City of Morgan Hill Station Area Master Plan - February 2018

City of Morgan Hill

pedestrian/bicycle collision) and one collision with a vehicle and a bicycle in the 3½ year period. The location with the highest number of collisions is the intersection of Monterey Road and Third Street, including a pedestrian-involved collision that was a fatality. The City installed in-pavement flashers to alert drivers of crossing pedestrians at this location. Planned Improvements The planned roadway improvements in the Downtown area are shown on Figure 1-30. The Circulation Element of the City of Morgan Hill’s General Plan designates Main Avenue as a two-lane roadway with the segment between Depot Street and Butterfield Boulevard planned for four lanes under the city’s planned 2035 improvements. The right-of-way is available. Another General Plan improvement includes widening Dunne Avenue to four lanes between Monterey Road and Del Monte Avenue. Hale Avenue, one block away from Downtown, is planned for an extension to connect to Dewitt Avenue to provide a west-side bypass to Monterey Road. It is currently being designed and the next phase will be right-of-way acquisition. The 2035 General Plan Transportation Element proposes Depot Street be realigned to connect to Church Street to the south. This could be done in conjunction with development on the Hale Lumber Yard site. New traffic signals will be installed at the intersection of Monterey Road and Fourth Street in in late Summer / early Fall of 2017. VTA’s Valley Transportation Plan (VTP) 2040 has two freeway/roadway projects that will affect the Station Area: • New Express Lanes on U.S. Highway 101 between Cochrane Road and SR 25 (Projects H8, H9, and H10) • Extension of Hale Avenue improvements from Main Avenue to DeWitt Avenue to include two vehicle lanes, bicycle lanes, sidewalks, and signal upgrades (Project R10)

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