{"id":27957,"date":"2025-06-30T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/27957\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:00:08","slug":"pb-pathways-phase-3-to-refresh-traffic-calming-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/27957\/","title":{"rendered":"PB Pathways Phase 3 to refresh traffic-calming measures"},"content":{"rendered":"

PACIFIC BEACH \u2013 Nonprofit beautifulPB<\/a> is making strides to create a safer, more connected community, including advances in mobility efforts for PB Pathways Phase 3.<\/p>\n

The PB Pathways<\/a> initiative is about implementing low-cost traffic-calming measures in areas identified by the beach community to make streets safer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the city is in a budget deficit, we are continuing forward with advocacy for safe travel and beautiful infrastructure\u00a0through searches for grant funding, donations, and donations,\u201d said Ryan Stock, president of the grassroots group. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur focus remains squarely on our core mission: enhancing mobility, celebrating arts and culture, and fostering green spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stock noted that plans for Phase 3 improvements were approved by Pacific Beach\u2019s Parking District last November. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now seeking funding and community input on individual pieces,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cWe are pursuing an\u00a0agreement with the city to beautify the traffic circle at Foothill and Loring, enhancing this critical traffic investment with PB flair. We are confident that investments in good infrastructure\u00a0are worthy of funds even in tighter financial conditions, and are working hard to find those sources.\u201d<\/p>\n

One example, noted Stock, was a county grant awarded to beautifulPB last year to improve the group\u2019s annual\u00a0PB Counts<\/a>. That project assesses non-motorized versus motorized traffic in designated parts of the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of an\u00a0effort to improve our understanding of travel in PB and make data-driven recommendations, we have activated two traffic-counting cameras that tally modes of travel, while maintaining strict privacy for our community,\u201d said Stock. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe cameras count traffic on Ocean Boulevard (Shore Club), and PB Drive across from Kendall-Frost Marsh, providing critical information about how pedestrians, vehicles, and bikes use the roads in these areas. We\u2019ve found that active travel is a quarter of all passing vehicles in one section of PB Drive across from Kendall-Frost marsh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stock explained that PB Pathways is a series of low-traffic neighborhood street initiatives dating back to 2014. He added that the concept is to have roadways designed as \u201cbike boulevards,\u201d otherwise known as neighborhood greenways.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are almost all shared road spaces, not bike lanes,\u201d Stock said. \u201cThe idea is that these are the routes locals, who know the safest streets, use to get around and that by improving them we can lower the barriers of entry to activate travel around PB.\u201d<\/p>\n

PB Pathways Phases 1 and 2 were started in 2015. The long-term project involved installing PB Pathways decals and way-finding signage along a portion of the overall planned pathways roadway network.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Phase 3, we\u2019re looking to refresh that network with some of the roads being repaved while adding additional ways of finding signs on more of the network,\u201d Stock said. He added the renewed focus is now on \u201cplaces people are already traveling on,\u201d characterized by \u201clots of all-way stops\u201d as well as those needing better, safer crossings, such as Garnet, Grand, and Ingraham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PACIFIC BEACH \u2013 Nonprofit beautifulPB is making strides to create a safer, more connected community, including advances in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,24151,1582,276,10505,24152,24153,3549,7264,314,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-27957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-beautifulpb","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-exclude-homepage","13":"tag-pacific-beach","14":"tag-pb-pathways","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-traffic","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114774097491488738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}