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Sue Brigham <
To:Colunga-Lopez, Andrea
Subject:Re: Bike lanes
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Hi Andrea, here’s something else I’d like you to add to the feedback. This is on Laurel Lane. This is during normal traffic
not high volume traffic timelines. This is how many people you can see lined up forever and ever.
Today I drove home from Costco, and when I turn onto Santa Barbara, going up towards railroad station, the light turned
three different times red green, red green red green before I got through it. That was just between Miner’s and railroad
station. It took me as long to get through that light as driving all the way from the Costco parking lot to that destination
which is just ridiculous. They’re doing all of this and hoping we’re gonna be carbon free and believe me I’m a tree hugger
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let them know, so I’m all for it. I’m a believer in climate change, but we are adding huge pollution to our air with some of
these back ups in traffic. Big picture I don’t think it was well thought out at all. Too many major arteries were impacted
by some of these decisions. Thank you for passing on these two additional things. There’s a lot more but this is a good
start. Thank you for letting me vent. Oh, and please note in the picture I provided. Not one bike in the bike lane. That is
what I notice frequently we did all of this for cyclist and I don’t see them enough to warrant the impact and cost.
Sue Brigham
On Feb 23, 2024, at 4:42 PM, Colunga-Lopez, Andrea <AColunga@slocity.org> wrote:
Hi Sue,
Thank you for your input, it has been sent to the committee members. It is now placed in the
Active Transportation Committee public archive for the upcoming meeting.
Best,
Andrea Colunga-Lopez
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While I understand the need to keep fellow citizens safe, the impact on the flow of traffic on
streets fallen victim to the new bike lanes (Laurel Ln, Santa Barbara…that’s a huge mess now,
downtown, Chorro) to name just a few not only impacted parking for some businesses (Del
Monte cafe) BUT massively impacted the flow of traffic and narrowed lanes with the
construction of concrete barriers. You can see the tire marks on that concrete as a result of
people hitting them… that doesn’t seem very safe. You can see as a result of the inability of
the street sweeper to get on the other side of those concrete barriers, It’s hard to keep the
streets clean in the bike lanes. Unfortunately, as other projects in San Luis Obispo, it doesn’t
seem like a lot of thought was put into it before the project was acted on or feedback gleaned
from fellow citizens ie., parking fees currently.
Sue Brigham
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