April 8, 2024 — Transportation Advisory Board Regular Meeting

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[0:00] Wow! You may be good. Thank you. Veronica. It is Monday, April 8. At 6 o'clock I am calling to order the April 2024. Tab meeting for the city of Boulder. I think we should review the technical rules First Cause. That's the step I always forget. So our technical host, Veronica, is that you this evening. Yes, it is. Thank you. Alright. I am going to share screens. Please let me know if you're able to see my screen perfect. We are pleased to have you join us today to strike a balance between meaningful, transparent engagement and online security. The following rules will be applied for this meeting. This meeting has been called to conduct the business of the city of Boulder. Activities that disrupt delay or otherwise interfere with the meeting are prohibited. The time for speaking is limited to 3 min. No person shall speak except when recognized by the person presiding, or myself. and no person shall speak for longer than that time allotted. Each person shall register to speak at the meeting, using the person's real name. Any person believed to be using a name other than the one they're commonly known by will not be permitted to speak.

[1:11] Please use the raise hand function to be able to to be recognized for public comment. If you're on the phone, you will need to press, Star 9 to raise your hand and star 6 to unmute. No video will be permitted except for city officials, employees, and invited speakers and presenters, all others will participate by voice. Only. The person presiding at the meeting shall enforce these rules by muting anyone who violates any rules. The QA. Function is enabled, it will be used for individuals to communicate with myself. It should be used for technical and online platform related questions only if an attendee attempts to use the QA. For any other reasons other than seeking assistance or technical assistance. The city reserves the right to disabled individuals. Access to the chat. Only the host and individuals designated by the host will be permitted to share their screen during the meeting. Thank you.

[2:05] Thank you. I did see a phone participant raise hand, and I'm wondering if that's trainee but I don't know trainee's number. I just looked it up. All I have is her email. I am not sure either. Name! Not. 17137753636: Hi! Tracey. Thank you. Okay. 17137753636: Some people don't think. Okay. Great glad to have you with us. Thanks for joining us. That's a very timely, because the next matter on the agenda is the approval of the march 2024 min. Trini, you and I are the only 2 board members present tonight who are at that meeting. I know that we've been in email contact with our secretary today about the minutes. Do you have any further additions, amendments, changes, or anything on the minutes as. 17137753636: Knows. Okay, great bye. Thank you, Meredith, for making those changes the the revised tab minutes were posted on the website today at about 3, 30 and so I will entertain Fei's motion to approve those minutes.

[3:13] 17137753636: And I second it. Okay, sounds like a way that we have 2 people approving those minutes. Thank you so much. Okay, welcome to the new members. I am so glad Mike is here with us, Mike Mills and Darcy kitching Jen, I don't see Jen so Jen Oakes is at a conference, but was intending to join. We will see if she comes, and and swear her in in due time. But I don't see her on on the attendance at the moment. But we can go ahead and administer the oath, for Mike and Darcy. 17137753636: Alright! Is every. Able to see my screen

[4:02] cool. Our first new member is Darcy Kitchen Darcy. Would you be able to read the oath you see displayed. Sure I, Darcy kitchen, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and of the State of Colorado, and the charter and ordinances of the City of Boulder, and faithfully perform the duties of the office of a member of the Transportation Advisory Board, for which I am about to enter. Thank you, Darcy. Our next new member is Michael Mills, who goes by? Mike Mike, would you be able to read the oath you see displayed. Wills do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America. and of the State of Colorado, and the charter and ordinances of the City of Boulder. and faithfully perform the duties of the office of a member of the Transportation Advisory Board, for which I am about to enter.

[5:00] Thank you, Mike. I'll I'll just say welcome to the new Tab members, and I'll return the meeting back to you till yawn. Okay, thank you. Do do interrupt me. If we if we noticed Jen Oakes getting on because we should swear her in as soon as we can, so she can participate as a full member. But welcome so we have 4 cab members at the moment, and our chair and vice chair for 2023 up till today have both graduated on. And so we need to do an election of all of our officers. We would do it anyway. But at the moment we don't have any anybody. Who has expressed an interest in being chair or vice chair. Typically, our secretary is by appointment. She gets volunteered. But if we have any nominations for chair and vice chair, I will entertain those now.

