FW: sign-on letter for highway design manual attached
Jim Baross
Version 4.
Jim Baross
From: Michael Moule [mailto:mmo...@nelsonnygaard.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:18 PM
To: Dave Snyder; ga...@bikesonoma.org; Leah Shahum; Corinne Winter; Renee Rivera; Kim Baenisch; Dan Rivoire; Jennifer Klausner; ti...@bikebakersfield.org; drlig...@yahoo.com; Mike Costanzo; Tricia Hedahl; ne...@mendotrails.org; Katie Simmons; Diana Rohini LaVigne (BABC); Jim Watson; Kassie Rohrbach; Micah Posner; Jim Baross
Cc: Eric Anderson; Michelle DeRobertis; Michelle Mowery; David Parisi; Jeffrey Tumlin; Mike Sallaberry; Timothy Papandreou; Graham Brownstein; Eric Fredericks; Terry Preston; Jessica Meaney; Chris Dougherty; Jennifer Donlon; Ryan Snyder; Charlie Gandy; David Vega-Barachowitz; Wendy Alfsen; Paul Zykofsky; Laura Cohen; ben....@opr.ca.gov; Jacquol...@cdph.ca.gov; Connie Gallippi
Subject: RE: sign-on letter for highway design manual attached
All,
Here is the fourth and likely final version of my written comments. These incorporate the comments that I received from Alta staff (via Dave).
-Michael
Michael M. Moule, PE, TE, PTOE
Principal
415-281-6920 (direct)
Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates
116 New Montgomery Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-284-1554 (fax)
From: Dave Snyder [mailto:da...@calbike.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 2:47 PM
To: ga...@bikesonoma.org; Leah Shahum; Corinne Winter; Renee Rivera; Kim Baenisch; Dan Rivoire; Jennifer Klausner; ti...@bikebakersfield.org; drlig...@yahoo.com; Mike Costanzo; Tricia Hedahl; ne...@mendotrails.org; Katie Simmons; Diana Rohini LaVigne (BABC); Jim Watson; Kassie Rohrbach; Micah Posner; Jim Baross
Cc: Michael Moule; Eric Anderson; Michelle DeRobertis; Michelle Mowery; David Parisi; Jeffrey Tumlin; Mike Sallaberry; Timothy Papandreou; Graham Brownstein; Eric Fredericks; Terry Preston; Jessica Meaney; Chris Dougherty; Jennifer Donlon; Ryan Snyder; Charlie Gandy; David Vega-Barachowitz; Wendy Alfsen; Paul Zykofsky; Laura Cohen; ben....@opr.ca.gov; Jacquol...@cdph.ca.gov; Connie Gallippi
Subject: sign-on letter for highway design manual attached
Leaders,
Here's the letter we promised to send you, for your potential joining as a co-signer. Also attached is the almost-final spreadsheet of specific changes recommended by Michael Moule, the registered engineer from Nelson\Nygaard we employed to compile these comments. (A final final will be ready by tomorrow.) Thank you Michael for your above-and-beyond effort!
I appreciate the difficulty in asking you sign on to something that you will only have a day to look at. We need your response by tomorrow at noon.
In the long run, the most important part of this is the cover letter that spells out our request. It conforms to our strategy so far, which is to request Caltrans to form a task force to look at bikeway design in California from top-to-bottom. I will share with you that there is probably a legislative component to our strategy as well, since state law dictates that bikeway design must strictly follow Caltrans' standards. We will look to you through the Policy Advisory Council to help form that legislative strategy.
The gist of the cover letter is summed up in its last two paragraphs, that I will include for you here. Please review the letter and attachments and let me know if you can sign on to this letter.
Thanks,
Dave
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Letter excerpt:
The attached document details our recommendations for this revision of the Highway Design Manual. Please consider these comments for incorporation into the HDM. We also urge you to address the omissions of necessary guidance in this document. It is imperative that this revision be finalized soon, so that the design improvements included therein can be implemented in the field as soon as possible.
Furthermore, we request that you recognize the urgency of the changes that we need to the Highway Design Manual (and the related California Manual on Traffic Control Devices) and consider the creation of a task force to produce a new bikeway design manual that incorporates the changes recommended in these comments, the latest research on bikeway design, and the growing demand for new bikeways that are comfortable and safe for all kinds of users.
Jim Baross
For your information.
Note too that there is a Draft HDM Comments Moule v4. I’ll forward that next.
Jim Baross