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From: Christianson, Carlyn
Sent: Monday, November 04,20L3 10:37 AM
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Subject: FW: SLO City Council on Tue: Grade separated ped/bike connection from Orcutt to LOVR and Laguna?
Hi Eugene,
Thanks for your input; your effort is appreciated as always, I've cc'd city staff so that your comments can be paft of the
public record.
Thanks again, and have a safe trip,
Carlyn
Carlyn Christianson
Member, San Luis Obispo City Council
990 Palm Street, SLO 93408
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From: Eugene H. Jud [ejud@calpoly.edu]
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 9:54 PM
To: Max, Jan; Ashbaugh, John; Christianson, Carlyn; Carpenter, Dan; Smith, Kathy
Subject: SLO City Council on Tue: Grade separated ped/bike connection from Orcutt to LOVR and Laguna?
Dear members of the City Council,
The new bicycle plan contains a lot of hard work and good ideas, and we can be proud of it.
Today we have the silver designation for bike facilities. However, for the gold designation we would probably
need a grade separated east-west ped/bike connection from the Orcut Area over to LOVR and Laguna
Lake. This would replace some of the plarmed east west ped/bike connections immediately adjacent to Prado-
and Tank Farm Roads, which are even designated as (noisy and stinky!) truck routes. This alignment would be
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away ftom all this noise- and air pollution and would probably go through Meissner lane. In my opinion this is
technically needed to reach the20o/o modal split.
Other towns build such facilities. I understand that recently the Planning Commission found a few good words
for such an idea. After all, the ped/ bike bridge over the railroad at Orcutt is already in the plans. I will be out
of town, but I hope that somebody will bring this up and show the plan, It would at least be worth a preliminary
study. I am afraid the current road concept of SLO South is too much of the Los Angeles type decorated with
ped/bike facilities of questionable quality and dangerous at-grade crossings. We are also missing a convincing
public transport concept to the area including the airport (attractive busses or even modern light rail?).
Thanks for nurturing some bold visions - at least for 2050!
eugene jud
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