[6:05] I nominate. 17137753636: I would like to hear. 17137753636: yeah. I'm sorry. Percy beat you to it. Thank you. Is anyone else interested in being chair. I'm interested in nominating you. A third. 17137753636: Time. Oh, awesome! Thank you. It's not gonna be a nail biter of a vote here, and I would, in the interest of of carrying on some continuity. I would I would be pleased to have Trini Willerton. If she will accept the nomination. Be nominated and considered for vice chair for my vice chair for this next year. 17137753636: Oh, I would love that. Great. Thank you. Would anyone else have interest in in being vice chair at the moment? It means, if I'm absent, you run the meetings and typically the vice chair also does attend, can attend the the agenda setting meeting. So they have something of a clue of what's what's coming down the pike in case they do have to share the meeting.

[7:01] Otherwise we're all pretty pretty equal here. It's a pretty egalitarian board. so, seeing no other nominations it sounds, and I'm forgetting how I've done how to do this, because it's been a couple of years since I've run it. But I believe we just have the one slate of of candidates tila duhim for chair, Trina Milton for vice chair. All in favor of those candidates. Please say, aye, because we have can't count hands. Buddy. I terrific. Thank you so much, Meredith. Are you willing? Able to be our dairy able secretary for yet another year? I'm willing. Thank you, Taylor. Thank you so much. Much. Thank you, Meredith. We really appreciate your help and service. Okay. well, that's sort of how some of the sausage is made. Now, we're gonna move to Item 5 on the agenda, which is public comment. If any members of the public wish to speak.

[8:04] you need to raise your hand. and we'll let Veronica handle this. Sounds good. The raise hand function is at the bottom of zoom. If anyone does not know where it's located. Alright, we have one raised hand. Lynn. I will ask for you to confirm that you're able to speak. Lynn Siegel. Yeah, I just can't ever believe that I'm the only one. So I like to wait. I like to hear what other people have to say, but nobody apparently, has anything to say about transportation in Boulder, which is remarkable to me since trying to ride my bike the other day in front of Harisham. There's these. I don't know what you call them bowlers, things that stick up, and I'm in heavy traffic there on my bike, trying to figure out which lane I get into, so I can turn into Harsham like, what is this?

[9:05] I don't understand it, and it's dangerous, because I'm stuck in the traffic, and I don't know where to go. what what they're trying to tell me to do. Maybe I'm stupid, but if that's the case. Then I guess I shouldn't be riding my bike. I mean, in that case, maybe there are other people that are stupid that wouldn't see what to do there that you know. Maybe that's a possibility. But there's so many places around town, you know. I don't. I get to the the point where I don't wanna go to 20 Eighth Street. I'm in Central Boulder because I'm gonna have to wait through all this traffic, getting across the street when there's 4 people at the intersections, and all of them are waiting. You must have some automated systems. and there's plenty of money, because you need to be doing advocating for no housing at the airport.

[10:03] because that's just going to make your problems worse. I want more money for transportation. So it's more friendly for me to ride my bike around town. and I just know there's got to be something about occupancy in a four-way intersection when everyone is waiting, and especially the cars that are idling. At least I'm not adding to carbon footprint on my bike while I'm waiting. I don't care if they go first. I just want things to happen faster than they happen, and I know there's other ways. I just know it. It's just a matter of dollars, and you know, being constrained is not. you know. Your problem is that you have bigger things to deal with, like the airport, like extra housing in this town, which just drives up the population which just drives up your deficit. And so what are you gonna do about it, please?

[11:01] And the transportation oriented development is not, is just putting people in a place where they're going to have to go from wherever they're going. It's not. It's not helping them out to have housing at the Dod, because they don't have the things that they need there and then they're just transporting themselves somewhere else. I wanna stop transportation. I don't go anywhere except to go to the grocery store or go to the post office, which I can't go to anymore, because they closed the one at Ideal. We need those things located close to us, and the excuse of transportation demand, management or trans transit oriented developments is a poor one, as Steve Pomerantz indicated in his letter last Friday. Done. Thank you. Vernon. It does not look like we have anyone else.

