HomeMy WebLinkAbout7/19/2022 Item 7a, Schmidt (2)Item 7a, Plans
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Now that staff has become unstingy with the project's plans, I'm puzzled by certain features
shown at the intersection of Broad and Murray. It's really hard to understand exactly what
they're showing since we lack 3-D plans, but ...
1. The plans clearly indicate removal of at least two more parking spaces on the East side of
Broad. Folks, we cannot afford to lose those spaces!!! Need I add any more emphasis? We
already don't have enough street parking for resident needs, you're taking away parking along
one entire side of the street, and now you're going to nibble away more on the side where
parking remains. How insensitive can this city get?
2. 1 can't figure out exactly how the pedestrian crossing of Murray on Broad works, but it
appears there are curb cuts on Broad some distance from the corner, that people descend
them to street level, then walk in the street for twice as far as at present. Do the folks who
design this stuff not know that intersection fills with water every time it rains, so you're
apparently making pedestrians walk in water (since most of us can't walk ON water)? That's
very thoughtful on the city's part. Makes for a really nice walk, too.
3. Finally, there are multiple major storm drains on those corners. This is the low spot where
the creek picks up water from Murray, 2 directions of Broad, and Serrano — a lot of water. It's
not clear how those drains work with the pedestrian changes. Will water going to the drains be
flowing across the feet of pedestrians? Sure looks that way.
In my "long letter' on this agenda item I spoke to the lunacy of zig-zagging bikes back and forth
through busy intersections, one of those being Chorro/Mission. To review, the routing of this
project is based on the presumption of a horde of non-existent little children using it to get
from downtown to schools north of Foothill rather than on the actual destination of real cyclists
coming out Chorro, i.e., Cal Poly via Murray. If those cyclists use the facility, at Mission they will
be on the left side of Chorro, and will need to cross to the right side to ride in traffic uphill to
Murray. Well, lordy, look how the project provides for their crossing Chorro:
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Found it yet? Of course not because there's no consideration for their plight. They're on their
own getting back across Chorro! Real bicyclists' needs don't count.
This is what happens when plans respond to political manipulation and special interest
pleadings instead of to reality. This entire project is not reality based — its mistreatment of
cyclists and its mistreatment of neighborhood residents hit with its impacts are flip sides of the
same indecent coin.
Sincerely,
Richard Schmidt