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TransportationCommission | 2021-05-26 | 6 | Director Smith clarified that intersection access equity was not an industry term, and it came out of the Council's referrals. She thought of ways they could broaden that term or clear up the language. She also thought about not defining it and just moving forward with the Council's referrals. Commissioner Yuen said she was challenged by what the goal of the policy was trying to achieve. She wondered if there needed to be some articulation of principals around what was guiding the effort. Director Smith clarified the crux of what they had been going for was to serve the needed time to the users when they were there. This was about detection and actuation in setting signal timing. They did not want to put an undue burden on the people who were actually at the intersection. Commissioner Weitze said he read this document as an allocation of time document as opposed to a safety document. He thought it did a good job of balancing multiple needs as well as acknowledging the requirements for changes. While he did normally agree with Bike Walk Alameda and Oakland on a lot of issues he did, however, not agree with them on the evils of beg buttons. He thought they were good, solved many problems, and were not an undue burden in the majority of cases for pedestrians and bikes who use them. Commissioner Kolhstrand said she tried to understand the Council's specific questions about signal timing and tried to reconcile that with the staff report and the statement that intersection equitable access had to do with signal timing. She thought if they cleaned that up, it would be better. Director Smith asked if it would help if they renamed it or coined a different term. She discussed the different programs they had that did address safety to various other intersections. Rochelle Wheeler, a Senior Transportation Coordinator, believed that changing the title of that definition would have it go in the right direction since they have many policies and documents that had looked at intersections of all types. She added that staff should and did look at existing policies when they implement new ones. Vice-Chair Nachtigall understood how hard this was to frame. She too would appreciate the definition being clarified. She echoed Commissioner Weitze's comment about the benefits of beg buttons, and it is better when they work consistently, however. Approved Transportation Minutes 6 May 26, 2021 | TransportationCommission/2021-05-26.pdf |