Native and state officers are working to offer a significant makeover to the Freeway 17/9 interchange in Los Gatos, upgrading the roads to scale back site visitors congestion and enhance bike and pedestrian mobility.
Residents can provide enter and solutions at a digital public scoping assembly on the State Route 17 Hall Congestion Reduction Challenge on Thursday, Might 19, at 6 p.m.
The city of Los Gatos is working with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority and the state Division of Transportation to make the $40-$50 million in proposed development enhancements.
Site visitors on Freeway 17 has been an ongoing difficulty in Los Gatos. A current survey commissioned by the city confirmed that 40% of residents have been both dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with site visitors congestion on the town, particularly the seashore site visitors that grows over the summer time.
“As council is aware of, we’ve been engaged on site visitors circulate for in regards to the final six or seven years in several types,” city supervisor Laurel Prevetti stated. “We’ve invested fairly a bit on seashore site visitors, attempting a variety of totally different strategies. This isn't a solvable drawback, which I do know could be very irritating for our residents.”
Officers stated the challenge will modify the on- and offramps of the Freeway 17/9 interchange in Los Gatos, and widen Freeway 17 to eradicate bottlenecks between Lark Avenue and the interchange.
They will even put in site visitors indicators, traveler info programs and “full streets” options for bike and pedestrian journey.
Development may begin as quickly as 2026, in response to the VTA. Funding for the challenge comes from the 2016 Measure B gross sales tax in Santa Clara County.
Residents have till June 6 to submit public feedback to sr17-corridor@vta.org.
For particulars and to RSVP to Thursday’s assembly, go to http://sr17corridor.eventbrite.com.