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TransportationCommission | 2009-01-28 | 7 | Commissioner Krueger agreed with that assessment, and liked that gateway suggestion because it addressed the queue jump issue. He believed that queue jumps could be included as part of the transit exclusive right-of-way corridors. Staff Khan noted that crosswalk removal issues had been addressed, as was sidewalk removal. However, he stated that staff supports giving higher priority to maintaining LOS on Class II bicycle lanes than on Class III bicycle routes. Chair Knox White noted that believed this would lend itself to a developer or staff to push for Class III, because the Class II mitigation to a higher threshold would not be needed. Staff Khan noted that the Commission's concern was the throughput of moving people through gateways. He noted that they were very short segments through the bridges and the tubes. He noted that in order to take people out of single-occupant vehicles, and if they were going to San Francisco, he believed that transit throughput should be provided to accomplish that. He stated that it would be critical to maintain the safety of intersections and crossings, because that was where they interacted with automobiles and other modes. He suggested that staff be given a chance to re-examine this issue and return to the Transportation Commission. Chair Knox White suggested that on exclusive and primary transit streets; transit should be prioritized. Commissioner Krueger noted that the Transportation Commission did not discuss automobiles, and inquired why they were being put on the bottom. Chair Knox White believed that the TMP already did that, where there was a conflict. He believed there was consensus on the comments regarding the resolution of conflicts, and wished to address the thresholds. He suggested that instead of identifying a specific number, an impact could be defined as any time the LOS degraded from C to D, or D to E, instead of assigning a bottom. He noted that any degradation or significant movement would be identified as an impact. Commissioner Krueger suggested that a hybrid system may be used to identify the floor and the delta, or change. He was not in favor of making it so sensitive that an EIR would be required for minor occurrences. Staff Khan noted that staff had no intention of moving in that direction. He noted that most of the streets in Alameda would function very well for bikes, pedestrians, transit and automobiles. Staff was concerned about the issue of degrading the impact on automobiles so much that it could create secondary impacts for other modes. Chair Knox White found the staff recommendation of LOS D for all modes to be perplexing. He did not believe it was equitable, and that one intersection in Alameda operated at D; no intersections were below 40 seconds. Staff Khan noted that Webster and Atlantic also failed at that time. Chair Knox White noted that came from Dowling's documentation, and he did not know how the City Council, boards and commissions could consider themselves good stewards of the community by not finding any impacts to the pedestrian environment until it became 7 | TransportationCommission/2009-01-28.pdf |