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IT'S, UH, SIX OH SIX AND WE CAN, WE WILL CALL THE JULY MEETING OF THE WHICH TO BE PACKED ORDER.DO I NEED TO HAVE NO, WE CAN JUST DO THAT.
AND FIRST, WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TWO PEOPLE WHO HAVE SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
UM, THERE'S, THERE'S BEEN A BIT OF A CHANGE IF EVERYBODY WILL LOOK IN THEIR PACKET FROM SLIDES NINE THROUGH SLIDES 27.
THOSE ARE THE, UH, RBC, THE RICHARDSON BICYCLE COALITION, UH, SLIDES.
AND WE HAVE TWO MEMBERS FROM THE RBC WILL, UH, DISCUSS THIS AS A COMMENT, AS A, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT RATHER THAN AS A AGENDA ITEM.
AND WE WON'T, UH, BE ABLE TO DISCUSS THIS LATER ON IN THE MEETING.
BUT WHEN THEIR ITEM COMES UP, UH, UH, ON A PRESENTATION ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS, WE MIGHT TALK JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT.
SO WHO WANTS TO GO FIRST? OKAY, MARK, UH, YOU'LL HAVE FIVE MINUTES.
ALRIGHT, EVERYONE, I'M MARK WHITTY WITH, UH, RICH AND TYSON COALITION.
AND, UH, WANTED TO GO OVER A FEW SLIDES THAT WE BROUGHT TO THE MEETING TONIGHT.
UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO, UM, DO A CURRENT UPDATE FOR Y'ALL.
UM, REALLY MORE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND IMPACT.
UH, AND, UH, RBC HAS VOLUNTEERS THAT GATHER VALUABLE FEEDBACK AND WE PROVIDE THAT AT THE CITY.
AGAIN, WE'RE VOLUNTARY VOLUNTEERS.
UM, THE OBSERVATIONS WILL COMPLIMENT THE CITY'S OUTGOING OUTREACH PROGRAM.
AND, UH, WE HAVE EVENTS, REGULAR EVENTS, UH, IN THE CITY.
UH, WE HAVE RIDES, COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS, SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT, UH, THAT WILL CONNECT US WITH RESIDENTS ACROSS RICHARDSON, ALLOWING US TO HEAR CONCERN, IDENTIFY EMERGING ISSUES, HIGHLIGHT WHAT'S WORKING AND NOT WORKING, WILL COVER OPPORTUNITIES THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE GO UN.
UM, AND THIS INFORMATION WILL HELP THE COMMITTEE MAKE BETTER INFORMED DECISIONS AND IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION.
WE DEBRIEF AND FOCUS ON COMMUNITY INSIGHTS AND FEEDBACK, EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES, INFRASTRUCTURE SUCCESSES, A CONCERN, VOLUNTEER PROJECTS, BEST PRACTICE FROM OTHER CITIES, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION.
OUR GOAL IS TO PROVIDE USEFUL INFORMATION, NOT REPEAT FOR ADVOCACY REQUESTS.
CURRENT VOLUNTEER INITIATIVES INCLUDE CRASH ANALYSIS, STUDIO ASSISTANCE, REGIONAL SAFE PASSING INITIATIVE, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN COUNTS, BICYCLE PARKING ASSISTANCE, SAFE CYCLING, EDUCATION, SCHOOL CYCLING, ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAMS. UM, AND WE WANT TO HELP THE CITY WHEREVER OUR VOLUNTEERS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE CAN BRING TO THESE MEETINGS IS ISSUES RESIDENTS CONSISTENTLY MENTIONED TO US.
BARRIERS TO WALKING AND CYCLING, POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT CITY INITIATIVES AND IMPROVEMENTS, BUSINESS AND DEVELOPER REQUESTS, SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION CONCERNS, TRAIL AND PATH MAINTENANCE OBLIGATIONS.
AGAIN, REAL WORLD OBSERVATION DATA BY VOLUNTEER.
UM, RECENT COMMUNITY SPORT IS WILL INCLUDE SIX BUSINESSES WITH BICYCLE PARKING INSTALLATIONS PROVIDED BICYCLE VALET AT THREE CITY EVENTS, LED A BIKE BUST AT WHITE ELEMENTARY, CONDUCTED TWO BICYCLE
UH, WOULD LIKE TO, UH, TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK THE MAYOR FOR BEING INVOLVED IN TWO OF THESE EVENTS AND WRITING WITH US.
OKAY, SO THEN IT'S GONNA SWITCH OVER FOR ME, MARK BETSON ION.
SO I'M GONNA KIND OF TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE EVENTS THAT WE'VE WORKED ON IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO STARTING WITH THE BIKE BUS.
SO WE REALLY MADE A BIG PUSH DURING MAY, WHICH IS A NATIONAL BIKE MONTH TO GET MANY EVENTS DONE THROUGHOUT THE CITY AS POSSIBLE, AND THEY ENGAGE AS MUCH AS THE COMMUNITY.
SO IT TOOK SOME OF SOME WORK, BUT, UH, PARTLY, AND, AND A FEW OF THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS WERE ABLE TO ORGANIZE A BIKE BUS WITH HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY.
SO IT WAS WELL ATTENDED AND IT WAS ONLY A SHORT RIDE, BUT THAT WAS PROBABLY THE MOST PLANNING THAT WE'VE HAD TO PUT INTO FOR ONE MILE
LUCKILY, WE WERE ABLE TO SAFELY GET THE KIDS
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TO SCHOOL AND WE SHOWED THEM, WE SHOWED THE PARENTS THAT THIS IS HOW EASY IT IS 'CAUSE WAKE UP A LITTLE BIT EARLIER AND THEN RIDE YOUR KIDS LIKE 10, 15 MINUTES TO GET 'EM TO SCHOOL.OKAY, SO FOR THE POPULAR AN ART FESTIVAL.
SO WE PARTNERED WITH A BIKE, DFW AND WE WERE ABLE TO PARK ALMOST A HUNDRED BICYCLES DURING THE SPAN OF THE WEEKEND, THE TWO DAYS.
AND IT WAS SUCH SEXUAL SUCCESS THAT THE, THE FESTIVAL ORGANIZED ORGANIZER HAS INVITED US TO COME BACK AND THEY WANNA MAKE US LIKE A REGULAR PART OF THE FESTIVAL AND GIVE US MORE SPACE THAT TIME.
SO THEY, UM, THE PEOPLE WATCH PARTIES THAT HAPPENED, UH, LAST WEEK FOR THE USA GAME.
SO THIS WAS KIND OF LIKE A LAST MOMENT THING.
THE, THE MAYOR REACHED OUT TO THE PRESIDENT, MATT CADEN, AND REQUESTED TO SEE IF HE COULD PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER.
AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET BOTH A BIKE MART AND THE BIKE SHOP AND SOME OF THE COMMUNITY OUT AND HAD ABOUT ABOUT 20 TO 30 RIDES OF ANOTHER WEALTH IN THE RIDE THAT YOU GOT ONE AND A SHORT RIDE JUST FROM THIS LOCATION HERE AT TEMPORARY CITY HALL DOWN TO CITY LINE.
AND WE TOOK EVERYONE DOWN A LOW STRETCH PATH THROUGH THE, THE GREAT, UH, SPRING, SPRING CREEK NATURE AREA.
AND THROUGH THE, UH, UNDERPASS 7, 5 4, NOT SEVEN FIVE UNDER RENT ROAD AND JUST A RED MOON WAY.
SO SHORT BIKE RIDE, BUT AGAIN, ANOTHER NICE, WELL, 10 VENT.
THEY SHOW THE COMMUNITY THAT IT'S THAT EASY, JUST GO OUTSIDE.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO 10, 20 MILES.
YOU CAN JUST LITERALLY BE ONE TO THREE MILES, UM, FOR THE RIDE OF SILENCE.
SO THAT ONE WAS ORGANIZED BY A A BY THE COMMUNITY.
I THINK THAT'S MOSTLY SCOTT BRADEN AND ALSO BIKES BIKE FRIENDLY.
THEY, THEY KIND OF, UH, GOT RODE BY COMMUNITY TOGETHER AND THEY JUST, AS IT SAYS, WE, WE DID A MOSTLY SILENT RIDE.
IT WAS ABOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT MILES STARTING AGAIN FROM HERE, FROM TEMPORARY CITY HALL.
THE, THE MAYOR ATTENDED IT AND WE, WE HAD A PRETTY GOOD SHOWING, I THINK THAT RIDE, I DON'T HAVE THE FINAL COUNT, BUT I WOULD SAY IT'S LIKE CLOSER TO ALMOST 50 RIDERS.
AND IT'S JUST NICE QUIET RIDE TO REMEMBER THAT THE CYCLISTS HAVE BEEN HEARD OR KILLED ON THE ROADS NATIONAL.
UM, AS FAR AS COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, UM, WHICH EVEN BEEN, UH, ACTIVELY REACHING OUT TO DIFFERENT BUSINESSES, WHENEVER WE SEE AN OPPORTUNITY, I WOULD GET NEW BIKE PARKING INSTALLED.
WE, WE APPROACH THE BUSINESS OWNERS OR PROPERTY OWNERS, SEE WHAT WE CAN GET DONE.
SOMETIMES IT TAKES ABOUT SIX MONTHS OR LONGER TO GET DONE, BUT WE'RE PERSISTENT IN THAT WE'LL REACH OUT EVERY FEW WEEKS AND LIKE, HEY, YOU SAID YOUR PHONE ON THIS.
AND SOME OF OUR MORE RECENT WIND WERE THE
AND FIRST SOMEONE WOULD SAY LIKE, WHY WOULD YOU INSTALL A BIKE RACK AT A GAS STATION? THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT INSIDE THE GAS STATION, IT'S A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE WANT GET STOPPED FOR WATER SNACKS.
SO IT'S JUST LIKE A NICE LITTLE STOCK AND ESPECIALLY THAT AREA THAT'S NEAR THE ALAMO.
AND, UM, IT'S JUST LIKE, IT'S AN AREA THAT THE CITY IS OBVIOUSLY INVESTING A LOT TO MAKE IT MORE
SO, SO, AND THEN, UM, ANOTHER COMMUNITY ACTIVITY.
WE'VE BEEN, UH, ASSISTING WITH CO PINES WHERE WE JUST DO COMMUNITY CLEANUPS.
SO WE JUST PICK UP AND PINES PICK DIFFERENT AREAS, AND THEN WE JUST HELP GET MORE VOLUNTEERS TO SHOW UP THE AREA AND HELP CLEAN UP THE PLANT, THE AREA.
SO RECENTLY WE, WE PARTNERED BEYOND THE BAR TO WHERE THEY OPENED UP JUST FOR US AFTERWARDS.
SO WE CAN JUST RELAX AFTER CLEANUP.
AND THEN ALSO SPRING CREEK NATURE AREA.
THE LONE STAR WHEELERS IS ANOTHER RECENT THING.
WE, WE STOPPED FOR A SUMMER JUST BECAUSE OF HEAT AND WE DON'T WANT PUT OUR, OUR, OUR SENIOR RESIDENTS IN ANY RISK.
BUT, UM, BASICALLY WE, WE HAVEN'T, UH, LONE STAR WHEELERS HAS AN ADAPTED BIKE AND THERE'S SOME BUS COALITION AGAIN, HAS PARTNERED WITH 'EM TO GET PEOPLE AS DRIVERS AND ALSO IF YOU JUST RIDE ALONG.
SO THAT WAY WHEN WE'RE TAKING THESE, UH, ELDERLY PEOPLE OUT FOR BIKE RIDES, JUST THAT 10, 15 MINUTES, THESE PEOPLE REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO THAT, THAT SHORT BIKE RIDE JUST TO GET OUTSIDE.
SO THAT'S A NICE, AND THEN THE LAST THING THAT I'LL TALK ABOUT IS THE, UM, COTTON WHEEL COTTONWOOD, LIKE TRAIL CLA AND ACTIVATION.
SO AS PART OF BETTER BLOCKS, UH, PUSH TO, TO GET MORE PEOPLE TO KIND OF CLEAN UP THE, UH, THE COTTONWOOD INTERSECTION BY 6 35 75, WE, WE HELPED WITH MULTIPLE TRAIL CLEANUPS AND WE EVEN LED A GROUP BIKE RIDE THROUGH THERE.
