Residents remember the sounds of twisted steel, shattered glass and firetruck sirens from all-too-common traffic collisions involving street racers on The Snake, a curvy, dangerous portion of Mulholland Highway near unincorporated Agoura.
But that 2.4-mile section of the notorious street within the Santa Monica Mountains, roughly from Kanan Road to Sierra Creek Road, has been closed to vehicular traffic for more than four years due to damage from mudslides after slopes were denuded by the 2018 Woolsey fire.
Those in unincorporated Cornell and Agoura, in particular the 500 residents of the Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park located at the bottom of The Snake off Mulholland Highway, have left written comments on a proposal to reopen the road with newly-installed traffic-calming devices.
The item on the Tuesday, Aug. 8 Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ agenda has already received a great deal of attention. And street racing as well as street takeovers have become a major issue in the county and city of Los Angeles.
According to county records, 64 commenters left responses to the supervisors’ proposal, which is to re-open the newly repaired twisting, sloping highway that includes The Snake. To ward off street racers, the county Department of Public Works added rumble strips and reflective pavement markers on the centerline, markings on the roadway telling vehicles to slow down and more signs and chevrons along the various tight curves.
The department will evaluate whether the new measures installed in Spring 2023 are working once the section reopens, and then report back to the board in six months. The county is directed to work the CHP and the county Sheriff’s Department’s “Street Racing Task Force” in the Santa Fe Springs area, according to the motion by Third District Supervisor Lindsey Horvath.
Most of the residents who emailed written comments to the county said they didn’t want the road to reopen.
“I wonder if there is an option to…
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