crossing guard
before and after school. Upgrade
crosswalks and construct curb
extensions and ramps. Consider
rectangular rapid flashing beacon.
$178,500 City/school
UPE005 University Ave
at Central Ave
Reports of speeding on
University Ave
Conduct feasibility study for
neighborhood traffic circle. $195,000 City
UPE006
University Ave
from Ambrose
Dr to Archer St
Reports of speeding
on University Ave. No
bicycle facilities near
school.
Consider bike boulevards and curb
extensions at all intersections. $2,766,800 City
UPE007
Ambrose Dr
from Carmelita
Dr to University
Ave
No bicycle facilities near
school.
Consider bike boulevards and curb
extensions at intersections. $524,400 City
UPE008
Columbia Ave
from W Acacia
St to Hastings
Ave
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions at all
intersections. $500,000 City
UPE009
Palma at
Carmelita Dr
San Simeon Dr
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extensions at
intersections of Carmelita Drive and
San Simeon Dr.
$400,000 City
UPE010
W Acacia from
Davis Rd to S
Main St
Reports of speeding on
Acacia St. No bicycle
facilities near school.
Consider bike boulevard and curb
extensions at Camden Way. $3,117,200 City
UPE011 Central Ave No bicycle facilities near
school.
Conduct feasibility study for bike
lanes or bike boulevard. Consider
expanding sidewalk adjacent
to Central Park to create Class I
shared-use path.
$93,000 City
School Profiles 334
VIRGINIA ROCCA BARTON ELEMENTARY
Barton Elementary is located in east Salinas and
draws most of its students from the surrounding
neighborhoods south of the school (see map on the
following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Barton elementary parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 36 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 51, below.
Figure 51. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school.
The Creek Trail near the school is used by families,
but parents expressed concerns about maintenance
and lack of lighting
GRADE LEVELS
K-6
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
799
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
82.6%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
76%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 36 SURVEY RESPONSES)
57%
WEATHER OR
CLIMATE
MY CHILD
ALREADY
WALKED OR
BIKED TO/FROM
SCHOOL
DISTANCE
AMOUNT OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
SAFETY OF
INTERSECTIONS
AND CROSSINGS
School Profiles 335 Data Source: City of Salinas Open Data Portal, Alisal Union School District, Transportation Agency for Monterey County Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community 0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
Legend
Students
Virginia Rocca Barton SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity Centers ParksSalinas Boundary
Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
1 ≥ 2 miles: 27 students1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 53 students≤ 1/2 mile: 554 students School Profiles 336
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Barton Elementary is located on Las Casitas
Drive, a residential two-lane roadway that
connects east Salinas and north Salinas.
• There is a school drop-off loop that is heavily
congested before school. A median separates
the drop-off lane from the school parking lot.
• There is another parking lot on the south side of
campus that is designated for staff parking only.
• Left turns out of the school drop-off loop
are allowed.
• Buses drop off on Las Casitas Drive just north of
the school driveway.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There is continuous sidewalk on both sides
of Las Casitas Drive between Constitution
Boulevard and Rider Avenue.
• There is a standard yellow crosswalk across Las
Casitas Drive at the driveway entrance of school.
The school has had crossing guards at this
crosswalk in the past, but it has been difficult to
maintain them due to safety issues and abuse
from frustrated parents.
• There is a bicycle and pedestrian pathway
adjacent to the school campus that extends
from Freedom Parkway at the north end and
East Laurel Drive on the south end. The path is
connected to the school via a short segment of
Las Casitas Drive.
• Pedestrians were observed walking to and from
school along Ranchero Drive after dismissal.
Sidewalks were frequently blocked by cars
parked in driveways.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are Class II bike lanes on Las Casitas
Drive between Constitution Boulevard and the
school driveway, and buffered bicycle lanes on
Constitution Boulevard.
• There are no bicycle facilities on other
residential roadways near the school.
A raised crosswalk is recommended across Las Casitas Dr in front of the school to slow traffic and connect trail segments
School Profiles 337
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND BARTON ELEMENTARY The following table lists recommendations for Barton, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 338
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
VRBE001
Creek Trail from
Freedom Parkway
to Garner Ave
Current trail has broken
pavement, no lighting,
and no barriers between
path and creek. Parents
have concerns about
safety of path.
Improve Creek Trail to a shareduse path with pedestrian-scale lighting.
$1,260,000 City
VRBE002 Las Casitas Dr at
school entrance
Heavy traffic congestion
at intersection before
and after school. Reports
of speeding at other
times of day.
Install raised crosswalk on Las
Casitas to improve Creek Trail
crossing to school. Include bike
trail signage to remind cyclists to
disembark and walk their bicycles
across intersection.
$146,700 City
VRBE003
Creek Trail
entrance at
Ranchero Dr
Steep informal
connection between
path and neighborhood.
Improve Creek Trail access with
stairs or graded switchback.
Include pedestrian lighting.
$1,478,400 City
VRBE004
Las Casitas Dr
from Constitution
Blvd to school
entrance
Heavy traffic congestion
before and after school.
Reports of speeding at
other times of day.
Upgrade bike lane to Class IIB
buffered bike lane. $170,280 City
VRBE005
Las Casitas Dr
from Constitution
Blvd to school
entrance
Drivers queueing in bike
lane to enter school
campus.
Install bike lane treatments in
conflict zones. $4,500 City
VRBE006 Las Casitas Dr at
school entrance
Heavy traffic congestion
at intersection before
and after school. Reports
of speeding at other
times of day.
Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk yellow on all legs of the
intersection.
$8,000 City
VRBE007
Las Casitas Dr
from south of
school entrance
to Creek Trail
Connection between
Creek Trail and school is
too narrow to be shared
by people walking and
biking.
Narrow travel lanes to construct
wider sidewalk. $18,200 City
VRBE008
School parking
lot at teacher
parking lot entry
Potential conflicts
between people walking
and teachers entering
staff parking lot
Install raised crosswalk to help
delineate pedestrian travel and
discourage parents from entering
staff lot.
$145,000 School
VRBE009 School parking
lot
Heavy traffic congestion
in school parking lot.
Modify design to limit to circular
pattern. Remove arrows pointing
to the northern parking lot and
the small lane between angled
parking to reduce conflicts.
Vehicles should stay in line even
after dropping off students;
consider flexible posts to create
drop-off lane.
$6,000 School
School Profiles 339
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
VRBE010
Off-site parking
lot for Natividad
Creek Park at Las
Casitas Dr
Heavy traffic congestion
in school parking lot.
Develop park-and-walk or parkand-ride program to encourage parent drop-off in parking lot.
Use Creek Trail for trips between
parking lot and school.
N/A
School/TAMC/
nonprofit
partners
VRBE011 Las Casitas Dr at
Constitution Blvd
Pedestrian route to
school and connection
between Creek Trail and
neighborhood.
Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk yellow across Las
Casitas Dr.
$5,000 City
VRBE012 Las Casitas Dr at
Ranchero Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Consider raised crosswalk, and
upgrade to high visibility yellow
crosswalk across Ranchero Dr.
$149,000 City
VRBE013 Las Casitas Dr at
Pino Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Consider raised crosswalk, and
upgrade to high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Pino Way.
$149,000 City
VRBE014 Las Casitas Dr at
Nogal Dr
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Consider raised crosswalk, and
upgrade to high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Nogal Dr.
$149,000 City
VRBE015 Las Casitas Dr at
Alamo Way
Key pedestrian route to
school.
Consider raised crosswalk, and
upgrade to high-visibility yellow
crosswalk across Alamo Way.
$149,000 City
VRBE016 Las Casitas Dr at
Rider Ave
Pedestrian route to
Barton and Frank Paul
Elementary Schools.
Install high-visibility yellow
crosswalk and construct curb
extensions across Las Casitas Dr.
$104,000 City
VRBE017
Las Casitas Dr
from Constitution
Blvd to Rider Ave
Reports of speeding
and low visibility at
intersections.
Install traffic calming. Perform
intersection sight distance
analysis, and consider installation
of red curb at intersections.
$520,600 City
VRBE018 Rider Ave at Del
Monte Ave
Pedestrian route to
Barton and Frank Paul
elementary schools.
Upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk. Review to see if curb
extensions can be constructed
given potential conflict with bus
stop locations.
$108,000 City
VRBE019 Del Monte Ave at
Pacific Ave
Pedestrian route to
Barton and Frank Paul
elementary schools.
Upgrade to high-visibility white
crosswalk, and install curb ramps. $68,000 City
VRBE020
Del Monte Ave
from Rider Ave to
Williams Rd
Key route to Barton and
Frank Paul elementary
schools and La Paz
Middle. No bicycle
facilities.
Install traffic calming (chicanes,
removal of parking at those
locations), sharrow markings, and
bike route signage.
$1,815,600 City
School Profiles 340
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
VRBE021
Constitution Blvd
from Freedom
Parkway to
Manchester Cir
Four-lane roadway with
higher traffic volumes
and speeds.
Upgrade bike lane to Class IV
separated bikeway. $3,885,840 City
VRBE022 Atlantic St at Del
Monte Ave
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extension, and
upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk on Atlantic St.
$104,000 City
VRBE023 Atlantic St at Cari
Court
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extension, and
upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk on Cari Court.
$104,000 City
VRBE024 Nogal Drive at
Caoba Way
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extension, and
upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk on Caoba Way.
$104,000 City
VRBE025 Nogal Drive at
Nogal Circle
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extension, and
upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk on Nogal Circle.
$104,000 City
VRBE026 Nogal Drive at
Amarillo Way
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install curb extension, and
upgrade to high-visibility
crosswalk on Amarillo Way.
$104,000 City
VRBE027
Ranchero Dr from
Las Casitas Dr to
La Honda Ct
Reports of speeding.
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents.
