Analyses requested for Coast Walk parking Dan Allen presented information from the Coast Walk Committee regarding parking issues on Coast Walk on the east side of the bridge to Torrey Pines Road. In March, the Traffic and Transportation (T&T) Board passed a resolution to recommend that the city restore six parking spaces on the area of Coast Walk east of the bridge to Torrey Pines, and, if feasible, that the city report to the T&T Board what it intends to do before commencing work. In July, the La Jolla Parks and Beaches Committee passed an alternative resolution. The committee asked the city to provide bluff stability and drainage analyses, a map of the lines of the public right of way and an analysis of traffic safety and fire department access issues in order to define possible constraints of additional parking along Coast Walk to the east of the bridge to Torrey Pines Road. Sidewalk gaps concern wheelchair-bound locals La Jolla resident Esther Viti expressed concern over unsafe sidewalk ramps where the asphalt from the road meets the cement. “When you’re on the road and you want to get onto the sidewalk and there’s a little ramp, good luck, because there’s a little section of the road and the entrance of the path to the sidewalk where there’s a gap, and there are probably 150 to 200 intersections that are that way,” she said. She specifically spoke of the how the problem affects pedestrians in wheelchairs. “We’ve got a disaster on our hands,” she said of the problem. “Every sidewalk is pitched to the disadvantage of the disabled.” Viti said she will do her part to compile a list of these intersections and submit them to the T&T. Neighbors weigh options to slow pace of major La Jolla thoroughfare La Jolla Scenic South resident Ed Ward expressed his concern about the “speedway” on his road. “As people come down from the cross, they pass the green light at Soledad Mountain Road, they pass the green light at Nautilus and they’re doing 50 in front of my house,” he said. “I’m willing to work with anybody to get it done — to slow the traffic down on La Jolla Scenic South — but obviously we need to do it the right way.” Board members discussed options such as adding a bike lane to both sides of the street or increasing the speed limit to make the southbound side of the road radar-enforceable. T&T Board chairman Todd Lesser advised that Ward first garner neighbors’ support to alleviate the mass of speeding commuters from southern beaches to the university. “I’m sure the neighbors will sign up for just about anything that will slow it down,” he said. Other notes: T&T Board members voted unanimously to install yield signs facing traffic on Beaumont Avenue and Via del Norte. The signs will be placed on the corners in both north and southbound directions. Lesser announced that District 1 City Councilwoman Sherri Lightner and her staff discussed coordinating the Torrey Pines Corridor and retaining wall stabilization projects at the same time. Further details regarding T&T’s requirements to get the project in place will be presented at the next T&T Board meeting on Aug. 25.