[12:02] Hey? That's what I see as well. So we will move on. Item 6 on the agenda is an information item. I believe we are going to hear from Brad Moeller, right from planning and development services. And I'm guessing that's why Chris Hagland is on as well for the Dcs Update. Do you live that one. It's not Chris. Sorry for the info item. It was just a memo included in the packet, but if there. Okay. Questions about the information. Devin is here to help answer questions. Okay, thank you. Yeah, for reminding me how the information items work. So I have skimmed it. I didn't study it. I have no questions. So new board members. Typically, when there's an information item, there will be. This is a often when something's been presented that we would might be interested in, have questions on or want to know more about. But it's already been presented to council where there's no particular action or input, requested from Tab and so to kind of shorten the meetings, which is something I'm not doing right now. we changed it to sort of information items. So we skip the general

[13:18] sort of presentation of the information that's fairly straightforward and explained in the memo. But it's an opportunity for tab members to sort of highlight something ask something about, you know, something that wasn't clear. Ask for clarification, and that's what those information items kind of are. But this is a follow up on a regular work plan. Item that we have known has been coming for a while. And because it's changing the designing construction standards in the city code. It has to happen through an ordinance. And so it's going through ordnance change kind of procedures at City Council, which require, you know, different readings and hearings and things like that. So that's what this item is doing here. if you have any questions now. It'd be a fine time to raise your hand or wave at me on the

[14:06] zoom, Mike. Yes. So this is all about the city acquiring street lights from excel. which sounds great in terms of accelerating new energy. Efficient light fixtures. Just wondering if it would help the city to implement lighting for making streets more walkable or bikable. If this I have any impact on that at all. Devin, do you wanna take that one. Yeah, thank you, Mike, for the question and for the record. My name is Devin Jocelyn. I'm the city's principal traffic engineer. Mike, I think that will give us some more flexibility. Because we will now be the the party responsible for

[15:00] really owning, operating, installing lighting within the city, and so I think it'll give us greater flexibility to look at the lighting needs for all modes and consider how we could install that that that being said, Natalie or Valerie can correct me if I'm wrong. But there are. There really aren't immediate plans. it lighting for those modes would typically be added as part of projects in in development. we don't have plans to add lighting on multi-use pass or other areas at this time. That's correct. Yeah, thanks. Doug. Okay, any other questions on this agenda? Item. Darcy Trainee. Seeing none. we will move on

[16:01] the next item. Agenda. Item 7 is an update from staff on vision, 0 Action Plan. And good thing. Devin is on cause taking that one too. Okay. Good evening again. Everyone. Again for the record. My name is Devin Jocelyn. I'm the city's principal traffic engineer. and I'm here tonight to provide an update on crash trends and vision 0 action plan implementation. There's really 3 main things that I'll cover tonight. I'm going to provide a full summary of the 2023 severe crash data. tila and Trinity. You'll recall that I presented this information that we had back in October, but that was not a complete data set. That was just through August, I believe at that time.

[17:04] I'll also provide an update on vision 0 Action plan implementation and then an update on photo enforcement expansion. And then there's just a few next steps that will make you aware of as well. Just for some context and to set the stage here. This slide provides the past 15 years of crash history within the city. and what I want to point out are just a few things on this slide. Over the past 15 years. There were 2 years with 0 fatal crashes in 2,015 and 2017, and we've seen a 45% decrease in total crashes in 2023 compared to 2016. And you'll see, really, since 2,016. There's been a downward trend in the total number of crashes occurring throughout the city.

