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TransportationCommission | 2021-05-26 | 9 | Staff Member Wheeler. She believed that this should not be a city lead project but a regional project and felt that Staff Member Wheeler had done the lion's share of this project. She acknowledged that getting a new transit service up and running was really hard and time- consuming. She discussed all the difficulties in getting the water shuttle services up and running and it was the short-term solution. She thought they were in a really good place to move forward with this project. Susie Hufstader echoed what Ms. Trepanier had said about Staff Member Wheeler and her team for all the work she had done shepherding this project forward. This project was overwhelming and it took a lot of work from the city staff. She discussed the importance of really thinking differently about infrastructure and what other cities were doing. She believed this project would be transformative for Alameda. She encouraged the commissioners to speak up about this project to make it a high priority. Cyndy Johnsen also thanked Staff Member Wheeler and staff for working on this gigantic project. She wanted everyone to think about how big and impossible it seemed at one time to have highways across America, and now it's just part of life. The price might seem high but there was no bike infrastructure or the West End that connected to Oakland. She gave other ideas on how to think about bike equity and discussed all the different requirements this bridge had to meet. She hoped there were ways they could work with the Coast Guard and look at design elements to bring the cost down. She was very excited about this project. Jim Strehlow wanted to discuss the Feasibility Study from 2009 that had been a priority for 7 years. He had asked repeatedly for a year now for a project status update from Staff Member Wheeler. He wanted to know how much income had been brought in since Alameda Landing was supposed to contribute $175,000 and he wasn't sure if that was yearly or not. He thought that going from the Main Street ferry terminal to Webster Street was too far, Alameda Landing was a better option. He liked that WETA was involved. He wanted to know what lies had been put into the Travel Demand Model estimate of the daily bike trips. He talked about past bridges in the area that boats had crashed into and the plan had no disaster backup plan. Commissioner Comments and Discussions for #6B Commissioner Yuen said she was very much in support of moving this forward. She did not see this as an either-or situation, bridge vs. other modes of access across the estuary. She mentioned she lived on the West End and she was excited for the water shuttle and this bridge. She saw this as an important critical next step in moving this project forward and fully supported it. Approved Transportation Minutes 9 May 26, 2021 | TransportationCommission/2021-05-26.pdf |