HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-02-2015 B1 SchmidtLomeli, Monique
Subject: FW: B -1 Bikeway recommendations
From: Richard Schmidt [mailto:slobuild @yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 9:45 AM
To: Marx, Jan; Ashbaugh, John; Christianson, Carlyn; Carpenter, Dan; Rivoire, Dan; Mejia, Anthony
Subject: B -1 Bikeway recommendations
Item B -1: Bike funding.
I am not surprised at the bike committee recommendations, but you should reconsider whether they are actually
in the best interests of the residents of this city.
The bike committee recommendations are heavily weighted in favor of recreational uses.
Yet your general plan recommends bikes be part of a transportation modal shift.
These are two different things, with two totally different impacts on quality of life.
Thus you need to decide: general plan goals to be fulfilled, or recreational desires to be fulfilled?
I'd put my weight on doing what's needed to create incrementally better in -town bike transport
opportunities now.
One such opportunity the bike committee shot down is the North Broad Bikeway. I'd like to say that I am
amazed at the increase in bike use, especially by kids going to school and parents riding with their kids going to
school, over the past couple of years. This is amazing, and it's wonderful to see. BUT IT'S DANGEROUS.
Broad Street is the bike path of choice north of 101. You need to move now, not in another 10 years, to start
recognizing this route as the sensible route of choice for bike commuters and for little kids trying to eg t to
school. Even if the freeway ramps aren't closed yet, you need to make this bike route safer NOW.
I therefore urge you to proceed with as much of the bikeway as possible this year, then work with CalTrans to
get freeway traffic removed from Broad/Chorro as quickly as possible, then complete the job of making Broad a
full- fledged bikeway.
Thank you. —a ,..n 1.
Richard Schmidt J lJ N 09 2015
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