Good afternoon, everyone. Could I have your attention? Could you take your seats, please?
Thank you so much. So, thank you so much for coming. It's great to see everybody here. I'm Holly Thier, mayor. My councilmembers here are Isaac Nick Farr and Jack and Alice. We are missing one. And I'd like to also introduce you to our super
advisor for District 3, Stephanie Molten Peters, who is joining us this evening and has been instrumental in working on this forum.
I also see Jane Cooper in the back, Mayor of Belvedere.
If there is another elected official in the room, could you please raise your hand and state your office and name.
Go ahead.
Thank you.
And here, Sally Wilkinson, Vice Mayor of Belvedere.
Sally Wilkinson, Vice Mayor of Belvedere.
by the union school board trustee. Thank you. Thank you. Yes and I think we have one
more.
Great and yes.
I still think you're elected Bob so I don't know. Anyway so that is how you don't leave anyone out.
We also have the, um, go ahead.
About the city council.
No, that's great and we also have our superintendent of read schools here right here in front.
And I think urban Carmel is also here.
Would you like to introduce yourself, urban?
Great.
So welcome everybody and to all the members of our public, we are very happy that you're here
tonight.
So, tonight is about CalTrans giving our community a voice in the SR-131 project.
Now, I know that many here tonight are upset.
We feel ignored. Maybe, you know, some people are just hopping mad right now, right?
You know, perhaps a call was not returned. Perhaps a letter went unanswered, and it's super frustrating.
But CalTrans is actually here tonight to have a conversation and to respect our vision.
So I want you to join me tonight in ensuring that we have a safe project, a project that
figures out how we're going to account for pedestrian school buses, bikes.
I want you to join me in ensuring a project that actually meets the needs of our future generations.
And I want you to join me in having our voices heard this evening.
And that is everybody's voice.
I want to thank Supervisor Molten Peters for her amazing work in arranging this forum.
If you don't know what she does, she is the Supervisor for Southern Marin.
And I have worked with her for a long time.
But on this forum alone, we were in such close contact and she's just amazing.
and we are lucky to have her leading up our Southern Marin region, so I want to take
a moment to acknowledge you and really thank you for your leadership and all the work
you do every day, and especially on this forum.
I want to take a moment to thank CalTrans, I'm going to introduce two of our representatives
that are speaking tonight for making this forum a reality and showing up.
And I want to thank each and every one of you.
We got all of your emails, we got all of your comments and we read everything so all of us, you know, have been reading everything and we really appreciate that input.
And I know that together we're going to create a great project of which all that we can all be proud of.
Now, those of you who know me know that broadband is a key project of mine and our town.
I started this effort to bring broadband here to Tiburon during the pandemic.
When I saw that children could not connect to get to school, parents could not connect
to get to work.
We have one provider in Tiburon, the provider oversold accounts.
There's not enough infrastructure to support all the accounts, and our service is very expensive
because there's a monopoly.
Now, the reason I'm bringing this up tonight
is because I have asked CalTrans to include broadband
in this project.
And I'm asking again that broadband will be included
again in the project tonight.
The reason why this is so important is that
you all know we have the worst traffic
on Tiberum Boulevard.
And that's an issue that we need to fix.
We've got a traffic study going on.
We have the yellow bus GPA working every day to mitigate traffic as well.
But broadband will allow for adaptive traffic signals.
And what that means is that that will allow us to reduce traffic on Tiberon Boulevard and along Highway 101.
It will allow us to see traffic in real time and adjust the timing of signals and other benefits.
So that's why that's important.
So tonight I'm going to ask you to be respectful.
I'm going to ask everyone to finish speaking when the buzzer buzzes.
We have about 60 people that want to speak here tonight and another 37 online so we have
an hour and a half for this meeting and so we're going to 30 seconds a person and we are
all super excited to hear your ideas but I'm going to ask you to please stop when the
buzzer buzzes so we don't have to say please stop because you're taking time away from your
fellow person. Okay, so at this point I'm going to ask if Supervisor Multimpeder's would
like to make some comments, then I'm going to introduce CalTrans.
Good evening everyone. It's a pleasure to be with you. Just a couple of comments. I have
been following this project and I know that there have been some real issues with public input
and CalTrans is aware of that. That's why they're here tonight. And that is also why I suggested
invested to the mayor that we invite members from the other communities along the highway,
Belvedere of course, and Mill Valley, so that we've got the entire group of decision makers who are giving input to this project, as well as the school district.
So I will represent the county, some of you live in the unincorporated area, so that's my role as well as hoping that we can come together,
listen to what's being posed tonight, give input, and then find a way forward together
that will work for everyone.
We may not solve everything tonight, and I'm aware of that, and we have a place to
go with issues that remain unresolved, and I think that will be a good part of the process.
So if everyone can just assume good intentions here that we are here to listen and respond,
and we will do it, I do think it's important to understand.
We have some time pressures to retain the funding, and that is real.
And with the way that the state and the federal government budgets are going right now,
losing funding is really not a good option, because getting it back will be a hard thing.
So, that, the mayor's project and broadband, which I support, most of all prioritize safety,
along with the rest of you. So anyway, let's proceed.
We're all in this together, and I think we can find a way to make it work.
Thank you.
Okay, so now I am going to introduce the first set of speakers.
We have Wata Naya from CalTrans, who is the deputy design, deputy director of design.
After that will be Don Nguyen, who is the director of program and project management.
After that will be Wendy Callans from Safe Routes to School, and they are all right here in
front of you.
so please go ahead. There will be a presentation by CalTrans followed by public comment.
Good evening. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Wajah Hatniyas and I am the Deputy District Director for Design for CalTrans District 4.
And today I will be making a short presentation, maybe 10 to 15 minutes regarding our SR131 which is Stubran Boulevard Cap-M project.
Sorry, regarding our SR-131, which is 2-brand blah-blah-watt CAPM project.
CAPM means shop preservation project.
These projects are meant for to rehabilitate the existing roadway.
So next slide please.
So today's agenda, my agenda, is I'll go over, briefly go over the project overview.
Then I will talk about the community feedback.
We have prepared a summary for that.
and then we'll talk about delivery phases.
Then we'll talk a little bit about community coordination
and next steps.
And then the most important thing is our last step,
which is number five, we want to hear from you.
Next step, next slide, please.
So just to give you a 10 second preview of what CAPM projects are.
These projects are designed to preserve existing pavement
and extent service lives of the pavement. That's the primary purpose of this program. They're
not intended for major geometric changes or for projects that require a lot of significant amount
of right away. So they are supposed to be limited in scope. And the funding, the program that
funds this is called the shop reservation program. And this program restricts, has some restrictions.
So the funding has some restrictions meaning one key thing would be we could not we could not fund improvements outside of the state right away for example.
The other thing they all have an expiry date so they all program and they expired and you have to design and make sure your project is ready and go get the money within that time frame.
If you're unable to do that then you lose the funding and then you will have to compete for it again.
This particular project has estimated of $12.7 million construction capital, so this is what's online here, $12.7 million. Next slide, please.
So this is a project location. I'm sure you're all familiar with it. Starts at 101 and all the way to the end of 2-Brand Boulevard. Next slide, please.
So I'll quickly go over the scope of the current project. So our current project is to rehabilitate pavement 12.5 miles.
at 12.5 lane miles. This is a sizable project. We will be widening SR-131 between Blacky Pasture Road
and Reed Ranch in the westbound direction for class 2 bike. A little sliver widening, not a
whole lot. We'll be upgrading guard rails along the entire corridor. I have an interactive map that
I will show you where these things are. Many of these things are. We'll be upgrading 42, the products
that's supposed to create 42 curb ramps, create
pedestrian refuge islands and about 100 linear feet
of sidewalk.
The project will upgrade signage, improve pavement
delineation, modify electrical systems.
And one of the key things is to install a mix of class 1,
class 2, and class 4 pipelines, total of 5.5 miles.
And there will be, at four intersection,
we have some select improvements.
They're not very extensive, but there's some improvements for safety reasons.
Next slide, please.
So this map here shows the map of the bike lanes.
This is from 101 to Tres of Glen.
This is the area where we have bike lanes.
The one yellow arc, a class 4, one in blue is class 2, and the one in green is class 1.
So, this is what we intend to do as part of this project.
Now, one of the key nuances here is that, you know, when you say class 4 protected, that's fine.
It's protected, but when you come at intersection, then there's mixing, mixing or traffic.
It's not fully protected. When you are at a bus stop, there's mixing.
So that's why there's a note there, right, which says that mixing zones are not shown, but there are mixing zones.
This is an urban corridor. There are lots of intersections, there are lots of bus stops, so there will be quite a few zones where we are mixing.
Next step, next slide, please.
So community feedback. Now I have listed about nine stakeholders here, and they could be more.
But we received a letter from many of you.
We looked at them.
I have a little table where I compiled sort of consolidated all the issues.
The last coordination has been going on since 2023.
In fact, I have seen some letters that are even predates 2023.
But actively since 2023.
Last coordination meeting was on April 21st.
And we had a presentation for Mill Valley on May 21st.
Next slide, please.
So let's go over the issues, right?
For all stakeholders, this was a common theme.
Need for a consistent, safe design and a better and better coordination.
So we hear you're there.
It's concerned about abrupt and inconsistent bikeway transitions.
Now, for marine transit, there were two main concerns.
the bus bike conflicts and ADA bus stops.
So conflict for the class four was at seven locations
and then there are 2021 bus stop locations where there are ADA issues.
For the school district, the safety for school children,
safe loading and unloading at bus stop.
Now this kind of overlaps with marine transit concern.
Next slide, please.
To run, they identified aesthetics.
Assetics, they had a medium preservation, was one of the things that wanted to preserve the median.
Bike lane transition between class 1 and class 4, there are concerns about how these things are transitioning.
