Agenda Packet 2-19-19 Work Session

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MovingAhead 2018 Outreach Summary 29 pedestrians. I had used mainly bike for transportation for the prev 40 yrs, the EMX thru Franklin had just been finished, and facilities for bike & ped were significantly reduced by that project and have not been improved since except for the Univ improvements on the S side of Franklin near Agate. • Please don't forget about pedestrian connections and infrastructure to complement these investments! Bus and bike get a lot of attention, but pedestrian infrastructure is just as important. People of all ages and abilities should feel safe and comfortable walking through their community. • Please, please remove car lanes for EMX. The added lanes for EMX on 6th and 7th are absurd. Pedestrians have to cross 10 lanes just to get through the neighborhood. Instead, the city/LTD should have removed car lanes from the way overbuilt 6th and 7th car sewers. Fewer lanes makes the city more walkable, safer, bikeable, greener, healthy, etc. The top priority should be EMX on Coburg. Don’t listen to all the chamber of commerce trolls that killed this project years ago. EMX will keep this growing area from choking on itself and save millions of dollars in futile road projects. Also, prioritize EMX down south Willamette. This area will boom with congestion without it. Acquire right of way to build EMX with physically separated cycle tracks, wide sidewalks and street trees. This could become a lovely, lively walkable neighborhood. Also, don’t waste hundreds of millions of dollars on inducing yet more traffic on belt line over the river. Any project here should be bike/ped/transit only like the new bridge in Portland. Thanks for working for transit! • The corridors that I've marked as not regularly using are the corridors that my family cannot safely access on our bicycles. • I'm primarily concerned that the fate of relatively cheap safer bicycle infrastructure is tied to relatively expensive (but wonderful!) transit infrastructure. All of the protected bike lanes in the EmX options would be huge improvements, whether we get more EmX routes or not. • For Coburg Rd, it's not clear to me if either the Enhanced or EmX would offer improvements over the current MUP at the south end, but the number of driveways that cross it make that section feel almost less safe than the on-street bike lane. • For Highway 99, I question the lack of protected bike infrastructure. Surely vehicle speeds of 55+ MPH would justify protection as much or more than River Rd. I'd also like to see a connection made to allow access to and from the River Rd area. • In terms of how this survey will be analyzed, I don't know how you'll know that my ""some concerns"" about Enhanced Corridors is that they are not safe enough for vulnerable road users as opposed to another survey for which ""some concerns"" would be that they make too many safety improvements and are not ""auto oriented"" enough. • Your so-called enhancements for bicycles will continue our historic decline in cycling and walking. I think some of you need to get out (of your cars) more. Sidepaths are notoriously dangerous. Placing bike lanes between high-speed lanes used by motorists is a loser, particularly since we do such narrow bike lanes. Sorry, six-foot bike lanes next to a bus and an SUV won't cut it. • Go back to the drawing board and remove travel lanes on River road, then place the EmX in the center of the road and 8' bike lanes on the right side of the road. You'll need to improve the crossings for pedestrians, so they can reach the bus platforms, but will have calmed the speed of motorists while allowing the EmX to make good time. Considering induced demand, this February 19, 2019, Work Session - Item 1