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TransportationCommission | 2016-11-16 | 4 | said this will ease traffic by allowing motorists to make a safe U-turn going towards 23rd Avenue back into Alameda. She further explained that the project was funded by the Alameda County Transportation Commission (ACTC), Measure BB passed last year, and the design was created six years ago. So, if Caltrans staff went back to redesign the project while in construction that would cost taxpayers more money. However, she said she would bring the concern to ACTC to make sure they analyze this in the next phase. Commissioner Bellows asked Joy Cheung to provide the Commission with a project schedule and map. 5.B. Approve the Draft Strategies for the Citywide Transit and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Plan Staff Payne provided an update and introduced consultants Bill Hurrell and Brian Soland of CDM Smith to present. Commissioner Bellows opened the floor to public comment. Jim Strehlow said the consultants have their agenda, which includes items they want to promote. He said he attended one of their low participant meetings and they did not discuss alternatives like adjusting school hours that could shift people commuting to school and then work or working with employers and merchants to adjust the hours that businesses are open. He asked staff whether the developers were paying their fair share into the pot because it costs quite a bit of money to build a new ferry terminal, bridges, and tunnels and developers are creating the congestion problem. He mentioned that 90% of the web surveys tend to be bicycle favored because the surveys are anonymous, the bicyclists are hot and heavy and do everything on the web. He explained that you get community representation statistics from what people are saying and the demographics are not spread evenly. He said he was not sure how to get the true demographic information from web surveys. Moreover, he said there's a need to make Alameda a safe bike city, why because the bicyclists say SO. He felt there was some need to create more of an emphasis on bike safety even though Alameda is already a bike friendly city. He noted that he had two accidents in the last 13 months and that was due to inattentive motorists. Jim Meyers, Alameda Health Care District Board member, spoke as an Alameda citizen and explained that as the City reinvents itself one of the issues being reviewed is the health and wellbeing of the community in addition to the oversight and operation of the parcel tax. Therefore, he said he attended one of the stakeholder gatherings for the TDM and noted that many people around the room were developers, but overall the meeting was well-represented. However, he didn't hear many people say they use public transit as their common transportation mode. He encouraged the Commission to consider the opportunity index that is available and the fact that there's a study out that outlines low-income areas of the island that are least served by public transportation. He emphasized that transportation availability is a big component of well- being and he asked the Commission to consider and find ways to hear the voices of the most in need when surveying these choices. Commissioner Bertken said he understood there is a list of projects, but he wondered what staff needed from the Commission based on the presentation. Page 4 of 9 | TransportationCommission/2016-11-16.pdf |