Salinas traffic calming finds specific locations
The Salinas City Council is making a new effort to slow down drivers in residential parts of the city.
After months of research, the council announced three areas in Salinas that will receive help in slowing drivers down. Traffic calming involves installing things like speed bumps, unique striping on streets, roundabouts, or other things that might slow down drivers. Two spots will be in parts of North Salinas, while the third will be a notorious area in Central Salinas.
“It almost feels like a freeway, because people pass by here super fast. They never go with the speed limit,” said Salinas Resident Karina Ramirez.
“So you’re looking at one of those hot spots. Cars that have been hit, gone through the front of people’s homes, deaths, injuries. So here at Nacional, we’ve seen issues for more than a decade, and now we finally have the data to back it up, and something’s got to be done and something will be done,” said Salinas District Three City Councilman Steve McShane.
We don’t know exactly how much the work will cost yet, but the city says it will be studied and installed within a year.