And that safety at Tressel Glen, they need a crosswalk and an additional push button.
So I'm going to go quickly now. For Mill Valley, the issue is right at the interchange, where we have an arrow bridge.
and there was a concern that what you have promised in the environmental document is not what's shown in the current plans.
Next slide please.
The bike group had concern while we want to have 5 foot minimum 5 foot class 4.
They wanted a 2 way class bike class at a certain location.
They were concerned about the speed limit. Protected intersections is one of the big concerns they raised.
passed out that overlaps with other folks concerned then lane with reduction is another they wanted
they've lanes to go from 12 foot to 11 foot and then Belvedere concerned was traffic study they are
doing a traffic study and they wanted to ensure that they're the results of the traffic study could be
incorporated into the project okay next slide please so looking at this it's pretty obvious
Yes, that we have to work more with you guys to flush out all these issues and figure out what is would be the best project.
So our proposal line right now is to phase it to do it in two phases and that's what that's our option one.
The first phase is to take the project that we have right now and deliver most of this scope that's in it.
And include some of the asks you have and which includes most of the payment rehabilitation.
I mean that that was part of the ordinal scope mix of class one class two class one and a class four bike lanes safety elements like guard rails and narrowing lanes narrowing lanes was one of your requests we can do that.
Class two bike at one or one to a two brand below what interchange we can we can do that and then the big one that came in pretty late is incorporate broadband.
For then, what we will do is we will program another project in fiscal year 2027 in which we will address all the other issues.
Now, we can't promise you that we can address every single thing you ask.
We have restriction on the type of funding we have, but what we'll be doing is we'll be working with you to address these issues.
So, for example, bent out at the bus stops to separate the bikes from the
pedestrian transit bus stop ADA modifications. We can work on that. Complete the gap in the four
class four bike lanes. And also, to its limited extent, do protected intersection where it is
possible where we don't need a whole lot of new right away construct some protected into
the limited, you know, vertical elements and striping. Next slide please.
So, that's our option one. Option two will be, okay, let's stop the project. Pause on the project.
No, no project now. Go back to the drawing table and then deliver the whole thing.
our project, your project in 2027-28, right?
There are risks with that.
The risk are that funding availability.
Remember, we will lose this $12.7 million.
When we ask for it, we will ask $24.7 plus whatever else we need, right?
If we go with the first option approach, we ask for what we need additional,
not this $12.7.
And we are able to preserve the payment.
If we preserve the payment, then, you know, future repair of the payment, if, for instance,
if you wait two years out, the payment condition is going to deteriorate, the payment rehab cost will be higher.
So, you know, payment will deteriorate and that is, that has a cost associated with it.
Secondly, we might have to do emergency repairs. If we have a big storm, you got potholes, you got, you know, drainage failures,
then all of that will have to be done commercially.
That would cause traffic disruption, cause us more money.
So our proposal is that we go with phase one, option one,
which is to phase the two projects.
Now, next slide please.
So I have interactive slide.
I'll quickly go over to show you what we are going to do
because there is concern from a lot of people
that we don't understand your plans.
We don't know what you're doing, right?
So we prepared a sort of interactive slides.
It's going to take about a minute or two to go through.
And I'll show you what we are planning on doing here.
So in the phase one, we
are going to click here.
We are going to do the colon plane and the overlay
of the roadway and narrowing of the lane.
that would be one thing we'll do. The second thing will be, we'll upgrade the curb ramps.
These are the locations where we'll upgrade the curb ramp. So if I, if I were to click
at one location,
you can see, I'm sorry, let me go back, upgrade curb ramps.
This is very
sensitive, how long?
So upgrade guard rail. These are the locations. I'm going to click at
one of these boxes.
It's not showing up. I
don't know why it's not showing up there, showing up here.
Yeah. Well, I am in the presentation mode.
Yeah. So I'm sorry. This is just showing.
I'm sure we're showing up here, but it's not showing up there. So I'll just talk to this.
Thank
you from the Technology Department in the back.
Yeah. Thank you. Sorry about that. Um, it was working here. Come slow. Anyway, if I click here,
this will show you where we are, we are upgrading the guardrail. So this will be an example,
right? If I go here, you can see the other locations, we're updating the guardrail. Anyway,
Okay, let me go to the next one, for example,
curb ramps,
curb ramps.
Here are all the locations where we're doing curb ramps.
And I'll just pick one box.
And these are locations where we're going to upgrade curb ramps.
And we have curb ramps.
They're the ramps that people can wheel across
at the corners of the blocks.
So this is the location where we will do drainage modifications.
And there are different kinds of gradient modifications.
So I can go to one, for instance.
And you can see that there, you can see where the points are where we are doing some sort of drainage modification.
Then we let's go to the most important one, bikeways.
So here is a map for the bikeways.
And I think I showed you a similar map.
If I were to click here,
so this is a bus stop, right?
This is the current condition.
Now, the basic one, it's going to look like that.
That's the one we are doing right now.
That's what it's going to look like.
If you see up here, there are ballads separated.
But when it comes to near a bus stop like that, there are no ballads.
In the future, what we'll do in phase two,
we could do this or we could do this.
and we will work collaboratively with you guys to figure this out, make sense, right.
Now we will do a similar thing at other locations. So this is just an example.
Let me go back,
let's look at intersection modifications.
So these are locations we have
modifying the intersections and I'll pick one.
So this is the intersection right now.
Proposed is, this is proposed. Here we are mixing, we are mixing traffic. Now, what
we will speculative depending on how we work together, this is something that we will
probably end up doing, depending on how much right away you have and what we can do.
But
you know, it has to be limited.
What was I, can you describe some of the improvements
in the slide you just showed?
Can you go back?
There are things like ball bouts and things
for pedestrians that I am not sure everybody knows about.
OK, hold on, let's go here.
So here, for instance, we have ball bouts, right?
You can see that we are constructing ball bouts here
and here and curb ramps.
And you'll have to look at the detailed plan
to see every location. For instance, here, what we are doing is just a crosswalk.
Yeah. We'll be great. If you could explain what a bulb out is.
This one here.
First diagram. This one, right? So when we are talking about bulb outs, for instance,
if we do this,
this one here, that's a bulb out right there.
The one right now.
So
the advantage of bulb outs is that they shorten the crossing for pedestrians
and they get you farther out where you as a pedestrian have better visibility
about the traffic on the road.
So you have a better sense of when it's safe to cross
and the motorists can see you better too,
but you're protected because you're on a curb, a raised curb.
So that's the advantage. They shorten the crossing, better visibility for everybody.
And obviously motor vehicles who are turning have to slow down a little bit more.
Right.
Right, yeah.
So we'll be working with you on these solutions that I think that's the message I'm
trying to convey.
What we have right now is very limited.
We understand that.
But we are now as our face to project, we'll be working with you to find these kinds of solutions
that we can fund and that can also improve safety.
We're
not going to have people yelling in the audience so that's not time for questions.
I'm going to let the presentation finish and then you'll have an opportunity to speak
in public comment.
Okay.
Let me quickly go to what we're going to do in phase two.
So phase two, we are dropping a few programs right now about eight of them for utility
conflicts and right away reasons.
So we will do those that remain in curb ramp.
We will do some side rock improvements in coordination with you people.
or remaining drainage improvements.
We have a few drainage improvements,
colors that we are dropping right now.
We will take care of those.
There are some electrical message signs.
Then the biggest thing will be the bus bike conflict.
We will address all of those.
And then we will do the bus stops at ADA improvements.
And then we will do the protected intersection,
which is limited, what I just talked about.
So if I go back to
my presentation,
Okay.
Okay. Thank you very much.
Okay. Next step. This is, so what are we going to do next step?
First week for the phase one, we will update the plans for the phase one. Next thing we intend
to do is incorporate the broadband scope. But the key thing here for incorporating the bedboards
is that we need 100% plans for the broadband. And since we have a very short amount of time remaining,
It's important that the, you know, the broadband plans are complete so that we can incorporate them and then secondly, of course, the corporate agreement to fund the work.
Once we have a cost estimate, we need to have, make sure we have enough money in order to fund the work.
Then phase one construction will go in with me on 2026. What in phase two is will work with you all stakeholders to come up with a scope of phase two.
And the big things here are, how do we handle mixing? How do we handle bus transit conflict? How do we handle protected intersection? What we can do about protected intersection? And I think all those things are big safety elements.
So now we want to hear from you. Thank you.
Okay. Thank you so much for that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Now, Wendy Collins from Safe Routes School is going to do a very short presentation,
and then we are going to hear from each and every one of you.
If you have not signed in, we're doing this sign-in so we can figure out how much time
everyone can have to speak and to make sure we don't miss anybody.
If you have not signed in, please sign in.
The sheets are on the table.
Also this will be used to provide later project information to you and to invite you to
anything in the future regarding the project.
Okay.
Thank you.
Whoa.
Is it on?
Yes.
Good.
All right.
Hi, my name is Wendy Callons.
I'm the Task Force Coordinator for the Safe Roots and Schools Program.
Safe Roots and Schools is a program of the Transportation Authority of Marin.
I've been asked to outline the Marin Safe Roots and Schools involvement with the CalTrans project on Highway 131 or Tibran Boulevard.
Safe Roots of Schools has been working with CalTrans on this for over a decade, even before the Paving Project began.
Safe Roots of Schools has task forces in every school district in Marin.
Each task force consists of representation from the city's public works departments, police departments, elected official.
Each school district has one representative each from the school board and the staff.
and it also includes the safe routes, parent volunteers, and any community members with interest in school travel.
And I'm cutting this down in the interest of time, so I've taken some things out.
So our first meeting addressing Tiburon Boulevard was a decade ago.
