Let's connect!
Enjoy Mill Valley
  • HOME
  • EVENTS & GUIDES
    • 2020-21 EMV Guide
    • 2021 Mill Valley Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting
    • Winterfest >
      • About Winterfest
    • Calendar
    • Special Events
  • EAT
  • Stay
  • VISIT
    • Muir Woods
    • PLAY
    • Tour
    • Map
    • PRESS
  • SHOP
    • Enjoy Mill Valley Store
    • Shopping Areas
    • Apparel and Jewelry
    • Automotive
    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Biz, Consumer & Professional Services
    • Beauty & Grooming
    • Fitness & Sports
    • Food & Wine
    • Home & Garden
    • Kids & Pets
    • Health & Wellness
    • Nonprofit Organizations
    • Real Estate
    • Specialty Shops
  • A&E
  • EMV Films
  • BLOG
  • Mill Valley Chamber
  • City of Mill Valley
  • CONTACT US
  • Subscribe
  • Advertise on Enjoy Mill Valley
  • ShopMV

County, City Officials Celebrate New Multi-Use Path Roundabout

3/13/2015

0 Comments

 
Want to know what's happening around town? Click here to subscribe to the Enjoy Mill Valley Blog by Email!
Picture
Mill Valley City Councilmember Stephanie Moulton-Peters, Mayor Ken Wachtel and Marin County District 3 Supervisor Kate Sears are joined by City and County officials and stakeholders at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new roundabout on the Mill Valley-Sausalito Multi-Use Path at the end of Sycamore Avenue. Photo courtesy County of Marin.
Officials from the City of Mill Valley and the County of Marin gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 6 for what they hope will be an effective way to slow down bicyclists at a key section of the Mill Valley-Sausalito Multi-Use Path.

The ceremony, which featured Mill Valley Mayor Ken Wachtel, City Councilmember Stephanie Moulton-Peters and Marin County District 3 Supervisor Kate Sears, along with a number of City and County employees and stakeholders, was held to mark the completion of the new roundabout at the intersection of the path and the end of Sycamore Avenue.

“This is such a great collaborative project,” Sears said. “We all know the incredible number of users who use this path. I am really hoping it has an impact on slowing everyone down.”

One of the goals of the roundabout is to improve safety and reduce tension on the path, where the interface of many different types and large numbers of users often creates friction. There are well over a half-million people who use the path between March and November each year and as many as 700 pedestrians and bicyclists use it over a two-hour period each day, according to the annual WalkBikeMarin Path Counts. 

That friction became a major issue in late 2014, when a cyclist crashed into two young soccer players, injuring all three of them. Residents and users of the path called for the County, which owns and manages the path itself, to enforce speed limits for cyclists. That enforcement has increased, and County officials are considering lower the speed limit from 15mph to 10mph for portions of or all of the path, both as a way to improve safety on the path but also as a way to divert faster cyclists from the path and onto Almonte Blvd. and Camino Alto.

The roundabout also includes a small plaza with a bike map kiosk and water fountain. The $368,000 project was built by Ghilotti Brothers and paid for primarily via Parks and Open Space Measure A funds.


The roundabout is a key piece to the larger efforts to improve safety for bicyclists and pedestrians in the area around Mill Valley Mill School. In 2014, the City built multi-use paths along Camino Alto between Miller and Sycamore avenues and on Sycamore between Camino Alto and the Multi-Use Path, and also added sharrows, which indicate to bicyclists and motorists that the roadway is shared by bikes and cars, along segments of Sycamore and Locust Avenues and La Goma Street.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture

    Subscribe to the free Enjoy Mill Valley Blog

    * required
    Click here to subscribe to the free Enjoy Mill Valley Blog by Email!

    RSS Feed

    Blog Archives

    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013

    Categories

    All
    142 Throckmorton
    Art
    Arts & Entertainment
    City Council
    City Of Mill Valley
    County Of Marin
    Depot Plaza
    Downtown Mill Valley
    Emergency Preparedness
    First Tuesday Artwalk
    Food & Drink
    Holidays
    Kiddo!
    Live Music
    Local Laws
    Marin Mommies
    Marin Theatre Company
    Miller Avenue
    Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival
    Mill Valley Film Festival
    Mill Valley History
    Mill-valley-in-the-news
    Mill Valley Library
    Mill Valley Market
    Mill Valley School District
    Mount Tamalpais
    MV Chamber Biz Buzz
    Parks & Recreation
    Philanthropy
    Public Restrooms
    Restaurants
    Shopping
    Strawberry Village
    Sweetwater Music Hall
    Tam High
    Tam Junction
    Tam Valley
    The Redwoods
    Volunteerism

Picture
   
85 Throckmorton Avenue
Mill Valley, Callifornia 94941
415.388.9700
info@millvalley.org



Copyright 2018 Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center
All images used with permission and/or source attribution.
Site Design by Linda Rosso Marketing and Communications