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TransportationCommission | 2019-01-23 | 5 | 5-B 2019-6464 Recommendation to Adopt the Street Sections associated with the City's Adaptive Reuse Infrastructure Project within Alameda Point Staff Member Wikstrom gave a presentation. The staff report and attachments can be found at: https://alameda.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3836630&GUID=AD849568- 98D3-4162-B696-A05E6F647303&FullText=1 Chair Miley opened the public hearing. Brian McGuire said we have an opportunity to design a street network from scratch. He said that the design on Tower should match the design on Pan Am where the bike lanes are next to the sidewalk to match up with the bike lanes east of Pan Am. Commissioner Johnson asked if there was a reason why the new design for Tower did not use one way protected bike lanes. Staff Member Wikstrom said they just went with the simplest idea which is to mirror the already approved design for Tower east of Pan Am. He said that conceptually they may be able to achieve the suggested one way protected lanes, depending upon the need to place utilities within the already defined right of way. He said they can pursue the idea but cannot guarantee the execution. Chair Miley asked if the final plan would come back to this body and Council before completion. Staff Member Wikstrom said their intention was to approve the street sections and they would go to 100% design and the construction without coming back to the commission. He said he could come back with this section in a few months with an update or the commission could just give direction to pursue the idea if possible. He said there is no reason on the surface why they would not pursue a one way cycle track unless there was a physical constraint with the utilities that prevented it from being possible. Jon Spangler said he agreed with the suggestion to pursue one way protected bike lanes. He said that if that is not possible, consistent one way buffered bike lanes would be preferable to switching from a two way cycle track to one way bike lanes. Chair Miley closed the public hearing. Commissioner Soules said she was glad that these refinements are being addressed early on. She said she is happy to examine the possibility of making a good faith effort to implement the one way protected lanes on W. Tower Ave, pending any serious fiscal impact or delay in the project. 5 | TransportationCommission/2019-01-23.pdf |