AND I'VE ALSO HEARD FROM OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT THERE'S, THAT THE LEVEL ACTIVITY HAS INCREASED TO WHERE IT'S, IT'S, IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG PUSH, BUT IT IS, UH, WORKING TO, UM, IMPROVE THE REPUTATION AREA SO THAT PEOPLE USE THAT, THAT EQUAL CONNECTION TO MAKE IT, TO CONNECT BETWEEN DALLAS AND RICHARDSON.
'CAUSE IT'S A, THAT THAT CONNECTION IS PART OF A LONGER TRAIL THAT WILL BASICALLY ALLOW YOU TO REACH, UM, WHITE ROCK LAKE WITHOUT HAVING, HAVING TO REALLY RIDE ON ROADS.
SO, AND LASTLY, THE MAIN, THE LAST THING THAT I'LL MENTION IS RIGHT ALONG THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY, THE COMMUNITY
SO IN THE PAST WE WORK WITH A BIKE MARK, BIKE, SHOP, BIKE, RICHARDSON, BIKE, GFW, SEA LINE AND START WHEELERS, THE COTTONWOOD ART FESTIVAL START BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION, BIKE STREETS, AND THE LOOP DECKS.
SO, AND I JUST WANT TO END IT AND ALL, I KNOW THAT THERE'S NO INSPECTION, BUT TO GET PUT OUT THAT REQUEST, THAT
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REQUESTING JUST A RECURRING UPDATE.SO WE CAN BASICALLY BRING COMMUNITY INSIGHTS AND THEN ALSO IDENTIFY VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES WHERE WE CAN HELP.
HEY, SO THE NEXT, WELL, NEXT ITEM IS, UH, THE, UM, ADOPTION OF THE MINUTES.
SO YOU ALL HAVE A, UH, COPY OF THE MINUTES IN FRONT OF YOU.
AND, UH, UH, WE'VE MADE, UH, I'VE GOT THE OFFICIAL COPY HERE AND WE, AND, UH, WE'VE MADE A COUPLE MINOR CHANGES TO ITEMS THREE AND FIVE, RIGHT? I, I, I CAN'T, I, YEAH, MINE, I, SO JUST, UH, UH, CORRECTING THE, UH, WORDING OF, OF CHANGING CHAIRPERSON TO MEMBER.
SO OTHER THAN THAT, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY, ANY, UH, CHANGES OR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THESE MINUTES? OKAY, SO DO I, YEAH, GO AHEAD.
OH, I'VE MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES WITH THE AMENDED TITLES.
AND DO I HAVE A SECOND? I SECOND.
SHALL I LOOK AT SOMEONE
SO I AM GOING TO SIGN IT AND HAND IT TO NORM AND I CAN, SORRY, MY, UH, HERE WE GO.
SO THE NEXT, UH, ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS TO CONSIDER THE ADOPTION OF THE RULES OF ORDER AND PROCEDURE.
SO, UH, SO, UH, AFTER THE LAST MEETING OR SOMETIME WE, THEY SENT AROUND SOME, UH, UH, THE DRAFT BICYCLE PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE RULES OF ORDER AND PROCEDURE.
AND, UH, MATTHEW HAD SOME, YOU HAD SOME SUGGESTIONS.
AND DID ANYONE SUBMIT ANY SUGGESTIONS TO THE CITY? SO, NORMA, YOU SAID SOME OF MATTHEW'S SUGGESTIONS WERE INCORPORATED? YES.
SO HAVE YOU LOOKED, HAVE YOU LOOKED AT IT? SO, SO I'M ASSUMING EVERYBODY'S HAD A CHANCE, KIND OF, YOU'VE GOT A COPY IN FRONT OF YOU.
HAS EVERYONE HAD A CHANCE, UH, TO LOOK THROUGH IT? AND ARE THERE ANY MORE COMMENTS ON THESE, ON THESE RULES? IT ALL LOOKS PRETTY, PRETTY, PRETTY MUCH JUST CO CODIFYING WHAT WE'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING.
SO IF THERE ARE, UH, NO OTHER, UH, COMMENTS, DOES SOMEONE MOVE TO APPROVE THEM? OKAY.
DO I HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
SO WE'LL APPROVE THESE, UH, THE BICYCLE PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, RULES OF ORDER AND PROCEDURE.
SO HOW, WHAT WE'LL USE GOING FORWARD.
NOW WE'RE, UH, I KNOW TWO MEMBERS SPOKE AHEAD OF TIME, BUT, UH, ACCORDING TO THE, UH, TO OUR AGENDA, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY THE RICHARDSON BICYCLE COALITION ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGEST, DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR, UH, SAFETY RECOMME, UH, IMPROVEMENTS OR INFRASTRUCTURE? AWESOME.
SO, WE'LL, WE'LL BRING UP A FEW POCKETS, FOLKS.
WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE AS A PRESENTATION TO KIND OF A MISUNDERSTANDING OR ACQUIRING MISCOMMUNICATION.
SO I'LL START WITH LIKE SOME OF THE HEAVIER STUFF FIRST.
SO, JUNE 1ST, THERE WAS LIKE A FIELD CRASH NEAR THE, UM, INTERSECTION OF PLANO ROAD, ARAPAHOE PLAZA.
AND WHILE ALL THE FACTORS NOT READILY APPARENT, THE, UH, ONE THING THAT, UH, AGAIN, LIKE SOME OF THE PEOPLE WENT OUT AND PLACED THE GHOST BY THAT THEY NOTICED IMMEDIATELY IS THAT THERE WAS VERY LITTLE VISIBILITY BY BEFORE A CRASH HAPPENED.
SO I ACTUALLY RODE OUT TO THE AREA LAST NIGHT TO JUST KIND OF GET MY EYES ON IT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE WERE LOCAL BUSH IN THE ORIGINAL PICTURES I SENT LIKE A MONTH AGO FROM THE CRACK SITE.
AND IT SEEMS LIKE, WHICH WAS BEEN, FOR EXAMPLE, WHICH GREAT, BECAUSE THAT SMALL IMPROVEMENT, THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT CAN STILL BE DONE, BUT THAT ALONE INCREASED THE VISIBILITY GREATLY TO WHERE BEFORE THE GHOST BIKE IN THE FIRST PLACE, IT WAS INVISIBLE.
LIKE UNLESS YOU WERE ON, UM, UNLESS YOU WERE ON ARAPAHOE ROAD HEADING TOWARDS PLANO, UH, WHAT WAS THAT HEADING WEST? YOU, YOU BASICALLY COULDN'T SEE THE BIKE.
SO IF SOMEONE COMING OUTTA THE SHOPPING PLAZA, BASICALLY PEOPLE WERE WALKING OR CYCLING ON THE SIDEWALK WOULD BASICALLY BE ADMISSIBLE, DEPEND ANYONE DRIVING.
AND BECAUSE OF THE HIGH SPEED OF TRAFFIC AND DRIVERS NORMALLY STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK, WHICH KIND OF LEADS TO INEVITABLE THAT THE KIND OF CRASH HAPPENING.
I, I JUST WANT TO, I, SOME OF THE PEOPLE HERE MAY NOT KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS OF THAT CRASH.
HOWEVER, WHAT WE BELIEVE HAPPENED WAS, UH, IT WAS A RIDER WAS, UH, RIDING A, UH, E-BIKE ON THE SIDEWALK AND I'M ASSUMING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED, AND I'M ASSUMING WITHOUT A HELMET AND, AND A CAR PULLED OUT OF
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THE SHOPPING CENTER AND THE E-BIKE ACTUALLY RAN INTO THE CAR.AND, UH, LIKE HE SAID, OTHER THAN MAYBE TRIMMING THE BUSHES THERE, BECAUSE THE, THE PROBLEM IS, IS YOU MIGHT SAY THAT THE CAR CAR DRIVER MAY BE PULLED OUT TOO FAR, BUT IN REALITY, UH, WHAT YOU ALMOST HAVE TO DO IS DO A DOUBLE, A DOUBLE STOP.
YOU HAVE TO STOP, MAKE SURE THE SIDEWALK'S CLEAR.
BUT IF YOU, YOU'RE FAR ENOUGH BACK, YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE THE ROAD.
SO THEN YOU HAVE TO PULL OUT AGAIN.
AND THAT'S VERY WELL, MAYBE WHAT, WHAT, AND CARS ARE GENERALLY EXPECTING PEDESTRIANS MOVING SLOWLY ON THE SIDEWALK, AND THEY MAY LOOK, BUT THEN A BIKE COMES REALLY FAST.
AND ESPECIALLY IN THIS CASE, BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THE, THE, THE RIDER WAS RIDING AGAINST THE TRAFFIC.
SO THE TR THE CAR WOULD BE LOOKING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION, FOR EXAMPLE.
RIGHT? SO, SO, SO THERE'S A, I I GUESS REALLY, AND WE, WE DISCUSSED SEVERAL MEETINGS AGO THE DANGER OF ALLEYWAY OPENINGS, UH, TO PEDESTRIANS AND TO A CYCLISTS AND REALLY NEVER ARRIVED AT ANYTHING.
THIS, THIS IS ANOTHER, UH, ISSUE, UH, ISSUE ABOUT THAT.
AND THEN IT ALSO COMES BACK TO RIDING ON THE SIDEWALK, UH, WHICH MOST, UH, CYCLE BICYCLE EXPERTS WILL SAY IS EVEN THOUGH SOMETIMES IT FEELS SAFER TO RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK, IT ACTUALLY IS MORE DANGEROUS TO RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK IN MOST CASES, OBVIOUSLY, ALL ESPECIALLY AGAINST, YEAH, OBVIOUSLY A WIDE, YOU KNOW, A WIDE SIDEWALK THAT'S A MODERN ONE THAT'S DESIGNED FOR, FOR A MULTI-USE.
BUT THIS ONE WAS NOT, IT WAS VERY NARROW AND ALL THAT.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT LESSONS WE CAN TAKE FROM IT, BUT IT IS ANOTHER DATA POINT.
SO AS FAR AS LIKE, THE NEXT ONE, ANOTHER HEAVY TOPIC.
SO I, I DON'T HAVE ALL THE DETAILS MYSELF, BUT I HEARD THAT THERE WAS A ALSO A, ANOTHER FATAL, UH, CRASH WITH A, INVOLVING A PEDESTRIAN ON SPRING VALLEY.
SO I DON'T KNOW THE, THE DETAILS, BUT I HEARD IT WAS BASED BETWEEN, UH, JUNE 1ST AND NOW.
SO WHAT I WANTED TO JUST BRING UP, AND AGAIN, I, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE CAN DO, BUT IT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
BUT THE CITY, THIS, THIS WAS BETWEEN 75 AND COIT ROAD.
AND THE CITY HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK ON THAT AREA.
AND IT'S INTERESTING, IT'S, IT'S NOT A GOOD THING, BUT I'VE BEEN DRIVING THAT ALMOST TWICE A DAY FOR A WHILE.
THERE ARE NOW, I BELIEVE THERE'S SEVEN, UH, DESIGNATED CROSSINGS IN THAT ONE MILE BETWEEN ROADS THAT HAVE STOPLIGHTS AND THE Z CROSSINGS AND THE, AND THE, THE STOPLIGHT THAT THE CITY PUT IN.
AND I KNOW THAT THE CITY DID A LOT OF WORK ON THAT AREA BECAUSE OF THE, UH, WHAT GROUP ACTUALLY DID THAT ORIGINAL SURVEY.
SO WE DID A STUDY, UH, A FEW YEARS AGO.
UM, WITH THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS COUNCIL GOVERNMENT, THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT, AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, UM, PARTICIPATED IN THAT STUDY.
AND THEY, THEY WERE REALLY THE ONES WHO LED THE STUDY, UM, WAS FROM FEDERAL HIGHWAYS.
THEY'VE KIND OF A GUIDELINE AND PROCESSING THEY'VE USED BEFORE.
SO, SO THERE'S A PROTECTED CROSSING ABOUT EVERY 50 FEET ALONG THAT ROAD.
AND THE PROBLEM IN DR HAVING DRIVING DRIVEN IT A LOT, NO ONE IS USING THE PROTECTED CROSSING AND, AND NEITHER DID THIS PEDESTRIAN.
WHAT THIS PEDESTRIAN IS NOT IN A CROSSWALK.
THE, THEY'RE THE, THE PEDESTRIANS I, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, BUT THEY ARE, THEY'RE JUST WHEREVER THEY HAPPENED.
AND OF COURSE THERE'S APARTMENTS ALONG ONE SIDE AND RETAIL ALONG THE OTHER SIDE.