$244,800 City
VRBE028 Las Casitas Dr at
School Entrance
Heavy traffic congestion
at intersection before
and after school.
Consider location for crossing
guard. N/A School
School Profiles 341
WASHINGTON MIDDLE
Washington Middle is located in south Salinas and
draws students from the southwest corner of the city,
east Salinas, and rural areas outside of city limits (see map on the following page).
PARENT SURVEY
Washington parents were asked to complete a
bilingual survey about their attitudes toward walking
and biking to school in March 2021, and 55 surveys
were received. The full survey report is in Appendix B.
The survey asked parents to select the most important
factors in whether they allow their children to walk or bike to school. The top issues for parents are listed in Figure 52, below.
Figure 52. Parents’ top concerns about letting
children walk or bike to and from school. A traffic circle or curb extensions are recommended for the intersection of Homestead Ave, Clay St, and
Iverson St
GRADE LEVELS
7-8
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
1280
STUDENTS QUALIFYING FOR
FREE OR REDUCED MEALS
72%
STUDENTS RESIDING WITHIN
1 MILE OF SCHOOL
39%
STUDENTS USING ACTIVE
TRANSPORTATION
(BASED ON 55 SURVEY RESPONSES)
18%
SPEED OF
TRAFFIC
ALONG
ROUTE
CHILD’S
BEFORE OR
AFTER-SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES
CONVENIENCE
OF DRIVING
TIME
DISTANCE
School Profiles 342
SalinasSafe Routesto School Plan
McFadden Rd
Armstrong Rd Armstrong Rd
Blanco Rd
Salinas River Salinas River
Salinas River
G17
Reservation Rd
Castroville Rd
Castroville Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Blanco Rd
Davis Rd Davis Rd
Salinas River
Foster Rd
Reservation Rd
Davis Rd
183
Boronda Rd
Madison Ln
Fontes Ln
El Rancho Way
W Rossi St
Sloat Dr
Post Dr
Cherokee Dr
Adams St
Victor St
N Davis Rd
Larkin St
Colton Dr
N Davis Rd
El Camino Real
Rossi-Rico
Parkway
Boronda
Lemos Ave
Vil la St
Clark St
Fairfax Dr
Central Ave
Carmelita Dr
Homestead Ave
W Rossi St
Park St
Nacional St
West St
A r cher St
W Acacia St
Via Maria
San Simeon Dr
Marion Ave
St Ann Dr
Bruce Ave Lorimer St
W Market St
W Alisal St
Castroville Rd
Davis Rd
Davis Rd
Hartnell College
Los Olivos Dr Iverson St
Chaucer Dr
Riker St
San Vincente Ave
Dickens Dr
Palma Dr
Kipling St
W Acacia St
Capistrano Dr
Hitchcock Rd
W Alisal St
W Blanco Rd
Blanco Rd
68 Foster Rd
Hitchcock Rd
Monterey Salinas Hwy
Springtown
Main Canal
Tyler St
Iris Dr
Noice Dr
Rico St
Crescent Way
Linwood Dr
Hyde St
Polk St
Monroe St
Tapadero St
Reata St
Rosarita Dr
Larkin St
Tulane St
Lupin Dr
Parkside St
Granada Ave
St Francis Way
Loma Dr
W Laurel Dr
N Main St
Sherwood Dr
E Laurel Dr
El Camino Real
Sherwood Park
Main Canal
Martella St
Clay St
Griffin St
Winham St
W Rossi St
Rianda St
Rico St
Riker St Riker St
Central Ave
California St
Harvest St
Auburn St West St
Main St
Pajaro St
W Lake St
Bridge St
Lincoln Ave
Sun St
W San Luis St
Work St
E Market St
W Market St
N Main St
Front St
Salinas St S Main St
Sherwood Dr
John St
W Alisal St
Monterey St
Exposition
Grounds
Amtrak-Salinas
Salinas
Padre Dr
Geil S
W
t
Acacia St San Marcos Dr
Lang St
Pajaro St
E Acacia St
W Romie Ln
California St
Maple St
Carmel Ave
E Romie Ln
Grove St
Harvest St
Sierra Dr
Hawthorne St
Oak St
Orange Dr
San Angelo Dr
Willow St
Chestnut St
S Main St S Main St
Abbott St
E Blanco Rd
S Main St
Claremont
Manor
Neighborhood
Park
Salinas Valley
Memorial
Hospital
68 Hunter Ln
Gabilan Creek
Natividad Creek
Ramona Ave
Tampico Ave Rainier Dr
Marin Ave
Trazado Ave
Constitution Blvd
Natividad Rd
Chinese Garden
Cemetery The First Tee of
Monterey
County Constitution
Soccer Fields
Natividad
Medical Center
Ali sal Creek
Oregon St
Fremont St
Eucalyptus Dr
Towt St
Roosevelt St
N Hebbron Ave
St Edwards Ave
Kings St
Kern St
Kern St
First Ave
Acosta Plz
Meadow Dr
N Pearl St
S Filice St John St
E Market St
N Sanborn Rd E Laurel Dr
S Sanborn Rd
E Alisal St
El Camino Real
Cesar E Chavez
Community Park
Alisal Creek
101
101
Merrill St
Airport Blvd
Schilling Pl
Vertin Ave
Work St
Blanco Cir
Terven Ave
Johnson Pl
Growers St
Brunken Ave
Harkins Rd
Abbott St
S Sanborn Rd
El Camino Real
Ioof Cemetery
Spreckels
Junction
Hunter Ln
Merrill St
Nutting St
Dayton St
Harkins Rd Harkins Rd
Pacific Ave
Atlantic St
Rider Ave
Alamo Way
Beacon Hill Dr
Garner Ave
Las Casitas Dr
Sunrise St
N Sanborn Rd N Sanborn Rd
Natividad Creek
Park
Sycamore Rd
Del Monte Ave
Second Ave
Margaret St
Toro Ave Skyway Blvd
First Ave
Cross Ave
Kimmel St
Paloma Ave
Green St
Mae Ave
Dallas Ave
Bardin Rd
E Alisal St
E Laurel Dr Williams Rd
Closter Park
Alisal
Alisal Creek
101
Moffett St
Airport Blvd
Skyway Blvd
Salinas
Fairways Golf
Course
Salinas
Municipal
Airport
Alisal Creek
Alisal Creek
Harris Rd
El Camino Real
Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community StudentsWashington Middle SchoolPublic LibrariesCommunity CentersParksSalinas Boundary Existing Bike Infrastructure
Bike PathBike LaneBike Route
0 0.5 1 2 Miles
≤ 1/2 miles: 107 students
1/2 ≥ 1 miles: 391 students1 ≥ 2 miles: 456 students
School Profiles 343
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONDITIONS
Motorist Conditions
• Washington is located on Iverson St, a
residential roadway with parking on both sides.
Most of Iverson Street is two lanes, but there is
also a center turn lane between Clay Street and
Geil Street in front of the school. Iverson St is
very congested before and after school.
• There is no drop-off area on campus. There are
two parking lots, both of which are reserved
for staff parking. Parent drop-off takes place on
Iverson Street.
• Bus drop-off takes place on Iverson Street south
of Geil Street, adjacent to the school campus.
• The area in front of this school is designated as
a reduced school speed limit zone, established
to reduce speed limits in school zones. These
zones are typically 100 to 500 ft from the school
boundary and have either 15-mph or 25-mph
speed limits.
Pedestrian Conditions
• There are sidewalks on both sides of Iverson
Street and other streets near the school.
• There are high-visibility yellow crosswalks on
Iverson Street at Lang Street and Geil Street. At
the time of the audit, there were no crossing
guards in place.
• There are yellow crosswalks on three legs of the
intersection of Iverson Street and Acacia Street.
• There are yellow crosswalks on two legs of
the intersection of Iverson Street, Homestead
Avenue, and Clay Street.
• There are curb ramps at many intersections
surrounding the school, though most do not
meet current ADA standards.
• There is a back entrance to campus from College
Drive that was closed at the time of the audit.
• Washington Middle is not served by a MST
bus route.
Bicycling Conditions
• There are no bicycle facilities on Iverson Street
or other residential roadways near the school.
• The nearest bicycle facilities are Class IIB
buffered bicycle lanes on West Alisal Street.
The center turn lane on Iverson St is recommended to be repurposed for a drop-off lane in front of the school
RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AROUND
School Profiles 344 WASHINGTON MIDDLE The following table lists recommendations for Washington Middle, and the map below shows their locations in relation to the school.
School Profiles 345
NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
WM001 Iverson St at Lang
St
Key pedestrian crossing
to school. Parents parked
in red zones make it
difficult to see students
crossing.
Install rectangular rapid flashing
beacon, curb extensions, yellow
high-visibility crosswalks, and
school crossing signage assembly
A.
$150,550 City
WM002 Iverson St at Geil
Heavy traffic congestion
and reports of speeding
on Iverson St in front of
school
Remove marked crosswalk to
encourage crossing at Lang St. $4,000 City
WM003
Iverson St from
Clay St to W
Acacia St
No drop-off loop on
campus. Parents park in
center turn lane to dropoff students and doublepark in front of school.
No bicycle facilities near
school.
Eliminate center turn lane to
create drop-off lane. Widen
sidewalk on school side to create
Class I shared-use path with
landscaping separating students
who are biking and walking
from the street. Study options
to separate bike and pedestrian
travel. Maintain 24-foot width
for two travel lanes. Install bike
boulevard signage and striping on
Los Olivos between Blanco and
San Blanco Dr.
$912,400 City
WM004 Iverson St at W
Acacia St
Key pedestrian route to
Washington Middle and
Mission Park Elementary.
Square intersection, remove
slip lane, install high-visibility
crosswalk markings, and
construct curb extensions to
shorten crossing distance.
Consider neighborhood traffic
circle to manage speed.
