Roads
The City's Engineering Division oversees street improvement projects and traffic related issues. The City's Community Services Department is responsible for maintenance of the streets, including landscaping, street striping and pot hole repair.
Street Maintenance
The City performs ongoing street resurfacing and repair schedule. Each year, sections of the City are scheduled for slurry seal or repaving based on the condition of the streets.
Traffic and Traffic Safety
The City's Engineering Division conducts traffic studies as needed and in compliance with California State law. In 2022, the City Council set a priority of conducting traffic studies on City streets to analysis speed limits, safety enhancements, and road improvements.
Street Projects
The City has hired KOA to create a Local Roadway Safety Plan for the City of Claremont. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) established a program for cities to prepare a Local Roadway Safety Plan (LRSP) to identify safety needs and recommend projects to address these needs. This document serves as the LRSP for the City of Claremont.
Funded by Caltrans, an LRSP provides an opportunity for local agencies to evaluate roadway safety problems through data analysis and improve roadway safety through infrastructure implementation, education, and enforcement programs/campaigns. Preparing an LRSP creates a framework to identify and analyze safety problems and recommend safety improvements systematically.
An LRSP analyzes collision data, assesses infrastructure deficiencies through an inventory of roadway system elements, and identifies roadway safety solutions on a citywide basis. The State created the LRSP to help local agencies develop safety projects that can be submitted for funding as part of the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) and other funding programs sources such as the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program. These programs require that an LRSP, or equivalent plans such as a Vision Zero Plan or Systemic Safety Analysis Report (SSAR), be completed in order to apply for available funding opportunities.
Towne Avenue Improvement Project
The City has awarded a contract to Gentry Brothers for the construction of the Towne Avenue Complete Streets Improvements Project, between Foothill Boulevard and the I-210 Freeway. This portion of Towne Avenue provides an important connection for the public to enter Claremont.
The roadway maintenance project will incorporate Complete Streets components, including overall safety improvements, accessibility, separated bicycle and parking infrastructure, improved pedestrian access, sustainability enhancing water capturing features, street network connectivity (including bicycle and pedestrian networks), and community aesthetics to the corridor. In addition to providing standard rubberized asphalt overlay maintenance, the project will provide traffic calming options such as lane width reduction and complete streets components such as Class IV bike lanes (where feasible), additional crosswalks at the signalized intersection of Towne Avenue at Scripps, pedestrian bulbouts (curb extensions) at the intersections that will assist pedestrians without affecting cyclists, upgraded traffic signal operations, and enhanced green bike lanes and bike boxes at signalized intersections.
Construction for this project began in September
Traffic and Transportation Commission
The Traffic and Transportation Commission reviews and comments on the traffic impacts of major development proposals. This includes traffic circulation plans, public transportation, and similar items referred to the commission by the City Council or other commissions.
Meeting Schedule:
Fourth Thursday of each month, 7 p.m.
City Council Chamber, 225 West Second Street, Claremont
Members (year after name indicates end of current term):
Dylan Arya (2028); Buff Brown (2026); Charles Edwards (2027); Esau Ramos (2027); Sonja Stump, Chair (2027); Richard Weiner, Vice Chair (2025); Paul Wheeler (2026).
Compensation & Membership: Claremont elected officials may not serve on the commission. Commissioners may not serve on more than one commission at the same time. There is no compensation.