SO THERE'S NUMEROUS ENTRANCES AND EXITS TO VARIOUS PARKING LOTS.
AND AS FAR AS, JUST FROM MY OBSERVATIONS, PEOPLE ARE CROSSING WHEREVER THEY HAPPEN.
WE HAD SOMEONE CROSS RIGHT IN FRONT OF US, LITERALLY 15 FEET FROM A, FROM A, FROM A, FROM A CROSSWALK.
AND, AND IT'S JUST WHAT I'VE BEEN OBSERVING, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT IT OR WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
IT'S, IT'S VERY, VERY FRUSTRATING.
SO, YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK, YOU LOOK, YOU'RE, YOU HAVE A LOOK OF CONSTERNATION, SO YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID.
I, I, SO YEAH, I THEMSELVES TODAY, YOU CAN'T NECESSARILY FIX THAT.
I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE, THE FIRST THOUGHT WAS MAYBE COULD YOU, COULD YOU LIKE PUT A WALL ALONG THERE OR, BUT YOU CAN'T EVEN DO THAT BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY CUTS INTO THE PARKING LOTS, YOU KNOW? SO, AND THAT SEEMS TO BE WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING.
THEY'RE JUST GO WALKING TO A, TO A PLACE WHERE A CAR WOULD EXIT A PARKING LOT AND JUST WALKING RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET.
SO, SO, UH, I GUESS THAT'S JUST SOMETHING, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT SIGNS THERE SAY CROSS THE CROSSWALK WITH AN ARROW HERE AND THEN RIGHT THERE.
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I DO NOT KNOW.I DON'T DO NOT KNOW, BUT THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT I OBSERVE AND HAS BEEN VERY, IT REALLY BOTHERED ME AND, AND IS FRUSTRATING.
SO, SO, UM, AM I ALLOWED TO TALK? UM, YES.
UM, SO WHAT IF, LIKE, WE IN THE RICHARDSON BICYCLE COALITION WERE TO STAKE OURSELVES OUT THERE AND JUST LIKE FOR TWO HOURS, SORT OF LIKE WE DID FOR THE, FOR THE PEDESTRIAN COUNTS AND JUST OBSERVE LIKE THE, 'CAUSE I'M, I'M CURIOUS TO KNOW, IS IT JUST THEM MAKING A BEELINE FROM THEIR HOUSE TO THE CLOSEST PLACE? AND IN WHICH CASE, WHY AREN'T WE PUTTING THE CROSSWALKS AT THE PLACE WHERE THE DESIRE PATHS ARE? YEAH, YEAH.
UM, OR IS IT SOMETHING LIKE, UM, IS IT JUST COMPLETELY RANDOM, WHICH I HAVE A HARD TIME, OR I TALKED TO BILL ABOUT THIS ONCE BEFORE, IS, IS IT JUST THAT THEY'RE TIRED AND THEY'RE REALLY, THEY, IT JUST GOING EVEN JUST A FEW FEET DOWN THE WAY, JUST FEELS LIKE IT'S TOO HARD OR SOMETHING? OR DOES IT OBVIOUS THERE, THERE'S A PROTECTED CROSS BLOCK, 170 FEET FROM WHERE THIS INDIVIDUAL 170.
NOW WHEN WE READ THE, WHEN I READ THE, THE, THE DESCRIPTION, I THINK IT WAS AN ERROR.
IT SAID THAT IT WAS WEST OF COT, BUT I THINK THAT'S, THAT WAS WRONG.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I ASSUMED IT WAS.
IT WAS JUST IN WEST OF COT ISN'T EVEN RICHARDSON.
THERE WAS WATERFALL, BUT OH YEAH.
OH, SO IT WAS CLEAR DOWN BY WATERFALL, JUST EAST OF THE NEW STOP LIKE MINISTRY.
AND I WAS SAY, SO THE ROAD SAFETY AUDIT, WHICH WHAT WE DID WITH COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS AND WE SPENT THREE DAYS ON THAT CORRIDOR JUST WATCHING HOW PEOPLE MOVE.
UM, AND REALLY THIS EASTERN SECTION KIND OF FROM CO TO ESPERANZA IS KIND OF THE MAIN FOCUS.
UM, AND THAT'S WHERE WE SPENT A LOT OF THE TIME AND A LOT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS CAME OUT.
UH, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU END UP WITH, YOU HAVE A LOT OF APARTMENTS ON THE NORTH SIDE, KIND OF ON THE RICHARDSON SIDE, ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
YOU'VE GOT TWO GROCERY STORES, YOU'VE GOT ALL THE RETAIL, YOU'VE GOT LAUNDROMATS.
UM, AND THAT'S A LOT OF WHAT WE SAW.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THE GROCERY STORE.
THEY'RE COMING BACK FROM THE GROCERY STORE.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE CARRYING THEIR LAUNDRY.
SO, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS LIKE FASTEST PATH, THEY'RE CARRYING A BIG BAG, A LAUNDRY.
THEY ARE GONNA TAKE WHATEVER IS THE SHORTEST PATH TO THE LAUNDROMAT.
UM, AND THAT WAS A LOT OF KIND OF THE OBSERVATIONS THAT CAME OUT OF IT.
UM, WE ALSO WATCHED LIKE SCHOOL TIMES.
'CAUSE DOWN IN DALLAS THERE'S AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DOWN ESPERANZA, AND THAT'S A LITTLE BIT FURTHER EAST.
BUT, UM, YOU END UP WITH A LOT OF PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY, KIND OF THAT SCHOOL LET OUT ABOUT WALKING UP ESPERANZA.
AND, UH, THEY KIND OF SCATTERED AROUND SPRING VALLEY BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
THEY SHOULDN'T BE CROSSING SPRING VALLEY OF LIKE ATTENDANCE ZONE.
EVERYONE NORTH OF SPRING VALLEY SHOULD BE GOING TO, UM, DOVER, SOUTH OF SPRING VALLEY SHOULD ALL BE GOING.
UM, BUT THAT'S NOT ALWAYS THE CASE.
SO I GUESS THERE'S REALLY NO, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE CAN DO, BUT ALL OF US, I GUESS KEEP OUR THINKING CAPS ON AND ANY ANYTHING THAT WE CAN HELP.
'CAUSE IT'S, IT'S, I KNOW THE CITY SPENT A LOT OF TIME, A LOT OF MONEY, YOU KNOW, ON, ON, UH, AND, AND, AND, AND THE, THE, THE LAST STOP, THE FACT THAT IT'S A, A RED LIGHT, WHICH IS TIED TO THE LIGHT AT CO AND SPRING VALLEY, I THINK IT WAS VERY IN IT.
'CAUSE IT BOTH GIVES A RED LIGHT INSTEAD OF THE FLASHING YELLOW.
AND THE FACT THAT IT'S TIED, UH, TO THE, TO THE COT ROAD ONE WILL HELP HELP, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH TRAFFIC FRUSTRATION.
IN OTHER WORDS, YOU KNOW, IT, IT KEEPS THE TRAFFIC FLOWING EVEN THOUGH IT DOES PROVIDE SAFETY.
MAYBE, MAYBE THIS WAS A ONE OFF.
MAYBE WITH TIME PEOPLE WILL LEARN TO USE THE CROSSWALK.
DOES ANDERSON HAVE THE ABILITY TO GIVE TICKETS TO JAY WALKERS? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
ABILITY TO WHAT? GIVE TICKETS TO JAY WALKERS.
WE DO NOT WRITE VERY MANY TICKETS.
AND THERE ARE PARTS OF TOWN WHERE IT'S A MUCH BIGGER ISSUE THAN OTHERS.
GAS STATION RIGHT THERE OFF OF BELTLINE.
A LOT OF ACTIVITY THERE WITH JAY WALKING ON BELTLINE.
WHEN I WORKED DOWNTOWN, I HAD A FRIEND RUN THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET TO CATCH A BUS GOING THE OTHER WAY.
AND A DALLAS COP PULLED THE BUS OVER, GOT HIM OFF THE BUS AND GAVE HIM A TICKET.
AND I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY THEY DID THAT UNTIL I WENT TO NEW YORK CITY WHERE EVERY CORNER IS BASICALLY A GAME OF CHICKEN BETWEEN THE CARS AND THE, AND THE PEDESTRIANS.
AND I GO, NOW I KNOW WHY IN DOWNTOWN THEY'RE SO STRICT ABOUT JAY WALKER'S.
'CAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS DANGEROUS AND IT WAS STOPPING EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, NOBODY GETS THROUGH.
SO IT WAS, IT WAS AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE.
SORRY, DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY MORE COMMENTS? ONE LAST COMMENT I HAVE ABOUT THAT IS THAT IT MAY JUST BE A THING OF CULTURE BECAUSE JUST BECAUSE YOU IMPROVE AREA IMMEDIATELY.
PEOPLE MAY NOT TAKE UP TO IT, ESPECIALLY IF THEY DON'T BELIEVE IT'S ACTUALLY
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GONNA MAKE US EVEN COMING UP HERE, THE ONE MILE I'M LIKE, LUCKILY I'M ON THE E-BIKE, BUT IT'S, IT'S, IT'S HOT OUTSIDE SO I CAN SEE SOMEONE ON SPRING VALLEY WHEN IT'S A HUNDRED DEGREES OUTSIDE SAYING LIKE, WELL I DON'T KNOW IF THIS LIGHT ACTUALLY WORKS OR NOT.SO I'M JUST GONNA RUN ACROSS THE STREET LIKE I'VE BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS.
SO THERE, THERE MAY BE A NEED FOR LIKE A INFORMATIONAL CAMPAIGN OR EVEN JUST LIKE AN INFORMAL SURVEY.
LIKE RBC WILL DEFINITELY COULD GET SOME VOLUNTEERS EVEN COULD SIT OUT THERE AND LIKE, HEY, DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A CROSSWALK RIGHT THERE? IF YOU PRESS THE BUTTON, PEOPLE WILL ACTUALLY STOP.
'CAUSE THEY, THEY MAY MAY NOT KNOW THAT WORKS OR THEY DON'T BELIEVE THAT ANYONE WILL ACTUALLY STOP FOR THEM.
I COULD SEE EVEN DOING SOMETHING LIKE SINCE IT'S PRI PRIMARILY THOSE APARTMENTS, IF YOU WERE TO LIKE NOTIFY THE APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND HAVE THEM SORT OF, YOU KNOW, DISTRIBUTE INFO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO THAT OUT ESPECIALLY SOMEBODY DIED RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM.
PROBABLY SOMEBODY THEY KNOW AND SURE.
AND THAT WASN'T THE FIRST, I MEAN THAT WASN'T THE FIRST.
WE DID CREATE A WEBSITE ABOUT HOW TO USE 'EM, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY WITH THE STOP ONE, IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
WE HAVE SIGNS LIKE HAVING YARD SIGNS AT EACH OF THOSE CROSSING, TELLING PEOPLE ACROSS HERE, UM, AND ENGLISH AND SPANISH, UH, WITH THE QR CODE TO THE WEBSITE.
UM, AND OUR COMMUNICATIONS ALSO CREATED A FLYER OF THAT INFORMATION, UH, WHICH GOT SENT OUT TO THOSE APARTMENT COMPLEXES.
DO YOU KNOW IF THERE WAS FEEDBACK FROM IT OR ANYTHING? NO.
YOU SEND IT TO THE PROPERTY MANAGER.
SEND OUT TO THEM HOW THEY WANT DIS REVIEW THAT.
ANYTHING ELSE? UH, ONE THING THAT WE'VE NOTICED THAT RECENTLY THE UNDERPASS CONSTRUCTION AT THE, UH, BOTH LIKE RENTER GEORGE BUSH FOR EXAMPLE, AND UM, ALSO RENTER IN 75, LIKE THE, UH, THE CONSTRUCTION IS NOT ALWAYS LEFT CLEAN.
LIKE, UH, I THINK AMY NOTICED THAT FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS THERE'S BEEN JUST AN OPEN AREA ON THE SIDEWALK THAT THERE'S NO ACTIVE CONSTRUCTION.
BUT IT'S ALSO HASN'T BEEN LIKE REPAVED, WHICH IS KIND OF, KIND OF GOES AGAINST THE MAKING THINGS MORE WALKABLE.
