From Monterey City Manager Hans Usler:

Our traffic in Monterey reflects the driving habits of our fellow Californians. The Lighthouse - Del Monte corridor represents the center piece of our daily traffic challenges and congestion. Our City Council has been proactive in addressing these issues. We have completed the implementation of a traffic signal adaptive system, which uses the latest technologies to conduct calculations about traffic volumes and traffic signals time every 2.5 minutes. The system does not only react to real time traffic, it is capable of storing traffic history data and from there predicting traffic flow. Our studies show that the adaptive system reduced travel time on Lighthouse Avenue by 10% through a 30% decrease in average delay, and most importantly a 32% reduction in stop and go traffic.

The adaptive system is in place on Lighthouse Avenue between Reeside and Hoffman Avenues and on Del Monte Avenue from English to Washington. Currently, we are installing the system on Lighthouse Avenue between Prescott and David. We also have implemented dozens of other tiny tweaks, which in their total will help ease the traffic flow: improvements to crosswalks, new wayfinding signs, trolley services funded by the City and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, transportation demand management, new bike lanes, etc. I encourage you to check out the various programs listed on the City's Traffic Engineering page.

This is an excerpt from City Manager Hans Uslar's letter in the Spring 2019 edition of the City of Monterey's publication, City Focus. We encourage you to read the publication in its entirety (and Hans's letter on page 2 and 3) here.

Below are the showtimes for Osio Theater, April 12-18, 2019. Osio, a nonprofit movie theater dedicated to independent, foreign, and art films, is located at 350 Alvarado Street in Old Monterey.

PARIS TO PITTSBURG
Tues at 7pm
From coastal cities to the U.S. heartland, this documentary celebrates how citizens are demanding and developing real solutions in the face of climate change. And as the weather grows more deadly and destructive, they aren't waiting on Washington to act. Lacey Raak, Director of Sustainability at CSUMB, will be present at this evening's screening. Watch the trailer.

DRUNK PARENTS
Daily at 3pm, 6:30pm
Meet Frank and Nancy Teagarten: the staunchly lower upper-class family. They’re anxiously dropping off their daughter at her first day of college, and the two parents couldn’t be prouder. However, a visit by the repo man shortly thereafter leaves them scrambling to make ends meet and their wealth, it seems, is less secure than we thought. Committed to getting their daughter through college, they hold a house-wide yard-sale coupled by a night of heavy drinking and wake up to some very regrettable decisions. Watch the trailer.

PETERLOO
Daily at 2:30pm, 6pm
In 1819, more than 60,000 protestors gathered at St. Peter’s field in Manchester, England to demand democracy as well as political reform to stem the rising tide of poverty. When government forces intervened and massacre ensued, many were killed and hundreds more were injured. Watch the trailer.

AMAZING GRACE
Weekdays at 2:30pm, 5:30pm, 7:30pm
Sat & Sun at 12pm, 2:30pm, 5:30pm, 7:30pm
This concert documentary captures the legendary artist Aretha Franklin in her prime, performing at New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles. Accompanied by the Southern California Community Choir, under James Cleveland’s direction Amazing Grace pays testimony to this extraordinary musician's towering and singular talent. Watch the trailer.

THE PUBLIC
Fri, Mon, Tues, Wed at 1:45pm, 4:15pm, 7pm
Thurs at 1:45pm, 4:15pm
Sat & Sun at 11:15am, 1:45pm, 4:15pm, 7pm
When sub-zero temperatures reach downtown Cincinnati, patrons of the public library - many of them homeless or mentally ill - stage a sit-in, refusing to leave the library and face the dangerously inclement weather. The situation evolves into a stand-off with the local authorities as the media and public watch on. The provocative story and excellent cast tackle important social issues such as poverty, mental illness, and the commodification of news media. Watch the trailer.

