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MovingAhead Spring 2019 Outreach Summary 63 <br /> High public support and overall cost isn't that much more than option B. It does a pretty good <br />job of meeting top priorities of the public. <br /> happy to have the whole package for River Rd, would like to see more elsewhere - and more <br />bike/ped safety <br /> good coverage of city, pretty good for walkers and bikers <br /> Good but expensive, at this point, Emx may be better <br /> Good balance between cost and impact. <br /> every route is useful, and the route from 30th to LCC would be very much appreciated. <br /> EmX priority should be Hwy 99, but ideally would eventually be on all routes. Priority should be <br />given to pedestrians and bicyclists, then to mass transit. Costs should be paid for by increased <br />costs to drivers. There should be a gas tax and tolls and fees for drivers to make driving more <br />costly and unpleasant. Trees should be preserved where possible through design and many <br />spaces and room added through this project. <br /> Building walkable sidewalks on corridors should be a given, not an option in any package. Hwy <br />99 is a walkers nightmare, and no one rides a bike on 99 unless they have lost their drivers <br />license. I've commented on other packages, and my thoughts are the same. Kudos for providing <br />better options for low income and disabled folk; make sure you build walkable, bikeable <br />corridors throughout and increase bus service as much as possible. <br /> Bike/Ped good <br /> Better to plan ahead to be ready for growth <br /> Better than option B, but somewhat costly with minimal improvements over option A. <br /> better still <br /> Best Option <br /> Best fit for all members of our community <br /> Best bike infrastructure per investment. <br /> Because i think it is needed and cost less to operate. <br /> Balancing capital investment against operating cost increases, this seems the best fit, with <br />possibility to expand EmX in future as deemed necessary by growth. We mustn't inadvertently <br />encourage low density impoverished urban sprawl by creating high-density carrying lines to <br />otherwise thinly-populated areas. A northward extension of EmX on River Road would allow <br />easier transit access into central city and westside employers and services, while allowing future <br />expansion (along 30th) to the SE or elsewhere in future. While increasing access to lower <br />income areas of the city is desirable, I wonder if the ridership demographics have been studied; <br />are the wealthier denizens of Eugene's SE hills more likely to use an EmX? And therefore be <br />willing to fund it… <br /> Assuming Typically a bus every 15 minutes seriously holds true (and that weekends absolutely <br />do not fall below a frequency of every 30 minutes, preferably 20 during late morning to mid-late <br />afternoon) then this feels perfect. Again, unless there are infinite workers around to do massive <br />amounts of work in parallel (and somehow not upset every region simultaneously from all the <br />parallel construction projects) it feels like the way I would accomplish this is starting the EmX <br />down River Road (which, based on past EmX routes, would take a lot of time), then have a <br />second team work on each of the enhanced corridors in the order outlined in the three <br />packages (Hwy99 would be the first enhanced corridor, then when that gets done move along to <br />July 15, 2019, Joint Work Session – Item1