AND WHAT I'VE NOTICED, LIKE PASSING BY, 'CAUSE TODAY ON RENTER IN 75, ALL FOUR OF THE CROSSING AREAS WERE BLOCKED OFF TO WHERE IT'S LIKE SOMEONE'S WALKING OR BIKE LANE, THEY'LL HAVE A HARD TIME.
WELL SOMEONE BIKING WOULD COULD TAKE THE UNDERPASS.
SOMEONE WALKING WOULD HAVE TO TAKE LIKE A HALF MILE TO ONE MILE DETOUR TO CROSS THAT AREA.
LAST WEEK I SAW, I NOTICED THAT ONE SIDE WAS CLOSED OFF FOR CONSTRUCTION, BUT NOW IT SEEMS LIKE ALL FOUR CORNERS, LIKE JUST IN GENERAL THE CONSTRUCTION, IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S, THE AREAS ARE NOT ALWAYS CLEANED UP.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S LIKE A, SOME TYPE GOES ON THAT WHENEVER CONSTRUCTION IS FINISHED WITH A NEARBY SIDEWALK THAT THERE'S SOME KIND OF AUDIT OR INSPECTION.
BUT IT DOES SEEM TO BE LIKE A, A PROBLEM WHERE CONSTRUCTION WILL BE DONE, BUT THEN THE AIR WILL BE BASICALLY LEFT.
THERE'S, I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY ACTIVE CONSTRUCTION FOR MAYBE LIKE TWO OR THREE MONTHS.
BUT I KNOW LIKE THAT INTERSECTION IS KIND OF JUST OPEN.
SO WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO REPORT TO THE CITY, UH, THOSE KINDS OF ISSUES.
SO I KNOW AMY, WE GOT YOUR REQUESTS ON THE 75 AND RENTER ONE GOT.
AND SO YEAH, IF YOU DO THE ESON APP OKAY.
YOU SUBMIT SOMETHING THROUGH THAT.
SO THESE, ALL OF THESE PROJECTS, THESE ARE SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
THEY'RE IN TEXT DOT RIGHT OF WAY.
SO THEY'RE MANAGED BY TECH DOT.
UM, TDOT DOESN'T ASK US FOR PERMITS.
UM, IT'S SO THEY'RE WORKING ON THEIR SCHEDULE WITH THEIR CONTRACTOR.
UM, AND SO YEAH, WE NOTIFIED THEIR PROJECT MANAGER.
THE OTHER IS, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A WAY AS A CITIZEN TO CONTACT THAT, THAT YOU HAVE.
AND I JUST SAY I DID DO THAT AND THEY SAID, THEY WROTE ME BACK, THANK YOU FOR YOUR EMAIL.
TEXT DOT DOES NOT MAINTAIN THIS LOCATION AS, I'M NOT SURE IF THIS WAS A CITY OR NCCA PROJECT.
HERE'S CONTACT, HE'S MAKING REPORT, THEY'RE PASSING IT ON OR SOMETHING.
SO WHICH ONES ARE, ARE THE ONES ALONG 75 TDOT? UH, AND AND GEORGE BUSH AND GEORGE BUSH.
SO GEORGE BUSH IS ALSO STATE HIGHWAY ONE 90.
BUT THEN, BUT THEN ALL THE OTHERS LIKE BELTLINE AND ALL THAT, THAT'S THE CITY, RIGHT.
OR BELTLINE OR WHAT? SO ANY INTERSECTION WITH 75.
BELTLINE AND PLANO, LET'S SAY IS SPELLED THAT WAY.
THE ONLY STATE CONTROLLED ROADS ARE GONNA BE 75 AND GEORGE BUSH.
WOULD YOU SUGGEST THAT WE WRITE TO ONE OF THESE PLACES THEY TOLD US TO DO? OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE THAT RICHARDSON CAN DO TO TRY TO GET IT, UH, REPAIRED? IT'S LIKE BIG OLD POKEY THINGS.
WHY DON'T YOU, WHY DON'T YOU SEND THAT EMAIL THAT YOU RECEIVED BACK? OKAY.
AND THEN WE CAN COORDINATE WITH THE PROJECT MANAGER TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MESSAGING IS CORRECT AND THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THEIR
THEY'RE WORKING ON A HALF, BUT THEY OWN THE PROJECT, THEY OWN THE CONSTRUCTION SIDE.
SO AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THEY HIRED THE CONTRACTOR AGAIN, THEY OWN THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.
AND IT WILL, FROM A GENERAL STATEMENT, ARE THEY, YOU KNOW, MAINTAINING ANY SIGNAL
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RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT TO BE FULLY ACCESSIBLE IS REALLY DIFFICULT.YEAH, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, RENTER FEST, YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THAT WITH, YOU KNOW, RENTER TRAIL.
UH, I KIND OF THROUGH RBC, THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT KIND OF THE DISCONNECT.
UM, THERE WHERE WE ENDED UP HAVING THE CONTRACTOR PUT IN TEMPORARY ASPHALT JUST TO MAINTAIN KIND OF A SURFACE.
'CAUSE AFTER SOMEBODY FELL AND BROKE THEIR HIP AND STUFF ON ONE OF THE SEA JUST, UH, WEST OF CUSTER WITHIN A COUPLE OF DAYS, THEY HAD PUT ASPHALT OVER THAT TO, TO PREVENT OTHER INJURIES.
UM, AND SO THERE ARE, THERE ARE WAYS TO WORK AROUND, BUT YOU KNOW, I KNOW PLANO BELT LINE'S ANOTHER ONE WHERE A LOT OF TIMES YOU'RE GETTING KIND OF YOUR UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE IN OH YEAH.
YOU'RE GETTING KIND OF ALL YOUR SIGNAL POLE FOUNDATIONS IN AND A LOT OF TIMES THOSE CURB RAMPS ARE KIND OF ONE OF THE LAST THINGS THAT GO IN.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER WORK GOING ON.
A LOT OF THINGS GET TORN UP AND IT'S A WHILE BEFORE YOU SEE THOSE CURB RAMPS SOMETIMES.
UM, AND, AND THAT'S JUST A STRUGGLE, ESPECIALLY TO MAINTAIN ACCESSIBILITY WHERE KIND OF DURING CONSTRUCTION AND MAYBE HEY, YOU HAVE TO CROSS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD, WHICH ENDS UP BEING A LONG DETOUR.
UM, AND SOMETIMES THEY'RE ALL TORN UP.
UM, AND I KNOW WE'RE WORKING ON HOW DO WE MANAGE THAT A LITTLE BIT BETTER OR I THINK PROBABLY WIN BUSTER IS ONE OF THE BETTER EXAMPLES RIGHT NOW OF BEING ABLE TO GET SOMETHING TEMPORARY IN WHILE, WHILE THEY CONTINUE SOME OF THAT WORK.
IS THAT IT OR DO YOU HAVE ONE MORE? YEAH, ONE MORE, BUT, OKAY.
SO JUST ONE POINT TO KIND OF ADD ON TO IT.
UH, IT DID GET, WELL THAT'S AN OLDER REPORT, BUT ONE OF THE COMMUNITY, ONE MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY REPORT THAT THEY ACTUALLY BROKE THEIR ARM WHILE NAVIGATING ONE OF THE NEW, UH, INTER, UH, SIDE, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE IT.
AND PART OF THAT IS THAT THEY NOTICE THAT THE, UH, SOME OF THESE NEWER CURVES ON THE, LIKE THE CURVE RAMPS ARE A LOT TALLER THAN THEY USED TO BE.
AND BECAUSE THEY'RE IN COLOR, SOMETIMES THEY, I GUESS PEOPLE WILL HAVE DEPTH PERCEPTION ISSUES.
THEY CAN'T EXACTLY TELL WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO IT'S VERY EASY TO, IT'S EASY, ESPECIALLY ON A BICYCLE, IT'S EASIER FOR 'EM TO CRASH INTO THAT AS JUST SOMETHING TO JUST BRING UP THAT MAYBE A CURB PAINTING WOULD BE PART OF THESE NEWER PROJECTS WHEN CURBS ARE REPAINTED AND MAYBE CURBS ARE OVER, LIKE X NUMBER OF IN INCHES, WHATEVER THEY CAN BE PAINTED LIKE EITHER REFLECTIVE COLOR OR SOME KIND OF HIGH VISIBILITY COLORS SO THAT WAY PEOPLE ARE LESS LIKELY TO CRASH AND LIKE BREAK THEIR WRIST OR ARM ON THOSE.
UM, THE LAST, DO YOU KNOW, IS IT LIKE, AS THEY'RE APPROACHING THE CURVE RAMP, UM, THIS REPORT THAT, THAT I READ WAS, UM, WERE THEY ON, I THINK IT WAS FLOYD AND CAMPBELL, THEY, THEY WERE SOMEHOW NAVIGATING, THEY, I DON'T, I DON'T REMEMBER THE FULL DETAILS, BUT THEY WERE NAVIGATING THAT AREA.
THEY FELL OVER GROP THEIR, GROPED THEIR ARM AND LUCKILY SOMEONE PULLED OVER, CALLED THE AMBULANCE AND WAS ABLE TO GET 'EM OUT.
AND I THINK THIS IS MORE THAN LIKE SIX MONTHS AGO.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, I THINK SOME PEOPLE ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE NEW DIRECTIONAL RAMPS.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING, YOU KNOW, THE OLD RAMPS USED TO JUST BE LIKE A BIG, LIKE A DELTA IF YOU, IF YOU WILL.
BUT I DO KNOW THAT ISN'T IT AN A DA REQUIREMENT OR RECOMMENDATION AT LEAST THAT THE RAMP SPEED BE DIRECTIONAL, THAT IT SET OF ONE DELTA SHAPED ONE? THERE'S TWO RECTANGULAR SHAPED ONES.
SO KIND OF LATEST A DA GUIDANCE.
THERE SHOULD BE TWO SEPARATE RAMPS.
UM, AND, AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S A LOT OF KIND OF DIRECTIONAL COMPONENT TO IT WHERE YEAH, YOU'RE KIND OF ORIENTING THE PEDESTRIAN, ESPECIALLY, THERE'S KIND OF A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AND UM, I THINK ACTUALLY REMEMBER THAT SEEING IT ON VFR, THE CAMPBELL FLOYD, SOME OF THAT DISCUSSION.
UM, AND A LOT OF THESE CORNERS, ESPECIALLY ON 10 MAJOR ROADS LIKE CAMPBELL, OFTEN THE RIGHT OF WAY IS REALLY TIGHT.
UM, AND SO SOMETIMES THERE ARE SOME KIND OF MEDIANS, BUT IT IS THE HARD PART THAT FIGHTS CAN BE ON SIDEWALKS, BUT SIDEWALKS ARE NOT DESIGNED FOR BYTES AT THE SAME TIME.
UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE DESIGNED FOR PEDESTRIANS AND SO IT CAN BE REALLY TRICKY TO MANEUVER AROUND SOME OF THOSE MEDIANS SOMETIMES.
UM, WHERE IT IS CREATING THE DIRECTIONAL WHERE, UM, YEAH, KIND OF GUIDANCE IS TRYING TO NOT CREATE JUST KIND OF AN OPEN CORNER, UM, ANYMORE.
UM, WE END UP WITH SOME AREAS WHERE THAT IS, UH, MORE SO IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
UM, BUT THEN, YEAH, YOU'RE ADDING KIND OF AN ISLAND IN THE, IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT CURB RAMP THAT, ESPECIALLY ON A BIKE, IT'S HARD TO NAVIGATE WHEN YOU'VE GOT A FOUR OR FIVE, SIX FOOT WIDE SIDEWALK.
UM, AND TRYING TO MAKE A TIGHT TURN IF YOU'RE TRYING TO, I REMEMBER SEEING THAT, THAT IMAGE AND 'CAUSE IT'S ALL CONCRETE COLOR, IT WAS VERY HARD TO TELL, ESPECIALLY, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN LIGHTING CONDITIONS YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO TELL.
THERE'S LITTLE, YOU KNOW, CURVE LIKE THAT IN BETWEEN AND IT IS STILL KIND OF NEW TO EVERYBODY.
IT'S ONLY BEEN AROUND A COUPLE YEARS, RIGHT? THAT'S TRUE.
SO MAYBE THAT SHOULD BE THE TAKEAWAY IS THAT THE CITY SHOULD LOOK AS CLOSE AS IT CAN TO, TO MAKING, UH, RAMPS AND CUTS AS VISIBLE AS POSSIBLE.
