Guest Opinion | Erika Foy: Time to ‘Stand Up for Pasadena’

The city is unwilling to recognize we have a growing traffic problem and they keep sweeping this issue under the rug. I expect they will do it again with 253 S Los Robles.

The city contends the new large super-sized project will not cause additional traffic to the already impacted area. This is ridiculous.

It would be nice if the project was required to have some traffic mitigation or neighborhood calming measures as we have seen five large projects approved within one block of the corridor with no consideration on the neighborhoods below.

We must try to achieve better traffic calming measures as we grow as a city.

Projects must also be required to help promote Goal 5 of our General Plan with meaningful conditions of approval that reduce vehicle trips.

It is time to ‘Stand Up for Pasadena’ and try and maintain a quality of life for everyone as we grow in high-density projects.

If you look at the traffic report for 650 South Raymond, which just came out, you will see we have begun to have traffic movements in intersections that are failing, especially at Arroyo and Glenarm.

Residents and commuters have to wait 9 minutes for the intersection to move when you are trying to get on the freeway while driving westbound.

Something has to give. We cannot continue to grow and ignore our intersections.

 

Erika Foy is a Pasadena resident who is also a Vice President for Membership of the Madison Heights Neighborhood Association