When we held a virtual walkout audit right here, we headed up on the screen, and we looked at all of Tiburon Boulevard,
and CalTrans representatives did attend this meeting and from there we created an issue list
of all the improvements that were identified and these included eight different intersections
on the road. So when CalTrans announced that the repaving project, we took advantage of this
opportunity to ask them to address these issues and many of the issues that we have asked
for you just saw are now in the project.
We also saw that there were just class two bike lanes
on Tiburon Boulevard and we requested that they be upgraded
to class four or protected bike lanes.
We also provide suggested route maps for all our schools.
These are created through a workshop with school representatives
to identify the common routes to schools.
These are then vetted by the town engineers
and reviewed by the task force.
The suggested routes for the school children along this corridor are Greenwood Cove, Greenwood
Beach Road and the Old Rail Trail, plus we've identified some back roads for the students
that live on the north side of Tiburon Boulevard using the steps lanes and paths that exist
there.
In discussions with the task force and with neighbors on Greenwood Beach Road, it was agreed
that locating the fast-moving bicyclists to Tiburon Boulevard would create a safer environment
for the school children and inexperienced bicyclists on greenwood beach and cove roads
and would make designating those roads for school travel more amenable to the neighbors.
In addition to task forces, Safe Roots of Schools also offers safety classes during regular PE
in 2nd, 4th, and 6th grade instructing students on safe walking and bicycle behavior.
Second grade class is focused on pedestrian safety.
Fourth grade lessons introduced bicycle safety, focusing on safe riding practices,
which includes an in-class presentation and hands-on bike rodeo to enforce the skills.
Then in sixth grade we build on these prior lessons and students learn in the classroom and on the bike
with an emphasis on understanding traffic laws and riding confidently.
Safe Roots of Schools has also been actively involved in discouraging the type 2 throttle
bikes e-bikes that middle school students have been using.
And we've encouraged the middle schools to create a registry program to remove them
from the campuses.
We also participated in the county task force that resulted in making those bikes illegal
in Marin County for anyone under 16, which will be implemented on July 1st.
and they'll be a whole education program that goes along with it.
Safe Roots of Schools by its very name makes safety of the utmost importance.
We look forward to the improvements on Tipperon Boulevard
in order to make the journey to school safer for students walking and biking to school
on the suggested routes of Greenwood Cove, Beach and the Old Rail Trail,
and to improve the crossings along the Boulevard.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
and I have the route that's there.
Okay, so at this time we're going to take some public comment.
I'm going to ask our town clerk first to pull online to see how many individuals would
like to speak online so we can give you guys the maximum amount of time to speak tonight.
Thanks Madam Mayor.
If you're calling in online just so we can get a sense of how many speakers we have tonight
and you would like to speak please raise your hand now.
You can press the raise hand button on your webinar controls bar on the bottom of your Zoom window or on your smartphone screen. If you're on a phone, you can dial star nine to raise your hand.
So I'm seeing some hands going up.
Just give it a second here.
So again, if you're online and you would like to speak tonight, please raise your hand now.
So we can get a sense of our number of speakers.
Madam Mayor, I'm seeing four hands right now online.
Okay, great. That puts us at 45 speakers, which is perfect. We can now double your time and go to a minute each.
So I'm going to call people up and I will ask that you be ready or come up shortly.
The first speaker is Sally Pasternak followed by Becky Pringle. David. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Sally's not speaking.
Becky, sorry Sally. Becky Pringle is the first speaker followed by David McCoy
and then we have Warren Wells. After that is Wendy Andrew Lou, Tom Nower, Mike
Shepard, and Terrell Cullaway.
Okay, is Becky here? Becky Pringle? Okay, I'm going to
on to the next person? Oh, you don't want to speak? Okay, if you want to speak later,
just tell us Becky. Okay, perfect. Okay, David McCory, are you here? Great. Yes, please
come up to the microphone. You'll hear...
Welcome.
...a really impressed by all the organization and all of the dedication that everybody has given
into this issue. It's really cool. We live on Greenwood Beach Road, and we really love it. It's super
cool. The activity is really intense, for the safety, for between the mixed use of everything
happening there, between the kids, the dogs, fast-moving bikes, vehicles, and we think that the
Class 4 bike lanes on to Brown Boulevard are an awesome solution, and we hope that it happens, and
I will pass along the rest of my time.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
I'll follow up on any of your data.
Thanks, Paul.
Now.
Here, council, my name is Warren Wells and the policy and plan director for the Marin County
Bysok Coalition.
I want to just say that I really appreciate CalTrans presentation.
Byclaims have been planned on to run Boulevard for over 50 years at this point, so I'm really
happy to see them moving forward.
I'll keep things brief.
If you know, I don't always, in the bike coalition,
I don't always see eye-to-eye with Caltrans,
but I really do think that they deserve praise
for taking this opportunity to improve a road
for all users, rather than just repaving it.
And I hope you can help them move this project forward.
The phase approach they describe today
seems like a sensible one
to ensure the road gets repaved without losing funding,
giving us more time to help develop a design
with information for our stakeholders
that gets just a safe to run boulevard
that we all deserve. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much. Now I have Winnie.
Winnie, Andaloo.
Hi, friends. You're used to hearing from me.
90% of the controversy in this project is the section
between Tresil Glen and Blackfield.
This is the section that creates issues for the yellow bus program
in the Tibberon schools.
It creates increased bike and car conflicts
at the intersection of Tresil Glen,
Reed Ranch, Cecilia, and Jefferson.
This section is also completely unnecessary
because of Greenwood Beach Road,
which is a safer, more beautiful,
and already established bike route.
For all of you bikers who are here,
you might not realize this,
but it's this section where you turn,
if you're coming into town,
you turn right at the Union 76
and it's that lovely street where life hurt houses.
Even the Marin Bike Coalition noted,
no doubt that many people will still choose
to travel along the side street,
and nothing in the proposed project will force writers
to travel on Tiberon Boulevard.
Taking any racer to that section of bike lane
on your plans cannot set this project back two years,
and it should actually save CalTrans some money.
CalTrans is not published a project plan to the public,
I will also note that,
so there are some other outstanding issues
like a left hand speed up lane off of Cecilia
that I'm just not even sure if that's been addressed or not.
Thank you. Thank you so much. Next, we have Tom Nower, followed by Mike
Shepard and Terrell Cullaway. Hi everyone, I'm Tom Knauer. My family
are and I are long-term residents of the Bellair neighborhood more than 20
years. We walk, run, cycle, green would be trod on a daily basis. My sons
commuted to Delmar school and so you know we're very familiar with that path and the
the traffic that's on there.
I'm also an avid cyclist.
I'm a member of the Marin Bike Coalition
and also the Coyotes Tiberon Bike Club.
And so I want to make the point that while I share
the goals of the Bike Coalition to get better
and safer access, I strongly oppose this project
for a variety of reasons.
First of all, I want to make sure that people understand,
you know, again, we are the local residents.
Many Mike Club members are here
and are also in opposition.
We use that path much more regularly than anybody else outside of Tebaron.
We see the traffic on and off and many of our kids use that path.
The fact of the matter is, is that creating a bike lane is not going to have the majority of the users on Tebaron Boulevard.
Neither the kids nor the recreational cyclists nor my commuter friends will be using that.
They've unequivocally stated that, and so therefore if we see only 5% or 10% of the traffic,
maybe 20% move to Tiburon Boulevard, it's really not going to change the issue.
So I think we have a much better solution in addressing Greenwood Beach Road,
cleaning it up, putting bike lanes or improving the access there, and limiting the speed
of both the cars and the cyclists to make it as overall safer plan.
Final anecdote here is yesterday, and today I wrote there, saw multiple kids on their
way to and from soccer practice and so on.
The fact of the matter is that the kids are going to continue to use that, the recreational
cyclists for the large part, especially the Tiburon and Belvedere residents are going
to continue to use that road.
So let's not throw money at a project that is not going to be used and instead solve the
problem on Greenwood Beach Road.
Thank you very much.
Okay. We have our mayor of San Enselmo. Oh, wait. Okay. You're first. Go ahead, Mike. Sorry.
Mike, I just made you mayor of San Enselmo. Go ahead, Mike. Thank you.
Thanks.
Um, Tim Brown will have our seriously congested.
I am a bike rider, too. I think Greenwood Beach is better.
but if you go ahead and do this project, please trade something off out of phase two to get the bike bypasses into phase one because otherwise we will strangle during phase one.
We will just strangle.
And second, if the project goes ahead, please it's going to slow down traffic.
Okay, fair enough. It accommodates everybody safer. It's going to slow down traffic. Please phase the lights better and change the timing of the light at Tresil Glen, which backs up five light phases in one direction and never on Tresil Glen.
and you can solve a whole lot of the traffic problem that way and speed
things up. Thank you. Thank you so much. Now we have the mayor of San
Ensemble, Terrell Cullaway. Terrell Cullaway, mayor of San Ensemble, but I'm also
the executive director of Marine County bicycle coalition and that's also why I'm
here. I just want to call out, so Wendy Callins, you might not know this, but she is
one of the co-founders of Safe Routes to Schools. That program started in
Maureen County, it's now nation-
I am super proud of that program, and I feel like their process for bringing a project like this to fruition, along with the leadership of Stephanie Molten-Peter's, is to really be commended. It brings so many different people to the table. And like she said, they've been talking about it for 10 years. They have police there. They have fire there. They have the superintendents of schools. They have parents. They have all kinds of people at these meetings.
deciding these projects. I'm very excited by what I saw in your phase two and your bypass lanes.
I think you've been really listening to what people have been saying over the past few months.
