No shortage of opinion on Marysville traffic
We asked readers for their thoughts on the traffic situation through Marysville. Within an hour or so of posting the query on our Facebook page, we had 60 comments; by the next morning 139.
We asked: “Have you been caught in a jam? Where’s it worst? What do you think about the truck traffic? What should be done to alleviate problems and what are the priorities? Also, any thoughts about 5th Street, coming off the bridge?”
Here are some more of the comments:
Kayla Bandurske: I want a bigger push for public transportation and safer bike lanes. It’s not a popular opinion, but it’s the most realistic in the long term. We need a tram/ train that would run through Yuba, Marysville, Olivehurst, Oroville/chico. I think everyone is tired of more traffic and tearing down more historic buildings. The only solution is for people to leave their cars at home and take the bus.
Allyson Tom: Caltrans is in the middle of getting the Highway 70 project up and running. You think traffic is a hassle now? This will put more traffic into Marysville from the north, which is fine, except that they don’t have any plans for when the traffic reachesthe bottleneck at Marysville High school on its way in . ... The entire project is an expensive bandaid anyway – a temporary fix. What we should be doing is bypassing Marysville the first time around instead of waiting for the issues to get worse …
Rebecca Stewart: I personally
no cars were taken off the road by this huge investment, leaving the I-10 as congested as ever.
But the anti-automobile campaign persists. In San Diego, city officials voted to eliminate parking requirements in new construction, even large apartment and condominium projects. Their theory is that residents will use buses, ride-sharing and bicycles if they don’t have their own parking spaces. This ignores the reality that in cities with parking shortages, a lucrative rental market already exists for what spaces there are.
Meanwhile, state government, spurred by the same unproven theories, pushes cities to dedicate more and more land for new housing, even where developers have expressed little or no interest in starting new projects.
Local governments which know the preferences and needs of their residents best are taken to task for failing to report progress toward the state’s housing think if they did not have a traffic light at every single intersection it would speed things up with more of an easy flow of traffic. Cause the lights are all messed up, as soon as one turns green the other light turns red.
Lisa Morrell: Bypass Marysville altogether. Lincoln has a bypass and they still have plenty of business
Maddy Laffond: Every time I come off of the 5th street bridge into Marysville there’s almost an accident because people are not paying attention. I go out of my way to take the other bridge. People don’t realize there’s a light sometimes and I’ve seen someone behind me have to swerve and almost didn’t stop in time because they don’t pay attention. goals. One recent state report singled out 31 Southern California cities for failing to file such reports. The same study showed that 100 out of 539 cities statewide filed no such reports over the last five years.
At the same time, MTA directors ordered their staff to write a regional analysis of so-called “congestion pricing.” That’s a concept used in a few cities worldwide – London among them – which sees drivers charged either a per-mile use tax or an entry fee for heading into the most congested areas. The study will also try to determine what might happen if for-hire ride-share vehicles had to pay fees for using city streets.
The politicians pushing all these measures ought to heed some of California’s political history and see for themselves what happened to Gianturco, who pioneered in their mode of thinking. Along with her boss, then-gov. Brown, she learned painfully that letting unproven theories or ones known to be false determine public policies and actions can prove personally and politically disastrous.
Shane Wild: I wonder if they could make Marysville a huge round about. Make the lanes that go around the city with no stopping. Leave the middle a round about of streets also. Lanes specifically for people going to certain highways.
Marlen Perez: Can we get some kind of pot hole filling done to 5th street coming off the bridge. It’s horrible, people will try to avoid them by swerving, almost hitting the cars on the left side.
Jeffrey Andrus: I am concerned that the flow of traffic will be greatly increased on 5th making it even more difficult to cross on foot safely and more dangerous for my kids playing at the park. I was under the apparent false impression that as much traffic as possible would be shunted over to J and 3rd street so that the traffic would go around the city rather than through it. Also, the plans I saw did not show a cross walk with blinking safety lights at the intersection that is most widely used for foot traffic which is 5th and G …
June Fuller: Going over the 5th Street bridge into Marysville is horrible. I will