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TransportationCommission | 2016-05-25 | 15 | Commissioner Bellows said regarding the objectives and goals, she was fully committed to multimodal travel, but the fact of life is present and will be interconnected, autonomous and driverless. Therefore, the goals and objectives should include accommodating for this because they are coming and it helps people particularly on the west end to get off the island because you can get a lot of capacity from those vehicles. She felt that was an aspect that the Commission should think about as well including other technologies such as ride sharing smart phone apps. She also explained that including safety into the plan is a primary goal. Commissioner Vargas said that feedback on the bikes was way over his head, but he felt this topic was out of place and should be discussed separately. Staff Payne replied Commissioner Vargas could provide input to staff at a later time. Commissioner Bellows felt the bike share was a separate topic. Staff Payne said the bike share portion was part of the consultant's work scope to do a conduct bike share feasibility study. Staff timed bike share portion to be prepared for MTC's LOI. Commissioner Bellows asked staff if the intent was to say that the Commission supports a bike feasibility study. Staff Payne replied the intent is to be considered for the MTC capital grant to help fund the majority of the capital costs in order to have bike share in Alameda. Commissioner Bellows and Commissioner Vargas replied they did not pick up on the intent from the staff report. Staff Payne replied staff would like to know what the Commission thinks about the LOI and what is needed. Commissioner Bertken asked staff who will manage the bike share program. Jennifer Ott replied the grant is a two-step process, meaning staff would put something forward as a proposal which is preliminary. She explained there wasn't time given the scope to have a full community process on bike share like staff normally would, so staff made a judgement call to submit the LOI or lose the opportunity. Commissioner Bellows replied the LOI states that the City is interested in applying for a grant to investigate bike sharing in Alameda. Jennifer Ott replied the LOI allows the City to be considered receiving funding for capital in order to implement the bike share program. She went on to say there are a lot of questions that staff has and they do not have many of the answers for implementation or operations yet. Commissioner Vargas stated that he moved to exclude the bike share element so the Commission can at least comment on the goals and objectives. Page 15 of 17 | TransportationCommission/2016-05-25.pdf |