Plan B Overview & Description

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PLAN B Overview & Description

Consistent with the Goals of Plan B, Plan B offers to properly handle the forecasted traffic volume AND be ACCOMPLISHED:

- without compromising the Environment

- without cutting down any of the specimen trees along the roadway

- without “taking” any significant areas from Bidwell Park

- and improve local air quality at the same time without any cost.

- and provide bike lanes throughout the corridor

- and provide safe jogger and pedestrian crossing of Manzanita

- and provide safe equestrian crossing of Manzanita Avenue

- AND Accomplish all of these things and many more at a cost of less than 20% of project cost now listed in the City of Chico Capital Improvement Program.

Plan B proposes to improve the Manzanita within its current 60 Foot Wide right-of-way. Using a 2 lane roadway as recommended in the Chico General Plan for Scenic Roadways, with roundabouts at the intersections of Manzanita & Hooker Oak Avenues, and at Manzanita & Valombrosa Avenue.

Plan B offers many advantages to the other alternatives, while costing $8 million dollars less than the most expensive alternative. Yet, at Chico General Plan buildout, Plan B gets the average vehicle through this traffic corridor 4 min 39 seconds compared with the 4 min 12 seconds for the $9.3 Million Alternative 2.

$9,000,000.00

To save 27 Seconds on a drive thru a valuable and scenic area? That's Foolish!

See the Comparison Table Here

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