It could have been done differently, but we're really proud of it, and I'm stoked to write it. So
thanks. Thank you so much, Mayor. Okay, now we have Brian Andrewloo, followed by Bill Hoppen and Bob
I'm Brian Andrewler. I live up Red Ranch Road. I'm also focused mostly on the part of the
project, the bike lines that are between Blackfield and Trustle Glen. But I have to start
back and say, how did we get here? We're at a 95% point where we're worried about losing
money and pushing things into phase two. And assuming we'll get that money, is that money
going to happen and phase two is three years out. That doesn't really satisfy me. I think
we need to understand that it's our road in Tiberan, in Bolivia. This is our, the heart,
this is the veins and the arteries of our town. And we need to get this right and take our
time. And $12.7 million, whether we might lose it or might not, that's $1,000 a person
in town. That it's not worth getting something wrong because we're worried about losing some
money. Let's get this right. If we snarl traffic and make things unsafe or put kids on e-bikes
out on tibar on boulevard, people going 45 miles an hour and someone dies, that's not
the right answer. Second, are we really talking about reducing the width of our lanes, our
car lanes, and reducing the speed limit? When traffic is a major issue in this town, I just don't
think we're on the right path. I appreciate CalTrans trying for phase two, but that's three years
down the road. That's uncertain. We're going to have to live with this for years until that happens.
Let's pause. Let's get this right. Thank you.
Thank you. We are now moving on to
Bill Hoppen, Bob McCaskill, and I'm sorry, it looks like Mike Power, but I'm having trouble reading it.
I'm going to start before my time so I get a little extra time. So I'm Bill Hoppen. I'm part of
the traffic mobility advisory committee at Mill Valley. I'm a long-time Mill Valley resident.
I want to thank Stephanie Moulton-Peters for giving us an opportunity to really dig into this.
And one of the things that I think is really important is a protected bike lane across 101.
The corridor from Mill Valley into Tiberon, that pathway in 2020, we built that protected bike lane there.
With the idea of it, it would be completed as a class 4 protected bike lane.
It's going to create a lot of routes, safer routes for Mill Valley middle school and other kids to get to school, to get to activities.
So that's the key area there.
I also want to thank CalTrans for really listening and it seems like you're open.
That's awesome.
But again, I think having this forum and having an opportunity to really improve that particular areas of most importance for me as a Mill Valley resident.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Okay, Bob, followed by Ritz Steele,
followed by Gary Fisher and Jake Simon.
I'm Bob McCaskill, Chair of the Public Agency that operates the Yellow School Buses
in Belvedere and Tigran.
Our agency created the current yellow bus system with buses serving 20 different routes
tuned from our three local schools.
In recent years, up to 50 percent of the students at these schools have taken our buses
to and from school, dramatically reducing congestion on Tiberan Boulevard.
The effectiveness of this program is now threatened by the proposed CalTrans plan to
install bike lanes on both sides of Tiberan Boulevard between Trussel Glen and Blackfield Drive.
Due to safety risks to students and cyclists, the company providing our buses and drivers
will not allow their buses to cross or stop in the proposed bike lanes.
That would eliminate all of our tibre humble of our bus stops between Trusselglin and the
School District, along with Mill, Marin Transit, and others strongly opposes the addition of the
proposed by claims between Trussel Glen and Blackfield Drive. Why would we want to hamstring
the most effective program that we have for reducing congestion on Tebron Boulevard?
I just don't understand it. Thank you. Thank you. So I'm going to ask people to hold their
And I'm going to call on Rich Steele, followed by Gary Fisher, Jake Steinman, Greg Moore
and Nancy Peterson.
Hi Rich Steele, I live right here up Leiford.
I've been a bike commuter on Timber and Boulevard for about 19 years.
I've probably ridden that's projects stretch more than anyone in this room, although I
have some competition.
I was the Marin County bike commuter of the year.
So I speak with some expertise on this.
I also oppose, believe it or not, this limited section of the by-path between Trustle
Glen and the 76 station, and I do think a suitable alternative already exists that more
than handles the demand.
I don't see a conflict with kids and cyclists and faster cyclists on that road.
I mix with them all the time and it's not a problem.
I do, however, support the rest of the project and I think it's important.
I think a lot of people here are opposing that and I don't want that to be misread as opposition
to the entire project, especially the gentleman from Mill Valley who talked about the route
over the Tiberan Y which has frankly been made worse by what CalTrans did a few years ago
with the double merging onto the freeway.
That area is, it's just an accident waiting to happen.
Literally, I've had many, many near misses there,
and we need to have protected lanes there
and the rest of the boulevard,
but we do not need them for the solution
in search of a problem, which is that section
that everybody seems to be opposing.
Thank you.
Okay, we are now going to hear from Gary Fisher.
then Jake Steinman, Greg Moore, and Nancy Peterson,
if you could kind of make your way up front.
And I'll ask the audience to just hold their applause
till the end.
Thank you.
My name's Gary Fisher.
I'm the guy.
Come on, you guys.
I mean, I really heard some of my good mayor
on how to make that traffic better.
I've got food or big ideas.
I'm not going to boom as I did as the minutiae of that at this moment, okay.
I know how things work.
I mean, my family moved here in 1966.
My father did point to me on, he was the architect.
He was a hell of a good racer at the yacht club.
Sam, which is good yacht club, that is.
And I have traveled the world and taken a lot of transit for my God.
And I wound up speaking at a lot of micomobility and actual transit.
I've met the people in Paris that changed that place.
And let me tell you, this city, this area has changed significantly since the pandemic.
like it's all changed and we have a group of people now about their kids like crazy.
I have a, I have a seven year old, I have a 10 year old, I have a 17 year old, I have
a 19 year old opair from Germany, okay, a month and a half ago my 17 year old got hit by
car right there out there by the standard station guy was making an
and let me tell you this has cost me some money and time with him you know
he had a little crack under here you know it's been a big hassle okay one
you could go to a day my 10-year-old and my 19-year-old a pair got rear-end
on Tibor on Boulevard at Blonkey's past year.
She was stopped at their light.
I got really good friends at YMO.
You know, I got really good friends in a tech world.
And I'll tell you what.
This whole situation is going to change.
And David Flannery says hello.
He's my cross-street neighbor.
And he's going to help me because we're really good at propaganda.
And we want to get out way.
We're sick and tired of the old way.
the new way is the way it is going to happen. Thank you very much for your time.
Thank you so much. I think you always get your way. Let me tell you. Okay, we're now moving on.
We are moving
on to Jake Steinman, followed by Greg Moore, Nancy Peterson, and Pam Stelgrove.
Yes, I'm Jake Steinman. I'm a resident on Greenwood Beach Road. And I've been there
for 19 years, and there are 37 driveways on Greenwood Beach Road, and the road is basically
a roller coaster, and we have cyclists on weekends that are a mix of the racing cyclists,
weekend tourists that are, you know, barreling down that hill at 45, 50 miles an hour, then you've got the e-bikes that are barreling at the up that hill at the same speed.
And so I think it's a potentially dangerous, you know, accident prone location that can,
you know, and we've been trying. I guess this bike lane has been somehow on the,
you know, on the books for almost 50 years since the 70s.
And so I fully support it as a safety measure for Greenwood Beach Road
and avoiding accidents that may take place in the future.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Now we have Greg Moore, Nancy Peterson, Pam Snalgrove,
and Gabby Federal.
Good evening, everyone.
The Greenwood Beach Neighborhood supports
the CalTrans Project for its multiple benefits.
As mentioned, the bike lanes to Bramble of Art
were first proposed 50 years ago.
That is why these same bike lanes in the same locations in the Caltan's project have been endorsed in town, county, and state plans over many decades.
The Caltan's project has significant lasting merits.
The project is fully funded a true rarity when public agencies face decreasing budgets.
If we delay the project, the project's funding could be lost where we will buy less than a future due to inflation.
It is in our hands to steward this project forward and not lose the opportunity it presents.
And clearly the bus stop issue that was mentioned should be solved in phase one.
The Greenwood Beach Neighborhood supports the CalTrans projects including the project bike lanes.
We acknowledge that some design refinements are needed and available.
We strongly encourage the town council to help facilitate those refinements and keep the project moving forward.
The phasing project was a last spent thing and too complicated for us to comment upon.
Thank you.
Okay.
Nancy Peterson, Pam Snowgrove, Gabby Federal and Aubrey Federal, followed by Sissy
Mohler and Bruce Abbott.
I have this Nancy Peterson, I'm also a Greenwood Beach Road resident and I want to speak specifically
to the school safety issue, and the use of Greenwood Beach Road as a safe routes to school.
We totally support that. We've supported it for years. I also had a son who
rode to every school that he went to in Tiberon. We help kids out when their bikes break down.
We slow down in the morning. We watch carefully for them coming out of our dryways.
So I want people to really understand that there's a different issue in terms of
the safety for schools and the issues of safety and fast bikers and fast, we are, we have
an unsafe issue in terms of the growth in biking, the growth in fast biking, not just
electric bikes, but large, very large groups that ride through our community.
So I just want to, I understand that we have a, there's a very disagreement in this room,
but I think it's really important for you to think about that in that way.
Okay, I have Pam, Pam Snellgrove, Gabby Federal. Go ahead, Pam.
My printer broke, so I had to read from the screen. My name is Pam Snellgrove.
I'm the property owner at 442 Greenwood Beach Road, which is located near the end of the dead end of
the road. I'm four houses from where it dead ends.
I've lived at this address for 38 years, and by now have a long history of firsthand experience
in the environment on the street. First, I'd like to speak to the current very real danger
that exists every day on that street. There is a big difference between driving, I mean, bicycling
through it even once or twice a day and living there, to give you a tangible example.
