Roundabout came down to one statement from CalTrans By Matt Rexroad on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 @ 10:28 PM :: 0 Comments :: Blog   The last couple months has included a passionate debate about the installation of a roundabout in Woodland. Some of the debate has centered on emotion.  Some of the debate centered on facts. The one person that deserves credit for doing a tremendous amount of serious homework on the issue was Woodland City Councilman Bill Marble.  This issue demonstrated to me the reasons he was perfect for the City Council. Today at the Yolo County Board of Supervisors meeting the roundabout in Woodland was dealt a final blow when a CalTrans engineer answered a question from Mike McGowan. When McGowan asked the state engineer if CalTrans would do wahtever they wanted if nothing was decided at this time by Woodland and Yolo County the guy said yes.  That made everything clear to me and I think everyone in the room. The nature of the intersection at Road 98 and Kentucky should be decided at a local level. It should not be decided by some folks at CalTrans that will not have to use it on a regular basis. Today I voted to take a signalized intersection at no cost to the county today instead of having some other solution forced down our throats by a state bureaucracy a few years from now.  It was great to see Woodland Mayor Dave Flory in the audience for this dicussion.  A few hours later the City Council voted 5-0 for signalizaiton of the intersection. Continual communication between the City and the County worked very well here.  It's a sign of good things to come.

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