Agenda Packet 2-19-19 Work Session

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MovingAhead 2018 Outreach Summary 28 • Bike/ped needs to be considered for this to work-- including the distance between each stop for elderly and disabled people walking. And for bike storage in/on the buses for people to use more than one mode of transportation. • Emx rarely have routes that have had bike lanes, so Coburg Rd shouldn't be considered for Emx. We don't yet know the impact of Uber n Lyft before investing millions of dollars! • I would like better bike infrastructure on MLK. Also, connection to EMX. • I’d love to see additional, safe bike lanes and paths leading to the river trails, especially on north delta highway. It would be wonderful to see an extension of the northeast bus route along Ayers as well. • Make sure that bicyclists are well protected from traffic in corridor design improvements. • Need many more miles of protected bike lanes to encourage more ridership throughout the city. • Need to finish 6th/Hwy99. They repaved it, but need sidewalks, etc. along Garfield to Roosevelt section. Thought there was a federal handicap access law? • sidewalk connectivity is sorely lacking throughout the city. • Stutter flash crosswalks are awful and unsafe. A proper red light stop at a crosswalk would provide better safety for pedestrians crossing bigger roads like River Road. Please ensure this is factored in to any plan that would otherwise add crosswalks. • The more provisions for bicycles the better. • Coburg Road needs more alternative transportation and safer pedestrian and bike routes TODAY! Trees for shade would also be helpful as a buffer for sound and sun. • Even if Coburg isn't selected for EmX or Enhance Corridor there is currently no safe way to cross the street between Willakenzie and Chad Dr. This makes riding the bus, especially with small children very challenging. Please consider adding a pedestrian crossing or a signal at Elysium and Coburg. • go by bike! • It's absurd that the buses don't run on the weekends! River Rd residents require reasonable metro service that correlates to our transportation needs; i.e. buses that run during rush hour, that come more than every 60-90 minutes, that come on the weekends: meet the needs of the residents who depend on public transit to get to work on time. • Good bike infrastructure keep it going and add more!! more lanes, more roads, more protected and semi-protected lane improvements! Drivers are friendly to bicyclists (mostly). • I don't regularly use these corridors because they are so unsafe via bike. If they were safe to use by bike, I would use them all the time. I never go out Highway 99 because it is unsafe, however have family that live there, and it would be nice to have the option to arrive safely. I live so close to MLK, Jr. Blvd, but refuse to ride my bike in that area because it is too unsafe. • I drive MLK every day (2-3 times a day) and do not see any current issues with it, either from a drive time perspective or a congestion perspective. I'm unclear what the current identified issues even are with this corridor. No bike lanes directly on MLK causes bikers to ride on the sidewalk which is one issue that I see. All bus stops have a turn out with a pedestrian crossing at the same location, which is great. • Improving infrastructure for pedestrian and human-powered transportation at least as much needed as for busing. I learned at the ODOT /LTD/Univ/City Traffic Summit presentation at EMU in 2006 the results of the ODOT survey of transportation (non-recreational travel in the community for work, shopping etc.) the resulting statistics - 1% trips by bus, 2% by bike, 4% by February 19, 2019, Work Session - Item 1