In a 10-day period, the middle of May, between 3.30 and 5 o'clock, within 10 days, walking
my dogs within 20 feet of the dead end of that street, I witnessed three road bike accidents.
ones. One of them, man, came off. They're going so fast down that hill. They have no idea
of what the curb that they have to navigate to get through two blackies. One man came off
on the pavement, was bloodied all over his arms and his legs, and I'm there with two dogs
trying to pick him up. Within two or three days after that I witnessed two other people, a man
and a woman come off of their road bikes and thank God they hit the grass. Okay this goes on
all the time. It is not an exaggeration. The second thing that I'd like to say, oh I'm out,
I'd just like to sneak this in. No one in this plan is not forcing anyone onto an available
bike lane on Tiberon Boulevard. The people who will use it and take advantage of it are the people who are traveling the fast road bikers and the people who come over from the city impacts on rented bikes.
And the rest can, you know, ride on Greenwood Beach as they always have. Thank you.
Thank you.
Gabby Federal, I mean Aubrey Federal, followed by Sissomolar and Bruce Abbott.
If I get your name wrong, please correct me when you get to the mic.
Hi, my name is Gabby Federal and my husband and I have lived on Greenwood Beach Road for 40 years.
And we raised our children there.
Our kids used to bike to school and my husband is a bicyclist and now our grandchildren come here to bike.
we are not against bicyclists. About 10 years ago Greenwood Beach Road became
part of the official bike trail and bicycle traffic increased dramatically.
Even more so during COVID and with the popularity of e-bikes. And that's when
the problem started on our street. There is no sidewalk on Greenwood Beach Road and
unfortunately pedestrians and bicyclists often use the whole width of the street
as if it were a park, not understanding that they have to share the road with
cars.
And our end of Greenwood Beach Road is especially dangerous because it's downhill and bicyclists
accelerate, often causing new collisions as residents back out of their driveway.
It is an everyone's best interest to have a dedicated lane for road bicyclists along
Tiburón, Bolivar between the 76th gas station and Blackis-Pasha parking lot.
The road bicyclist will benefit from having a dedicated bike lane along to Brown Boulevard
for a mile stretch and avoid meandering around cars and pedestrians on Greenwood Beach Road.
Local residents and school students should be allowed on Greenwood Beach Road.
I hope they get more road safety training though.
This dedicated bike lane will improve the safety of our streets and neighborhood.
Thank you.
You
skipped over, man. You skipped over, man. So can you do it?
Hi, I'm Albany Federal, Gaby's husband. I'm not going to reiterate everything that she has to say.
But I would like to emphasize how amazed I am with a great job.
Everyone has done planning for the traffic that's growing in our community.
I'm a biker, my kids are bikers. We have nothing against bikers. We do have a problem
that's been created by diverting these rental bike groups through our street, the peloton
through our street, and our street, a large number of the people that traverse our street
are actually walking and walking their dogs, and they walk in the middle of the street.
The street is quite narrow, so I think it's a good idea to move as much bike traffic
as is appropriate onto the Tiberan Boulevard as this group has proposed.
Thank you.
Now I have Cecil Muller, Bruce Abbott, Liz Bernstein, Steve Mohad, Liz Webb, and Sally
Wilkinson.
I'm Cecil Muller.
I live on Greenwood Beach Road and I've lived there since 1991 and I've noticed our neighborhood
has changed from a quiet residential street to a bay trail.
We have wonderful children who commute to school on our street and we love it.
I love sitting in the children, and I hope that continues, but we would like to see this completed.
This is a wonderful project that we have been hoping for since the Bay Trail decided to go
unannounced through our neighborhood. It is incredibly dangerous, especially on the weekends,
and some of you may not know this, but it's hordes or bicyclists at great speed that come down
our road and we are the last house before the closure and I can't tell you how
scary it is. We've tried to get in and out of our driveway on the weekends and
we really appreciate what's being worked on and done here. Thank you.
Okay we
have Bruce Abbott followed by Liz Bornstein Bernstein.
Good evening to you all. I live
on Greenwood Beach Road. My name is Bruce Abbott. I would like to say, first thing off the bat,
I think we would be crazy to turn down the opportunity to put bike lanes on Kiberon Boulevard.
That would do tremendous lot to improve the flow of traffic and take some of the pressure off of
Greenwood Beach Road. Now the second what I heard Pam Snilgrove say, I personally have witnessed
the aftermath of at least five serious bicycle accidents in front of my house. By that I mean
people who fell off their bikes and got breaded up. Additionally some years ago a young person
had a terrible accident on Greenwood Beach Road and either as mine was killed or as other
people on my street think were seriously injured. These are situations that we should
not have to endure and we don't have to endure that. We have opportunity now to relieve
this terrible situation and we should do it. We should do it in all haste.
Thank you.
Okay.
We are now at Liz Bernstein.
Steve Moazada.
Liz Webb, Sally Wilkinson.
Hi. My name is Liz.
I live at Tibor and Boulevard and Reddred Fronted Road
right by the maze that is to get on the freeway there.
I rode my bike here today and every time I get on my bike to ride
I have to deal with two lanes of cars getting on the freeway, merging over to be a bike and
get in the central lane to cross over to get into Mill Valley. And it is very unsafe. And so I'm
looking forward to this project changing that. I know it was only five years ago, but it definitely
changed the way people ride their bike from Tebron into Mill Valley. And being that I also live right
there, I work from home, riding into Tebron is my go-to route. And so it would be great coming
back from Tressal Glen that there was a bike path and not having to cross over and be in
the population with the kids, the slower traffic, the people walking their dogs and leave
that for people who aren't as avid of a cyclist and let the ones who know what they're doing
be in the faster lanes.
Thank you.
Okay.
I have Steve Moazzetta, Liz Webb, Sally Wilkinson, and I'm not sure Victoria Grasso wants to
speak.
It's like crossed out.
So, go ahead.
Hi, thank you for this opportunity.
My name is Steve Mawazad.
I live in Mill Valley.
I'm part of the Traffic and Mobility Advisory Committee as well.
And our main goal is to reduce traffic in Mill Valley,
especially around the pinch points of the schools.
And that's why we think, you know,
we really only care about the kids coming from strawberry
to the Mill Valley Middle School, where I happen to teach.
And a lot of the parents have voiced, you know,
concerns about having their kids on their bikes.
And if there's a protected bike lane, they won't have that concern and kids who bike to school are better students and more independent thinkers, better citizens in the future.
There's a great book by the way by Dr. Peter Walker. It's called How Cycling Can Save the World.
And it's got a euphoric title, but he's a really gifted journalist with the Guardian newspaper in England.
And he's done a survey of all the cities around the world that have put in protected bike lanes, and it proves how it really improves so many things, public health, etc.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Okay. Liz Webb, Sally Wilkinson, Victoria Grasso, if you want to speak.
and then we have Thomas signed up twice, you only get to speak once.
So go ahead, sorry Tom.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Liz Webb.
I'm a reading and school district board trustee.
I'm here tonight to say that the current proposal for bike lanes
between Blackfield Drive and Pressle Glen are unsafe for our students.
Buses will need to transverse the current bike lanes
and students will need to be loading and unloading buses.
We're now faster driving, riding bicycle,
as we'll be in competition with those students.
We have students as young as four years,
or we'll try to ride in these buses,
and we'll be faced with this.
It renders four bus stops,
essentially obsolete due to student safety.
And in addition, students who ride their bikes to school
would likely, if they're coming from Ring Mountain,
will be wanting to, if rushing to school in the morning,
might likely take to Ron Bolivard as a faster route
and to assume that they would take Greenwood Beach Cove
is not an essential we can all make.
Finally, I really appreciate CalTrans
being open to a phased approach.
Phase one doesn't address student safety.
If we could take the bike lanes out of phase one
and put them in phase two and do it right,
that would be our proposal.
If we can add broadband to phase one,
please can we please delay the process
of adding bike lanes to phase one?
Thank you.
Okay, so now I have Shelby, Si, Matthew, Hartzel, and Erin, Jensen, followed by Park,
Allen, and Urban Carmel.
And Sally, yes, Feli's first.
Hi, I'm Sally Wilkinson. I am the vice mayor of Bavardia, and I also sit on the yellow
bus JPA, and I've actually been involved with that program since it launched nine years
ago, as its first programme manager, I'm going to embarrassed to say, it is the most effective
programme that we have for traffic mitigation in this community. It increases transit times by
about 40%, and so it's very significant, far exceeding any impact from broadband. It is really
disappointing to be presented with a proposal that is essentially saying that that doesn't matter,
that bus stops don't matter, that kids, priority kids, won't be able to get to school anymore,
because our bus provider has said they will not stop in bike lanes, which is the current
proposal.
That's a really disappointing thing to hear, and it isn't something that is prioritising
what I think is the wishes of the vast majority of people living on the Tibron peninsula.
I'd also reiterate what Liz Weber said, that there's no way to guarantee that kids will
ride on Greenwood Cove Road. The ones on Bavron and Red Ranch will almost certainly take
that straight shoot to Belaire school, and it is an unprotected bike lane for the vast
majority of that route, and a kid will get killed. They're unsafe, they're unnecessary between
and Blackfield Drive, and they should be removed.
Thank you.
Moving right along.
Sue.
Hi.
Thank you very much.
Shelby Sy.
I'm a trustee for the Red Union School District.
I was really surprised to see that your phase one was going to prioritize bike lanes over bus stops.
We had, as you've heard, a functioning school bus program that transports hundreds of students every day.
Okay, not only does that take children off the board, sorry.
Not only does it take cars off the road, it brings students together and it is a-
Okay, key community service to our low and middle income families that get their kids to school.
Phase 1 should prioritize bus stops, they're ADA accessible. They have a safe place for four to four years to wait for the bus to access the bus. It should not be in conflict with bike lanes.
Our current bus provider has said that they will not access the bus stops as they are
currently in conflict with the bike lanes.
On notice that you didn't even identify all of the bus stops on your map that you showed.
Most of the bus stops there is not sufficient with, according to the bus stop that you showed
had a lot more width than some of the other bus stops.