TRANSIT
Daily at 2:...Read More

Below are the showtimes for Osio Theater, April 12-18, 2019. Osio, a nonprofit movie theater dedicated to independent, foreign, and art films, is located at 350 Alvarado Street in Old Monterey.

MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN 40TH ANNIVERSARY
Thurs at 7:30pm
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 AD Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe them. At its center is Bethlehem-born Brian Cohen, who, by a series of absurd circumstances, is caught up in a new religion and reluctantly mistaken for the promised messiah. The entire Monty Python ensemble shines in multiple roles as they question everyone and everything from ex-lepers, Pontius Pilate, and haggling to revolutionaries, crazy prophets, religious fanaticism, Roman centurions, and crucifixion, forever changing our biblical view. Watch the trailer.

TALES
Thurs at 7pm
A series of seven vignettes about different people loosely related to each other dealing with their every day problems in modern day Iran. Award-winning director Rakhshan Banietemad will answer questions after the movie. Watch the trailer.

THE PUBLIC
Weekdays at 1:45pm, 4:15pm, 7pm
Sat & Sun at 11:15am, 1:45pm, 4:15pm, 7pm
When sub-zero temperatures reach downtown Cincinnati, patrons of the public library - many of them homeless or mentally ill - stage a sit-in, refusing to leave the library and face the dangerously inclement weather. The situation evolves into a stand-off with the local authorities as the media and public watch on. The provocative story and excellent cast tackle important social issues such as poverty, mental illness, and the commodification of news media. Watch the trailer.

TRANSIT
Weekdays at 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:20pm
Sat & Sun at 12pm, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:20pm
Assuming the identity of a deceased author, Georg flees Nazi occupied France during World War II. When he is delayed in Marseilles he meets a woman desperately seeking her missing husband, the very man whose identity Georg has stolen. Transit is the third entry in Petzold’s “Love in Times of Oppressive Systems” trilogy, following his films Barbara and Phoenix. Watch the trailer.

THE INVISIBLES
Fri, Mon, Tues, Wed at 2:15pm, 7:10pm
Thurs at 2:15pm
Sat & Sun at 11:45am, 2:15pm, 7:10pm
While Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital. This gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who...Read More

Below are the showtimes for Osio Theater, April 5-11, 2019. Osio, a non-profit movie theater dedicated to independent, foreign, and art films, is located at 350 Alvarado Street in Old Monterey.

THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT
Weekdays at 2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm
Sat & Sun at 11:30am, 2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm
Cousins from New York, Vincent and Anton are players in the high-stakes game of High-Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to the breaking point with their quixotic adventure. Watch the trailer.

THE INVISIBLES
Weekdays at 2:15pm, 4:45pm, 7:10pm
Sat & Sun at 11:30am, 2:15pm, 4:45pm, 7:10pm
While Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital. This gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight. Moving between cinemas, cafés, and safe houses, they dodged Nazi officials and a dense network of spies and informants. Yet their prudence was at odds with their youthful recklessness, prompting them to join the resistance, forge passports, or pose as Aryan war widows. Masterfully weaving these story threads together, The Invisibles is a testament to the resourcefulness, willpower and sheer chance needed to survive against incredible odds. Watch the trailer.

ASH IS PUREST WHITE
Daily at 1:30pm, 6:45pm
Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off. Watch the trailer.

THE MUSTANG
Weekdays at 2:15pm, 5pm, 7:15pm
Sat & Sun at 12pm, 2:15pm, 5pm, 7:15pm
Roman Coleman, a convict in a rural Nevada prison who struggles to escape his violent past, is required to participate in an “outdoor maintenance” program as part of his state-mandated social rehabilitation. Spotted by a no-nonsense veteran trainer and helped by an outgoing fellow inmate and trick rider, Roman is accepted into the selective wild horse training section of the program. There, he rediscovers his own humanity in gentling an especially unbreakable mustang. Watch the trailer.

APOLLO 11
Weekdays at 4:30pm
Sat & Sun at 11:30am, 4:30pm
Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio...Read More