Agenda Packet 2-19-19 Work Session

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MovingAhead 2018 Outreach Summary 40 • My husband and I are in our late 60s and appreciate being honored riders in the LTD system. Our concerns about climate change prompted us to move to a walkable neighborhood (Friendly), install solar panels, purchase an EV and eliminate a great deal of the unnecessary recreational travel we used to do. We’re grateful to live in a city that values public transport and look forward to using it more as we age. • Thank you for the thought and consideration put into this evaluation - this is an important, critical step in Eugene transit as population grows and carbon pollution must be curbed. Bike and ped access and safety are tantamount with mass transit effectiveness, as well as standalone transit options. River Road and Coburg are premier corridors, in my opinion, to effecting city wide change and adoption of alternative transportation decisions. • We need to bite the bullet and make public transportation a top priority in our community. Also alternative transportation a top priority. We need to save bike and pedestrian lanes and major public transportation options like in Europe. Major investment in the future and totally worth it • River Road and Highway 99 seem like ideal candidates. Highway 99 would allow a convenient airport access (potentially) and facilitate growth and development along that corridor. River Road would help get a large population center with access to downtown, though admittedly faces serious traffic issues. • Coordinate efforts with other current planning processes that are looking at how to plan for the future with regards to other closely related decisions (EETAC, Santa Clara Neighborhood Planning, Transit Tomorrow, etc). Also don't look to be everything to everyone, we don't have the funds. Improve/expand service for those currently most likely to use the bus for transportation and don't look too much into turning everyone into a bus rider. • My home at Eugene Hotel for 4 years is threatened by noise, air pollution, and is not pleasant for pedestrians. New buildings are not as attractive as older ones, crowding the sideways, U of O need greenery space! The possibility of Lofts Mupte offers 120 apartments and offices which have no adequate parking space, better from Arnaada of Eugene Transit System Plan. Write a letter stating traffic impact analysis is not Required! Our children's trust will bring exxon to court for concerns of air pollution. - Buses carry large numbers: hutt, farmers markets, athletic events on Franklin Blvd & MLK, many hospitals, and medical facilities in Springfield, malls, etc. I use buses almost daily, talk with drivers of Rt 66, 12, 67, 13 and tell me that they are overcrowded. Emergency vehicles, school buses, ambulances and commercial vehicles interfere. • Please continue to educate riders on how to take the bus ie rules, etiquette, etc., especially high school students. • I'm loving the West Eugene Emx (I ride all the way to UO) and I really like the idea of having the highway 99 project. If the end of the route station is near Winco that would be great because I live near there. I would want to have parking available though because when it is the darker time of year I would not walk to the bus station. I appreciate the effort going into continuing to improve our transit system and increase ridership. • Sadly I will likely retire about the time any of these projects are finished. But I will still be supportive of the projects. " • Have city rescind build to sidewalk. New structures next to sidewalk greatly limit improvements for transit and roads. • Concerned about traffic impacts of reducing lanes especially on Coburg Rd. February 19, 2019, Work Session - Item 1