Caltrans Activates Hotel’s Private Traffic Signal On PCH
Written by 991KBU on October 22, 2019
Caltrans has turned on the new private traffic light on P C H.
The new pedestrian signal serves the Malibu Beach Inn.
Of course … anyone can push the button and stop traffic on PCH.
But this signal was designed … paid for and installed by the private hotels’s owners … to benefit themselves.
The hotel owners want to move their parking lot across P C H so that they can build a swimming pool for hotel guests where the parking lot now stands.
They convinced the state engineers that the city had approved that plan … when in fact no such approval had ever been granted.
The city’s traffic engineers signed off on the concept … but the planning commission and city council have never approved it.
The traffic light is less than 500 feet from another pedestrian traffic light … on PCH at the pier.
Caltrans originally promised that the two signals would be synchronized … so that they would not turn red at alternating times.
The state went back on that promise … and said it would be technically impossible to synchronize two signals 400 feet apart.
The installation of the new signal … shows that Caltrans runs the show on P C H.
And not the city of Malibu.
