HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-18-2018 Item 1 - Pickering
Purrington, Teresa
From:Nancy <applyrepeat@gmail.com>
Sent:Saturday,
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:BAC communication
Dear Advisory Committee,
Please change the name of the "Preferred Alternative" to the Anholm Bike Plan to the one "We Are Going To Choose this
One, No Matter What Alternative". Or, if you won't do that at least call the whole Project "A Waste of the Communities'
Time Bike Lane". And of course please add your phone numbers to the plan so the people you have inconvenienced the
most on Chorro and Broad can call you when they need help carrying something into their house from across the street,
if there is parking available. Thursday is their trash day so show up on Wednesday evening to take out their trash for
Thursday morning pickup. Please bring cones on Tuesday with no parking signs so there will be room for the trash cans
on Wednesday night. Because of the undue amount of traffic on both of these streets you will need to gather their cans
as well no later than 24 hours after pickup.
Look at your map, Lincoln is wider and is less used. Lincoln is the Better Alternative.
You are calling those bike lanes as Protected. They are not protected from the driveways that are pocked throughout
Chorro and Broad. So people will use their driveways less, because of the two way bike traffic just outside their
driveway apron, but there will be less street parking for them. Hedges and walls also give one zero vision. Anything
over three feet at the property line has been considered acceptable according to the city's regs. Not all have tall
vehicles. Try backing out onto a sidewalk with jogging pedestrians, two opposite direction bike lanes (hopefully
bicyclists won't be passing each other) into a very busy street. Do this first and see if this makes sense to you.
Your numbers show that the "Preferred Alternative" is the most popular. Those numbers do not represent the people
on Broad and Chorro that this will effect the most.
This biased Alternative has no vision of what the outcome will be. Stand at one of these locations during peak traveling
time and see what the outcome will be. Your stance is not to accept any traffic related deaths; however, this Alternative
has no other alternative, but to cause vehicular accidents for bicyclists and drivers.
These are all legitimate concerns. Please take these concerns to heart before a decision is made. There are a lot of
people out there that can't voice their opinion, go knock on their doors.
Sincerely,
Nancy Pickering
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