$657,000 City
WM005 College Dr
Heavy traffic congestion
on Iverson St in front of
school.
Reopen back gate to allow
student entry and disperse traffic
at the front of the school.
$8,500 School
WM006 College Dr at
Marion Ave
Possible future
pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility yellow
crosswalks, and construct curb
extensions and ramps.
$268,000 City
WM007
College Dr from
Alisal St to back
entrance to
school
Possible future
pedestrian and bike
route to school.
Install traffic calming and
speed humps, or consider bike
boulevard.
$550,800 City
WM008 College Dr at
Bruce Ave
Pedestrian route to
Washington Middle and
Mission Park Elementary.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
and curb extensions across Bruce
Ave.
$208,000 City
WM009 College Dr at San
Vincente Ave
Pedestrian route to
Washington Middle and
Mission Park Elementary.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
and curb extensions across San
Vincente Ave.
$208,000 City
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NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
WM010 College Dr at
Amherst Dr
Pedestrian route to
Washington Middle and
Mission Park Elementary.
Install high-visibility crosswalk
and curb extensions across
Amherst Dr.
$104,000 City
WM011
Acacia St from
Main St to Alisal
St
Reports of speeding. No
bicycle facilities.
Install traffic calming and bike
boulevard. $2,917,200 City
WM012 Homestead Ave
at Lorimer St
Pedestrian route to
school. Long crossing
distance.
Install high-visibility crosswalk on
Lorimer St and curb extensions to
square intersection.
$104,000 City
WM013 Homestead Ave
at Talbot St
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk on
Talbot St. $4,000 City
WM014
Marion Ave from
Acacia St to
Homestead Ave
Reports of speeding.
Install traffic calming if requested
and supported by neighborhood
residents.
$346,800 City
WM015 Acacia St at
Junipero Way
Pedestrian route to
Washington Middle and
Mission Park Elementary.
Install raised high-visibility
crosswalk on Junipero Way. $149,000 City
WM016 Acacia St at
Capistrano Dr
Pedestrian route to
Washington Middle and
Mission Park Elementary.
Install raised high-visibility
crosswalk on Capistrano Dr. $149,000 City
WM017 Acacia St at
Crespi Way
Pedestrian route to
Washington Middle and
Mission Park Elementary.
Install raised high-visibility
crosswalk on Crespi Way. $149,000 City
WM018 Homestead Ave
at Marion Ave
Pedestrian route to
school.
Install high-visibility crosswalk on
Marion. $4,000 City
WM019
Staff parking
lot entrance on
Iverson St
Potential conflicts
between students
walking and staff
entering parking lot.
Expand pedestrian pathway
to separate path from staff
driveway. Consider striping and
potential pavement materials to
differentiate space.
$5,000 City
WM020
Parking lot
entrance
(driveway to the
back lot)
Limited visibility for
drivers exiting staff
parking lot.
Trim hedge to increase visibility,
and add striping and signage
about pedestrians crossing.
$9,500 City
WM021
Homestead Ave
from Clay St to
Wilson St
No bicycle facilities near
school.
Install bicycle boulevard signage
and striping. $1,407,600 City
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NO. STREET ISSUE RECOMMENDATION COST EST. IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY
WM022
Homestead Ave
at Clay St and
Iverson St
Key pedestrian route to
Washington Middle and
Salinas High. High traffic
volumes before and after
school.
Consider installing a traffic circle
with high-visibility crosswalks and
school crossing signage assembly
A. If not a traffic circle, install curb
extensions, yellow high-visibility
crosswalks, and school crossing
signage assembly.
$305,550 City
WM023 Roosevelt St
Bus stop for Washington
Middle located here.
Parents have safety
concerns about bus stop
location.
Evaluate for possible time-of-day
loading zone on Roosevelt Street
near La Paz Park, to provide space
for parent drop-off and pick-up at
bus stop.
$13 City
WM024 Blanco Rd
Some students cross
Blanco Road to walk to
school.
Evaluate possible bicycle and
pedestrian improvements on East
and West Blanco Road.
$250 City
IMPLEMENTATION
MAINTENANCE
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IMPLEMENTATION AND
REPORTING
The projects included in this plan will be
implemented over time, as funding becomes
available. With limited funding, the City of Salinas
must decide how to prioritize the recommendations.
Some projects that are low cost and have
community support can be incorporated into the
City’s maintenance programs and installed using
its appropriated maintenance funds. For larger
projects, leveraging local funds with additional
grant funding will be critical. There are also projects that require either private property acquisition or
coordination with Caltrans. Though these are highcost projects that will take many years to fund, design, and construct, they are included in this
plan as part of a long-term vision for the future of
transportation in Salinas.
The City of Salinas has the opportunity to make
bicycle and pedestrian improvements as part of
ongoing road maintenance. The City is required to
upgrade curb ramps to Americans with Disabilities
Act standards during major road resurfacing
projects. Many resurfacing projects provide a chance
to restripe roadways and install improvements
such as high-visibility crosswalks, Class IIB buffered
bike lanes, green bike lane treatments, and Class IV
separated bikeways for a relatively low additional
cost. Traffic signal maintenance and upgrades
also provide opportunities to install countdown
pedestrian signal heads, leading pedestrian interval
signal phasing, and video detection for cyclists. City
staff will review the Safe Routes to Schools Plan
project list when planning maintenance projects to
look for ways to incorporate bike and pedestrian
improvements. This allows for a highly cost-effective
strategy for implementing the projects included in
this plan.
The City already incorporates safety improvements
into its maintenance projects as part of the Vision
Zero Integrated into Maintenance Program (VZIM).
VZIM is one of the most cost-effective ways the
city can invest in traffic safety. Vision Zero is a
multidisciplinary approach to eliminating severe
and fatal collisions, and there is a substantial
opportunity to make incremental safety
improvements through the City’s pavement
maintenance program. Maintenance projects are
less expensive than projects that are identified in
the City’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP). CIP
projects often involve reconstructing roads, moving
flow lines, upgrading drainage systems, rebuilding
sidewalks, relocating utilities, and planting trees,
all of which are very expensive. Resurfacing,
restoration, and rehabilitation projects are typically
regularly planned maintenance projects initiated
on the basis of current or anticipated pavement
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conditions. Maintenance funds are already
programmed, and making striping changes would
add only a nominal cost for the City. Because of this
low additional cost, VZIM is one of the most costeffective approaches to improving traffic safety.
Installing bicycle and pedestrian improvements as
part of regularly scheduled maintenance is part of
the quick-build approach to providing bicycle and
pedestrian facilities. The concept of quick-build
is meant to allow local jurisdictions to construct
facilities faster using low-cost materials. Materials
such as paint, planters, and plastic posts are less
expensive initially than projects that require new
pavement or changes to curb alignments, but they
have more substantial ongoing maintenance costs.
Quick-build is best suited to temporary trial projects
that can be adjusted based to the success of the
design and community feedback. More information
on the quick-build approach can be found in the
Quick-Build Guide developed by the California
Bicycle Coalition and Alta Planning + Design.1
Projects from this plan can also be installed as
future development occurs in Salinas. This Safe
Routes to Schools Plan provides a list of projects
that can be used to mitigate land-use development
impacts by reducing vehicle miles traveled. In
2013, California lawmakers approved Senate Bill
743, which considers vehicle miles traveled as a
metric to determine impacts in transportation
analysis under the California Environmental Quality
Act (CEQA). Jurisdictions are no longer required
to use traffic congestion or level of service as a
metric, though they can still enforce them through
consistency with the agency’s General Plan. In
addition, the traditional level-of-service metric may
still be relevant to CEQA, as it relates to impacts on
1 California Bicycle Coalition website, Quick Build Bikeway Networks: https://www.calbike.org/our_initiatives/quick-buildbikeway-networks-for-safer-streets/ public services, including emergency response and
transit. The state released guidelines in 2018 that
recommended the use of vehicle miles traveled as
the key metric for analyzing transportation impacts.
The Safe Routes to Schools Plan is a resource that
the city and developers can use for project ideas to
improve biking and walking facilities and reduce
vehicle miles traveled.
This chapter includes a list of high-priority projects
based on criteria that are aligned with the vision
and goals of this plan. Individual projects will be
prioritized for funding through the Monterey County
Regional Transportation Plan and the City’s Capital
Improvement Program (CIP). Reporting on project
funding, design, and construction will occur through
an update to the city council and the public during
the annual CIP update process.
For projects within Caltrans’s right of way, all
improvements must be consistent with Highway
Access Management Plans. Caltrans’s maintenance
agreements are required prior to new construction.
The city and Caltrans may also consider
relinquishment of state highway routes 68 and 183
within city limits to allow for local control and to
streamline implementation of complete
streets improvements.
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CROSSWALK,
TRAFFIC-CALMING,
AND CURB-MARKING
RECOMMENDATIONS
The City of Salinas has several policies and
programs that govern the installation of crosswalks,
traffic calming, and curb markings near schools.
All traffic-calming recommendations in this plan are
subject to the Neighborhood Traffic Management
Program, which addresses concerns about traffic
speeds and other safety issues on Salinas residential
streets. The program is driven by neighbors and
requires that the residents themselves support the
traffic-calming plan. It requires a petition from the
community to begin the process and support from
at least 50% of neighbors for the proposed changes.
City staff prioritizes streets with higher traffic speeds and volumes. Learn more here:
https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/
public-works/current-projects/traffic-calming.
New marked traffic control devices, including
crosswalks, require further analysis and must meet
the guidelines of the California Manual of Uniform
Traffic Control Devices and city of Salinas policies in order to be installed. Learn more here:
https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/
public-works/traffic-transportation-engineering/
policies/accordion/salinas-crosswalk-policy.
