Item A: South Willamette Street Improvement Plan

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Response: The project team is following established City policies to provide for a balanced transportation system that provides options for people to meet their mobility needs. Audience Member: How much would the gridlock be with option 6? Will it be a five- minute delay or a half an hour delay? Response: There will be a delay and we will look at the specifics in the next analysis. Audience Member: The street itself should cater to all modes since it is public money. Response: A balanced transportation system will serve all users. That is our goal and our policy guidance. Audience Member: I’m wondering if we could consider encouraging Eugene Police to enforce the rules on Willamette Street? Response: I shared with the police today that people have been concerned about the travel speeds on the street. Audience Member: Is there a difference between people commuting on Willamette or people stopping and shopping? Response: Our grant funding constrains our work but we will try to estimate that. Audience Member: If you build it, will they [bicycles] come? Response: We don’t have the ability to tell, however we could do some case studies with other communities to compare what happened to them and what they saw afterwards. Audience Member: I would be scared to go through a roundabout as a cyclist or pedestrian. Do the roundabouts have safety accommodations for them? Response: We will look at ways to make people more comfortable using them. There are two options for how a roundabout would be designed for bicycle use. Audience Member: There are a lot of things in our master planning processes over the years. Which one of these alternatives will point us in the direction of what we have already said we want? Response: The plans say what we want. They do not say how and that is why we are here. Audience Member: Why not have bikes on the sidewalks? Response: Typically we do not have bikes share where there are a lot of driveways. Pedestrians do not feel safe with bikes on the sidewalk. Cars do not see bikes when they are pulling out of driveways. Audience Member: Surveys should be done to talk to residents, asking them what should be done to make them want to walk it more. Response: We are looking at that information in some other ways. Audience Member: Concern over decline in availability of fossil fuel. How are you incorporating this into your study long term? Response: By giving people options for how they travel. Website: eugene-or.gov/SWillametteStreet. Contact: Chris Henry, 6 ,541-682-8472, Public Works Engineering, 99 E. Broadway, Chris.C.Henry@ci.eugene.or.us Ste. 400, Eugene, OR 97401