Hi folks,
Last
night I attended the public meeting about the bike & pedestrian
bridge to connect Coddingtown and the SMART train station on the west
side of 101 and the JC on the east side. The bike & pedestrian bridge is a great opportunity to get people out of their cars! It's a fabulous way to increase walking and biking to SRJC and to nearby
shopping, reduce traffic in the JC neighborhood, and reduce the need
for cars and parking. Great for our health, makes for safer crossing Hwy
101 - and helps us reduce our carbon footprint!
They talked about two possible locations for the proposed bike & pedestrian bridge:
1) Elliott Ave & Edwards Ave.
2) Bear Cub Way
They
talked about the advantages and disadvantages of both pathways. It
sounds like they would have an much simpler time logistically building
the bridge at Bear Cub Way and running to a residential neighborhood on
the other side. But I'm definitely voting for the Elliott Ave &
Edwards Ave location for the bike & pedestrian bridge. It's far more
convenient for errands on either side of 101. And with all the evening
classes at the JC, there will be more people around at night, and it
will be safer. I would never use the Bear Cub Way path after dark.
I
suggested the Dutch protected intersection for the intersection at
Steele Lane & 101 which I consider to be very dangerous with a lot of blind spots for cars, pedestrians and cyclists, and the engineer acknowledged that the
intersection at Steele Lane & 101 is one of the two busiest
intersections in the city.
Survey on the Highway 101 Bicycle & Pedestrian Bridge (deadline to fill it out is April 16).
https://sga1.typeform.com/to/bl0T5W
Please
note that the bridge survey asks a lot of the same questions that are
on the city's general Santa Rosa Bike and Pedestrian Plan survey. To get
to the city's general Bike & Pedestrian Plan survey, go to this
page, scroll down and click the big blue
Online Survey button on the right:
City's General Bike & Pedestrian Plan survey
https://srcity.org/2711/Bicycle-and-Pedestrian-Master-PlanThere's
also a red button on this page for the Interactive Map, where you can
mark the locations you want to comment on, and add a note or comment.
P.S. Both Berkeley and San Francisco have put in these Dutch-style protected intersections:https://bikeeastbay.org/protectedintersectionThey will have another public meeting to ask for input, but I don't know when.
Hoai-An
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