There are several recommendations in this plan
for new curb markings to create loading zones
near schools. The city has an established program
and procedure available for new special curb
markings, in which schools can begin the process
by submitting an application to the City. The
costs for installing and maintaining special curb
markings are paid by the applicant. There is a fee
for the application and an annual renewal fee to
refresh the curb markings. All curb markings require
Transportation and Traffic Commission and city
council approval to be legitimate and enforceable.
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CRITERIA DESCRIPTION MAXIMUM
POINTS
Safety
The following points are awarded for bicycle and pedestrian collisions in the last 5 years within 150 ft of the project, for a max score of 30 points:
• 5 points per fatal collision
• 3 points per severe-injury collision
• 1 point per complaint-of-pain collision
30 Access to Key
Destinations
10 points for every school and 5 points for every park, library, and recreation center within 500 ft of the project, for a max of 15 points. 15 Connectivity
and Low Stress
Network
15 points if the project closes a gap in the existing bicycle or pedestrian network or upgrades an existing facility to a class IV bikeway or class I path.
15 Equity
20 points if the project is located within an area designated as <10% most disadvantaged.
20 10 points if the project is located within an area designated as 10%–25% most disadvantaged.
0 points if the project is not located in a disadvantaged area (>25%).
CommunityIdentified Need
20 points if the project or location was identified by members of the community during project outreach.
20 10 points if the project or location was identified in one or more community planning documents.
Total 100
PROJECT PRIORITIZATION
This prioritized project list is meant to help decisionmakers and City staff prioritize projects and identify the most competitive projects for various grant funding opportunities. The recommended projects were evaluated using five criteria that are aligned with the vision and goals of this plan and with common grant application criteria.
Equity scores are based on the Healthy Places Index map, which shows data on health indicators such as education, job opportunities, and clean air and water. Each project was assigned a number from 0 to 100 based on the criteria in Table 3.
Table 5: Criteria for Project Prioritization
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PRIORITIZED PROJECT LIST
The table below shows the top ten high-priority projects for the City of Salinas. The full project list, including project prioritization scoring, can be found in Appendix E. Tables 7 and 8 show the highest-scoring projects in the small and medium project categories as defined by the California Active Transportation Program, which is one of the primary grant funding sources for active transportation projects.
RANK SCHOOL PROJECT NO. RECOMMENDATION STREET CROSS ST 1 CROSS ST 2 TOTAL EST. COST1 Sherwood Elementary/El Sausal Middle
SE013/ ESM001
Consider protected pedestrian phases at Alisal/Woods, Alisal/Madeira, and Alisal/Hebbron.
Install high-visibility crosswalks and protected bike lanes as outlined in Alisal Vibrancy Plan*. Remove on-street parking in front of El Sausal, and shift bus drop-off from Towt to Alisal.
E Alisal St Kern St Skyway Blvd 100 $2,717,020
2 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary/ Jesse G. Sanchez Elementary MLKA008
Short term: Install Class II bike lanes between Laurel and Del Monte. Long term: Widen sidewalk to create multi-use path from Laurel to Garner. Install bike-conflict markings at recreation center entrance and exit driveways. Install raised median with pedestrian refuge islands.
Sanborn Rd Del Monte Ave Laurel Dr 90 $1,799,520
3 Carr Lake Community Day/Mount Toro High/El Puente
CLCD005
Consolidate bike lanes to one side of the road for a two-way cycle track or multi-use path. Upgrade bike lanes on Natividad between Bernal and Boronda to Class IV separated bikeways and install protected intersection treatments at Bernal to facilitate transition to cycle track.
Sherwood Dr Bernal St Rossi St 86
$12,541,180
4 Creekside Elementary CE016 Upgrade Class II bike lane to Class IV. Constitution Blvd Boronda Rd Indepen- dence 85 $5,458,680 Table 6: High-Priority Project List
*Further planning and feasibility evaluation of the Alisal Vibrancy Plan is currently underway. The final preferred alternative for E Alisal Street has not been determined.
Implementation and Maintenance 354 RANK SCHOOL PROJECT NO. RECOMMENDATION STREET CROSS ST 1 CROSS ST 2 TOTAL EST. COST 4 Henry F. Kammann HFK006 Install Class IV separated bikeways or Class I multi- use path. W Laurel Dr Davis Rd N Main St 85 $1,200,000 4 Los Padres Elementary LPE002 Install raised median for entire length of John St with landscaping and lighting. Consider other opportunities for traffic calming. John St Salinas St E Alisal St 85 $3,879,220 4 Sherwood Elementary SE012 Install curb extensions and ramps along John St. John St S Wood St Sanborn Rd 85 $3,102,005 5 Fremont Elementary FE014 Install traffic calming, sharrow marking, and bike boulevard signage. Towt St Market St Laurel Dr 81 $550,800 6 Santa Rita Elementary SRE002
Consider bike boulevard with traffic calming between Main St and Van Buren Ave. Consider street trees. Consider sidewalk widening on south side to install multi-use path.
E Bolivar St Main St Van Buren Ave 79 $1,099,800
6 Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary
VRBE020
Install traffic calming (chicanes and removal of parking at those locations), sharrow markings, and bike route signage.
Del Monte Ave Rider Ave Williams Rd 79 $1,815,600
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Table 7: Top Three Projects in Active Transportation Program Small Project Category Table 8: Top Three Projects in Active Transportation Program Medium Project Category RANK SCHOOL PROJECT NO. RECOMMENDATION STREET CROSS ST 1 CROSS ST 2 TOTAL EST. COST1 Sherwood Elementary/ El Sausal Middle
SE013/ESM001
Consider protected pedestrian phases at Alisal/Woods, Alisal/Madeira, and Alisal/Hebbron. Install high-visibility crosswalks and protected bike lanes as outlined in Alisal Vibrancy Plan. Remove onstreet parking in front of El Sausal, and shift bus drop-off from Towt to Alisal.
E Alisal St Work St Skyway Blvd 100 $2,717,020
2 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
MLKA008
Short term: install class II bike lanes between Laurel/Del Monte. Long term: widen sidewalk to create multi-use path between Laurel to Garner. Install bike conflict markings at Recreation Center entrance/edit driveways. Install raised median with pedestrian refuge islands.
Sanborn Rd
Del Monte Ave
Laurel Dr 90 $1,799,520
3 Henry F.
Kammann
HFK006 Install Class IV separated bikeways or Class I multiuse path W Laurel Dr Davis Rd N Main St 85 $1,200,000 RANK SCHOOL PROJECT NO. RECOMMENDATION STREET CROSS ST 1 CROSS ST 2 TOTAL EST. COST1 Creekside Elementary
CE016 Upgrade Class II bike lane to Class IV
Constitution Blvd
Boronda Rd Independence 85 $5,458,680
2 Los Padres Elementary
LPE002
Install raised median for entire length of John St with landscaping/lighting. Consider other opportunities for traffic calming.
John St Salinas St E Alisal St 85 $3,879,220
3 Lincoln Elementary
LE006 Install separated bikeways as proposed in
Active Transportation Plan Pajaro St
E Blanco Rd
E Market St 68 $6,522,660
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FUNDING SOURCES
The following table lists potential grant and program funding sources that can be used to implement the projects identified in this plan. Most state and federal funding sources require local matching funds.
Table 9: Funding Sources for Active Transportation
FUNDING SOURCE CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENTS
EVALUATION
& PLANNING
EDUCATION,
ENCOURAGEMENT
& ENFORCEMENT
PROGRAMS
MAINTENANCE
LOCAL
Measure X: Regional Sales Tax X X X X
Measure G: Local Sales Tax X X X
Transportation Development Act X X X X
City General Funds X X X X
City Gas Tax Revenues X X X X
Foundations X X X
Businesses and Corporations X X
Developer Impact Fees X
STATE
Active Transportation Program X X X
California Office of Traffic Safety X
AB 2766 X X X
State Highway Operations and Protection
Program (SHOPP) X X
State Transportation Improvement
Program (STIP) X
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FUNDING SOURCE CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENTS
EVALUATION
& PLANNING
EDUCATION,
ENCOURAGEMENT
& ENFORCEMENT
PROGRAMS
MAINTENANCE
FEDERAL
Surface Transportation Block Grant/
Regional Surface Transportation Program
Exchange (STBG/RSTPX)
X X X
Highway Safety Improvement Program X X
Rebuilding American Infrastructure with
Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Program X
Safe Streets 4 All Program X
American Rescue Plan Act X X X X
Quick build project in San Jose, CA
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MEASURE X
To address the ongoing shortfall in transportation funding, Monterey County voters approved Measure X in 2016. Measure X establishes a 3/8-percent sales tax that will provide approximately $20 million annually for local transportation projects over the next thirty years. Sixty percent of the funds are distributed by formula to cities and the County of Monterey for road maintenance and repair. Funding in the Pedestrian and Bike Safety and Mobility category can be used for Safe Routes to Schools projects.21 2 Monterey County Regional Transportation Plan: https://www.tamcmonterey.org/wp-content/ uploads/2018/06/Chapter-2-Policy-Element.pdf
Figure 53: Measure X Expenditure Categories
Source: Transportation Agency for Monterey County
27%
13%
60%
Regional Road Projects
Mobility for All
Local Road Projects
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MEASURE G
Measure G is a 1-cent transactions and use tax for general services that was approved by Salinas voters in 2014. The tax went into effect on April 1, 2015 and will expire in 2030.
With the passage of Measure G, the City is now in a position to make strategic investments to restore services and improve public facilities and infrastructure. Each city department’s plans are focused on delivering services and projects that are aligned with city council goals and objectives, ranked as high priorities in the budget, and reflect the main interests of the community as determined by extensive community outreach, surveys, and engagement.
The public has consistently expressed a desire for more services to achieve a better, safer Salinas. Crime prevention, public safety, economic development, and street and sidewalk repair all contribute to safe, clean neighborhoods. These and other critical public services have all suffered from inadequate funding.
