Anonymous
Source: City of Goleta
The City is aware of concerns regarding traffic congestion, accidents and near accidents occurring at or just before the northbound off-ramp at the Glenn Annie/Storke Road Highway 101 interchange. Goleta’s Mayor Paula Perotte has reached out to Caltrans to request that improvements be made to increase vehicle safety and traffic flow in this area.
In the meantime, we are also contacting the Highway Patrol and Santa Barbara Sheriff’s offices to seek information on peak time traffic at this location, as well as their recommendations to maximize safety at this location. We hope to provide information soon on peak times (and days) to avoid this location, alternate routes and possibly other measures to improve this situation.
We are committed to ensuring public safety and reduced traffic congestion and we will keep everyone updated on efforts to identify and implement measures to address congestion-related issues at this exit. In the meantime we encourage you to please use extra caution when approaching or exiting the Glenn Annie/Storke Road off-ramp. Thank you.
It gets crazy in Montecito, south bound off ramp at San Ysidro Road. The traffic in the morning (around 8am) getting off, I would guess for workers. They not only fill up the off ramp but extend along the freeway, a long line of cars waiting to get on the off ramp. When I was growing up most of the people working in Montecito lived there. There were affordable homes for “regular folks”. The big estates had housing for many of their domestic workers.
Five car chain-reaction at 1:30 Saturday. Lots of the cars merging on northbound from Los Carneros get off at Glen Annie – saving themselves from the horrors of a mile on Hollister Avenue. Great for the auto-body shops.
Bodyboarder; I agree with you about the extension of the fast lane on the 101 north; it’s absurd that as a lane terminates, a busy onramp merges cars on the opposite side. Frankly, whoever approved this back in the early two thousands was not very bright.
However, I disagree with you on your suggestion that a private landowner should be forced, through eminent domain, to surrender part of their land due to the error, perhaps even malfeasance, of some highly paid public servant. We pay these people to do a job, and if there is no accountability, then the private sector will continually get stuck paying the piper, as the saying goes. I’ve seen pictures of all the local crucial people breaking ground with gold painted shovels, smiling and very clean, but when things go wrong, I have never seen one of them own up to their inherent responsibility. It’s a child’s game of “heads I win, tails you lose”.
My God… So I get that WE elected these people, but how come everyone seems to have no common sense? If you build and build and build, there needs to be infrastructure! Don’t let all of these horrible apartments/condos/whatever big box housing or big box retail be developed until or unless proper infrastructure is already made for it. Our water supply, our roads, and our people don’t want it! WTF already?!? Maybe if our local government managed themselves and their pensions properly they wouldn’t be so desperate for the tax $.
I was born here… 50 + years ago… I’m just speechless. My town Is gone.
Snort!
The pay and pensions of Goleta City workers is well above the rest of us humble Goletians. Just smile and be happy.
They certainly are!
Mistakes or not.
There are no problems with traffic flow and safety in Goleta (or anywhere else in the south county ) that haven’t already been solved in similar situations around the world. And Goleta has the huge advantages of a good climate (for driving and construction), mild hills (at least in the highway corridors), and a level of wealth that is the envy of road transportation authorities throughout the world. What Goleta lacks (along with Santa Barbara, Montecito, and most of the rest of California) is the will to solve any significant problem. People would rather bicker than fix anything. Besides, it’s all Trump’s fault.
Y’all are forgetting that one of the original engineering proposals for the the Storke/101 on- and off-ramp intersections included modern roundabouts to keep traffic flowing, not the current traffic lights that force stop-and-go queues. It’s time to reconsider roundabouts! https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/innovative/roundabouts/