And I appreciate all of the attention to pedestrian safety, but I was really, really shocked
to hear say, fruits of schools not mention bus safety.
And I really think that bus safety needs to be the priority in phase one.
Thank you.
Good evening, and that was a little director of planning and WTPTAM.
Thank you to everyone from Caltrans for being here tonight and for listening so attentively
to the community and for incorporating responses to the community's concerns into this project.
Bottom line, we support the proposed phased delivery of this project with phase one coming
first and phase two coming later. We do also support keeping all of the proposed bike facilities
in phase one. To the community members for whom traffic congestion is the number one concern,
and I totally understand that a trip to Rumble of Arc does have a lot of traffic.
The best thing that anybody can do to improve the traffic situation is to build the bike
lens because every additional trip made by a bicycle is a trip not made by a car.
And so when you reduce car trips, you reduce the number one source of congestion which is too
many single occupancy cars on the road.
Carpool is good as well.
And finally, it's okay to have parallel facilities that are geared towards different types
of users, such as a slower route for students and slower riding on Greenwood Beach Road,
and the faster route on Tiburon Boulevard.
These two things are compliments, not they don't conflict with each other, and then thank
you.
Thank you so much.
Now, we have Aaron Jensen, Park Allen, I mean, yeah, and then Urban Carmel.
Good evening, everybody. Thanks for engaging with everybody here in our community.
I'm a resident, lives off the Reed Ranch Road. I'm also a bicycle commuter. I commute into the city regularly.
All of our streets. I've got two young teenagers. They're both drivers. They've had to learn how to drive.
and navigate some of the frightening kind of merging lanes and the pork chops and antiquated
sort of 1950s sort of style of kind of merging that we have around here. You think it might get a
little bit better with 101 might have regressed a little bit, but I guess I want to say this project
is a major project for our community. There's not a project of this scale or this magnitude that anybody
in this room could probably point to and it's clear to me that we're really needing
kind of revising update our participation. We're talking about things that happened 10 or 20
or 40 or 50 years ago. Well, we appreciate that. There's a lot of people here that have not been
here that long. I've lived in this community since 2009. This was not on my radar screen or I've
have been involved. So I'd like to encourage us to, you know, pursue the phase delivery of this.
I'd encourage us to really establish some task forces and some committees here
that are made up of residents that live here. These people are confused. They don't even understand
the terminology. There's a lot of technical jargon that we're throwing around. There's a lot of
colored dash lines that are, you know, frankly impossible to read from the majority of people in this
written. You put the drawing that's a perspective view of a photo where you
overlay what the actual bus stop looks like. That we understand. I'll point out
I'm an architect so I get drawings too. I also understand that most people
don't understand that and it takes a little bit of effort to kind of bring people
on board with what's happening. And yeah for a project that's about 12 and a half
million dollars, a Lightning Oven is great. You know there's good stuff. We've
seen the length of this. You've got a lightning rod here for one little quarter mile section.
Let's resolve this. Let's get everybody to the table. Let's resolve it. It can be done.
So keep up the good work. Let's come away with some.
Our next step.
Okay. Go ahead, Park. Followed by Urban Carmel.
I will. Park Allen, ten year vet on the Park's open space in trails. I served with a couple
of you and friends with many in the room, I think you've heard that the stretch between
blackies and blackfields is the problem.
As a cyclist, as a parent, that bikes should be on on Greenwood Beach Road.
There was a study done that was presented to post that was brilliantly done about how to
improve bike travel through that section and they said absolutely not that there should
There would be no bikes pushed to Bromblevard because of speed, because there would be great
cost to make it actually separated.
And it's important, but I think that the rest of the plan is fine.
What I'd like to see is more study done on that specific section, because that section,
if you could make improvements to Greenwood Beach Road, perhaps widen it in some way.
Separate a bike lane so that they have a place to, you know, the bikes go in one place and cars and pedestrians can go in another.
I'd like to explore that. This feels very rushed. I'd like more time to talk about it. Thanks.
Thanks.
Thank you.
We have Urban Plow now, followed by ten-door Jones, Kimberly McGrath, Francis Barber,
Ann, and Jerry Beller.
Hi, everybody.
My name is Urban Carmel.
I'm in the Mill Valley City Council.
I've been on the Transportation Authority Board for six years.
I'm also on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Board for Safe Routes of School.
Thank you.
First of all, City of Tiboron for holding this meeting, for CalTrans for being here, and for
allowing everybody to speak. I'm here to talk about the least contentious part about this
entire project. I'm not here to talk about Beachwood Grove Road, whatever it's called,
Thressal Grand, any of that kind of thing. In 2020, my first year on the City Council, we built
the Class 4 bike lane that connects the Sausleto Mill Valley multi-use path, which is the most highly
visited park in our county to 101.
The most important project that we can complete for the 30,000 residents of Mill Valley in
the next five years is to have that bike lane continue over 101 to East Strawberry Drive.
That is a single most important project that we can complete.
That would allow hundreds of students every day to travel over the highway to the Mill
to Tamm High School, it would allow hundreds of students every day to get the soccer practice, the baseball practice, the basketball practice, the swim team.
It would allow thousands of residents of Strawberry to go to our community center to get to our library to do shopping in our city.
This is a very significant project for the city of Mill Valley, it is the most important project for the city of Mill Valley.
Happily, it's the least contentious portion of this project for CalTrans and for Tibron and for Belvedere.
I urge you to please prioritize this project to move ahead.
Last point, I've been in city government now for almost 10 years.
The thing which I have learned more than anything else, funding is incredibly hard to get.
Once you've got funding, do not let go of that funding.
I urge you to proceed with at least phase one to use that funding to complete parts of the project that you can.
Thank you very much for your time.
Okay, so now we have ten-door Jones, Kimberly McGrath, Francis Barber, and Brittany,
Brittany Hanne.
Hi there.
Thanks for all being here.
Thank you for putting your presentation together.
Name's Tutor Jones.
Born and raised on Reno Beach Road.
Left for college came back and now I'm raising my nine month old daughter in the same house I grew
up on and I've seen growing traffic, growing congestion, and I've seen the different attitudes
that are held by the children that ride that road and the adult cyclists who ride that
road. And luckily, the children are getting older, who ride appropriately on that road.
It used to be 7, 8, 9-year-olds. Now it's 10, 11, 12, 13-year-olds. The people who aren't
changing are the adults, the people who come in on the weekends. They should know better,
but they ride three astride across all the lanes.
I have to drive on the left side of the road
in the opposing lane of traffic to get home
to avoid the driveways on the right side.
The reason I do that is because I'm conscious of the blind nature
of all of the residents who have to back out of their driveways.
So there's 37, 25, whatever number there are.
You do a study number of driveways
of people have to back out.
There will be an accident.
I'm not going to say there's going to be a death
because I'm not alarmist here.
But you guys are all on notice that there are blind driveways on Greenwood Beach Road
and residents who are presently working, driving in fear and pulling out their driveways afraid
that they're going to be contacted by speeding bicyclists.
So keep the kids on Greenwood Beach Road and get the adult cyclists off.
Thank you.
Hey, we have our superintendent Kimberly McGrath.
Hi, thank you.
I appreciate you allowing this forum and for listening.
Dr. Kimberly McGrath, I'm the Superintendent of Regenian School District, which serves
Belvedere to run the East Side of Corda Madera, and as it's been mentioned, pre-K through
eighth graders. I am definitely not an expert on a traffic design, or I'm not sure I could
tell you what bend out design means, but I do know a thing or two about kids and really
care about their safety, and I'm sure you do as well.
Our primary concerns revolve around the functionality and the safety of existing bus stops.
the serve our students, the design just absolutely cannot eliminate four bus stops
around the area that has been mentioned repeatedly. There needs to be sufficient space
for school buses to pull safely, completely out of the flow of traffic.
There needs to be dedicated and safe areas outside of bike lanes
for students to be able to wait for load unload school buses.
Another concern that's been mentioned so I won't say too much about it
It is just the safety of our student cyclist.
We do promote that safe route along Greenwood Beach Road, and we would have concerns about
diverting students to a busy Tebron Boulevard.
So just thank you very much for considering the concerns.
We appreciate you listening.
We do look forward to a design that prioritized the safety of all of our road users, including
our cyclists and our very important bus stops.
Please ensure that that continued safe operation of our school buses can take place.
Thank you.
So now I have Frances Barber, Brittany Hannick, Kathy McLeod, and Albert Reconto.
My name is Frances Barber.
I live in Belveron East, and I've been a resident in two bronze since 2008.
I have an e-bike class 3, which by the way, I'm not legally allowed to ride on the pathway.
way. I'm supposed to ride on tip-run Boulevard, which I think is silly because even the service
vehicles can go faster than 15 or 28, whatever, but I have over, I think I have almost 13,000
miles on that e-bike, I got it in 2020, and I would say a lot of those trips have me leaving
and getting onto tip-run Boulevard to go over to the nugget as opposed to crossing tip-run
Boulevard twice. So there's probably a number of us that do use the shoulder on tip-run
I don't need a bike lane per se, I need a clean shoulder that doesn't have encroaching
ice plants and other things that are taking over it.
I just need a wide shoulder, and I don't think that would encourage kids to use it,
but it definitely would encourage cyclists not to have to cross to remember
our twice if they don't need to to get to certain places.
It's time's up, but I would also like to ask, I've been asking you this for a long time on
trestle Glenn, a bike sensor stencil in the middle of the road between the right and left-hand
turn lanes to trip a light signal short enough for a bike to get across and not to have a pedestrian
crossing signal that takes longer to stop traffic either way and then the little green bike light
you know that they now have would be great. As for the class four, I see there's a lot of land over
there. Maybe we could actually separate it 100% from the road and have it be like a bike freeway.
Just a thought, thank you.