'CAUSE I DO KNOW I'VE KNOWN MANY PEOPLE THAT HAVE FALLEN AND, UH, UH, PATRICIA THE DART STATIONS ARE PARTICULARLY, UH, DIFFICULT ABOUT THAT.
WHERE SOMETIMES IT'S VERY, WHERE THEY'VE DRIVEN OFF A CURB OR INTO A CURB WHERE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS CUT.
SO I'VE KNOWN TWO PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN INJURED AT DART STATIONS.
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THINK BECAUSE THE DART HAS SUCH WIDE, THEY'LL HAVE WIDE, UH, CURB CUTS, BUT THEN IT WON'T BE VERY WELL DELINEATED AND THEY'LL GO SIX INCHES TOO FAR TO ONE SIDE AND, AND GO OFF THE CURB.'CAUSE I, I KNOW TWO PEOPLE THAT HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN INJURED, WHICH, WHICH IS THE ONE, ONE WAS ARAPAHOE, YOU KNOW, AND I DO KNOW LIKE COMING ACROSS, ACROSS GREENVILLE AND THEN PAST THE STATUE.
AND IT'S VERY DIFFICULT AT THAT POINT TO KNOW WHERE THE CUT IS AND WHERE THE CURVE IS.
UNDERSTAND, YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ANYBODY COMING OFF THE DART TRAIN NOW ON A BICYCLE WILL GO THE OTHER ONE'S DOWNTOWN.
SO IT WAS, AND IT WAS AT THE END KIND OF THE END WHERE THE SIDEWALK WAS GOING TO THE END AND IT JUST HAD A CURB WITH NO MARKING ON IT AT ALL.
AND SOMEONE JUST DROVE RIGHT OFF THAT.
SO THAT, I GUESS THAT'S JUST A, YOU KNOW, JUST A GENERAL THING TO THINK ABOUT IS WHENEVER ANYONE'S PUTTING CUTS IN OR CURVES IN THAT VISIBILITY, AND IT'S NOT JUST FOR BICYCLISTS, OBVIOUSLY A PEDESTRIAN, NOT FOR CUTS.
A PEDESTRIAN STEPPING OFF, YOU STEP OFF A CURB THAT YOU DON'T EXPECT, YOU'RE, YOU'RE GONNA, YOU'RE GONNA GO DOWN AND, UH, IT COULD BE VERY PAINFUL.
IS THAT, IS THAT EVERYTHING OH, THE TRUE LAST THING.
SO CRASH ANALYSIS STUDIO, SO THE, UH, BESIDES THE CITY BEING ABLE TO BASICALLY GET THE FEEDBACK AND GO, AND THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF CRASH ANALYSIS STUDIO IS BASICALLY TO GO OUT AND LOOK AT THE DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT POTENTIALLY CAUSE A SERIOUS INJURY OR A FATAL CRASH.
SO, AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT WE WANT WHATEVER, ANYTIME THERE'S A FATAL, A SERIOUS INJURY OR A FATAL CRASH, WE WANT THAT TO BE LIKE THE LAST TIME THAT HAPPENS.
WE, IF WE SEE SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS ONCE, LIKE WE LOOK AT EVERY OTHER SECTOR, IF A FATAL CRASH HAPPENS IN A CAR, ALL MAKERS, ALL MAKERS WILL GET INVOLVED AND SAY LIKE, WELL, HOW COULD WE MAKE OUR CAR SAFER IF A PLANE CRASHES FAA GETS INVOLVED AND EVERYONE TREATS IT AS AN EMERGENCY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE A REPEAT LIKE THE 7 87 UH, CRASHES, JUST DO THE PILOT TRAINING.
BUT THE, UM, FOR THE CITY OF RICHARDSON IT BE, IT WOULD BE GOOD TO SEE, ESPECIALLY ON THE PUBLIC SIDE, SOME KINDA REPORT THAT'S SENT OUT BY THE CITY WITHIN LIKE LESS THAN A YEAR FROM A FIELD CRASH THAT GOES OUT TO THE COMMUNITY TO LET 'EM KNOW LIKE, HEY, THIS HAPPENED.
HERE'S WHAT WE NOTICED FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN STANDPOINT.
AND HERE'S SOME THINGS THAT WE, AGAIN, WE DON'T HAVE UNLIMITED MONEY SO WE CAN'T JUST MAKE ALL THESE CHANGES AT ONCE.
BUT THINGS THAT POTENTIALLY BE DONE OVER LIKE ANYWHERE FROM THE, THE NEXT YEAR TO THE NEXT LIKE DECADE OR WHENEVER THE AREA GETS A MAJOR RECONSTRUCTION, SOMETIMES THERE ARE COURT CASES INVOLVED.
AND YES, THAT PROBABLY PROHIBITS SOME INFORMATION BEING SO MADE PUBLIC.
YEAH, I WOULD SAY EVEN WITH THE, UH, WITH ONGOING COURT CASES, THERE'S STILL WORK THAT CAN BE DONE.
SO, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, I, I VOLUNTEERED AND HELPED OUT IN MERIDIAN, IDAHO WHEN I LIVED IN THE, IN THE, IN THE COUNTY AREA OVER THERE WHERE EVEN WITHOUT CRASH REPORT, WE WERE ABLE TO GO SURVEY THE AREA AND WE FOUND, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY, IT WAS A 40 MILE AN HOUR ROAD THAT HAD CURB TIGHT SIDEWALKS NEXT TO THE SCHOOL ZONE.
SO AT A BASIC LEVEL, WE, WE HAD PROFESSIONAL A PART OF OUR PANEL THAT HE LOOKED AT THAT AND HE'D LIKE, THIS IS NOT SAFE.
THIS, THIS WHOLE AREA, THIS, THIS IS NOT A SAFE DESIGN FOR PEDESTRIANS TO WALK SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH CARS MOVING 40 MILES AN HOUR IN THE SCHOOL ZONE.
SO JUST THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT MAY NOT BE READILY APPARENT BECAUSE AT FIRST WHEN YOU'RE DESIGNING A SIDEWALK ON A 40 ON AN ARTERIAL ROAD, YOU'RE LIKE, WELL, I CAN SAVE MONEY IF I CUT THE, IF I, IF I TAKE THAT TWO FEET RIGHT OF AWAY AND INSTEAD JUST KIND OF LIKE, I HAVE LESS RIGHT OF WAY, I CAN KEEP THE SIDEWALK CLOSEST TO THE ROAD AT LOWER ON MAINTENANCE, BUT IT, IT REDUCES SAFETY AS A TRADE OFF.
AND YOU PROMISED THAT WAS NO, I'M JUST
SO, UH, UH, ARE ANY ANY MORE COMMENTS OR ANYTHING, ANY COMMENTS FROM ANYBODY? IS THAT GOOD? NO, ALL THANK YOU.
THAT WAS, THAT WAS QUITE A WE HAD, I THOUGHT THAT WAS A VERY GOOD DISCUSSION MYSELF.
SO, OKAY, SO THE NEXT ITEM AGENDA, AND I GUESS THIS IS, IS THIS YOURS, UH, DISCUSS, UH, BIKE SAFETY ON MAJOR ROADWAYS.
ALRIGHT, THIS CAME UP, UH, RECENTLY DURING BUDGET DISCUSSION THAT MARK AND I HAD, UH, PRESENTATION ON JUNE 15TH WITH CITY COUNCIL.
UM, BUT IT'S SOMETHING WE HONESTLY GET REGULAR KIND OF, UH, SAFETY CONCERNS ON THE GROUP RIDES ON.
I'M JUST KIND OF CALLING LEISURE ROADWAYS, UM, YOU KNOW, RENT'S THE MAJOR ONE, BUT SOMETIMES YOU GET NORTH STAR DIFFERENT ONES OUT IN THE PANHANDLE IN THAT AREA.
UM, UM, AND THERE'S SOME DISCUSSIONS, SO YOU MAY, IT MAY BE GOOD TO KIND OF BUILD BACK AT THAT COUNCIL MEETING ON JUNE 15TH.
UH, SOME OF THE DISCUSSION AND SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED DURING THAT.
UM, BUT WE'RE GETTING, YOU KNOW, WE GET CONCERNS FROM BOTH CYCLISTS AND DRIVERS ON THIS.
IT'S NOT JUST DRIVERS COMPLAINING ABOUT IT OR CYCLISTS EXPRESSING THEIR SAFETY CONCERNS.
UM, WHERE I THINK EVERYONE IS CONCERNED ABOUT SAFETY.
SOMETIMES THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, ELEMENTS THAT ARE MORE BEING INCONVENIENCE VERSUS SAFETY.
UM, BUT KINDA THE PRIMARY CONCERN WE GET, UM, THE DRIVER'S SIDE IS, UH, MORE JUST TIME OF DAY.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S NOT THAT THEY'RE OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE AREN'T AS WORRIED ABOUT A SATURDAY MORNING RIDE OR
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A SUNDAY MORNING RIDE OUT ON WINTER.UM, IT'S USUALLY THE ONES THAT ARE KIND OF RUSH HOUR, UM, UH, IN THE EVENING.
UH, AND SO KIND OF WE'RE HERE MORE TALKING ABOUT WHAT ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE SAFETY FOR EVERYONE, UM, AND, AND REDUCE SOME OF THOSE CONFLICTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT USERS OUT THERE.
UM, UH, SO SOME OF THIS AS FAR AS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW, ARE THERE EDUCATION OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES THAT CAN IMPROVE SAFETY? UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT GROUPS OUT THERE.
I THINK THERE'S SOME SMALL GROUPS, THERE'S SOME REALLY BIG GROUPS.
UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE, THE KIND OF FEEDBACK IS, YOU KNOW, ARE ALL ALL THESE GROUPS FOLLOWING, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN SAFETY PROCEDURES, COULD THEY ALL STAY IN THE SAME, YOU KNOW, ARE THEY STAYING IN THEIR ONE LANE? ARE THEY STARTING TO PASS INTO TWO LANES? UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ARE THEY USING? UM, AND SO HOW DO WE KNOW KIND OF WHICH GROUPS ARE OUT THERE, WHAT TIMES OF DAY THEY'RE OUT THERE? UM, ARE THE WAYS TO ENGAGE WITH THOSE, UH, DIFFERENT PSYCH, DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT GROUPS OUT THERE? UM, JUST TO MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND KIND OF HOW ARE THEY OPERATING ON THERE, UM, THAT WE CAN, UM, ENGAGE WITH THEM.
UH, I KNOW BIKE MAR DOES A LOT OF EDUCATION WITH GROUP RIDES.
THEY RUN SO MANY OF THEM
UM, UH, SO THEY, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, OPERATE WITH THEM, UNDERSTAND KIND OF WHEN THEY'RE OPERATING, WHERE THEY'RE OPERATING, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE DO SOME EDUCATIONAL MESSAGING AND EVEN UNDERSTANDING KIND OF THE NEEDS OF THESE GROUPS MAY HELP US ALSO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE MORE FEEDBACK TO THE GENERAL CITIZENS WHO THE DRIVERS, UM, WONDERING WHY ARE THE CYCLISTS DOING THIS? WHY ARE THEY DOING IT THIS TIME OF DAY? UM, AND YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE CONSTRAINTS OF WHY THEY WOULDN'T BE DOING IT EARLIER OR LATER OR DIFFERENT DAYS A WEEK.
UM, SO KINDA OPEN IT UP A ANY, ANY SUCCESSION ON THIS BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
SO, BUT IT'S REALLY COMING TO A HEAD WITH THE, WITH THE RECENT FATAL CRASH AND IF THERE ARE TWO GROUPS THAT RISE ON DINNER IN THE EVENINGS, I LOT TIMES RIGHT.
AND THE POP RIDE AND THE POP R THAT'S THE ONE WE WANTED.
UM, ANY PARTICULAR AREA OF RENTER THAT CONCERNS ARE MOST FORNE? AND I'M JUST WONDERING BECAUSE NOW YOU'VE GOT THAT BIKE TRAIL THAT, WELL YOU CAN'T RUN, YOU CAN'T RIDE 20 MILES AN HOUR ON A BIKE TRAIL SPEED LIMIT.
ALL YOU CAN'T RIDE CAN'T AND YOU CAN'T PHYSICALLY GO 20.
YOU TRAILS AREN'T DESIGNED TO GO, THEY'RE THE SPEED THAT YOU'VE GOT.
WE'VE GOT PEDESTRIANS, YOU'VE GOT DOGS, YOU CAN'T GO THAT FAST.
UM, AND YOU CAN'T PUT THAT MANY RIDERS DOWN THERE EITHER.
