Turn ban to calm Maria/Paulina traffic
Left turns will be banned on North Paulina and North Maria avenues, from 190th Street, to throttle back cut-through traffic and speeding. Image courtesy City of Redondo Beach A new set of City Council-approved traffic calming plans, residents hope, will put a cap on excess speeding and cut-throughs in one Redondo Beach neighborhood. Redondo will restrict left turns, from 6:30 to 9 a.m., on to the 500 to 600 block of North Paulina Avenue, and the 700 to 800 block of North Maria Avenue. The city will also look at closing Paulina Avenue with a cul-de-sac to cut-off pass-through traffic. Residents along the street have been concerned for years about traffic speeds and volumes on their quiet residential street. The blocks neighbor both Beryl Heights Elementary School and Redondo Union High School. “The biggest problem is people taking their kids to and from Redondo Union,” one Paulina resident testified before the City Council. “They’re using our street as a cut-through.” Traffic issues along these blocks have come to City Hall frequently, according to residents such as Paulina Avenue’s Candace Nafissi, who said that this has been a problem since 2008. “Residents began to talk; they’ve…
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