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were not residents along Ayers Road, and that the design the city eventually settled on did not involve the opi~o~s of the residents along the ~oad. Brian Genovese, the project engineer responded to Ms. Jeff-ties. He explained that according to the standard means of measuring the bike path, it was five and one half feet: wide, in excess of city standards. Paul Klope pointed out that residents were not being aSseSsed for any po~ti°n of the bike path. A~other member of the aUdience, Donna Wull~randt, asked abo'~t the measUrement of the bike path. Mr. Genovese explained that the angled portion of the bike path was included in the measurement of the bike path. Sever~ me'hers of the audier~ce questioned the legitimacy of including the slol~ed p°rti°n~Sable byWithinbicYcles.the measurement o~ bike path width, since ti~t slopped t~rtion x~as not Mr. Genovese responded to Ms~ Jeffries other concerns. Mr. Genovese explained that the traffic routing around the medians along Ayers Road were standard. The City conmmnly only puts a direction sign on the first median when there are several, assuming that drivers will understand the need to repeat the maneuver at the next median. Mr. Jeffries also explained that the City will be posting Ayers Road with traffic speed advisory signs until such time as the City can determine the appropriate speed limit according t~ state standards. Mr. GenoCese said that he was ~ot a~¥are o~ missing , reft?mrs, but t~hat that would be checked into. Mr. Genovese indicated that the ~ity s prevmus experience with similar street designs elsewhere suggested that the design and ~ee sffiit~eisPihnagd ~afisA~y~rs Road would work to a~oid the kind of ~ident or concern t~at Ms. The next member of the audience to speak was Stardey Wullbrandt. Mr. Wullbrandt expressed his disappointment in the design of Ayers Road. He indicted that .the old Road ~as better, strain'er and easier for cars to get ~p[ and down the ROad. Mr. Wullbrandt asked Mr. Genovese about the standard length for t~xrn lanes. He felt that there was much v~ation in their length. Mr. Genovese answered that there was no standard set for turn lanes. It was instead a location-by-location calculation, based on the balance between the number of vehicles that might be turning and the space available. {r. Wullbrandt stated that some of the turn lanes were not adequate to contain even one arge vehicle, and should therefor have been made larger. Mr. Wullbrand. t also questioned the overall width of the travel lanes. He felt that t ' ~ he lane s narrow w~dth would not be safe, for vehicles or for bike riders. Mr. Genovese responded that the design standards were to keep the street narrow to slow the traffic d°wn. Mr. Genovese indicated that the width of each travel lane was ten feet wide, which met the standards for such streets. Ms. Wullbrandt interjected that the streets were too narrow for her tastes and that, even though she was an active bike rider, she was concerned about riding in the bik~e lanes of ~ers Road. Ms. Wullbrandt suggested that if the City was going to ~ut in such narrow traffic lanes, the City should ban ~i~le trailer trucks.