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MovingAhead Spring 2019 Outreach Summary 82 <br />hard for people—I hope we can rise to the occasion, realizing how great is the need to reduce <br />our carbon footprint and provide strong public transportation options throughout our <br />community. The more extensive the EmX system is, the more efficiently it will work. But the <br />more large trees we can save, the better, too. I know there are tradeoffs. I support reducing and <br />narrowing auto travel lanes whenever possible to reduce impacts on trees and private property. <br /> Making significant gains on decreasing our carbon footprint, increasing alternative forms of <br />public transportation and promoting density (not sprawl) in the city. <br /> Think about process and change over time <br /> Protect ridgeline, watershed, wildlife corridor. Safety of road, soil, neighborhood, natural visual <br />buffer for City. <br /> Prioritize protection of trees and building new spaces for trees and vegetation during <br />transportation improvements, removing paved surfaces wherever possible. Increase costs and <br />challenges for motorists wherever possible. Seek to make driving expensive, slow, and <br />unpleasant through design. Emphasize the most sustainable transportation options, in this <br />order, pedestrians, bicyclists, and mass transit to lower costs and harm. <br /> In order to reduce GHG emissions as soon as possible, enhance corridors without EmX costs. <br />Make system convenient throughout. Make enhanced investments and look toward EmX <br />buildout once population, transit use allows -- along the most-used enhanced corridors. <br /> what is the impact on the neighborhoods for enhance the 3oth ave corridor. By taking down <br />trees, will we hear more traffic? Will it reduce traffic on 30th because more LCC students will <br />take the bus? Can there be road changes that will improve the challenges of pulling out from <br />Agate across 30th to get in to town? <br /> While I would agree with larger populations there is a need for alternative transportation <br />options. I believe in the climate and culture of our area bikes and pedestrian access and safety <br />should be at the forefront. It will cut down on green house gas emissions, keeping people <br />healthier, more active and reducing traffic. I believe there are some areas that are of greater <br />concern IE: River Rd and Coburg Rd. in the more immediate future while the other areas could <br />use minor tweaking of what is already in place. I believe there should be many more avenues <br />explored before we start raising taxes to build a system that has already proved to not increase <br />ridership. <br /> There is no mention of greenhouse gas reductions/increases in any of the options. That seems <br />shortsighted. People need to understand the impact different ridership and alternative <br />transportation options would have on emissions. People do care about climate change, and they <br />need to see the impact their choices make. <br />Impact and Change <br /> Please be nice to people and to trees. :-) .but especially to people. <br /> Some areas such as 99 serve a large homeless population. I think LTD might lose money there <br />from people not paying on an EMX line.I don't like to think of businesses losing from <br />improvements. I vote for the best improvements with the least impact on businesses (if that is <br />possible). <br /> This entire project is not necessary. Bus ridership in this area is a joke. We aren't Portland and <br />don't need to try to copy Trimet (which is a joke in itself). The disruption EMX will make in the <br />new lines is unwarranted. It was not wanted where it is now, but LTD and the city forced it <br />July 15, 2019, Joint Work Session – Item1