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TransportationCommission | 2021-05-26 | 5 | asked about Transit Priorities and when the Mobility Element Technical Appendix would come back for a review. She believed it was important that they review that appendix since the Transportation Element itself did not address transit or bicycle priority, that information was in the appendix. Staff Member Payne did not believe the status on the Transit Priorities Streets would change much because it tended to be where AC Transit was operating. She saw that as a stable situation. Commissioner Kohlstrand said she disagreed with that. She had looked at it again and she did not believe it reflected where AC Transit services are. She gave the example of how Clement Ave was listed and it was not up to date. Chair Soules recalled that they were going to get an updated version of the appendix because they knew it needed a revision. Going forward they were going to want that to serve as a baseline as other projects came forward for approval. She offered to follow up with Staff Member Payne to see what the status was. She added that when she read the resolution, if and when there was a traffic signal this is how they would operate. She felt that this captured that one piece where it didn't need to contemplate everything else because it was only where it applied to an operation of traffic signals. Commissioner Kohlstrand said she appreciated what Chair Soules said and as it related to the management of traffic signals she did not have an issue with what staff recommended. It was that the definition of intersection equitable access was focused solely on signalized intersections and that was where they had made a misstep, it should not just be focused on that. Director Smith appreciated the comments and said it had been a difficult one to frame. She agreed with Chair Soules that this was more of a traffic signal operation policy but perhaps there should be better framing around that. She also agreed that when they defined intersection access equity they had been thinking about how it would apply to signalized intersections in response to this referral. She added that there needs to be a definition to happen for all intersections regardless of what the control was. Chair Soules was fine with it since it was trying to answer this one specific issue with traffic signals on the recall. Her biggest issue was for transit corridors to have that reliability. Commissioner Kohlstrand said she understood that this was very focused on signalized intersections but still had issues with the definition of intersection access equity in the staff report. This was a new term to her and brought up ways they should broaden that definition. Approved Transportation Minutes 5 May 26, 2021 | TransportationCommission/2021-05-26.pdf |