Item A: South Willamette Street Improvement Plan

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There seems to be a distorted representation of bicycle advocates. The general public is far less prone to use bicycles to shop or commute in this area when there are perfectly flat areas immediately to the east. It seems irresponsible to cater to the minority at a significant disadvantage to the majority -with a blind optimism as to the economic consequences, and a failure to tudey where traffic uses Willamette to get to and whose neighborhood it would congest if we lost lanes. Please take these surveys with a grain of salt at the "more" road biking community seems to be more represented at this meeting. Get Mark Gillem involved. A horse designed by a committee looks an awful lot like a camel. Evaluate alternatives for safety. How does it impact safety compared with the current reality. Safety has to be part of evaluation. Drainage is hazardous on many sections of the northern corridor) l I assume all alternatives would improve drainage and prevent water pooling at curb and pedestrians being splashed. Not mentioned. The transportation model to analyze alternatives should account for the trend of decreasing VMT -or at least not assume continued growth in VMT. We cannot give up maximum traffic capacity for this critical travel route. We do need to establish a plan that will extend R.O.W. as soon as possible in the future, so at least sometime in the future, space would be available to make bike lanes and sidewalks as it seems people want but we don't have room to do it safely now. Carefully account for changes in traffic patterns in nearby residential streets. Provide this data. Assess nearby auto routes to accommodate thru commuter traffic (similar to your assessement of alt. bike routes). Spend money to fix overall problem. I wish substantial traffic could be diverted from Willamette to Amazon Parkway. Amazon Parkway should be an alternative for traffic N and S. Suggest adding in other traffic- calming, especially at intersections. For example, intersections and or crosswalks that are just slightly raised, different color, and or different types of pavement such as bricks. Traffic needs to slow to support urbanization. The assumed 30 mph speed limit doesn't seem compatible with sharrows. Are there any studies on whether 3 lanes (one middle lane turn lane) slows over all traffic - otherwise I have concerns about people still going too fast (as they do now) when trying to "commute" through) with fewer lanes for traffic -hence more dangerous. Sharrows would depend on car speed and density work better if cars go slower and not so many of them. Clarify how much travel time would increase when stated. Is it significant? Roads should not be designed around enforcement issues -such as vehicles not letting busses pull back into lanes. Though it cannot be considered within the scope of this project, pullouts for LTD buses are desired. North bound bus stop across from Woodfield Station needs a pedestrian crossing: people are sprinting out into the roadway now.