SO, AND THEY OFTEN CAN HAVE 2020 OR MORE RIDERS.
UH, THERE ARE OTHER GROUPS THAT RIDE, BUT THAT TENDS TO BE A SATURDAY.
AND IF I RUNNER, IF I UNDERSTAND, I DON'T UNDERSTAND THERE'S ANY PROBLEMS. YEAH.
THE MORNING RIDES DON'T SEEM TO BE CREATING THE SAME KIND OF PROBLEMS THAT THE RUSH HOUR RIDES DO.
AND YOU ASKED IF THERE'S A, I I KNOW A LOT OF, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S THE, THE WORST PLACE IN TERMS OF SAFETY, BUT THE WORST IN TERMS OF, OF DRIVER COMPLAINTS IS RENTER AND GEORGE BUSH GOING EAST BECAUSE THE CYCLISTS ARE PRETTY GOOD.
IT'S ABOUT STAYING IN THE RIGHT HAND LANE.
BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT RIGHT THERE, MOST OF THE CARS GOING DOWN RENNER ARE MAKING A RIGHT ONTO GEORGE OR A LARGE PORTION OF THE CARS AND IT TENDS TO BACK TRAFFIC UP, YOU KNOW, TWO OR THREE LIGHTS THERE.
AND, AND THAT'S WHAT REALLY, REALLY GETS THAT, THAT, THAT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF FEEDBACK IN THAT SPOT NOW, SAFETY WISE THAT I I DO NOT KNOW IF IT WERE THE MOST DANGEROUS.
I MEAN, I KNOW WHAT HA WHAT HAPPENED IS WHEN THEY WERE TRYING TO CROSS RIGHT, RIGHT.
THEY WERE TRYING TO, THE RIDE WAS LANE TO TO TO GO BACK TO THEIR PARKING SPOT.
'CAUSE THE RIDE WAS ACTUALLY OVER YEAH.
BUT THEY HAD TO GO OVER TO THE LEFT LANE.
WELL, I THINK YOUR, YOUR CRASH, YOUR, YOUR REPORT SHOWED ALL THE SPOTS THAT HAD THE MOST, UM, CRASHES IN THEM AND THEY WERE UP AND DOWN RENTER, UM, I SAW MARKED IN RED ON WHATEVER THAT LITTLE GRAPH WAS.
IT'S ALSO THE MOST HEAVILY TRACKED ROAD MM-HMM
I DON'T KNOW A SOLUTION TO THAT ONE.
SO HAVE YOU EVER, HAVE YOU ACTUALLY RIDDEN THE POP RIDE? I'M NOT THAT FAST.
I'M HAPPY TO COORDINATE ANY COMMUNICATION WITH THE LEADERS OF THAT.
AND THEY'RE, ARE THEY MULTIPLE NIGHTS A WEEK? I BELIEVE THEY'RE TWO, TWO NIGHTS A WEEK.
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THURSDAY.AND I, I MEAN, I RIDE UP AND DOWN RENT EVERY DAY, EVERY NIGHT GOING HOME DRIVE
SO, YOU KNOW, I SEE THEM SOMETIMES.
UM, BECAUSE THAT'S THE FRUSTRATION THAT, AND I JUST USUALLY PARK MYSELF BEHIND THEM AND TAKE MY OWN SWEET TIME GOING HOME YEAH.
TO PROTECT THEM FOR A COUPLE MINUTES.
BUT
I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE'S BIKE LANES ON BOTH SIDES OF RENTER.
THERE'S LIKE LANES ON BOTH SIDES OF PLANO, BUT I I I KNOW, BUT BUT THOSE AREN'T USABLE FOR A, A CERTAIN TYPE OF RIDER.
SO, SO, UH, BECAUSE THEY'RE BASICALLY JUST LARGER SIDEWALKS.
AND THEY'RE NOT STRAIGHT AND THEY WIND AND THERE'S, YOU KNOW, YOU, I MEAN MOST OF US, IF YOU RIDE RIDE THOSE ALL THE TIME BECAUSE YEAH, BUT THAT'S DIFFERENT.
WE'RE RIDING FOR, FOR TRANSPORTATION.
SO I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER FOR IT.
I, I, YOU KNOW, UH, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A PROBLEM BACKING UP ON GEORGE BUSH IF IT'S AT A CERTAIN TIMEFRAME IS ASKING THE RISE TO LEAVE 15 MINUTES LATER, WOULD THAT HELP WITH CONGESTION? WELL, I'M SURE THEY'RE WILLING TO WORK, BUT YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE RIDING 40 MILES AT NIGHT, YOU CAN'T LEAVE IT'S SAME CLASSROOM.
WHAT WOULD BE THE THE BEST, THE BEST, AND I'M ASKING THIS OF EVERYBODY, WHAT WOULD BE THE BEST WAY FOR THE CITY TO ENGAGE WITH LOCAL CYCLING CLUBS? IS THERE YOU HOW WE DONE, YOU'VE DONE THAT IN THE PAST, HAVEN'T YOU? HAVE YOU MET WITH THE BIKE MAR PEOPLE OR THE POP RIDE PEOPLE OR SOMETHING? HE MET WITH BIKE MAR AND THE POP RIDE SEEMED A LITTLE MORE INFORMAL.
THAT, THAT WAS A HARDER GROUP.
UM, BUT YEAH, LIKE BITE MART AND YOU KNOW, PREVIOUS ITERATION OF FEEDBACK HAS HAD, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE FROM BITE MART ON MAYBE, SO IT'S NOT NECESSARILY WITH THE HIGHEST YEAH.
OR THE PEOPLE, IT JUST LEAVES FROM BITE MART THAT'S NECESSARILY BE LED BY BITE MART.
OH, WELL I I JUST LEAD BY BIKE.
SO IT'S USUALLY A PELOTON OF PEOPLE YES.
GOING CLOSE TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.
IT'S USUALLY ONE OR TWO OF THEM USUALLY I'VE SEEN.
ONE PELOTON OF LET'S SAY, AND THEN THERE MIGHT BE A COUPLE OF STRAGGLER, BUT FOR THE MOST PART THEY'RE ALL JUST ONE CLOCK, BASICALLY A SLOW MOVING BUS.
I'M JUST WONDERING, I MEAN, I KNOW THAT EVERYBODY'S GETTING UPSET BY THAT, BUT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ONE SLOW MOVING CLUMP THAT'S NOT GONNA BE ON THERE IN FRONT OF YOU FOR VERY LONG, PROBABLY FIVE MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE.
AND I, I KEEP THINKING IT'S GOTTA BE DRIVERS ARE IMPATIENT WITH FIVE MINUTES.
THEY MANY GROUP SAYS THEY'RE COURSE.
SO I, SO I MEAN, WE KEEP TRYING TO SAY WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE THE THE CYCLIST CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR? NO, BUT I KEEP FEELING LIKE IT
NOBODY'S GONNA BE FREAKING OUT ABOUT THAT ONE.
SO THEY USUALLY PUT OUT
SO, UM, THAT'S ONE THING I'VE ALWAYS TRIED TO DO IS I MET MORE EXPERIMENT.
IMAGINE THE POP RIDE WHERE INSTEAD WERE, UH, WE CAR ENTHUSIASTS AND, AND YOU PUT A CLUMP OF 20 CARS.
I MEAN, YOU THINK THAT WOULDN'T, BUT, BUT, UH, I'M THINKING MORE IN TERMS OF CRITICAL MASS, BUT IF YOU PUT A LARGE NUMBER OF CARS ALL OUT THERE AT THE SAME TIME, YOU'RE GONNA CAUSE SAFETY PROBLEMS ALSO.
UM, IT'S, IT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, I GUESS, BUT WHAT OUR TAKEAWAY SHOULD BE WOULD BE THE PART OF ENGAGING WITH LOCAL CYCLING CLUBS AND TRYING TO GET FEEDBACK IS, IS IS LETTING THEM KNOW WHAT THE CONCERNS ARE AND UH, UH, AND THEN TRYING TO FIND OUT IF THEY HAVE ANY SUGGESTION.
I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY I DON'T THINK THAT IT'S FAIR TO MAKE THE CYCLIST STOP DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
ON THE OTHER HAND, IF AN ACCIDENT OCCURS, THEY'RE THE ONES TO DIE.
AND NOBODY WANTS THAT TO HAPPEN TO YOUR FRIEND AGAIN.
YOU KNOW, AND, AND IS THERE A SLIGHT, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE WE'RE NOT TALKING BLAME HERE, WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT TRYING TO MAKE IT SAFE.
ARE THERE SLIGHT CHANGES OR CHANGE IN, IN TIMING AND OR ROUTE, YOU KNOW, ALSO, CAN YOU DESIGNATE MAYBE THE ROUTE THAT PARTICULAR THERE IS MAYBE JUST ONE LANE WHO BIKES AND THE OTHER LANE EXCLUSIVELY FOR CASH? NO, THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A ROAD THAT IS NOT HEAVILY USED FOR.
WELL, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE THAT'S LIKE WHAT WE'VE DONE.
EAST WEST IS RENTER ROAD IS THE SAFEST ROAD TO RIDE ON.
SO, YOU KNOW, AND PLANO ROAD IS
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NOT SAFE HAVING WRITTEN ON BOTH.SO, SO, UH, THE, THE THE ONLY, I MEAN WE, THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT WE DID ON GREENVILLE.
I MEAN, WE DEDICATED A WHOLE LANE TO BICYCLES CANNOT DO THAT ON RENT ROAD BECAUSE, UH, TOO MUCH TRAFFIC.
NOR DOES IT SOLVE THE PROBLEM WITH OF THE ROADIES.
SO, WELL, WHAT I'M WELL WHAT I'M WELL IF WE YEAH, YEAH.
BUT THERE'S AN INTERESTING IDEA.
WOULD, WOULD IT BE IF WE, IF WE, IF THEY AGREED TO CERTAIN TIMES AND CERTAIN DAYS THEY ALREADY DO.
BUT IF THEY SAID, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT IT'S GONNA BE, AND THEN WE PUBLICIZED THAT WITH THE DRIVERS, KNEW THAT AT CERTAIN TIMES THERE'S GONNA BE BIKES COMING THROUGH HERE, WOULD THAT REDUCE THEIR FRUSTRATION? AND YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY YOU HAVE A COMMUTE AND, AND, AND YOU KNOW WHAT TIME THEY'RE GONNA BE THERE.
I'M ASSUMING THOSE CARS LIKE ME, THEY RIDE DOWN RENT ROAD EVERY DAY.
I'M JUST GOING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
SO I THINK THEY PROBABLY SAID NO EXPECT THE CARS TO THEIR BIKES TO COME THERE AT THE SAME TIME EVERY DAY, EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, OR WHENEVER THEY'RE DOING, I'M DONE.
SO IT WOULD'VE SEEMED THAT THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM, UH, THAT SOLELY HAPPENS IN THE CITY OF RICHARDS.
IT SEEMS LIKE THERE MAY BE SOME OTHER COMMUNITIES, WHETHER OUT OF COUNTY, OUT OF STATE, THAT HAVE ADDRESSED THAT IN TERMS OF OTHER OPPORTUNITIES.
AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A WAY TO LOOK INTO THAT WE CAN DO THAT'S TRUE.
I THINK FROM THE STAFF SIDE, WE CAN MAYBE LOOK YEAH.
BUT IF, UH, I KNOW ONE OF THE MEMBERS WITH THE RBC IS, UH, SPENT SOME TIME IN ANOTHER STATE, UM, AND INVOLVED WITH CYCLING, WONDERING IF IT MIGHT BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, PROVIDE SOME, SOME HOMEWORK IF YOU WILL, AND MAYBE BRING IT BACK, BRING THE DISCUSSION BACK TO THE NEXT MEETING.
WELL, THAT'S A VERY GOOD, THAT'S A VERY GOOD IDEA.
THERE'S CITIES I'VE BEEN IN, LET'S SAY MADISON, WISCONSIN FOR EXAMPLE, THAT I'VE BEEN IN RECENTLY RIDING AROUND THEIR CULTURE IS SUCH THAT CARS JUST WAIT FOR BIKES.
THEY'RE JUST USED TO EVERYBODY AROUND.
UM, AND, AND THERE'S BIKE LANES EVERYWHERE THAT ARE SAFER.
THERE'S BIKE LIGHTS AND, AND TEXAS, THE CULTURE IS CARS RULE.
