Item 5: Crest Drive Community Team Recommendations

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To: *Eugene Mayor and City Council Cc: TAYLOR Betty L Subject: bike lane and walkable sidewalks on Friendly/Crest Drive Dear Mayor Piercy and Councilors, As a resident of the Friendly Street/Crest Drive neighborhood and a cyclist and walker who uses the streets in question (Friendly, Storey and Crest), I hope you will wholeheartedly and unreservedly push for the inclusion of an uphill bike lane as the re-design of those streets reaches its final stages. In addition, I hope you will urge the inclusion of a contiguous sidewalk as the design goes forward. If this community wishes to promote alternative transportation, especially in the face of global climate change and the realities imposed by peak oil, we must begin now by incorporating safe routes for walkers and cyclists on ALL street improvements. If bicycle lanes and contiguous sidewalks are made the norm, then I believe more people will choose to bicycle and walk. Without basic safety measures, people simply won't take a chance. We have to do all we can to nudge folks onto their bicycles and out to the streets. I should think you would feel it is your civic duty to look to the future, in this case a future wherein more people get out of their cars, and take a proactive stance where bike lanes and sidewalks are concerned. Thank you for your time, Sara Burant 3059 Whitbeck Blvd. From: Sara Burant [mailto:kitsatoo@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:49 AM To: *Eugene Mayor and City Council Subject: Crest/Friendly/Storey re-design Dear Kitty, Thank for your your prompt reply to my recent email concerning a bike lane on the proposed improvements to the Crest/Friendly/Storey corridor. Below I've pasted in a reply I sent this morning to the response I received from Betty Taylor, my neighborhood's council representative. The more I think about this issue, the more I've come to believe that what is at stake here is a re- imagining of neighborhood. It is not merely a question of alternative versus conventional transportation. It would be a shame if, a year or two or even ten down the road, the city wished it had been a bit more forward thinking in its concept for these street improvements--a sentiment which, given this city's history of ill-conceived changes, is all too likely to be felt. Thank you again for your willingness to look at all sides. Sara Burant Dear Councilor Taylor, - 12 - Crest Drive CSS Design Recommendation Public Testimony 2/14/08 through 4/8/08