Increased funding for public safety has been identified through the community outreach process as the highest priority, but not the only priority. While residents have consistently stressed the importance of public safety, they have also recognized that safe communities require investments in violence prevention and community-building programs such as after-school programs, recreational activities, life-long learning opportunities, special events, and cultural arts programming.
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MAINTENANCE
The need for maintenance of bicycle and pedestrian facilities is often reported by residents walking and bicycling on local roadways. Bicycle and pedestrian maintenance issues in Salinas can be reported through the Salinas Connect app or through the Public Works Department website. The Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC) also maintains the Bicycle Service Request program, which is a webpage where any issue related to bicycle safety can be reported. Reports are forwarded to the appropriate jurisdiction for action. Maintenance issues on state highways can be reported to Caltrans at https://csr.dot.ca.gov/.
The City of Salinas is responsible for maintaining pavement on roads that have been accepted for maintenance by the City. The City also maintains signage, signals, striping, guardrails, and other traffic-safety devices, walls and other retaining structures, and drainage facilities serving the roadway.
The City of Salinas currently employs the following maintenance policies and procedures to keep bicycle and pedestrian facilities in good repair:
• Bike lanes that are contiguous with a Citymaintained roadway are maintained by the City as part of the roadway. The City strives to
sweep bike lanes every two weeks. Currently, the
street-sweeping program has limited access to
the curb, where there are no parking restrictions
in place. The street-sweeping program prioritizes
the curb and gutter areas, in accordance with
state guidelines for stormwater management.
Where bike lanes are intercepted by the sweeper,
they will be cleaned, but these are not specific.
Cleaning requirements are to ensure that
stormwater-management requirements are
met. Sweeping will be the responsibility of a
private company, Republic Services, starting July
1, 2022. The City of Salinas may have limited
oversight of their program moving forward.
• According to the California Streets and
Highways Code Section 5610, adjacent
property owners are responsible for the
maintenance of sidewalks along the frontage
of their properties. However, the City of Salinas
continues to maintain sidewalks fronting private
properties to the best of its abilities. The City
repairs sidewalks, curbs, and gutters when
requested and as funding allows, but requests to
repair sidewalks have exceeded the City’s ability
to respond, and there is currently a twentyyear backlog of sidewalk repairs. The City also incentivizes private property owners to repair
their sidewalks by offering to pay half the cost of
repairs, via the 50/50 Sidewalk Repair Program.
Alternatively, the City will replace the asphalt
concrete tie-in to the new curb and gutter if the
property owner repairs the curb and gutter.
• According to the Streets and Highways
Code, a set amount of maintenance funding
is provided by the gas tax, and the City is
charged with maintaining roadways as best
those funds allow. There is no specific standard
to which a roadway must be maintained.
Ideally, roads are resealed every five to ten
years to keep pavement in good condition. The
City works to maximize the funding it receives
to provide the greatest benefit to the greatest
number of road users.
APPENDIX
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APPENDIX A
OUTREACH MATERIALS & SURVEY
Join us for a virtual parent
meeting on traffic safety issues
around Los Padres Elementary
school!
Your input will be used to create a Safe
Routes to Schools Plan, which help make it
easier and safer for students to walk and
bike to school.
September 23rd at 5:30pm
Click Here to Register
meet.google.com/rhk-tndr-iqa
For more information, visit
https://ecoact.org/planningsalinas/,
find us on Facebook @Transportation
Agency for Monterey County,
or call (831) 515-1364 to give input over the
phone.
¡Acompáñenos para una junta
virtual de padres sobre problemas
de seguridad de tráfico alrededor
de la escuela primaria Los Padres!
Su opinión se utilizará para crear un Plan de
Rutas Seguras a las Escuelas. Este plan
ayudará a que sea mas fácil y seguro para los
estudiantes caminar y andar en bicicleta a la
escuela.
23 de Septiembre a las 5:30pm
Click Here to Register
meet.google.com/rhk-tndr-iqa
Para más información, visítenos en
https://ecoact.org/planningsalinas-spanish/,
encuéntrenos en Facebook @Transportation
Agency for Monterey County,
o llámenos directamente al (831) 515-1364
para brindar comentario por teléfono.
Virtual Meeting Flier
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Over the next two years, members of our community will create a Safe Routes to Schools plan for 44 schools in Salinas to make walking and biking to school safer, easier and more FUN! We would love to hear from you! With a parent present and while following current social distancing guidelines (remain 6 feet from others, wear a mask, do not gather in groups), walk along the route you normally take to school and take notes on any of the items listed to the right. If going outside is not possible, make as many notes as possible for the items using your memory and imagination!
1. Missing or Broken Sidewalk
Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt
HELPFUL TIP: If you can’t print this sheet, write down items 1-10 on your own sheet of paper before going out on your walk.
Make any notes on your sheet of paper.
Make NOTES on each item you find. You don’t have to find ALL the items! It’s more important to make notes for each one (as shown on the first example).
1. Tell us what street you found the item on.2. Does this item make it easier to get to school? How does it make it easier?
3. Does this item make it harder to get to school?
How does it make it harder?
Example: Broken sidewalk at John St and Magnolia Dr.
makes it harder to get to school--sometimes I trip!
3. Bike Lanes4. Speeding Traffic5. Dogs2. Crosswalk
6. Stop sign8. Traffic Signal9. Speed Limit SIgn10. Trash7. Tree Once you complete this sheet, visit this
website to enter your responses:
www.ecoact.org/scavengerhunt
Scavenger Hunt Activity
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Social Media Graphic English
Social Media Graphic Spanish
Appendix A 365 Recommendations Map Spanish
Appendix A 366
Los 6 Puntos del Plan:
• Alcanzamiento
• Ingeniería
• Educación
• Estimulo
• Equidad
• Evaluación
Rutas Seguras a las Escuelas facilita
de manera mas segura el andar a la
escuela a pie, en bicicleta, en
transporte publico, o transporte
compartido.
Que es “Rutas Seguras a las Escuelas”?
What is “Safe Routes to School”?
Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS) makes
it safer and easier for students to
walk, bicycle, take transit, or
carpool to school.
The 6 E’s of SRTS:
• Engagement
• Engineering
• Education
• Encouragement
• Equity
• Evaluation
Plan de Rutas Seguras a las Escuelas
Safe Routes to School Plan
Junta Comunitaria Virtual / Community Virtual Meeting
Salinas, Ca
Bilingual parent presentation
Appendix A 367
Plan Final
Términos del
2022
Demostraciones
Emergentes
Otoño 2021
Recomendaciones
Primavera/Otoño
2021
Auditorias y
Encuestas para
Padres
Otoño 2020 /
Primavera 2021
Talleres
Comunitarios
Otoño 2020 /
Primavera 2021
Un Proceso Basado en la Comunidad
Final Plan
Late 2022
Pop–Ups
Fall 2021
Recommendations
Spring/Fall 2021
Walking Audits &
Parent Surveys
Fall 2020/Spring 2021
Parent Meetings
Fall 2020/Spring 2021
A Community-Based Process
Plan de Rutas Seguras a las Escuelas
Safe Routes to School Plan
Junta Comunitaria Virtual / Community Virtual Meeting
Salinas, Ca
Appendix A 368
Puntos de consideración…
• Patrones de Trafico
• Guardias de cruce
• Alta Velocidad
• El descenso de estudiantes a
media calle
• No mirar antes de cruzar
• Andar en bicicleta sin casco
La Auditora Virtual / The Virtual Audit
Points to consider…
• Traffic patterns
• Crossing guards/safety
patrols
• Speeding
• Dropping students off in
street
• Not looking before crossing
• Not wearing helmets
Resultados Esperados de este Plan / Outcomes for this Plan • Identificar soluciones de
ingeniería no relacionadas
con infraestructura
• Crear lista de costos
• Identificar agencias
responsables y posibles
fuentes de fondos
• Prioridad de acciones a
corto y largo plazo
• Encontrar victorias fáciles!
• A construir proyectos!
• Identify Engineering and
Non-Infrastructure solutions
• Develop costs
• Identify responsible agencies
and possible funding sources
• Prioritize short- and longterm actions
• Look for quick wins!
• Get projects built!
Appendix A 369
Como se puede aportar información?
How can you give more input?
Ecoact.org/planningsalinas Llámenos / Call Us:
831-515-1364
Gracias por acompañarnos el día de hoy!
Thank you for joining us today!
Appendix B 370
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95.23% 1,217
4.77% 61
Q1 Do you have a child who attends a school in Salinas? Answered: 1,278 Skipped: 9
TOTAL 1,278
Yes
No
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Yes
No
APPENDIX B
PARENT SURVEY DATA ENGLISH
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Q2 Which school does your student attend? Feel free to complete this survey multiple times if you have children attending different schools.
Answered: 1,282 Skipped: 5
Alisal
Community...
Alisal High
School
Bardin
Elementary...
Bolsa Knolls
Middle School
Boronda
Meadows School
Carr Lake
Community Da...
César E.
Chávez...
Creekside
Elementary...
Dr. Oscar F.
Loya Element...
Dual Immersion
Academy of...
El Gabilan
School
El Puente
School
El Sausal
Middle School
Everett
Alvarez High...
Frank Paul
Elementary...
Fremont
Elementary...
Gavilan View
Middle School
Harden Middle
School
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Henry F.
Kammann School
Jesse G.
Sanchez School
John E.
Steinbeck...
La Joya
Elementary...
La Paz Middle
School
Laurel Wood
Elementary...
Lincoln
Elementary
Loma Vista
Elementary...
Los Padres
Elementary
Martin Luther
King Jr....
McKinnon
Elementary...
Mission Park
Elementary
Monte Bella
Elementary...
Monterey Park
Elementary...
