Caltrans Will Host a Public Meeting on Upcoming Projects in Eureka

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The following press release was written by Caltrans Public Information Officer, Myles Cochrane:

Caltrans To Host Meeting On Eureka Projects Feb. 28

 

Caltrans will soon host a public meeting about upcoming and proposed projects located in the City of Eureka.

Staff will be presenting information and answering questions related to a safety project at Wabash and Fairfield, safety projects along 4th and 5th Streets, sidewalk and curb projects, an ADA project along Broadway, and a conceptual couplet on Koster Street.

Members of the public are invited to review displays, watch a presentation, and ask questions.

The City of Eureka will also provide information on their upcoming Broadway Multimodal Transportation Corridor Study.

Caltrans Public Meeting on Eureka Projects

5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 28

Wharfinger Building, 1 Marina Way, Eureka

The press release mentions several projects in Eureka.  The only one currently available on the Caltrans District 1 website is the Broadway ADA compliance project which covers Highway 101 from Herrick Avenue north almost to the curve.

 Eureka ADA compliance project

Map of the Caltrans Eureka ADA compliance project

The California Environmental Quality Act document posted on the Caltrans District 1 Projects page describes the Broadway ADA project,

This ADA improvement project is located on US Route 101 in Humboldt County within the City of Eureka from post miles (PM) 75.3 to 77.6, from just north of the Herrick Interchange to just north of Cedar Street.
The scope of work would include replacing or installing curb ramps, sidewalks, driveways, and splitter islands. The project would also include drainage improvements and the installation of audible pedestrian systems at all existing signalized intersections.
The purpose of this project is to address ADA deficiencies on US Route 101 within the project limits. The is project is needed because US Route 101 within the project limits was identified as a priority location for ADA upgrades as a number of pedestrian facilities do not meet current ADA standards.

The public meeting will also include a presentation on Eureka’s Multimodal Project on Broadway. Mulitmodal transportation projects aim to improve transportation options other than automobiles. According to the Humboldt County Association of Governments (HCAOG) website in their Request For Proposals which closed January 25th,

Pursuant to the Streets and Highways Code (SHC), a comprehensive multimodal corridor plan … must be designed to reduce congestion in highly travelled corridors by providing more transportation choices for residents, commuters, and visitors to the area of the corridor while preserving the character of the local community and creating opportunities for neighborhood enhancement projects.

[And] reflect a comprehensive approach to addressing congestion and quality-of -life issues within the corridor through investment in transportation and related environmental solutions.

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Willie caos- mayhem
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5 years ago

🕯Do you know how many years a group of us along with a group of disabled people petitioned the city for a lawfully made sidewalk made up to ADA standards?
🕯Thank you Kelley for that very valuable information. 😁

Bushytails
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Bushytails
5 years ago

Sidewalks are OK, but those fucking yellow bump things they keep putting in should be illegal.

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago

It would be nice if they could bypass Eureka like they have Ukiah, Willits, and many other towns.

CnD
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CnD
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

There was a plan decades ago for a crosstown freeway. Properties were even purchased. It was scrapped mainly due to the objections of business owners with stores on 4th & 5th streets.

guest
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guest
5 years ago
Reply to  CnD

Unfortunately since the city is sandwiched between the bay and coastal range, the only area to pave over would be lots of wet lands, sloughs. unstable soils and various drainages. It would be constant court cases.

I remember the freeway reroute being scrapped due to funding issues rather than local objections.

DALE L. WARMUTH,
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DALE L. WARMUTH,
5 years ago
Reply to  CnD

The issue of backing away from a city bypass was Moonbeam redistributed Cal trans monies with a much greater emphasis to mass transit.

hmm
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hmm
5 years ago
Reply to  CnD

That’s so sad. The short sighted greed of property owners prevented the city from enacting intelligent plans.

Y Knot?
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Y Knot?
5 years ago

Definitely building a wall around Eureka with the 101 becoming an elevated road above the prison, should be on the agenda.

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago
Reply to  Y Knot?

“The 101”?

Is Y Knot from LA?

A greenrushing transplant who came to grow weed and raise pitbulls?

I’ll bet he has the sweetest growdozer in SoHum.

Keep rockin that flat bill Y Knot. Classics never go out of style.

Y Knot?
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Y Knot?
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

Classics like hippie music, classic like marihuana taking lives and wrecking communities, or classic like golden pit bull statues?

