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Santa Rita Road to Stanley Boulevard will help to reduce delay at Main Street and Ray Street. Protected/permissive left turn phasing is assumed at this intersection in all Year 2025 scenarios. Main Street at St Maws Street Mitigation - None - LOS Policy Exempt Downtown Intersection This intersection will operate at LOS E and F conditions in the Year 2025 as a stop sign controlled intersection. The intersection is exempt from the City's LOS D standard and is assumed to remain stop sign controlled in all Year 2025 scenarios. Santa Rita Road at Black Avenue and Francisco Street Mitigation - New signal at Francisco Street and eliminate westbound traffic at Black Avenue This mitigation attempts to address two separate problems: pedestrian safety crossing Santa Rita Road at Francisco Street, and morning school congestion at Black Avenue. Studies show that there is an elevated risk of pedestrian collisions in painted crosswalks crossing busy multi-lane roads. The City has installed extra pedestrian crossing signs, and has created Keep Clear zones to improve pedestrian safety at Francisco Street. But the ultimate solution to this problem is to remove the painted crosswalk, or to install a traffic signal. A significant amount of traffic traveling to and from Alisal, Amador High, Harvest Park, and Walnut Grove schools, plus morning commuter traffic all try to get through the intersection of Santa Rita Road at Black Avenue during the morning commute period. This creates LOS E conditions under existing conditions, and severe LOS F conditions in future years. installing a traffic signal at Francisco Street and Santa Rita Road would significantly improve pedestrian and traffic safety at this intersection. The Alisal school driveway opposite Black Avenue is striped as three in-only lanes. Signalizing Francisco Street provides an opportunity to reroute traffic exiting the Santa Rita Frontage Road opposite Black Avenue, north to exit the frontage road at the new signal at Francisco Street. Eliminating westbound traffic from the frontage road opposite Black Avenue, and eliminating the north crosswalk, would reduce congestion to LOS D in the morning, and LOS C in the afternoon at Black Avenue. Santa Rita Road at Pimlico Drive/I-580 Ramps Mitigation - Eliminate the south crosswalk, The year 2025 LOS calculations assume that the south crosswalk at this intersection is removed. Almost every freeway off-ramp signal in the City prohibits pedestrians from crossing the wide City street at the interchange. This increases pedestrian safety and reduces congestion by eliminating this vehicle/pedestrian conflict at intersections with very heavy turning movements. A pedestrian crossing Santa Rita Road in this crosswalk requires a much longer green light than do the cars exiting the off- ramp. This disproportionately takes green time away from all of the other people trying to get through this busy intersection. Santa Rita Road at Stanley Boulevard Mitigation - Convert the #1 southbound through lane into a left turn lane and widen Stanley Boulevard to accept two eastbound lanes. l0