EVEN THOUGH I WILL SAY THAT I KNOW THAT THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT ISN'T JUST FOR, YOU KNOW, NO, I'M SURE IT'S EVERYWHERE.
OTHER CITIES MAY HAVE COME UP WITH A, UH, WITH A, UH, EVEN OTHER LOCAL CITIES.
I MEAN, THE SAME GROUPS RIGHT.
I THINK FROM A STAFFS, UM, AND DO THEY HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM IN MURPHY AND PLANO? I MEAN, THEY GO UP MURPHY ROAD, WHICH IS ALSO A BUSY ROAD.
DO THEY HAVE THE SAME ISSUES WITH CARS AND, AND AND FIGHTING, UH, ON MURPHY ROAD AND ON OTHER ROADS THAT THEY DO ON RENTER? I KNOW THE ANSWER A FEW YEARS AGO GOING UP, I THINK IT WAS GOING UP MURPHY ROAD, THEY WENT, THEY GO THROUGH A, A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THE TRAFFIC IS LOW, BUT THERE ARE VERY WEALTHY PEOPLE ON VERY LARGE LOTS.
AND THERE'S A STOP SIGN THERE.
AND THE PEOPLE HAD THE MURPHY POLICE, UH, START TO TICKET THAT'S IN PARKER OR PARKER? PARKER.
THEY TAKE, YOU KNOW, BUT WHAT HAPPENED WAS, WAS, SO THE RIDE INSTRUCTED EVERYBODY TO STOP AT THE STOP SIGN, AND IT TOOK AN HOUR AND A HALF.
THEY STOPPED THE ROAD FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF, AND THEN THEY AGREED TO STOP.
SO, SO THERE'S THOSE KIND OF PRO, EVEN IN, IN RURAL AREAS, YOU RUN INTO DIFFICULTIES LIKE THAT.
SO ACTUALLY AT A STOP SIGN WITH EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF 20 PEOPLE, STOPPING TAKES LONGER AND PULLS, HOLDS UP TRAFFIC A LOT LONGER THAN EVERYBODY RUNNING THROUGH HAS A BUS.
WE'LL KIND OF TAKE THIS FEEDBACK, BUT I, I CAN REACH OUT TO ALMOST ALL OF THE CYCLING GROUPS THAT IS, UH, POP RIDE, BITE MARK, PBA AND ANYBODY THAT RIDES DOWN RENTER ON A REGULAR BASIS, I CONNECT YOU WITH THE LEADERS OF THOSE RIDES.
SO YEAH, WE'LL FOLLOW UP WITH YOU, UM, AND THEN, UH, KIND OF CAN COME BACK TO THIS CONVERSATION, BUT KIND OF MEET WITH THOSE GROUPS.
UM, AND, AND IT IS ONE OF THOSE, IF THEY'RE WRITING THROUGH OTHER COMMUNITY, WHAT ARE THEY FACING IN OTHER COMMUNITIES AND IS IT WORKING BETTER? I'LL ASK COMPARED TO RICHARDSON, BUT, UM, I WONDER IF WE COULD REACH OUT TO THE, UH, UH, WHAT'S THE GROUP THAT DOES THE, UH, THEY USED TO BE THE, THE, THE WHEELMAN, BUT THE, THE AMERICAN LEAGUE BICYCLE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN BICYCLE.
I WONDER IF THEY HAVE ANY KIND OF GUIDANCE ON THIS SORT OF IT, BECAUSE SURELY THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY'VE BEEN SEEING IN, IN ALL SORTS.
THEY HAVE SOME BEST PRACTICES WHEN IT COMES TO LIKE, YEAH.
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AND UH, I KNOW WHITE MARSH HAS HAD LIKE A CLASS ON, UH, ROAD WRITING.I THINK IN GENERAL THE GROUP WRITE ARE FOLLOWING THOSE BEST PRACTICES.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW IS HOW DO WE GET SOME MORE THAN OTHERS ALL, AND NOT JUST SOME, BUT NO, WE WILL, WE WILL, UH, KIND GATHER SOME MORE INFORMATION AND TAKE THIS AND, UH, AND REVISIT THE CONVERSATION AT A LATER DATE.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? ANY OTHER THING? SORRY, MARK.
I WASN'T SWIRLING MY CHAIR AROUND ENOUGH, SO.
SO LET'S MOVE ON TO THE FUN PART.
UH, PRESENTATION ON STATUS OF ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
SO, UH, SO JUST START OFF WITH A QUICK BIKE MONTH RECAP, JUST ONE OVER CONSIDER SALE PARTICIPATED IN, UH, DURING BIKE MONTH.
SO WE STARTED OFF WITH BIKE MONTH PROCLAMATION WITH CITY COUNCIL AT RICHARDSON.
WELL WAS THE BA, UH, THEN AT BIKE THE SCHOOL DAY ON DAY SIX, WHICH I JUST WANTED TO THANK RICHARDSON BICYCLE COALITION FOR HOSTING THE BIKE BUS THAT ICE ELEMENTARY, WHICH WAS JUST A GREAT EVENT.
SHE GOT A LOT OF KIDS OUT THERE CYCLING AND JUST GOT TO HAVE FUN AND CELEBRATE BIKING.
UH, WE HAD BIKE TO WORK WEEK FROM MAY 11TH THROUGH THE 17TH WITH A STAFF BIKE WORK TRAINING DAY, AS WELL AS A SHORT RIDE.
JUST EXPLORING SOME OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE HERE AT THE TEMPORARY CITY HALL ON MAY 14TH.
AND THEN WE HAD OUR BIKE TO WORK DAY, UH, WITH DART AT CITY LINE ENGLISH STATION ON MAY 15TH, OR NATIONAL FACULTY WORKDAY.
UH, JUST GOING A LITTLE BIT FURTHER INTO OUR BIKE HUNT ACTIVITIES.
WE ALSO HAD AN EDUCATION SLASH COMMUNITY EVENT OF THE CITYWIDE BIKE RODEO ON MAY 9TH, WHERE WE HAD AROUND 60 KIDS PARTICIPATING ACROSS THE TWO COURSES THAT WE HAD SET UP.
CAN I MAKE A, UH, COMMENT ON THE BIKE RODEO? I, I DID A BIKE RODEO, UH, IN ADDISON AND IT WAS DURING THE WEEK AND I WAS KIND OF PANICKING 'CAUSE ONLY TWO PEOPLE SHOWED UP TO WORK THE BIKE RODEO.
BUT AS IT TURNS OUT, WE ASKED A LOCAL BOY SCOUT TROOP TO HELP AND THEY NEEDED VOLUNTEER HOURS AND MAN, THAT MADE THINGS GO SO MUCH SMOOTHER.
UH, SO IT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT WHEN WE DO CITYWIDE BIKE RODEOS.
TRY TO CONTACT THE BOY SCOUTS AND SEE IF THERE'S A LOCAL TROOP WHO WILL VOLUNTEER TO HELP OUT.
AND, UH, THAT'S JUST A LESSON LEARNED 'CAUSE THAT THAT SAVED.
I DON'T THINK WE COULD HAVE DONE IT WITH JUST TWO PEOPLE IF THOSE GUYS HADN'T HELPED.
SO I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT'S SOME GOOD THINGS TO THINK ABOUT FOR NEXT TIME AND OUR, UH, FOLLOW THAT WE HAVE COMING UP.
UH, THEN FOR DATA COLLECTION, WE HAVE COUNTY PEOPLE FINDING PROGRESS, WHICH STARTED OFF IN MAY.
IT JUST ENDED, WHICH I'LL GO INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL, UH, ON THIS SLIDE WHERE WE JUST HAD OUR SECOND ANNUAL VERSION OF THIS PROGRAM, WHICH WE FINISHED AS I SAID, JUNE 30TH, WHICH WAS THE FINAL DAY FOR WHICH VOLUNTEERS TO PERFORM TO PERFORM THEIR OBSERVATIONS.
UH, I JUST WANTED TO THANK ALL VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE, GO OUT AND PARTICIPATE AND WALK OUT US.
WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS TAKING TIME OUTTA YOUR WEEK AND WEEKEND.
UH, AND WE KNOW IT WAS HOT, SO COOL.
UH, I JUST WANTED TO REMIND ALL VOLUNTEERS TO MAKE SURE THEY SEND IN THEIR FORMS. YOU CAN EMAIL 'EM TO ME OR DROP 'EM OFF HERE AT TEMPORARY CITY HALL IN THE FRONT AS WELL AS, AS MAKE SURE TO GET YOUR THANK YOU WATER BOTTLE, WHICH I HAVE SOME FOR HERE IF YOU WANT ONE.
OTHERWISE, UH, YOU CAN JUST PICK IT UP LATER.
JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'D BE AVAILABLE.
UH, THE NEXT STEPS FOR THIS PROGRAM ARE US JUST COLLECTING ALL THE DATA AND ANALYZING IT, THAT THE, ALL THE OBSERVATIONS YOU GUYS DID PRESENT THE FINDINGS AT AN UPCOMING BPAC MEETING.
AND THEN, UH, COMPILE THAT INTO A REPORT TO BE SHARED.
PROBABLY, UH, ON OUR WEBSITE, UH, SAFETY STREETS RICHARDSON, UH, WE HAVE A COMMUNITY SURVEY THAT'S LIVE RIGHT NOW, WHICH GAVE YOU ON JULY 15TH, WHICH IS NEXT WEDNESDAY.
UH, JUST WANTED TO REMIND EVERYONE.
AND WE ALSO HAVE A QR CODE FOR YOU TO SCAN, UH, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THAT SURVEY.
UH, APART FROM THAT, THE NEXT STEPS ARE, WE STILL HAVE THE DRAFT PLAN AND REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT.
UH, COUNSEL WILL EVENTUALLY CONSIDER THIS PLAN LATER THIS SUMMER.
AND THEN WE HAVE A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT, WHICH IS GPS BASED EMERGENCY VEHICLE PREEMPTION, UH, COMING UP AFTER THE, I BELIEVE AFTER THE PLANE IS ADOPTED.
UM, JUST IF YOU HADN'T HAD ENOUGH SURVEYS, TDOT ALSO HAS A, UH, IS COLLECTING INPUT FROM RESIDENTS ABOUT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES ALONG THEIR NETWORK.
UH, THIS WILL HELP TO DEVELOP THEIR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
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NETWORK.THIS ONE'S A LITTLE BIT TIGHTER 'CAUSE IT CLOSES TOMORROW, UH, JULY 10TH.
BUT JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THE COMMITTEE WAS AWARE OF THIS AND IF THEY WANTED TO PARTICIPATE.
UH, GOING ON TO OUR CURRENT PROJECT AND I UPDATED SINCE OUR LAST MEETING, UH, NUMBER ONE, JOHN ARD HAS BEEN COMPLETED, WHICH HAS
UH, PROJECT THREE, WHICH IS THE BRECKENRIDGE TRAIL EXTENSION, WHICH YOU CAN'T SEE ON THE MAP.
WE'LL, WE'LL CONNECT FROM NORTH STAR ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SHILOH STATION FOR SILVER LINE, UH, IS THE CITY OF PLANO PROJECT THAT'S CURRENTLY IN DESIGN, BUT WILL, BUT CONSTRUCTION IS EXPECTED TO START IN 2027.
UH, GLENVILLE ROAD IS FINALLY BEEN FULLY COMPLETED.
WE HAVE OUR BIKE PROTECTION LIGHTS OUT THERE, SO IF YOU GO OUT YOU CAN SEE THE LIGHT IF IT DETECTS YOU WITH JUST A LITTLE BLUE ONE FOR NORTH COLLINS, IT'S STILL UNDER DESIGN, UH, AND WITH CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATED TO BEGIN IN 2027.
AND THEN ARAPAHOE TRAIL IS ALSO STILL UNDER DESIGN WITH CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATED TO BEGIN LATER THIS YEAR.
UH, ESSENTIAL TRAIL RIGHT NOW THEY, UH, DALLAS COUNTY HAS JUST OP IS STARTING THE BIDDING PROCESS, SO WE'LL EXPECT TO SEE SOME PROGRESS ON THAT SOON.
UH, CONSTRUCTION'S STILL ESTIMATED TO BEGIN LATE THIS YEAR, UH, GOING INTO COTTON BELT TRAIL.
THIS IS JUST AN OVERVIEW OF THE TRAIL MAPS.
