HomeMy WebLinkAbout3/7/2023 Item 6d, Leutwyler
Lisa Leutwyler <
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Subject:Proposed bike lanes on Chorro and Broad
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Dear Mayor and Council,
Please, PLEASE DO NOT approve this project. It is an accident (or many) waiting to happen!
Both streets in the proposed area are narrow, heavily congested and to remove parking is an absolute bad idea. It’s
hard enough for those residents to have to back out of their driveways now. And what if they only have a driveway that
will fit one car but they have two, what are they supposed to do?
Too many streets have already been reconfigured and made more dangerous to make way for people on bikes and I’m
really fed up with no matter what is done, many on bikes still do not follow the rules of the road and cut across in front
of you without looking or do not signal or ride on the sidewalk or ride two or more across.
Many people that have bikes do not have cars, how are they contributing to all these changes?
And why is no consideration being made for the people that pay gas taxes to repair our roads instead? Take a look at
Monterey, I know that’s a big project, but it has needed to be fixed & not just a patch here & there for many years!
Or parts of Tank Farm that the city is responsible for. Or areas of Madonna or LOVR. Etc., etc., etc.
Like it or not, cars are not going away. I hardly go downtown anymore because of what you’ve done on Marsh &
Higuera. And when I do I avoid both those streets as many others that I know also do. Which just puts more traffic on
the residential side streets.
I understand there’s something in the works for lower Higuera as well, God forbid!
The only part of this project that is absolutely needed it has better lighting under the Chorro overpass.
And how about this for a thought? If you are also insistent on putting a bike lane in that area , put it on Lincoln, it’s a
much wider street.
I voted for many of you, please don’t make me regret it.
Lisa Leutwyler
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