The individuals who have attached their signature below hereby petition the City Council of The City of Jacksonville Florida to proceed immediately with the planned reconstruction of San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, Florida, from Beach Boulevard to Atlantic Boulevard. Alternatively, a separate lane, wide enough for bicycle and pedestrian traffic, should be constructed.
This petition is promulgated after a serious accident involving a vehicle and bicycle on New Year's Day 2014, that being sufficient and final evidence, along with other accidents and near accidents in prior years, that immediate action is a necessity. This reconstruction, which will add lanes for safe bicycle and pedestrian transit along the road, is important to residents due to the heavy traffic using San Pablo, which is a conduit to and from south to north and to and from the beach, Mayport, and Mayport Naval Station. The road has no berms along most of its course and so the constant traffic presents significant danger to (especially elderly) bicyclists who cannot keep up with traffic at speed limit for the duration of the road's length, and/or who fear riding in automobile traffic on this road at a lesser speed.
Further, the badly damaged sidewalk makes walking thereon dangerous. The sidewalk has heaved significantly and has many dangerous drop offs from the concrete edge to the earth below. The sidewalk is also made dangerous to all because, for their own safety, bicycle riders must use the sidewalk together with pedestrians (of which there is a constant flow) due to the lack of bike lanes in the road.
This is an urgent need to prevent further danger to life and limb of residents in the neighborhoods using this important road in our community.
Updates
February 1, 2014
The momentum is undeniable. City Hall has to listen when numbers look like this.
14 Comments
I agree that San Pablo is a safety hazard, however, for those of us who own homes that backup to the road, we do not want the road widened. Cars are already practically passing through our back yards, not to mention, into our back yards. The key is to enforce the speed limit, I mean seriously enforce it. The stretch between Beach and Atlantic is 35 mph. With improved sidewalks and speed enforcement, we can reduce the number of incidents on this road. Those of you who live in this area should help enforce the speed limit by abiding to it ourselves. Maybe those who use the road as a cut-through will get tired of driving behind someone who is placing the safety of others first. Making San Pablo wider is just going to increase speed, this is a residential road and needs to be treated as one.
We need this for safety. Many parents & children use this road & sidewalk to go to Alimicani Elementary School. It is of utmost importance to improve this road & sidewalk for our families.
We need bike lanes!
Maybe more traffic lights, and wide sidewalk/bike path combo similar to the one on Kernin near UNF ...and of course enforced speed limits.
The addition of the apartments at San Pablo and Atlantic, along with another neighborhood at Pablo Cay is really going to put added traffic on the already congested road. The sidewalks are horrible!!!
That skinny thread of concrete called a sidewalk is a hazard in itself. Crossing San Pablo to get to the sidewalk on the east side is insane. I really hope that our elected officials will seriously consider improvement for the multible communities (voters) along this route.
Pedestrian traffic to elementary school is heavy, not to mention others using sidewalks for physical exercise, recreation, dog walking and transportation pathways. Our area is growing with leaps and bounds but using the sidewalks along San Pablo can be considered 'risky' at best. Please don't let a severe injury or death be the determining factor when our sidewalks are brought up to standards. Thank you.
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The individuals who have attached their signature below hereby petition the City Council of The City of Jacksonville Florida to proceed immediately with the planned reconstruction of San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, Florida, from Beach Boulevard to Atlantic Boulevard. Alternatively, a separate lane, wide enough for bicycle and pedestrian traffic, should be constructed.
This petition is promulgated after a serious accident involving a vehicle and bicycle on New Year's Day 2014, that being sufficient and final evidence, along with other accidents and near accidents in prior years, that immediate action is a necessity. This reconstruction, which will add lanes for safe bicycle and pedestrian transit along the road, is important to residents due to the heavy traffic using San Pablo, which is a conduit to and from south to north and to and from the beach, Mayport, and Mayport Naval Station. The road has no berms along most of its course and so the constant traffic presents significant danger to (especially elderly) bicyclists who cannot keep up with traffic at speed limit for the duration of the road's length, and/or who fear riding in automobile traffic on this road at a lesser speed.
Further, the badly damaged sidewalk makes walking thereon dangerous. The sidewalk has heaved significantly and has many dangerous drop offs from the concrete edge to the earth below. The sidewalk is also made dangerous to all because, for their own safety, bicycle riders must use the sidewalk together with pedestrians (of which there is a constant flow) due to the lack of bike lanes in the road.
This is an urgent need to prevent further danger to life and limb of residents in the neighborhoods using this important road in our community.
Updates
February 1, 2014
The momentum is undeniable. City Hall has to listen when numbers look like this.
14 Comments
My husband is legally blind and it is nearly impossible for him to walk down to Beach Blvd.because there is no light to stop the constant flow of traffic and the lack of a sidewalk on the west side of San Pablo.
I agree that San Pablo is a safety hazard, however, for those of us who own homes that backup to the road, we do not want the road widened. Cars are already practically passing through our back yards, not to mention, into our back yards. The key is to enforce the speed limit, I mean seriously enforce it. The stretch between Beach and Atlantic is 35 mph. With improved sidewalks and speed enforcement, we can reduce the number of incidents on this road. Those of you who live in this area should help enforce the speed limit by abiding to it ourselves. Maybe those who use the road as a cut-through will get tired of driving behind someone who is placing the safety of others first. Making San Pablo wider is just going to increase speed, this is a residential road and needs to be treated as one.
We need this for safety. Many parents & children use this road & sidewalk to go to Alimicani Elementary School. It is of utmost importance to improve this road & sidewalk for our families.
We need bike lanes!
Maybe more traffic lights, and wide sidewalk/bike path combo similar to the one on Kernin near UNF ...and of course enforced speed limits.
The addition of the apartments at San Pablo and Atlantic, along with another neighborhood at Pablo Cay is really going to put added traffic on the already congested road. The sidewalks are horrible!!!
That skinny thread of concrete called a sidewalk is a hazard in itself. Crossing San Pablo to get to the sidewalk on the east side is insane. I really hope that our elected officials will seriously consider improvement for the multible communities (voters) along this route.
Pedestrian traffic to elementary school is heavy, not to mention others using sidewalks for physical exercise, recreation, dog walking and transportation pathways. Our area is growing with leaps and bounds but using the sidewalks along San Pablo can be considered 'risky' at best. Please don't let a severe injury or death be the determining factor when our sidewalks are brought up to standards. Thank you.
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My husband is legally blind and it is nearly impossible for him to walk down to Beach Blvd.because there is no light to stop the constant flow of traffic and the lack of a sidewalk on the west side of San Pablo.