Hey, we have Brittany Hanning,
followed by Kathy McLeod, Albert Prachinko,
and Darren Wien.
Hello, thank you so much
for giving us all this opportunity this evening.
Wanted to speak up after having a lovely conversation
with our mayor yesterday evening.
She was explaining to me about the broad-band opportunity
We have how that would give us a unique and timely opportunity to, of course, improve broadband, of course, and then also just to connect it with our traffic lights because everyone has been saying everyone's been screaming from the rooftops, the traffic is a primary issue. And so if we could have those updates where we can in real time change the lights based on schools based on all the things we've been hearing about tonight, huge advantage. So my second, I guess, more relevant point to bicycling this time last year. I was in a pretty bad bicycle
accident that I, besides my clumsiness, my name is Klotsky, could have been prevented
probably by a bicycle lane. And the other fun facts about that story, this was going
from Corinthian Island to Mill Valley. On the way, of course, I'm a motorcycleist, I was
very overly confident in my abilities. That was silly and retrospect. But I drove by kind
of giggling in a way. Like, oh, there is a bicyclist accident. There's another bicyclist accident.
And then, actually, to get to the ER, I tried to go to the urgent care and
availability. I couldn't get into that urgent care because there was a bicycle accident.
I was the fourth bicycle accident. And clearly, there's an issue here. It concerns me
the number of children that we've been hearing about that are involved. I don't have
children myself, but I can definitely have sympathy for that. That safety is important.
traffic is important, broadband is important, these are all important issues, but because
this is such a largely well-funded project, we owe it to the justice of thinking through
the route, the thoughtful planning, listening to the neighbors in the community like you're
doing right now.
So thank you, I really appreciate the time.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Okay, so our next speakers are Kathy McLeod, Albert Richinko, Darren Ween, followed by
Cass Sandi Donnell and Devani Lynch.
Hi,
Kathy McLeod.
I live in Belvron and I'm an avid cyclist.
This is the way that I go.
So I'd like to ride on Tiborambu-Var because I don't want to wait and actually there's
a no right turn on Tiborambu-Var and also.
So if I press the button, this no right turn comes on and so it blocks up the traffic.
It's easier for me and the traffic for congestion wise to just keep going on Tiborambu-Var.
take a right, keep going, and I'm going where I want to go down the Mill Valley, going down to the
Cove, and I have pinch points along the way. So here's me, and the bank is falling into the road.
So I have to get swore out into the lane, and it's dangerous. So we need, I mean, we really need
the bike lanes. And safe bike lanes is a must. I mean, we really need a shoulder no matter
what Francis was saying is so true. We don't necessarily have to have kids. And we would
never ask kids to go on Tiberon Boulevard, especially if there were no protective barriers,
but we have to have a bike lane on the north side because most of the people who live in Tiberon
live on the north side and we're just I'm also the supervisor for the crossing
guards so I know what's going on at each one of these intersections where we
have crossing guards and I'm over there all the time I'm out and in the very
time that traffic is going for the schools so I'm seeing people riding their
bikes coming down Avenue to Mayor Flores in the morning there's one guy who comes
every single morning and he turns left to go on Tiberon Boulevard, not even on the four-way
part but he's going to go and get on that skinny narrow uphill section and go right into Tiberon
because as soon as you get up over that section it turns into a bigger shoulder. There's people
who come from the city that will continue on these bike lanes and they don't know where to go,
they're just going to keep going on Tiboron Boulevard and there needs to be at least
you know something for people who lose their way and just keep cutting back the you know
the foliage that comes down is just falling into the road so whatever right away that they can
can really separate and get clear. Thank you. I know I've passed my time but thank you. Thank you so
much. Okay, I know definitely need the bike lines. This is a godsend, including. Thank you.
Thank you. Okay. Funding. Thank you. Albert, Richinko, Darren, Wien, and we have Sandy,
Donald, Delaney, Lynch, and Ray Lynch.
Okay, I'm not seeing those people come up, so I'm going to ask
us to go. Okay, great, great. I know we. Yeah,
it's perfect. I'm Darren Ween. I'm a 20 year resident
here in Timberon. I now live and have for the last six years the top of Sicilya in the
Timberon Highlands. And I want to talk about something else. So everybody, I know I'd like
to talk about the dedicated left-and-turn lane from Cecilia way, Upper Cecilia way, on to Eastbound
Tibber on Boulevard. That has been an issue that has been addressed in surveys, Cal Transast
about it, and I'm bummicks that it's not in the plan. It is among the greatest safety issues
in town because Sicilyway, Upper Sicilyway, has 40 plus houses and hundreds of apartment
complexes, which yields a massive number of residents who have no other outlet to east
or westbound Tiburon Boulevard other than getting onto Tiburon Boulevard.
There are no access roads.
So without a dedicated left-hand turnling in the same way that the redorange road has a dedicated
left hand turn lane for the exact same reason, it's just a giant culpacac. You have to take
a chance. Now let's roll the dice and see what happens. You often get accents there.
Now let's take a class for bike lane in there and see what happens. I wonder if we're increasing
the likelihood of a problem. So my first request beyond, let's reduce the number of chances
that we have of bite problems is please a dedicated left hand turn lane into the plan. There's
only a small amount of foliage that you have to remove from the center being to do that.
And you will now reduce the likelihood of accidents of people who are forced to make that
left to intern every day and multiply it by hundreds.
Lastly, I'd like to say the war here for safety, it's wonderful to see this many people
here who take a vested interest in it.
I don't think we need to kill an ant with a hammer.
Sometimes we just need to look at the problem and that is, how safe can we make bike traffic
on Greenwood Ruckov?
Well, maybe we just need to figure out a way to slow people down.
There's a God living room to drive a ride your bike fast.
If we want to ride bikes, let's ride them slowly and safely.
How can we do that?
Well, let's brainstorm ideas on how we could possibly do that and save the poor residents
and green wood cove, you know, the problems of getting out of their driveway.
Maybe his speed won't make work.
Thanks, guys.
That's now Sandy Donald Delaney Lynch and Ray Lynch.
So, if you guys could please come up.
Hi, I'm Sandy Donnell and I live in Belvedere.
I've lived here for quite some time.
So, I have two issues.
One is I can't believe phase one would put in bike lanes
and not consider safety.
That why safety would not be the number one issue in phase one.
So, that is, I just think that's absurd.
and I am very sympathetic for the people in Greenwood Beach Road. I wrote a letter concerning that.
I think there should be more attention. I agree with the gentleman before me.
How do you make Greenwood Beach Road safe for those people? The driveways were on one side of the road.
There's the church on the other side of the road, which is going to be a fire station for a while.
Make a dedicated bike lane with walls so that bike lane does not interfere with the people who live on that street.
that would be my solution to that problem. Thank you. Thank you so much. I have Delaney Lynch.
Is Delaney here?
Thank you. Hi, Delaney Lynch. I live out on Paradise Drive. I've heard
talk of various controversial aspects of this plan, but I haven't heard mentioned once yet
tonight of what this is going to do to Paradise Drive, which is already a bad situation.
It perhaps makes to run Boulevard safer, but it is guaranteed to make paradise drive more dangerous for everybody.
I'm not opposed to kids biking to school and families biking out to Paradise Park, but I am opposed to the groups of cyclists
that the Greenwood Beach residents are concerned about.
Now just having greater access to come in large numbers and continue their already horrific behavior when safety is not included in phase one of this plan.
We do no enforcement of bike laws that I've ever witnessed.
I run on Paradise Drive, I run through town, I have never seen cyclists pulled over here.
I saw it happen in Sawaselito last weekend, it has not happened here.
I have a significant concern about the lack of a thought or plan to approach us holistically,
which means including Paradise Drive, which itself is half of the Tiburón Peninsula.
With the amount of money and resources going to this, we should not be proceeding without
factoring Paradise Drive into the plan.
This is going to exponentially exacerbate a problem before we even stopped to create
a solution that includes the open answer.
Thank you so much.
We are now moving to online comments.
Lee, could you please have our first call or go?
First, I want to recognize Nathan Spindle.
Oh, is there one more?
Okay.
Please.
come up. Yeah.
I'm Mel Ronik. We've lived in Tiburon. Well, first of all, I like to thank Cal
Trans for coming tonight and hearing both sides of this dilemma that we seem to be facing.
Anyway, my wife and I have lived in Tiburon for over 55 years and for the last 40 years,
we've we've biked thousands of miles in the county and the western states in
Europe and even Mozambique. So we're pretty into biking and on 86 and we're
still biking. We still do tim and everything. We've never felt unsafe, excuse me.
We've never felt unsafe riding on Greenwood Beach Road and hearing the comments
from the owners, I think they have some really valid comments and I think the people have said it put in bike lanes, maybe put a stop sign at the bottom of that last hill, put a sign that says stop sign ahead so that bikers know there's a danger ahead.
I mean, they have some valid points that could be easily addressed.
So, over 3,300 Tiborant Peninsula residents have signed a letter objecting to the Cal
Trans proposed bike lands, whereas only 20 of the Greenwood Beach people have endorsed
the plan, yet they seem to be in control from what I'm hearing.
There's nothing dangerous about riding a bike on Greenwood Beach Road, but we have a safe
food for our bikes. And if I had a choice of riding a tibar on boulevard or riding on green
would be trod, I would definitely ride on green would be trod anytime, anywhere. And
when I think of my daughter who went through the Reed School District, I would never have
allowed her to ride on tibar on boulevard. There are cars going 40, 50 miles an hour. It's
unprotected. If you have, even if you have those poles, we know when people have been telling
I guess about getting rear-ended.
My wife just got side-swiped at the Trustle Glen
by some woman who was in a hurry.
We have problems here.
We really do.
But there are ways around it.
Too many cars, people drivers are texting,
and they're on their cell phones.