[18:00] and just to directly compare 2022 to 2023, we saw a 4.5% decrease in total crashes in 2023 compared to 2022. And just another note here on terminology. Throughout this presentation, when I refer to a severe crash. That is a crash that's either a fatal crash or a crash that results in serious injuries. But over the past 15 years. Severe crashes have accounted for 2.3% of all crashes that occur each year. The next few slides will provide additional context about how crash trends are tracking and how boulder compares to other front range cities. So this slide shows a comparison of what we call areas of concern and areas of concern are crash types that have a disproportionate number of severe crashes compared to total crashes.

[19:03] and they include crashes like people. Excuse me, they include such things as crashes, involving people walking, biking, and riding, a motorcycle as well as crashes, involving people speeding and crashes involving older adults who are 65, and up. When we compare the most recent three-year crash data to crash data from 2018 to 2020, we see that 5 of 10 areas of concern decreased by 5% of more, while only one in 10 areas of concern increased by 5% or more. And that was crashes involving people riding a motorcycle. This slide shows how total and severe crash rates are calculated. Excuse me, total and severe crash rates, as calculated against 1 million vehicle miles traveled, have changed over the most recent 5 year period for which Vmt data was available, 2018 to 2022.

[20:06] It shows that there has been a 30% decrease in the total crash rate in 2,022, compared to 2,018, and a 12% decrease in the severe crash rate in 2022. Compared to 2018. This slide shows one way to compare boulders, crash rates to other front range cities, using the crash rate per 100,000 people. The slide indicates that based on 2022 data boulder had the second lowest crash rates per 100,000 people. Boulder also had the fewest fatal crashes with one. while other cities had at least 5 or more. while 0 remains the goal. This illustrates that boulder is closer to achieving 0 than many other frontrange cities. These next slides will provide the full summary of severe crash data. And most comparisons are drawn between 2022 and 2023,

[21:08] and this slide looks at a comparison of the total crashes that occurred each month in 2022 compared to 2023, and we saw a reduction of 79 total crashes in 2023 compared to 2022, and this corresponds to that approximately 4.5% decrease that was noted on the prior. Slide. Although the primary focus of this update is on severe crashes, it is important to understand also how total crashes are tracking compared to prior years. This gives a sense of the bigger picture and illustrates how we are tracking on the vision. 0 objective of reducing other types of crashes. Any crash, whether injuries occur or not has cost to society and can disrupt our lives. Understanding total crash numbers also helps give context to the percentage of total crashes that result in serious injuries or fatalities.

[22:09] This slide compares the monthly severe crashes that occurred in 2022 to 2023. Note that the severe crash data only includes severe crashes that occurred on public streets, and excludes any severe crashes that may have occurred on private property. There were 58 severe crashes citywide in 2023, 3 fatal and 55, serious injury in 2023, the number of severe crashes per month ranged from 3 to 8, and compared to 2022. There were 2 more fatal and 8 more serious injury crashes in 2023. This slide summarizes, summarizes the modes of travel involved in severe crashes. Most severe crashes involve a vehicle with another vehicle. Although severe crashes, that involve a vehicle with either a bicyclist or pedestrian pedestrian are each very similar in number.

[23:08] The most common severe crash types include pedestrian bicycle, fixed object, right angle and approach. Turn. I'll note that none of the severe crashes with either a vehicle involved with a bicyclist or a bicyclist alone involved. A B cycle shared Ebike. 2 of the 3 standup scooter, severe crashes involved a lime shared E. Scooter. These crash trends emphasize how important the vision 0 Action plan and our safe streets and roads for all grant work is to address bike and pet crashes, since they are over represented as compared to their mode, share. This slide shows the location of severe crashes by street classification in 2,02379% of severe crashes occurred on either a principal arterial or mineral arterial.

[24:05] You might recall from the safe streets folder report that had found that 67% of severe crashes occurred on an arterial roadway between 2018 and 2020. So it's looking like even more severe crashes are occurring on our arterial roadways. Collector and local streets together represent 8% of severe crashes and sidewalks and multi-use paths together represent 4% of severe crashes. This slide shows the location of severe crashes by intersection or segment type. You can see that most are at signalized intersections or along a segment of a roadway. This slide summarizes the age range of the party responsible for the severe crash. Well, the age varies. Most are in that 20 to 29 age range.