Mount Toro
High School
Natividad
Elementary
New Republic
Elementary...
North Salinas
High School
Oasis Charter
Public School
Rancho San
Juan High...
Roosevelt
Elementary
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y
Salinas High
School
Santa Rita
Elementary...
Sherwood
Elementary
University
Park Elementary
Virginia Rocca
Barton School
Washington
Middle School
I don't have a
student in...
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
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1.87% 24
2.26% 29
1.56% 20
1.25% 16
3.20% 41
0.00% 0
1.25% 16
3.98% 51
2.34% 30
0.86% 11
4.52% 58
0.39% 5
0.86% 11
2.03% 26
1.09% 14
0.78% 10
1.33% 17
1.56% 20
5.62% 72
0.70% 9
2.73% 35
3.35% 43
1.01% 13
4.45% 57
6.55% 84
2.73% 35
4.52% 58
0.70% 9
2.11% 27
4.76% 61
3.35% 43
4.52% 58
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Alisal Community School
Alisal High School
Bardin Elementary School
Bolsa Knolls Middle School
Boronda Meadows School
Carr Lake Community Day School
César E. Chávez Elementary School
Creekside Elementary School
Dr. Oscar F. Loya Elementary School
Dual Immersion Academy of Salinas
El Gabilan School
El Puente School
El Sausal Middle School
Everett Alvarez High School
Frank Paul Elementary School
Fremont Elementary School
Gavilan View Middle School
Harden Middle School
Henry F. Kammann School
Jesse G. Sanchez School
John E. Steinbeck Elementary School
La Joya Elementary School
La Paz Middle School
Laurel Wood Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary
Loma Vista Elementary School
Los Padres Elementary
Martin Luther King Jr. Academy
McKinnon Elementary School
Mission Park Elementary
Monte Bella Elementary School
Monterey Park Elementary School
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0.39% 5
2.73% 35
0.62% 8
1.09% 14
0.08% 1
0.16% 2
1.64% 21
3.20% 41
0.16% 2
3.67% 47
0.86% 11
0.78% 10
2.26% 29
4.13% 53
TOTAL 1,282
Mount Toro High School
Natividad Elementary
New Republic Elementary School
North Salinas High School
Oasis Charter Public School
Rancho San Juan High School
Roosevelt Elementary
Salinas High School
Santa Rita Elementary School
Sherwood Elementary
University Park Elementary
Virginia Rocca Barton School
Washington Middle School
I don't have a student in school. (select and skip to question #9) Appendix B 376
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Q3 In what grade is the child for whom you are completing this survey (Grade K,1,2,3…)?
Answered: 1,219 Skipped: 68
K
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10
11 12
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
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12.80% 156
13.70% 167
11.98% 146
10.91% 133
11.07% 135
11.40% 139
10.09% 123
4.59% 56
3.20% 39
2.63% 32
3.69% 45
1.97% 24
1.97% 24
TOTAL 1,219
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
K
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10
11 12
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50.70% 614
49.30% 597
Q4 Is the child for whom you are completing this survey male or female? Answered: 1,211 Skipped: 76
TOTAL 1,211
male
female
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
male
female
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19.13% 234
17.83% 218
16.68% 204
19.05% 233
23.55% 288
3.76% 46
Q5 How far does your child live from school?
Answered: 1,223 Skipped: 64
TOTAL 1,223
Less than ¼
mile
¼ mile up to ½
mile
½ mile up to 1
mile
1 mile up to 2
miles
More than 2
miles
Don’t know
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Less than ¼ mile
¼ mile up to ½ mile
½ mile up to 1 mile
1 mile up to 2 miles
More than 2 miles
Don’t know
Appendix B 379
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21.49% 262
0.41% 5
8.20% 100
67.27% 820
1.89% 23
0.16% 2
0.57% 7
Q6 On most days (before Covid), how did your child arrive to school? Answered: 1,219 Skipped: 68
TOTAL 1,219
Walk
Bike
School Bus
Family Vehicle
(only childr...
Carpool
(Children fr...
Transit (city
bus, subway,...
Other
(skateboard,...
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Walk
Bike
School Bus
Family Vehicle (only children in your family)
Carpool (Children from other families)
Transit (city bus, subway, etc.)
Other (skateboard, scooter, inline skates, etc.)
Appendix B 380
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24.98% 305
0.49% 6
11.71% 143
59.54% 727
2.13% 26
0.57% 7
0.57% 7
Q7 On most days (before Covid), how does your child leave from school? Answered: 1,221 Skipped: 66
TOTAL 1,221
Walk
Bike
School Bus
Family Vehicle
(only childr...
Carpool
(Children fr...
Transit (city
bus, subway,...
Other
(skateboard,...
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Walk
Bike
School Bus
Family Vehicle (only children in your family)
Carpool (Children from other families)
Transit (city bus, subway, etc.)
Other (skateboard, scooter, inline skates, etc.)
Appendix B 381
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Q8 Which of the following issues affected your decision to allow, or not allow, your child to walk or bike to/from school? (Select ALL that apply) Answered: 1,208 Skipped: 79
Distance
Convenience of
driving
Time
Child’s before
or after-sch...
Speed of
traffic alon...
Amount of
traffic alon...
Adults to walk
or bike with
Sidewalks or
pathways
Safety of
intersection...
Crossing guards
Violence or
crime
Weather or
climate
My child
already walk...
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
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47.85% 578
16.47% 199
18.13% 219
9.77% 118
36.67% 443
36.67% 443
12.42% 150
14.90% 180
41.06% 496
14.07% 170
28.56% 345
20.12% 243
12.91% 156
Total Respondents: 1,208
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Distance
Convenience of driving
Time
Child’s before or after-school activities
Speed of traffic along route
Amount of traffic along route
Adults to walk or bike with
Sidewalks or pathways
Safety of intersections and crossings
Crossing guards
Violence or crime
Weather or climate
My child already walked or biked to/from school
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Q9 What walking or biking safety issues are you concerned about in your neighborhood or on your child's trip to school? Please share specific street names if possible.
Answered: 958 Skipped: 329
SRTS Parent Survey - SALINAS
Q10 What is the most important safety issue in your neighborhood or on your child's trip to school that you would like to see addressed in the Safe Routes to School Plan?
Answered: 878 Skipped: 409
SRTS Parent Survey - SALINAS
Q11 Please provide any additional comments below:
Answered: 305 Skipped: 982
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99.77% 427
0.00% 0
0.00% 0
0.00% 0
0.00% 0
0.00% 0
0.00% 0
0.00% 0
93.69% 401
89.49% 383
Q12 Would you like to be notified of community meetings for your child's school or a school in your neighborhood? If YES, please enter your contact info below:
Answered: 428 Skipped: 859
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Name
Company
Address
Address 2
City/Town
State/Province
ZIP/Postal Code
Country
Email Address
Phone Number
SRTS Parent Survey - SALINAS
99.74% 766
98.96% 760
95.57% 734
Q13 If you would like to be entered in our raffle for a $25 gift card, enter your name and contact info below:
Answered: 768 Skipped: 519
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Name
Phone Number
Home Address
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99.91% 1,077
0.09% 1
Q1 Tiene usted hijo(a) inscrito en una escuela en Salinas? Answered: 1,078 Skipped: 20
TOTAL 1,078
Si
No
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Si
No
PARENT SURVEY DATA SPANISH
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Q2 A que escuela va su estudiante? (Complete una encuesta por cada uno de sus estudiantes)
Answered: 1,096 Skipped: 2
Alisal
Community...
Alisal High
School
Bardin
Elementary...
Bolsa Knolls
Middle School
Boronda
Meadows School
Carr Lake
Community Da...
César E.
Chávez...
Creekside
Elementary...
Dr. Oscar F.
Loya Element...
Dual Immersion
Academy of...
El Gabilan
School
El Puente
School
El Sausal
Middle School
Everett
Alvarez High...
Frank Paul
Elementary...
Fremont
Elementary...
Gavilan View
Middle School
Harden Middle
School
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Henry F.
Kammann School
Jesse G.
Sanchez School
John E.
Steinbeck...
La Joya
Elementary...
La Paz Middle
School
Laurel Wood
Elementary...
Lincoln
Elementary
Loma Vista
Elementary...
Los Padres
Elementary
Martin Luther
King Jr....
McKinnon
Elementary...
Mission Park
Elementary
Monte Bella
Elementary...
Monterey Park
Elementary...
Mount Toro
High School
Natividad
Elementary
New Republic
Elementary...
North Salinas
High School
Oasis Charter
Public School
Rancho San
Juan High...
Roosevelt
Elementary
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y
Salinas High
School
Santa Rita
Elementary...
Sherwood
Elementary
University
Park Elementary
Virginia Rocca
Barton School
Washington
Middle School
No tengo
estudiante e...
