The intersection of California Boulevard and Taft Street has seen its fair share of traffic congestion and accidents. During a weekday with Cal Poly in session, drivers can be seen scrambling to make turns with heavy oncoming traffic.

“Sometimes you wait, like, 15 minutes just to go turn left or turn right. It's just really bad," San Luis Obispo resident David Warren said. Warren frequents the Cosmic Heroes Game store off of Taft Street and has a front row view to the cars whizzing by.

“Like it becomes that friction and it becomes more of a hassle," another local resident Nathaniel Donato-Belcher added.

According to the city, over the past ten years there have been 34 crashes at this intersection with 18 injuries, two of them severe.

Plans for a roundabout have been in the works since

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