Upper De La Vina Intersection Safety Improvements

This Project includes a water main replacement & intersection safety enhancements project along Upper De La Vina Street. These enhancements include curb extensions, high-visibility crosswalks, and streetlights. When complete, Upper De La Vina Street from Constance to Micheltorena Streets will be repaved and restriped.

Location: De La Vina Street from Constance Avenue to Micheltorena Street and at the intersection of Junipero Street and Alamar Avenue
Project timeline: The water main replacement was completed in fall 2025. Intersection safety improvements should be completed early spring 2027.

This Project is critical to traffic safety for all road users, with a specific focus on our roads’ most vulnerable users – pedestrians and cyclists. The Project also includes a water main replacement critical to health and safety of our residents.

De La Vina Street is a high priority corridor for collision reduction as part of the City Council adopted Vision Zero Strategy for eliminating serious and fatal injuries caused by traffic collisions. De La Vina Street was identified due to the frequency of pedestrian involved collisions. As a corridor, De La Vina Street ranks number two for the most bike and pedestrian collisions (combined) in the City. Public Works has been successful in obtaining grants along this corridor over the past several years, with recent construction of the Downtown De La Vina Street Safe Crosswalks and Buffered Bike Lanes Project, Downtown De La Vina Street Lighting Project, and safety upgrades from standard pavement maintenance projects.

The efforts of these improvements consist of 6 different project, with the Active Transportation Program and Highway Safety Improvements Program Grant Funds as well as City Funds. These projects include: 

• Upper De La Vina Street Gap Closure and Safe Crossings Project
• Highway Safety Improvement Project at De La Vina Street and Los Olivos Street
• Highway Safety Improvement Project at De La Vina Street and Pedregosa Street 
• Highway Safety Improvement Project at De La Vina Street and Valerio Street
• Intersection Safety Improvement Project at De La Vina Street and Islay Street
• De La Vina Water Main Replacement Project

The City Council Meeting for Award of Construction is November 12, 2024. 

The City is proposing a pilot restriping project on De La Vina Street between Padre Street and the block between Valerio and Arrellaga Streets.  The previous restriping project on upper De La Vina Street was completed in 2021 between Constance Avenue and Padre Street and reduced the number of traffic lanes from two to one, and added a bike lane with buffers to provide additional space between the traffic lane, bike lane, and parking lanes.  The previous restriping project intentionally stopped short of the Mission Street intersection due to City staff’s concerns of creating congestion at the De La Vina Street and Mission Street intersection. Since the previous restriping project was completed, the number of injury collisions has decreased with no noticeable change in travel time. 

The City has received requests from residents south of Mission Street to extend the one traffic lane configuration further south to improve safety and reduce traffic speeds. The City has performed detailed traffic studies to understand the viability of extending the one lane section.  Extending the one traffic lane configuration to the block between Valerio and Arrellaga Streets is anticipated to work well most of the time.  There is potential that traffic will be unable to clear the signal at Mission Street every cycle during peak hours, particularly around 5:00 p.m. on weekdays.  City Staff are recommending this as a one-year pilot project so the community can see and experience the changes, and provide input whether to make the changes permanent, or revert back to two traffic lanes. 

De La Vina Street is scheduled for repaving once the crosswalk project is complete, which is anticipated to be in early 2027 pending any weather delays. Repaving is an opportunity to reconfigure the street to improve safety.

Watch the De La Vina Street Pilot Restriping Project Zoom Webinar on August 12, 2026.

Project Links: 

• De La Vina Street Restriping Pilot Project PowerPoint Presentation
• De La Vina Street Restriping Pilot Project Strip Map