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Create conditions that make bicycling more attractive than driving for most trips <br /> <br />o <br />of two miles or less. <br />Develop a well-connected and comfortable bikeway network. Ensure that there <br /> <br />o <br />are safe, comfortable, and direct bikeway connections between residential <br />areas, major destinations, and transit stops and provide secure bicycle parking <br />facilities at these destinations. <br />Continually improve the comfort and safety of bicycling through design, <br /> <br />o <br />bikeways to attract new cyclists. <br /> Metro Plan, Transit System Improvement: Pedestrian System F.26: Provide for a <br />pedestrian environment that is well integrated with adjacent land uses and is designed to <br />enhance the safety, comfort, and convenience of walking. <br /> 2035 TSP Policy: <br />Ensure that there are safe, accessible, comfortable, and direct sidewalk <br /> <br />o <br />connections between residential areas, major destinations, and transit stops. <br />Continually improve walking comfort, safety, and accessibility through design, <br />operations, retrofits, and maintenance. Provide landscaped setback sidewalks <br />of ample width and safe street crossings to encourage people to walk. <br />Promote connections between modes of transportation to make each mode <br /> <br />o <br />more efficient, such as by connecting bicycle routes and bus, train, and airport <br />services to each other; and connections to transportation facilities extending <br />. <br />2035 TSP Potential Action Items: <br />Amend the Eugene Code (e.g., EC 9.6505) and policies to consistently require <br /> <br />o <br />sidewalk installation throughout newly divided and developed lands, such as <br />by requiring sidewalk construction concurrent with street improvements or by <br />bonding for completion of the sidewalks if development on individual lots does <br />not fill in the system in a reasonable amount of time. <br />Maintain a sidewalk infill and improvement program that considers new <br /> <br />o <br />funding sources, credits and loans, and expanded development requirements <br />to complete missing sidewalk segments, to avoid creating gaps in sidewalk <br />networks in new development areas and to upgrade existing sidewalks in high <br />traffic areas to provide needed width, landscaping, removal of barriers, and to <br /> <br /> <br /> Metro Plan Finance Policy F.34: Operate and maintain transportation facilities in a way that <br />reduces the need for more expensive future repair. <br /> 2035 TSP Policy: <br />Establish, improve, and maintain transportation facilities in ways that <br /> <br />o <br />costeffectively provide desired levels of service, consider facilities lifecycle <br />costs, and maintain the Citys longterm financial sustainability. Favor <br />Exhibit A to an Ordinance Concerning Long Range Transportation Planning <br />Page 59 of 63 <br /> <br />