Otro
(especifique)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Rutas Seguras a las Escuelas - SALINAS
51.75% 561
48.25% 523
Q4 El niño para quien completa esta encuesta es niño o niña? Answered: 1,084 Skipped: 14
TOTAL 1,084
Nino
Nina
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Nino
Nina
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7.57% 83
3.92% 43
4.74% 52
0.73% 8
3.83% 42
0.00% 0
2.83% 31
1.09% 12
2.46% 27
0.18% 2
2.46% 27
0.00% 0
1.37% 15
2.10% 23
2.37% 26
2.10% 23
0.36% 4
1.00% 11
1.37% 15
4.74% 52
0.82% 9
3.28% 36
1.37% 15
0.27% 3
1.28% 14
5.38% 59
5.11% 56
9.03% 99
1.73% 19
1.09% 12
1.92% 21
0.00% 0
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Alisal Community School
Alisal High School
Bardin Elementary School
Bolsa Knolls Middle School
Boronda Meadows School
Carr Lake Community Day School
César E. Chávez Elementary School
Creekside Elementary School
Dr. Oscar F. Loya Elementary School
Dual Immersion Academy of Salinas
El Gabilan School
El Puente School
El Sausal Middle School
Everett Alvarez High School
Frank Paul Elementary School
Fremont Elementary School
Gavilan View Middle School
Harden Middle School
Henry F. Kammann School
Jesse G. Sanchez School
John E. Steinbeck Elementary School
La Joya Elementary School
La Paz Middle School
Laurel Wood Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary
Loma Vista Elementary School
Los Padres Elementary
Martin Luther King Jr. Academy
McKinnon Elementary School
Mission Park Elementary
Monte Bella Elementary School
Monterey Park Elementary School
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0.09% 1
4.11% 45
0.27% 3
0.91% 10
0.00% 0
0.00% 0
1.92% 21
1.28% 14
0.27% 3
11.31% 124
0.36% 4
2.28% 25
0.55% 6
0.09% 1
0.00% 0
TOTAL 1,096
Mount Toro High School
Natividad Elementary
New Republic Elementary School
North Salinas High School
Oasis Charter Public School
Rancho San Juan High School
Roosevelt Elementary
Salinas High School
Santa Rita Elementary School
Sherwood Elementary
University Park Elementary
Virginia Rocca Barton School
Washington Middle School
No tengo estudiante en la escuela. (Siga a pregunta #9) Otro (especifique)
Appendix B 391
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Q3 ¿En qué grado está el niño para quien esta completando esta encuesta? Grado (TK,K,1,2,3,…)
Answered: 1,092 Skipped: 6
TK
K
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10
11 12
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
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3.39% 37
11.63% 127
11.72% 128
13.28% 145
14.29% 156
12.82% 140
9.16% 100
10.16% 111
3.02% 33
1.92% 21
1.92% 21
2.75% 30
2.20% 24
1.74% 19
TOTAL 1,092
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
TK
K
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10
11 12
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51.75% 561
48.25% 523
Q4 El niño para quien completa esta encuesta es niño o niña? Answered: 1,084 Skipped: 14
TOTAL 1,084
Nino
Nina
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Nino
Nina
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19.82% 215
15.58% 169
17.33% 188
17.88% 194
12.63% 137
16.77% 182
Q5 ¿A qué distancia vive su niño de la escuela?
Answered: 1,085 Skipped: 13
TOTAL 1,085
Menos de ¼
milla
Entre ¼ y ½
milla
Media milla
hasta 1 milla
Entre 1 y 2
millas
Mas de 2 millas
No lo se
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Menos de ¼ milla
Entre ¼ y ½ milla
Media milla hasta 1 milla
Entre 1 y 2 millas
Mas de 2 millas
No lo se
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50.37% 540
0.84% 9
12.13% 130
31.34% 336
3.82% 41
0.19% 2
1.31% 14
Q6 ¿La mayoría de los días (pre-covid), como va su niño a la escuela? Answered: 1,072 Skipped: 26
TOTAL 1,072
Caminando
Bicicleta
Autobús escolar
Vehículo de la
familia (sol...
Compartiendo
el viaje en...
Tránsito
(autobús de ...
Otro
(patineta,...
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Caminando
Bicicleta
Autobús escolar
Vehículo de la familia (solo con niños de la familia)
Compartiendo el viaje en auto con niños de otras familias Tránsito (autobús de la ciudad, subterráneo, etc.)
Otro (patineta, monopatín, patines, etc.)
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52.01% 556
0.75% 8
12.63% 135
30.31% 324
2.99% 32
0.37% 4
0.94% 10
Q7 ¿La mayoría de los días (pre-covid), como regresa su niño a la casa después de la escuela?
Answered: 1,069 Skipped: 29
TOTAL 1,069
Caminando
Bicicleta
Autobús escolar
Vehículo de la
familia (sol...
Compartiendo
el viaje en...
Tránsito
(autobús de ...
Otro
(patineta,...
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Caminando
Bicicleta
Autobús escolar
Vehículo de la familia (solo con niños de la familia)
Compartiendo el viaje en auto con niños de otras familias Tránsito (autobús de la ciudad, subterráneo, etc.)
Otro (patineta, monopatín, patines, etc.)
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Q8 Cual de los siguientes problemas afecto su decision de dejar, o no dejar, que su estudiante fuera a la escuela caminando o en bicicleta? (puede marcar varios que apliquen).
Answered: 1,062 Skipped: 36
Distancia
Conveniencia
de manejar
Tiempo
Actividades
antes o después
Velocidad del
tránsito en ...
Cantidad de
tránsito en ...
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Adultos que
acompañen a ...
Aceras o
caminos
Seguridad de
las...
Guardias de
cruce peatonal
Violencia o
crimen
Tiempo o clima
Mi hijo(a) ya
viaja a pie ...
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54.02%
517
25.08%
240
20.90%
200 957
33.42%
271
46.36%
376
20.22%
164 811
53.28%
447
33.49%
281
13.23%
111 839
42.44%
345
37.15%
302
20.42%
166 813
56.26%
485
27.38%
236
16.36%
141 862
59.58%
516
24.60%
213
15.82%
137 866
64.06%
565
26.98%
238
8.96%
79 882
55.22%
460
26.77%
223
18.01%
150 833
67.23%
601
21.59%
193
11.19%
100 894
55.91%
478
32.05%
274
12.05%
103 855
39.88%
337
41.54%
351
18.58%
157 845
60.19%
517
27.82%
239
11.99%
103 859
41.83%
379
53.31%
483
4.86%
44 906
Si No No estoy Seguro/a
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
SI NO NO ESTOY SEGURO/A TOTAL
Distancia
Conveniencia de manejar
Tiempo
Actividades antes o después
Velocidad del tránsito en la ruta
Cantidad de tránsito en la ruta
Adultos que acompañen a su niño
Aceras o caminos
Seguridad de las intersecciones y cruces
Guardias de cruce peatonal
Violencia o crimen
Tiempo o clima
Mi hijo(a) ya viaja a pie o en bicicleta a/desde la escuela Appendix B 399
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Q9 Cuales problemas de seguridad le preocupa relacionados al caminar o andar en bicicleta cuando su hijo(a) va a la escuela? Por favor indique calles específicas si es posible.
Answered: 905 Skipped: 193
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Q10 Cuál es el problema de seguridad más importante para usted que le gustaría que fuera considerado en este Plan de Rutas Seguras a las Escuelas?
Answered: 839 Skipped: 259
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Q11 Por favor proporcione comentarios adicionales:
Answered: 467 Skipped: 631
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96.98% 643
96.98% 643
68.63% 455
Q12 Si le interesaria ser notificado(a) de juntas comunitarias relacionadas a la escuela de su hijo(a) por favor escriba su informacion abajo:
Answered: 663 Skipped: 435
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Nombre
Telefono
Correo Electronico
Rutas Seguras a las Escuelas - SALINAS
99.76% 831
99.16% 826
96.04% 800
Q13 Si le gustaria participar en nuestro sorteo de una tarjeta de regalo valorada en $25, por favor escriba su informacion abajo:
Answered: 833 Skipped: 265
ANSWER CHOICES RESPONSES
Nombre
Telefono
Direccion de Casa
Appendix C 401
APPENDIX C
EAST ALISAL STREET TEMPORARY DEMONSTRATION
Outreach Materials - Flier
Appendix C 402
Outreach Materials - Mailer
Appendix C 403
Green means space
for biking
Barriers protect people
walking and biking from
cars
El cuadro verde es un espacio para bicicletas. Estas barreras protegen del trafico de carros a personas caminando o en bicicleta.
What do these colors mean? ¿Qué significan estos colores? https://saferoutesmonterey.org/planning-salinas
Temporary InstallationOctober 14th - November 10th Protected Walking and Biking Installation Coming to East Alisal Street Proyecto Temporal
14 de Octubre - 10 de Noviembre
Instalación Para Caminar y Andar en Bicicleta de
Manera Protegida Viene a la Calle East Alisal
Outreach Materials - Poster
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Outreach Materials - Banner
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Social Media Graphic #2 English
Social Media Graphic #1 English
Social Media Graphic #2 Spanish
Social Media Graphic #1 Spanish
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East Alisal Temporary Installation Participant Survey
Encuesta para Participante sobre la Instalación
Temporal En el Este de Alisal
1. How did you experience the temporary installation? Select all that apply/ ¿Cómo uso el espacio de instalación temporal? Selección todas las respuestas que se aplica para usted.
Walking / caminando
Biking / por bicicleta
Driving / manejando
2. How would you describe your experience using this space? For each feature, place a check in the box that best describes your experience. / ¿Cómo calificaría su experiencia usando este espacio? Por favor indique cómo se siento con cada una de las instalaciones en la siguiente lista. Para cada instalación indique la casilla que mejor describa su experiencia.
a. Curb extension / Extensión de acera/banqueta
I love it / Me encanto
I like it / Me gusto
I’m neutral / Neutral
I don’t like it/ No me gusto
I hate it / No me gusto para nada
I did not use it/ No la use
b. High-visibility crosswalk / Cruce peatonal de alta-visibilidad I love it / Me encanto
I like it / Me gusto
I’m neutral / Neutral
I don’t like it/ No me gusto
I hate it / No me gusto para nada
I did not use it/ No la use
East Alisal Survey
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c. Buffered-bicycle-lanes / Instalación ciclista (sin barrera protejida) I love it / Me encanto
I like it / Me gusto
I’m neutral / Neutral
I don’t like it/ No me gusto
I hate it / No me gusto para nada
I did not use it/ No la use
d. Parking protected bicycle lanes / Instalación ciclista con barrera protejida I love it / Me encanto
I like it / Me gusto
I’m neutral / Neutral
I don’t like it/ No me gusto
I hate it / No me gusto para nada
I did not use it/ No la use
3. Did you walk or bike more because of the temporary installation? / ¿Caminó o anduvo en bicicleta usted más ahora porque está la instalación temporal? Yes / Si
No / No
4. Would you like to see the temporary improvements made permanent? / ¿Le gustaría ver estos mejoramientos temporales convertidas a instalaciones permanentes? Yes / Si
No / No
Undecided/Indeciso(a)
Maybe – with some changes / Tal vez – con ciertos cambios
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5. How likely would you be to walk or bike through this area if the changes became permanent? / ¿Cuál sería la probabilidad que usted usaría esta instalaciones para andar en bicicleta o caminar si estos cambios se hicieran permanentes? Not at all likely / No usaría este espacio para nada
Not likely / Pienso que no lo usaría
Likely / Pienso que si lo usaría
Definitely / Definitivamente lo usaría
6. What is your favorite part about the temporary installation? / ¿Cuál es su parte favorita de la instalación temporal?
7. What would you change about the temporary installation? / ¿Que sería una cosa que cambiaría de la instalación temporal?
