Thank you so much for putting this together!

Thank you for being here!

Looking forward to your presentation!

Thank you for being here tonight!

The Bike network is great. It needs to become the SLOW SAFE & GREEN NETWORK for both bikes and pedestrians and micro-mobility. Please see how to overlay this by going to Guidelines for Including a Green Network into an existing City network. https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/sce-authors/u4142/Green%20Streets%20Presentation%20-%201-20-21%20DC.pdf

Thank you for the input, Gita.

It would be nice if RWS residents didn’t refer to fellow RWC residents as being from the “mainland” 😜

is this just one year? 2021?

Here is a link to the project website page: https://www.rwcwalkbikethrive.org/

Automated speed enforcement camera would require a change to state law in order for the city to use them.

Can you discuss the plan for El Camino wrt bicycles?

Great points Gita, I like where you are going.

Agree Keith Gita

With

Background if it's helpful: funding is the primary challenge with putting stormwater treatment on all of the bike boulevards. It's also much easier to install when new streets are built rather than retrofitting. We are installing where we can - Middlefield included stormwater treatment as did the bulbouts built at 5th and Page, but it's extremely expensive.

The ECR has an adopted plan for cycle track. currently, city is working with Caltrans (who owns ECR) on a safety project under SHOPP program. From Selby lane to Brewster is going to either have cycle track or bike lane. majority of ECR in Redwood City is going to have cycle track. this is a long-term project. at the same time all new development projects along ECR either have to add cycle track at their frontage or keep the parking lane clear for future cycle track.

A political commitment / “buy-in” is an essential first step to allowing city planners and/or consultants to design and implement a truly safe, slow connected network.

Can you drop the pinnable map link into the chat, please?

https://fehrandpeers.mysocialpinpoint.com/rwcwalkbikethrive#/sidebar/tab/map_legend

Thank you! Can you share the bitly link as well?

Here is the bitly link: https://fehrandpeers.mysocialpinpoint.com/rwcwalkbikethrive#/sidebar/tab/map_legend

CAn we think of Redwood City - for purposes of planning- what is needed if it was a bike priority city (instead of auto priority as it currently is) . Then the network of bike/pedestrian streets would emerge more easily. Then we can go back to what autos may need.

Otherwise we are NOT going to get people to WANT to bike and walk.

How much are future developments considered? For example the new YMCCA and Senior Center at Red Morton, some years in future?

There is cost sharing of City with HOA’s

City needs to contribute more than 50%

ECR 's only advantage is that it is straight and could take care of the connected bikepath.. however, for bicyclists really one of the side streets would be a much better choice.. maybe turning one of the streets into a one-way street with bike lanes on both sides would be an option?

Hi Billy, to your question, we are working with the City to look at development projects in the pipeline as an element for implementation for future community benefits.

Senior Center and YMCA is already have an approved traffic calming plan and the construction contract for traffic calming around it is approved by the City Council. All other development projects (based on their size and their impact) have to do frontage or off-site improvements. example Grey Star 5 is doing traffic calming improvements on Redwood Ave.

Great point Adrian! I grew up in Palo Alto, my parents were so comfortable with biker safety that I rode my bike to school every day once I was 7 years old. The semi closed streets really worked.

we hope we can do a two way cycle track on James next to the high school

You need to include Holy st and Ralston as these are important transit routes out of RWS

Thank you, Per.

+1 to everything on this slide.

San Francisco and San Jose have some nice examples of dedicated bike lanes using a colored lane and embedded pylons. Mixing cars and bikes will never work.

That is great Malahat. I live on James and my sons go to Sequoia and I would love to see James become much more bike friendly. I also commute by train/bike, and there are always a huge amount of bikes that come up James and then disperse onto side streets.

Kai, you may also take a look at this presentation: https://www.rwcwalkbikethrive.org/_files/ugd/06d7f0_b9c6cd889ade4c63b6e442ba97c2ff3c.pdf

There are other documents located here: https://www.rwcwalkbikethrive.org/documents

Redwood City will need to change streets to one-way in order to accommodate dedicated bike lanes. Streets are too narrow with parking allowed on both sides.

Would it be possible to nominate a user representative from each region of the city so that specific issues can be addressed? Many of the slow down traffic issues in RWC is not a grave concern in RWS as an example.

Sean, yes, to your point - to get to protected, dedicated bike lanes, there will need to be a discussion of tradeoffs, such as parking, since Redwood City is a built-out City

Sean, I actually heard that from other community members too and I looked into this. San Jose did similar thing in their downtown area, and they had to do traffic modeling to make sure it works well in terms of operation. I like the idea. especially around Madison/Vera, Oak, etc.

Thanks for those links. I love the "Road Diet" idea. Would love to see this on Jefferson.

Yes! People in cars can move rapidly, stay dry in rain and cool in heat - they should take the indirect routes - let the pedestrians and cyclists have the straight lines

In some cities, they have made Fridays bike and pedestrian days, Barcelona has made Fridays bike to school days and for certain time slots the whole road on that network is given over to kids on bikes getting to school.

These are the type of experiences that encourage more people and demonstrate City commitment to micromobility

John - Could you please share the stats you're referencing.

I agree that the main streets should be “car priority streets” (as Gita suggested) and bikes and pedestrians on “slow and safe streets” (again, as Gita suggested).

we did apply for a trail project for Hetch Hetchy but they did not approved it.

thank you Melahat - whom could we contact to try and get this reconsidered?

bc several projects along that path HAVE been approved. e.g tennis courts for PCC

Allowing a left turn onto Shoreway Rd is very hazardous when vehicles coming off 101 are allowed to cut across all lanes of traffic.

SFUPC ....

thank you Rebecca!

If anyone has follow-up questions or questions that we were not able to get to tonight, here is our project e-mail address: info@RWCwalkbikethrive.org

Here is a link to the project website again, in case it's helpful! https://www.rwcwalkbikethrive.org/

@Hannah.. I do have 2 questions still 1) the planning we learned will end in July.. provided the projects then are approved, when will building start/end?

Hi Heidi, after the plan is adopted by City Council, then the City will need to allocate funding and find future funding to get the proposed projects implemented.

I agree with Per - having bikes go down Skyway would be a slow/safe route where there is little traffic

This is a long-term plan, so implementation will be over many years

2) what happens to the projects & comments that do not make it to your preferred list? will there be a second phase were we reconsider ,especially looking around schools?

To Heidi’s point, while the 4 main streets are the most risky for cyclists, they’re arguably often otherwise the most direct routes to one’s destination — so I’m not totally comfortable being segregated off those streets.

Great idea Karen! Hudson would be perfect.

Bryant Street does NOT work as a bike boulevard. Right now Palo Alto is doing another project to fix the "Branding" and the "Traffic Calming" Bryant.It also doesn't work as a way to make people switch modes.

I think we should do both. Some people will always take the main roads to go fast, and others can take the safer protected routes.

I noticed tonight that the striping on the Farm Hill bike lanes is extremely faded in many areas. Please repaint with bright nee reflective thermoplastic striping!

https://www.rwcwalkbikethrive.org/

Thank you!

Its still a pilot Adrian...

Thank you for the presentation!

Thank you so much for attending!

thank you so much

Thank you!

Thank you for taking on this project and involving the public!

Crummy pilot if the stripes are faded!