[25:08] This slide shows the age range of all parties involved in severe crashes. as noted previously. Severe crashes, involving younger and older drivers. decreased during the most recent 3 year, period from 2021 to 2023 compared to 2020, 18, or 2018 to 2020. Now we'll dive into the vision 0 Action plan and talk about our progress on implementing the plan. this slide provides an overview of the current action plan structure. The plan consists of 20 actions divided into 4 categories. Nearly half of the actions focus on implementing engineering solutions. However, the plan also includes actions focused on enforcement, education and evaluation.

[26:04] This slide highlights, the action plan, progress Summary and the 2024 staff work plan items. You'll see that work is underway on all 20 actions contained within the action plan. The 9 actions slated for 2023, or 2024 initiation are on track to be completed, or have already been completed. and work has been initiated on the remaining 11 items, with later time for timeframes, and all are anticipated. It be completed by 2027, the 2024 staff Work Plan includes focusing on the following key actions, the speed limit setting framework that ties to action. 7. The pedestrian crossing treatment installation. Guidelines update that ties to action. 6. The signal timing practices update which ties to action one and many subactions. The photo enforcement expansion ties to actions 1112 and 13, and the right turn, slip, lane, signing and marking changes ties to action, one and sub actions as well.

[27:11] Green conflict markings on the Hrn. Ties to action one, and subactions and the signal practices, upgrades, ties to actions 4 and 8. This is a big one right here. This this is one that we are all very excited about. This slide highlights the recent save streets and roads for all. Grant award that the Transportation and Mobility department in the city of Boulder, received back in December 2023 we received notice that we received an award of over 23 million dollars. and that is really a monumental amount of award for the city, and the grant will significantly accelerate implementation of key actions to eliminate severe crashes.

[28:04] Projects will be in design over the 2024, 2025 timeframe, with implementation and construction phases occurring between 2026 through 2028. This grant illustrates how the core arterial network and the vision 0 Action Plan implementation are intertwined. The Can initiative lives on through the funding commitments we have secured through award of competitive external grants, such as safe streets and roads for all segments of 2 can corridors, Thirtieth Street and Arapaho Avenue. We're funded for implementation under SS. 4 a. Which secures a path forward and timeline via the grant funded activities over the next 5 years. The projects funded with the SS. 4 a. Grant are shown in the map on the slide, and I'd be happy to discuss those further and answer any questions you have at the conclusion of the presentation.

[29:00] This map shows where the can corridors and the high risk network overlap. They're shown in blue on the map at right. The High risk network was developed as a part of the action plan as a way to prioritize and organize the implementation of actions to achieve the greatest impact in the shortest amount of time you'll note that while the HRN. Accounts for only 7% of all city streets and 35% of arterial streets crash data indicates that nearly half of all fatal and serious injury crashes that are occurring are on this small part of the transportation system. The 3 priority cam corridors are on the high risk network as well as other can corridors that are active in planning design or implementation. managing risk and mitigating crashes on this small percentage of streets can have an outsized impact on reducing fatal and serious injury crashes in boulder.

[30:00] For this reason many of the actions within the action plan are structured to focus first on the HRN, then other streets across the transportation system. I'll talk about the photo enforcement expansion Update now. Thanks to Great Council. Support Council, adopted Resolution 1342. On December seventh, 2023, and that resolution designated the corridors shown on the map at right as corridors where automated enforcement can occur. and in the first quarter of this year Staff has worked to install and activate 2 new red light running cameras, one at Canyon Boulevard and Fifteenth Street, and one at 28 Street and J. Road, as well as enable automated speed enforcement using existing red light running camera at Broadway, and Pine Street and staff are in the process of prioritizing additional corridors for deployment at this time.

