pages: TransportationCommission/2008-12-10.pdf, 7
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TransportationCommission | 2008-12-10 | 7 | At the TMP EIR hearing, we heard from 3 different people about the trouble pedestrians have crossing Broadway near San Jose. Broadway is a Regional Arterial. In moving forward with staff's proposal, auto mobility will be prioritized over pedestrian; the ability of the city to respond to these issues will be reduced. Alameda's regional arterials are not Gilroy-like walled off roadways that can be treated in isolation of other modes; they run through our business districts, past parks and schools. Many of the core Primary Transit Streets are also along the Regional Arterials, in prioritizing autos over transit, the staff proposal reduces the TC and city council's) goal of moving people instead of cars, especially as it affects the Park Street Bridge and more importantly the tubes. Before the discussion on the "grid" begins, I'd respectfully ask that the TC discuss the goals of the TMP and the desire to create multimodal LOS thresholds. Only through an understanding of what we are trying to achieve, can the right result be crafted. Rather than starting with the grid, which is difficult to conceptualize, I would like to encourage people to talk about policies and trade-offs using the grid to identify examples of where certain situations might occur and how the TC would like to recommend they be handled. Regional arterials streets: Park St., Webster St., Constitution Way, Encinal/Central, 1/2 of Broadway, Clement Ave., Atlantic Ave., Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway, 1/2 of Main Street, Otis Drive (from Towne Centre to the bridge). Close public hearing. Commissioner Moehring noted that the regional arterials should all have transit as one of the preferred modes. Commissioner Schatmeier concurred with Commissioner Moehring's comments, and counted many streets designated as primary transit streets where transit was not mentioned in the priority column. Commissioner Moehring left the meeting at 9:00 p.m. Acting Chairperson Krueger noted that the auto was the default modal priority, which he believed was the reason there was no auto overlay. He noted that the modal overlays answered that priority. He believed this grid brought the street classification in as a means prioritization, particularly bringing in the regional arterial as a way of saying automobiles should trump the other modes, despite the modal overlays. He was concerned that was not how the street classification was intended to be used. 7 | TransportationCommission/2008-12-10.pdf |