YOU CAN SEE WHAT TRAIL IS STILL IN PROGRESS BEING BUILT, WHAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED, AND, UH, OTHER PARTS OF THE TRAIL THAT THE CITY OF RICHARDSON WILL COMPLETE LATER.
UH, JUST GOING INTO A MORE OVERVIEW OF EACH LOCATION.
UH, THIS IS THAT FLU LINED BUSH STATION.
UH, YOU CAN SEE ALL THE TRAIL THAT'S ALREADY BEEN SET UP.
WE WILL HAVE SOME CONSTRUCTION AT THIS ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE STATION ALONG ROUTE EAST DRIVE.
UH, THERE'LL BE A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT ON THE CURB RAMPS AROUND THERE.
SO IF YOU'RE GOING OVER THERE, JUST EXPECT TO SEE THAT.
UM, DOING FURTHER ALONG THE TRAIL ALONG
WE ARE CURRENTLY STILL WAITING ON THE NORTH ARCH TO BE INSTALLED, WHICH I BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE INSTALLED LATER THIS MONTH.
UH, AND ONCE THAT ARCH HAS BEEN INSTALLED, THEY'LL FINISH UP THE TRAIL TO THE RED MOON.
YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE TRAIL ON ALL THE WAY.
UH, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE, ON THE BRIDGE.
WE HAVE TRAIL ALL GOING ALL THE WAY TO RENNER AND THEN SOUTH OF THE BRIDGE WE HAVE TRAIL ON SYNERGY.
UH, RIGHT NOW THEY'RE WORKING ON A RETAINING WALL UNDERNEATH THE, THE RAIL BRIDGE.
AND ONCE THAT'S COMPLETE THEY'LL BE ABLE TO, UH, FINISH UP THE TRAIL AND MAKE THAT CONNECTION.
UH, GOING OVER TO THE UT D WATER TOWER OFFICE, YOU CAN SEE THE TRAIL, UH, LEADING OFF COMING ALONG THE, UH, ALONG THE RAIL.
WE HAVE OUR, UH, COPER FOR, UH, DRAINAGE AND THEN THE TRAIL WILL CONTINUE UNDERNEATH THIS WOODEN BRIDGE.
I'LL GO HERE TOWARDS, UH, UTT STATION.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE THE MOUSE, BUT MIGHT CLOSE.
TRAIL HERE ALONG SYNERGY AND ANY WAY ROUTE YOU WANT TO GO.
IT'S ALREADY CONNECTED TO KIND OF SYNERGY NEAR FLOYD, UM, AND KIND OF INTO THE ALONG SYNERGY AND ALL PIPELINES THERE.
UM, BUT THE OFFICIAL COCKTAIL TRAIL ALIGNMENT IS GOING COME UP THIS ACCESS ROAD FOR THE WATER TOWER.
IT'LL CROSS THIS SUITE AND IT TURNS AND THEN IT GOES UNDER AND IT'S KIND OF ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE, THE APARTMENTS THERE KINDA GET THE FIRE LENGTH.
AND THEN YOU COME OUT NEXT TO THE, UH, ONE STATION FURTHER WEST OF THE UTD STATION FOR THE SILVER LINE.
UH, YOU SEE THE TRAILS INCOMPLETE ALL THE WAY TO THE A PARKING COMPLEXES, UH, TO WATERVIEW.
WHERE THE CONSTRUCTION'S REALLY OCCURRING RIGHT NOW IS IF YOU LOOK DOWN BY THE TRAIL CROSS OR THE RAILROAD CROSSING, UH, YOU CAN SEE SOME CONES SET UP WHERE THEY'RE WORKING ON THE EVENTUAL, UH, CROSSING FOR THE TRAIL, WHICH I BELIEVE THIS WILL BE SIGNALED.
SO THIS WILL BE ANOTHER KIND OF TRAIL CROSSING, UH, UM, OF WATERVIEW TO THE TRAIL RIGHT NOW.
AND RICHARDSON, IT'S ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE TRACKS, UH, ON THE EAST SIDE OF WATERVIEW, IT'S GONNA GO OVER THE TRACKS.
'CAUSE WEST OF WATERVIEW, YOU'RE ACTUALLY IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
UH, AND IT'S ON THE NORTH SIDE, UH, THROUGH THAT AREA.
AND SO RIGHT NOW THEY'RE USING THIS AS AN ACCESS POINT TO BUILD ALL THAT TRAIL, UM, IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
UH, BUT ONCE THEY GET MORE OF THAT BUILT, THEY'LL BE PUTTING IN THIS CROSSING
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ACROSS WATER VIEW.UH, AND YEAH, BASED OFF THE TRAFFIC VOLUMES AND SPEEDS, UM, THROUGH THE DESIGN STUDY, IT'S PUTTING IN A SIMILAR TO WHAT'S ON WEST SPRING VALLEY, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY A FULL LIKE GREEN, YELLOW, RED STOPLIGHT, UH, FOR THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING THERE, UH, TO EXACTLY THE PARTICULAR CROSSING.
AND WHO'S PAYING FOR THIS? UM, IS THIS
UM, BE IN DANGER OF LOSING ANY, ANY FEDERAL FUNDING BECAUSE THE TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY DECIDED HE DIDN'T WANT BIKE LANES ANYMORE.
UH, I THINK EVERYTHING'S BEEN KIND OF ENCUMBERED OR ALLEGATED ON THE, UH, YEAH, I'VE NOT HEARD ANYTHING OF.
UH, AND I THINK TRAIL PROJECTS ARE SAFER THAN, UH, BIKE LANE PROJECTS.
IF THIS IS A BIKE LANE PROJECT, THERE'D PROBABLY BE A LITTLE MORE HESITATION.
UM, I THINK THE TRAIL PROJECTS A LITTLE BIT MORE OF SAFETY NET WITH IT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? HMM, I WANT A PRESENTATION, DAN.
I JUST HAVE TO TAKE A BITE OF FOOD
SO, UM, REPORT ON ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST.
SO THIS IS KIND OF A PLACE WHERE WE CAN ALL TALK ABOUT WHAT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION SO FAR.
SO DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANNA BRING UP? ANY ITEM OR PLEAD INTEREST? ANYTHING THAT'S GOING ON? HOW ABOUT, HOW ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THE RUNNERS
YEAH, I GUESS IT'S A LOT TO RUN.
I WAS RUNNING WITH A FRIEND A COUPLE WEEKS AGO AND A CAR JUMPED THE CURB AND MY LIFE FLASHED BEFORE MY EYES.
AND YOU WERE ON A SUPPOSEDLY PROTECTED TRAIL ALONG YEAH.
THAT'S WHAT I ALWAYS TALK ABOUT.
THE CLOSEST NEAR MISS WHEN I WAS COMMUTE, YOU KNOW, I, BACK IN THE OLD DAYS WHEN I USED TO WORK, I, I COMMUTED, YOU KNOW, FOR 20 YEARS AND, AND UH, THE CLOSEST NEAR MISS I WAS WAITING FOR A LIGHT TO CHANGE AND A CAR TURNED LEFT AND A CAR COMING THIS WAY HIT HIM AND THE CAR WENT UP ON TWO WHEELS AND MISSED ME BY SIX INCHES, YOU KNOW, AND I'M STANDING THERE HOLDING MY BIKE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO AND IT, IT WAS, IT WAS REALLY SCARY.
SO, SO, BUT YOU, YOU NEVER KNOW.
UH, ANYBODY ELSE YOU, ANY COMMENTS FOR GUYS SECTIONS? ALSO THE CITYLINE SECTION.
I NOTICED THAT, SO FIRST IT'S NEW SECTION BECAUSE UM, I SAY CENTER FE PARK AND
BUT BASICALLY NO SIDEWALK IS THERE PLANS TO PUT SOMETHING THERE BECAUSE THERE'S JUST LIKE A SIDEWALK GOING ALL THE WAY DOWN TO CAMPBELL'S ALMOST FOR LIKE THREE OR FOUR MILES.
BUT THEN THAT ONE, THAT HALF MILE SECTION AT EACH INTO THE STATION BASICALLY HAS NO WALKWAY.
WE CAN LOOK AT IT AFTER WE'VE GOT WHAT SECTION EXACT, SO SYNERGY AT WATERVIEW, I THINK IT'S SYNERGY AND WATERVIEW.
YOU GO UP ON WATERVIEW THE BIKE, BASICALLY WHERE THE BIKE LANE ENDS, THERE'S KIND OF, IT JUST KIND OF ENDS IN, IT'S BASICALLY GOES SIX LANE ROAD UP UNTIL YOU HIT LIKE ARE YOU LIKE THE NORTHEAST CORNER AT SYNERGY WATERVIEW AT IN PARCEL? YES.
SO YEAH, WE DO HAVE THE, UH, UM, WE'RE CALLING THE UTV MOBILITY IMPROVEMENTS OBJECT, UM, WHICH IS LOOKING AT BOTH IMPROVING THE BIKE LANE ON SYNERGY DEPLOYED, UM, INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT ALONG THAT CORRIDOR.
UM, BUT ALSO IT IS KIND OF MAINLY IN THE WATERVIEW AREA, UM, FILLING SIDEWALK GAPS AND, AND ONE IS, YOU KNOW, THE, THAT WATERVIEW BIKE LANE, THE NORTHBOUND WATERVIEW BIKE LANE ENDS AT SYNERGY.
UM, AND JUST WITH SOME OF THE TRAFFIC WE'RE, YOU KNOW, KEEPING HOW MANY LANES OF TRAFFIC THERE.
UM, BUT IT IS ADDING KIND OF A TRAIL WIDTH, UM, SIDEWALK FROM SYNERGY UP TO WHAT'S COTTON BELT TRAIL, UM, TO ALLOW THAT CONNECTION FOR ANY, THE BIKES TO BE ABLE TO KEEP MOVING THAT SAME DIRECTION AND NOT HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, BIG ZG AROUND TO, TO GET UP TO THE TRAIL.
SO YEAH, THAT IS FUNDED AS PART OF THAT PROJECT.
THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD TOO IS ON THE, UH, THE SLIDE WAS THE COTTON TRAIL CITY LINE, THE FIRST ONE.
SO YOU ACTUALLY LIKE GO SO HARD TO POINT TO IT, BUT, UH, ON THE, THE SILVER LINING RAIL TRACKS ON, WHAT'S THAT? SO WEST SIDE, SO GO TO THE RIGHT A LITTLE BIT MORE.
THERE'S KIND OF LIKE A BLACK SPOT IN THE MAP THAT'S ACTUALLY A HOLE IN THE SIDEWALK.
AND THAT SIDEWALK ONLY FORWARD LIKE MAYBE DECEMBER I REPORTED TO THE CITY,
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BUT I WAS TOLD THERE'S NO PHONE TO FIX IT.SO WE'RE WORKING WITH THE CONTRACTOR AND THAT COMES UP IN OUR REGULAR MEETINGS.
YEAH, THEY INVESTIGATED AND WORK WITH US.
THE CONTRACTOR FOR THE SILVER, WELL THE SILVER LINE OF COTTON BELL TRAILER REALLY SEPARATE.
THEY'RE SEPARATE BUT THE SAME.
UM, IT'S THE SAME CONTRACTOR SORT OF, UM, AND YEAH, THEY'RE WORKING AT PART OF THE SILVER LINE PROJECT TO UM OKAY.
EVENTUALLY THERE WAS, I THINK IT'S LIKE AN ABANDONED, UH, UTILITIES.
DATA DETERMINED, DO WE NEED IT, DO WE NOT NEED IT? AND YEAH, THEY'VE DETERMINED AND YEAH, THEY'RE JUST KIND OF SCHEDULING CREWS THAT THEY'RE GONNA GET SOLVED.
THEY QUARTER NEW SIDEWALK, MAYBE LIKE FEBRUARY OR MARCH, SO ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD, BUT I SAW CORNER BRAND NEW SIDEWALK.
I'M LIKE, THERE'S A HOLE RIGHT HERE.
WHY CAN'T WE JUST TAKE SOME CONCRETE OR JUST PUT A COVER ON THE POLE? OKAY.
THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO THINGS I ASK ABOUT.
ANYTHING ELSE? HEY, WE'RE, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE BEFORE SEVEN 30, SO WE'RE IN GOOD SHAPE.
UH, UH, SO DOES ANYBODY, UH, ANYBODY WANNA, IF WE'RE ALL DONE, SO MOVE TO CLOSE THE MEETING SECOND IT.
ALL IN FAVOR OF CLOSING THE MEETING? AYE.