Local residents got a peek at proposals to improve traffic along the Rosecrans Street corridor and provided their input last Thursday. The Rosecrans corridor mobility study’s working group presented its preliminary alternative during an open house Nov. 12 at Liberty Station’s NTC Events Center. “Tonight we’re trying to gather feedback on our preliminary recommended alternative and we’ll take that information, compile it and present it to our project working group,” said project manager Dawn Wilson of RBF Consulting. Seven stations were set up at the open house. They covered the project background and corridor overview, each of the four sections of the corridor and regional long-term improvements. There was also a large projection screen giving a digital approximation of what transportation within the corridor could look like down the road. At each of the four corridor section areas, large street maps were set up with specific labeled changes. Community members could voice their concerns on 26 specific issues and provide their own comments about the survey. “We’ll take all the different surveys and we’ll compile how many people say they like [an alternative], how many were neutral and how many say they dislike it, and we’ll take that and fold it into a process we do when we look at different alternatives,” Wilson said. “Community input is one of multiple elements that we use to decide a final recommendation.” The results of the survey were presented to the study’s project working group at its monthly meeting Monday. The open house was the last in a series of three workshops where the public could share their thoughts about the project. “The project working group will hear how the community has rated the various alternatives,” Wilson said. “We’ve got great feedback coming from the community. We’re getting very close to having something we can present to the working groups.” The alternative In the so-called Area 1 (Taylor Street to Lytton Street), suggestions include closure of the Moore Street median, general improvements at the intersection of Sports Arena Boulevard and Midway Drive and extending Sports Arena Boulevard. Long-term alternatives include a realignment of Sports Arena Boulevard and Camino Del Rio. In Area 2 (Lytton Street to Nimitz Boulevard), the alternative includes modified signals at two intersections (Dumas Street and Roosevelt Road, Zola Street and Womble Road) and the consolidation and relocation of transit stops. A long-term improvement is a bicycle boulevard on Evergreen and Locust streets. The proposed alternative in Area 3 (Nimitz Boulevard to Cañon Street), includes re-striping to add six-foot-wide bicycle lanes and landscaped medians and left-turn pockets at intersections. In Area 4 (Cañon Street to Kellogg Street) the alternative includes completing sidewalks on the west side of the street and a mini roundabout at McCall Street. The nine-month mobility study is intended to improve mobility along the corridor and is expected to be completed in February. At that point, findings from the study will be presented to the upper echelon of city government. “We’ll complete a report that will be submitted to the city and eventually that will go to City Council or at least one of the subcommittees for consideration,” Wilson said. As far as a timetable for when these alternatives will actually go in place along Rosecrans, nothing has been established. City project manager Oscar Valdivieso said a timetable is dependant on the availability of funding. “We’ll have to look for money. We need to find other funds to do this,” Valdivieso said. “We hope there is money for this. It will improve the living of this community.” For more information, call Wilson at (760) 476-9193 or visit www.sandiego.gov/engineering-cip/rosecransstudy/.