Yup…..

well . .
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well . .
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

What do you call it when you want to refer to both Broadway and 4th/5th? I’ve only been here for 13 years but I call it the 101.

Ben Round
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Ben Round
5 years ago

Was a looooooong time ago that they were planning to build an alternate route for 101 through Eureka .
Anyone believe that a Eureka bypass or ‘pass-through’ is still possible? (Yes. I know about some of the environmental concerns as expressed in comments above). If so, how and where?
Do Eureka residents want that?
In my opinion it would be nice to get the huge trucks out of town, to help with the atmosphere/quality of life. Yet with the local economic downturn, it may also be a challenging time to lose more sources of income.
If nothing else, some ‘beautification’ along Broadway would help. (And, rumor has it that In N Out is (was?) going to to be moving in at the old truck truck stop north of Harris street. That would be yummy!).

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

It’s not a lack of beauty that makes Broadway a PITA. It’s the battle of too many vehicles versus too many pedestrians with neither group being very civil. Too many driveways , too many streets entering directly on the one road.

I wonder if having a series of service roads running parallel to Broadway to funnel all those drivers to fewer places to enter the road and use stop lights to regulate that process might not be the only real option left at this point.

Willie caos- mayhem
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5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

🕯There we go common sense thinking, thank you.

Sam
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Sam
5 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

I would like to see Caltrans plant trees, shubs, and ground cover along Broadway. We have to drive it, let’s make it lol better!

hmm
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hmm
5 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

It maybe be unrealistic. Because profits for publicly traded companies are reported quarterly, our entire socitey is myopic. Projects with large costs and long term benefits are a real struggle to accomplish.

picchu
Guest
5 years ago

Caltrans and the state did not end the bypass project. The proposed route along 6th and 7th streets was controversial and properties already purchased for right of way were sold off because the EUREKA CITY COUNSEL said they did not want the bypass. Caltrans had no choice at that time, the 1990s, but to sell off those properties it had maintained for years awaiting local support for a bypass. Much of the proposed route included the Bayshore Mall area and Waterfront Drive. Once the mall was built, that alternative became unviable. All the cities south of us who have allowed a freeway bypass have thrived since the constructions. Downtown Willits is no longer a 45 minute nightmare to get through town. Ukiah was bypassed in the 1960s. They have a very busy commercial presence and an in town business district without the truck traffic and through traffic that uses the bypass. Cloverdale has a pedestrian mall through town where 101 traffic used to clog their community day and night.

For accuracy sake, please refrain from blaming Caltrans for not having a bypass. That agency did its public duty to support and plan for a bypass. The local government and business community in a formal vote said they did not want the bypass anymore. So it was scrapped and the properties were sold off. Blame for lack of a bypass is solely on the shoulders of LOCAL GOVERNMENT, not the state.

“Moonbeam” had nothing to do with the bypass. It was planned years after his first term and it ended years before his second time in office.

Those are facts and a matter of public record.

As if
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As if
5 years ago
Reply to  picchu

I used to live in a rental on 9th that the owners purchased from Caltrans for a song. I seem to recall 3 proposed bypass routes for 101 through Eureka; a raised freeway over old town, a 6th and 7th streets route, and an inland route roughy following old Arcata road.

I propose meeting the challenge of sea leve rise head on and route 101 north of Arcata to the north spit and cross the bay entrance with a smaller version of the Golden Gate Bridge. Maybe we could paint it emerald green lol ! 🙂

That said, good job Caltrans for trying to make the Wabash/101/Fairfield intersection safer. It’s right outside one of thier offices after all

Willie caos- mayhem
Guest
5 years ago

🕯Old Town is like a bank robbers heaven. All the Banks and businesses like a few other areas of Humboldt offer criminals a buffet of criminal opportunities. Alas the houseless problem.

Dessicant Packet
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Dessicant Packet
5 years ago

There were several versions of Eureka “bypass” none of them were really satisfactory and none of them really “bypassed” the town, more like cut it in two, requiring demolishing many smaller homes. The bigger Vickys were going to be moved closer to the Bay for that “Victorian Seaport Village” folly. I don’t think we will ever get a bypass. Water under the bridge. We need to make the best of what we’ve got. The improvements to Broadway I hope will make it safer for all pedestrians and bicyclists and cars as well. ADA of course, is required.

Steve Parr
Guest
5 years ago

Years ago I rented a CalTrans-owned house. I asked about their freeway plans and was told the word out of Sacramento was that there would be no freeway through Eureka until there was freeway to Eureka.

That’s a long ways off.