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Brent Inglehart <
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Subject:\[POSSIBLE PAYROLL SCAM\] Foothill Street Project
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As someone who works in SLO, spends time and money in the community regularly, I am having a hard
time with the continued removal of traffic lanes and the addition of protected bike lanes. Between the
bump out intersections and neon green paint, you have turned driving in the city a stresser and harder to
navigate roads with simplicity. The streets look like a monopoly board game.
How about creating larger sidewalks, like Madonna, and taking space from the center to make people
navigate various turns through designated u-turn areas. Traffic congestion is horrible for commuters in
the morning and evening hours. More cars on the road idling, waiting in long traffic lines, and heavy
gridlock at peak times contributes to more pollution than getting people from Point A to Point B
quickly so they can park, get home or travel to events.
The narrowing of Chorro for bikes has ruined that street and the ability to drive safely without striking the
curbs, the poles, the planters or other passing cars. The lanes are too narrow and do not account for any
leeway. Visibility and line of sight is worse than before. Plus depending on what plants you plant you may
not see a bicyclist and hit them more frequently. You have removed all street parking for residents.
Biking, though fun and economical, is not what roads are made for. Roads are made for cars and travel.
Roads with 2 or more lanes, good turn pockets, proper lighting and deeper sidewalks provide the classic
methodology to decrease safety issues. Cities like Rancho Cordova, Folsom, etc have adopted the ideas
like this.
What about pedestrian bridges or middle of road fencing to make people cross the street where it is
safer. There are aesthetic landscaping ideas to make this look amazing. Even Bike bridges like the ones
on Jennifer street and Mill Street could be used on Foothill.
We are fighting the " larger city" feel so much that we are actually making it harder to get across a small
city in what used to take 15 minutes. We are building large mixed use facilities on Laurel, Broad and
around Downtown. You need more lanes of traffic to allow for all the vehicles that will be using these
areas. Not less.
Major arteries like Madonna, LOVR and Broad are disastrous at 230 pm to 7 pm daily.
We should be investing in widening and adding more lanes rather than taking the lanes away for the small
population of bicyclists. If the goal is to faze out vehicles completely and prevent people from
driving cars in SLO to force carbon neutrality, then you have a good model. Your actions could continue
to leave businesses vacant, tourism declining and push people to adjoining cities that are not making
people frustrated and unable to travel with peace.
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Thank you for your time
Brent and Heather Inglehart
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