8. Do you have any additional comments? / ¿Tiene algún otro comentario adicional? Optional Questions / Preguntas Opcionales:
1. Do you have a child or children that attend any of the following schools? (select all that apply) / ¿Tiene usted estudiantes que van a las siguientes escuelas? (seleccione todas que apliquen):
Sherwood Elementary
Los Padres Elementary
El Sausal Middle
Alisal High
No
2. What is your ZIP code? / Indique su código postal.
93905
93906
93907
93901
93908
Other / Otro: __________
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3. What is your age? / Marque la casilla que indique su edad.
Under 18 / Menos de 18
18 – 35
36 – 50
51 – 65
65+
4. What is your gender? / ¿Cuál es su género?
Man/ hombre
Woman/ mujer
Other/otro
Prefer not to say / prefiero no decir
5. What is your race/ethnicity? / Cuál es su raza/etnicidad? Black/African American / Afro Americano
Hispanic/Latinx / Hispano/Latinx
White/Caucasian / Blanco/Anglo
Asian / Asiático
Native American / Americano Nativo
Mixed ethnicity / Etnicidad mixta
Other / Otra
Prefer not to say / Prefiero no decir
Thank you for your participation!! / ¡Gracias por su participación! Appendix C 410
East Alisal Street Temporary Installation Survey Responses 43 14
84 0
10 20
30 40
50 60
70 80
90 Walking Biking Driving
Q1: How did you experience the temporary installation - Select all that apply
37 16
32 27
40 44
8 19
11 5
12 8
22 14
14 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
2c. Parking Protected Bicycle Lanes
2b. Buffered Bike Lane
2a. High-Visibility Crosswalk
Q2. How would you describe your experience using this
space? Check the box that best describes your experience.
I Love It I like It I'm Neutral I Don't Like It I Hate It East Alisal Survey Responses
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46%
52%
Q3. Did you walk or bike more because of the
temporary installation
No Yes
34%
3%
4%
59%
Q4. Would you like to see the temporary
improvements made permanent?
No Maybe - with some changes Undecided Yes
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27%
35%
11%
27%
Q5: How likely would you be to walk or bike
through this area if the changes became
permanent?
Definitely Likely Not likely Not at all likely
25% 13% 6% 5% 61%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Sherwood
Elementary
School
Los Padres
Elementary
School
El Sausal Middle
School
Alisal High
School
No
Q6. Do you have children in the following
schools? Check all that apply.
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3%
18%
48%
23%
8%
Q7. What is your age?
Under 18 18-35 36-50 51-65 65+
69%
31%
Q8. What is your gender?
Woman Man
2%3%
92%
3%
Q9. What is your race/ethnicity?
Asian White/Caucasian Hispanc/Latinx Other
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APPENDIX D
MCKINNON STREET TEMPORARY DEMONSTRATION
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Outreach Materials - Banner
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How Can My Student Get to School During the Demonstration?1. Walk or Bike to School. Students are encouraged to walk or bike during the installation, and will be entered in a raffle to win prizes if they log their trips through the Move It Monterey County Challenge. Learn more at https://rb.gy/2pwefn
2. Drop-off in Church Parking Lot (5-minute walk). You can drop off or pick up students in the parking lot of the Church of Latter Day Saints, located at 255 E Alvin Dr. (see map above)
3. Drop-off Circle (15+ minutes): The drop-off circle will remain open but may take 15+ minutes to get through. If enough students walk or bike to school or are dropped off in the church parking lot, it will take less time to get through the drop-off loop.
Why Redesign McKinnon Street?The temporary installation is designed with students in mind. The project will include barriers between the bike lane and the motor vehicle lane, which makes it safer for students to bike to Harden Middle School and North Salinas High School.LEARN MORE:For more information, scan the QR codevisit https://saferoutesmonterey.org/planning-salinas, or call (831) 515-1364.
COMING SOON!Temporary Protected Walking and Biking InstallationAt McKinnon Street and Westminster DriveApril 20th – May 18th Possible Traffic ImpactsThe installation will include barriers between the bike lane and the motor vehicle lane, so you will not be able to drop-off or pick up students on McKinnon Street during the demonstration. This may cause additional traffic in the school drop-off loop. Thank you for your patience with any additional traffic during this project.
Maneras que su estudiante puede llegar a la escuela durante la demostración:1. Caminando o en bicicleta. Animamos a que estudiantes caminen o vayan a la escuela en bicicleta durante el mes de la demostración. Estudiantes que usen este método podrán grabar sus viajes a la escuela por medio del programa Move It Monterey County Challenge y participar en una rifa para ganarpremios. Para más informes puede ir a la página web https://rb.gy/2pwefn
2. Puede dejar su estudiante en el estacionamiento de la iglesia (requiere caminar al campo escolar que toma 5 minutos). Usted podrá dejar y recoger a su estudiante de la iglesia Church of Latter Day Saints, localizada en el 255 E. Alvin Dr. (refiera al mapa arriba)
3. Puede dejar su estudiante en el área de ascenso cerca del estacionamiento escolar (15+ minutos): El área de ascenso se mantendrá abierto durante la demostración, pero puede que le tome más de 15 minutos para usarla. Si suficientes estudiantes caminan o van a la escuela en bicicleta, o son dejados en el estacionamiento de la iglesia, puede ser que pasar por el área de ascenso sea más rápido. ¿Porque el rediseño de la calle McKinnon Street??La instalación temporal está diseñada con estudiantes en mente. El proyecto incluirá barreras entre las vías ciclistas y las vías de autos para aumentar la seguridad de estudiantes que andan en bicicleta hacia las escuelas Harden Middle y North Salinas High.
PARA MAS INFORMACION:Para más información, haga scan el código QR o visítenos en la página web: https://saferoutesmonterey.org/planningsalinas-spanish/, o llámenos al (831) 515-1364.
VIENE PRÓXIMAMENTEInstalación Temporal para Caminar y Andar en Bicicleta de Manera ProtegidaEn las calles McKinnon Street y Westminster Drive20 de April – 18 de Mayo Posible Impacto al TráficoNormalLa instalación incluirá barreras entre la víaciclista y la vía de autos, así que no seráposible parar para dejar o recoger a su estudiante sobre la calle McKinnon Street
durante el mes de demostración. Estopuede que cause tráfico adicional en el área de descenso a la par del estacionamiento
escolar. Le agradecemos su paciencia por el tráfico adicional durante este proyecto.
Outreach Materials - Drop-off Flier
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Green means space
for biking
Barriers protect people
walking and biking from
cars
El cuadro verde es un
espacio para bicicletas.
Estas barreras protegen del trafico de carros a personas caminando o en bicicleta.
What do these colors mean? ¿Qué significan estos colores? https://saferoutesmonterey.org/planning-salinas
Temporary InstallationApril 20th – May 18thProtected Walking and Biking Installation Coming to McKinnon Street Proyecto Temporal
20 de Abril - 18 de Mayo
Instalación Para Caminar y Andar en Bicicleta de
Manera Protegida Viene a la Calle McKinnon
Outreach Materials - Poster
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Social Media Graphic #2 English
Social Media Graphic #1 English
Social Media Graphic #2 Spanish
Social Media Graphic #1 Spanish
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McKinnon Street Temporary Installation
Participant Survey
Encuesta para Participante sobre la
Instalación Temporal en la Calle McKinnon
1. How did you experience the temporary installation? Select all that apply/ ¿Cómo uso el espacio de instalación temporal? Selección todas las respuestas que se aplica para usted.
Walking / caminando
Biking / por bicicleta
Driving / manejando
2. How would you describe your experience using this space? For each feature, place a check in the box that best describes your experience. / ¿Cómo calificaría su experiencia usando este espacio? Por favor indique cómo se siento con cada una de las instalaciones en la siguiente lista. Para cada instalación indique la casilla que mejor describa su experiencia.
a. Curb extension / Extensión de acera/banqueta
I love it / Me encanto
I like it / Me gusto
I’m neutral / Neutral
I don’t like it/ No me gusto
I hate it / No me gusto para nada
I did not use it/ No la use
McKinnon Survey
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b. Protected bicycle lanes / Instalación ciclista con barrera protejida I love it / Me encanto
I like it / Me gusto
I’m neutral / Neutral
I don’t like it/ No me gusto
I hate it / No me gusto para nada
I did not use it/ No la use
3. Did you walk or bike more because of the temporary installation? / ¿Caminó o anduvo en bicicleta usted más ahora porque está la instalación temporal? Yes / Si
No / No
4. Would you like to see the temporary improvements made permanent? / ¿Le gustaría ver estos mejoramientos temporales convertidas a instalaciones permanentes? Yes / Si
No / No
Undecided/Indeciso(a)
Maybe – with some changes / Tal vez – con ciertos cambios