Thank you so much.
And the kids, with the kids, we said, well,
the kids will be allowed to ride in Greenwood Beach Road.
But some kids are going to ride on the Tigran Boulevard, and once some kids do it, the other
things, kids are going to think, oh, that's cool, that's what I'm going to do.
So it's not an automatic thing and to stay on the green would be true.
Thank you so much.
If you could finish, that would be great.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I'll finish at that point.
Okay.
Thank you so much.
We have one more person who was on the list, if you could just come up and state your name,
and then we're going to go to online folks online.
Good evening.
My name is Ray Lynch and the one thing I can say,
for certain cases, I think I've lived here
in Tibberon longer than anybody else in this room.
I was born here and I remember Green would be each
when it was a only road into town.
But I think they have a legitimate problem there.
I know most of my friends here tonight
and I know how fearful it is to come out of your driveway
way or whatever and have a bicycle doing 2030 and I saw a lot of the bicycle saying
all that doesn't happen but it does. As my daughter attested to you out on
and a pearly straw.
It's equally as bad, but I think the real issue is, she alluded to a little bit as we don't have enough enforcement. I heard the gentleman just before me talk about stop signs and whatnot. And I think everybody in this room sees every bicyclist in town blowing through a stop sign and it's never a stop. And I think that it all goes back to maybe a little bit of that stuff we had at Delmar or Belair School back in the day where you get your report card.
and it said on the back of it there was a check and it said plays well with others and that's
missing today. And I think there's your problem. The second part of it is I think CalTrans has totally
jumped the gun on this. I think that their ultimate next solution will be their known notorious
for care rails and zipper rails and that's the only solution that they have when you put that
bike lane on Tiboron Boulevard, which is probably the better place than Greenwood Beach.
The last thing I'll say is I spent 45 years in the fire department here and I picked
up an awful lot of bicyclists.
The only dead one we ever picked up was a 10-year-old boy out at Blackies' pasture.
Coming down into town, he wanted to cross the road, get into the small side of Belveron,
4.30 in the afternoon, car coming out of town, clear in the sun, and killed the boy instantly.
And I think you're pushing that into a second occurrence with the way this plan is conceived right now because people are not going to they're going to come down that and want to go across and right now there's no crosswalk, but that's going to be a big problem.
This plan needs a lot of work.
Okay, so now we're moving on to the online colors.
If you could please go to them, we will first recognize Nathan Spindle.
Hello.
My family has lived in the Belveron neighborhood for 40 years, a few houses out from Tiberon
Boulevard.
Our family now spans three generations from age five to age 78.
Around Tiberon, we drive, walk, and five of us frequently bike.
We strongly support the proposed protected bike lanes for the entire length of Tiberon Boulevard.
This project improves access and safety for everyone, drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists of all ages.
Despite today's data concerns, I'm confident that school bus stops and protected bike lanes can safely
co-exist. Once they're built, the bus operators will understand how to safely navigate them.
Vehicle fatalities are the number one leading cause of death for ages 1 to 54.
4. Protected bike lanes are proven to calm traffic, reduce vehicle speeds, and reduce fatalities
and serious injuries. If you seriously care about making our streets safer for children
and students, the clear solution is to build these protected bike lanes. Thank you.
Thank you. The next caller, please. Next is Deli Woodring.
Hello. Thank you for this opportunity and for this meeting. My name is Deli Woodring.
I live in Belvedere. In addition to concern about the safety of bikers, I'm concerned about
the well-being of the many drivers on Tibberon Boulevard, especially with the proposed narrowing
of the traffic lanes. One little nick of one of these fast riders in these big groups that people
are talking about, who strays out of the bike line lane could change a driver's life forever.
I'm in favor of all safety measures being done at once and I hope that you can do it right
the first time after much more conversation. Thank you. Okay, is there anyone else online?
next is Lydia Graham. Okay, thank you.
I'm a resident of Greenwood Beach Road and I just want
to say that I totally support the project of building bike lanes on Tiboran Boulevard. I actually
am terrified to pull out of my driveway every day, but I wanted to also say that someone mentioned
their 37 pullouts in and out on Greenwood Beach Road, but we also have the cove apartments which actually
has 300 residents, according to the internet, and I wanted to point out for those that
have mentioned the possibility of putting a bike lane on Greenwood Beach Road, that that's
not really a viable solution because the road is already so narrow and cars park on either
side of the road, but even if they didn't, there's really no room for a bike lane.
Although
Is there anyone else online me seeing them?
OK, so I want to close by thanking everybody for coming.
And I want to let you know this is the first opportunity
there are going to be others and other opportunities
for public input.
If you have not signed into the sheet,
there are sheets in the back.
That is how CalTrans will keep you updated on the project.
I want to see if our supervisor has any closing comments.
So I just again want to stress that tonight is the beginning, it's a new beginning, and
your voices are being heard, your input is being considered.
Please keep it coming, don't be shy, and together we're going to build the best project ever.
I think we have one, did you want to say something?
Yes, you may, please go ahead.
Well, first of all, thank you so much mayor and supervisor and the council for allowing us the opportunity to come here and listen to you to engage with you and to present, you know, what our project really we hear you.
We're committed to really talk about the needs and really tackle the challenge together.
I mean, our challenge here is, you know, we have the payment condition that are breaking apart.
as you can see now, we have obviously bike connectivity, bus, pedestrian and so how do we collectively really balance the needs as well as prioritize and maximize the resources that we have, the money that we have and the time that we have
So get something done as soon as possible.
So really appreciate that we will continue to work with the town staff on the project, whether to incorporate as much of the feature as early as possible as well as opportunities on adding or incorporating the broadband feature as well.
But this is the mayor expressed just the first part.
We are committed to be here to address the remainder because the needs obviously are here.
And we're here. So please continue to engage with us.
We're here if anything, you know, contact us and we'll be happy to come back and present.
But our goal is really to maximize and balance and get something done as soon as possible.
Thank you so much. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you so much, everyone.
Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to.
Members, make a comment too.
That's just 30 seconds.
Yes, sure. Go ahead.
So we might just question for a counter.
And it's like, what is some gentlemen proposed that there might be working groups that might work together on creating a solution that would be good for everybody?
And one thing that's been frustrating is like, you come here and you listen to people, but you have not engaged with the elected officials of Tiboron at all.
and we represent all the people.
So in terms of like channeling ideas and, you know,
marshalling ideas to then work with you,
I would think that would be a good avenue,
but you've really kind of not engaged with the Tibron council at all.
And so I'm curious, are you open to sort of getting a working group
of various elected officials who are,
who their respective council's a point
and then sort of working on a solution
that they believe their constituents really want because the other day, that's the one thing
that's missing from this whole process, is I'm elected to know the opinions of my constituents
and I've never been asked what they are. So you've got this sample and I appreciate them coming
and giving you their opinion, but there are 9,500 other people on this peninsula who are not here tonight
whose opinions are just as valuable. And we are the people who should be delivering those opinions
to you. Do you have the, are you willing to engage at that level with the elected officials
to make something better happen? We will be glad to work with you on put together a task force
that is representative of the different neighborhoods of different communities in in to brawn or
Jason. You know, consisting of residents of various groups and elect officials. We have some models
so we, you know, another communities will be happy to discuss with you, especially
important as we're looking at phase two. We need to have to be on the same page on what that's
going to be before we go and try to secure or pursue that funding. And we're committed to do that,
but we absolutely will be essential and we'll be glad to work with you.
Okay, thank you. Thank you so much. I think that we have one more comment from council member Nick
Farh, who I also want to thank for helping us put this together tonight. I did not say that in the
beginning and I apologize. Thank you very much and thank you to the folks from CalTrans and members
of our community and surrounding communities for coming in. The sort of piece that we didn't
talk a lot about tonight is that Tim Rumble over also has really crippling traffic coming from
downtown 2101 and so I think one of the pieces that's that gets a little bit lost in the sauce here
When we're talking about bike safety and bike lanes and other things like that,
reducing the size of lanes and bringing down the speed limit is that those will not have at least maybe I'm incorrect.
But shrinking lanes, adding bikes, decreasing speed limits aren't going to have a positive impact on traffic.
And when it already takes 40 to 50 minutes to go, you know, less than four miles.
This is something that needs to be a part of that process, and it may be it goes into
phase two.
I think I agree with the majority of consensus here, which is, you know, we definitely
need to pave, you know, Tim Rambullovard, but we're conducting a traffic study, which
is nearing completion, and I think that needs to be taken into account heavily in phase
two.
And as we're thinking about, you know, I think it's great that people cycle for recreation
and get their heart rates up and get good exercise, but we can't sacrifice people that want to leave downtown and get to one-on-one, or recreation, unfortunately.
So, I think that needs to be taken into account in all of this.
Thank you.
Yes, please go ahead, Council Member Fredericks.
I just wanted to acknowledge the Traffic Safety Committee's role in working with CalTrans and
hoping that we, even if we phase it, we will be able to produce the final project that's
consistent with the upcoming traffic safety recommendations.
You know, just in general, I'm hearing that people's concerns are bike and bus conflicts,
even with the bulb outs, the loss of yellow buses because the stops don't meet
their safety criteria. And then what I just mentioned, the opportunity
to be consistent for this project at the end to be consistent with the town
ongoing traffic safety recommendations. I think we all look forward to working
with you and are very grateful for the opportunity.
Thank you so much. And again, I want to thank everyone.
and I want to thank CalTrans, I want to thank Safe Rouse to schools, I want to thank all of the stakeholders and most importantly all of our residents who came out to speak tonight.
We do have a town council meeting right now, so I'm going to ask you to say goodbye and hopefully we will see you very soon.
And again, thank you for coming. This is really important and great feedback.
I couldn't shoot you to the end.
Bob Whitney asked, oh look, I'm a former failure.