[31:02] In terms of next steps, Staff will continue to implement the vision 0 Action Plan actions and keep Tab informed as necessary. And we're planning to present an overview of visions. Your activities to City Council on Thursday this week. and we're preparing for Ss. For a grant funded efforts that can begin once the intergovernmental agreement is executed. and I had 2 questions in the presentation Tila to help guide discussion tonight. But I'm I'm open to. However, you'd like to facilitate the discussion and questions at this time. Thank you, Devin. So that was kind of like 3 presentations at once. I think typically the most efficient way to do it is to have members of Tab ask clarifying questions first. So if there's something you didn't understand needed more clarity on. And then, if there were any overarching comments, reactions, feedback to kind of do another round through, if that makes sense to people. So I I prefer to to try it that way. Let me see if I can see the people here, so does anyone have any clarifying questions. Mike looks like you have your hand up. Go ahead.

[32:18] Yeah. Could you just go over this safe streets for all project? What? I see that there's a map there with a bunch of different project. So this is a grant that we won that's going to be used for those specific projects that are on the map. Is that right? Oh, you're muted. Devin is muted. I can hear you, Devin. There we go! There we go!

[33:00] Okay, thank you, Mike. I believe everybody should be seeing the slide again with the essence for a Grant map. And that is correct, Mike, that these are the corridors and spot location projects that we put within the application that are funded by the grant and the grant consists of 2 parts. The first is called a demonstration grant, and the second is an implementation grant. The demonstration grant will focus on right, turn, slip lanes. and looking at how changes to right turn, slip lanes, impact safety and crash patterns at those locations. And then the implementation grant award is broken into really 3 main categories. One is called intersection treatments, the second is pedestrian crossing treatments, and the third is multimodal arterial treatments.

[34:00] And I'm happy to explain any of those locations in more detail if desired. But a lot of the intersection treatment locations are drawn directly out of the vision. 0 Action Plan as as having an identified need for a project at that location. Could you? Just describe what what changes to slip lanes are going to be looked at. Sure. So that is still in development. But the overarching idea is that we will change some locations from what's referred to as wide angle geometry to a tighter angle design so changing how the slip lane? How people enter into that slipline and the geometry in it and then changing the type of Traffic control at the slip lane. So maybe from a yield sign to a stop sign or from a stop sign to a traffic signal, and looking at how

[35:07] motorist and multimodal behavior, as well as crash patterns, are in each of those different configurations of a slip lane. And just to follow up on that Devin, we haven't really lo located the those 8 intersections yet. Is that right? I asked you about that last month. That is correct. Yes, and and for further clarification, Mike, we said we would change 8 locations from a wide angle to a tighter angle, and 8 locations from a wide angle. I guess we actually did specify to traffic signal control. So that. But yes, till you are correct, that those locations have not been determined yet those will be determined as we go through the the grant scoping process. Okay, so is it, then, is it gonna be 16 Slip Lane locations? Or might some of them be combined.

[36:01] I think it will likely end up being 16 locations and keep in mind. Keep in mind that an intersection might have multiple slip lanes, say one per each approach, so that. Got you. 1, one intersection might have 4 slip lanes that may may or may not all be included in the evaluation study. Gotcha. Thank you, Trini. I see you've had your hand up. Go ahead 1 s. There you go. Have to unmute. Yeah, well, thank you so much. I mean, this is really really exciting for the city. I think. This will save a lot of lives, and I know how hard you've been working on it, Devin, for so long. So thank you for all your work, and I wanted to make a suggestion on the traffic automated traffic enforcement. Okay, can we? We're we're on clarifying questions. Right? This second, I just wanna make sure. is that okay? No, no, it's fine! Okay. Mike, did you have any other clarifying questions before we move on to comments? And I'll come back to you first trainee for that.

[37:07] So I I just on the slip lanes. There's no looking at having raised crosswalks and slip lanes. I don't believe that was specifically called out in the Grant application, but I think we looked recently, and I believe it was something like 70 or 75% of our slip lane locations in town already include a raised crossing. Seems like, that's right. Yeah. Okay. Any anything else? Questions wise. Mike. No. Okay, Darcy. Nope, okay, I had a couple devin on the thank you for that clarification, Mike, cause that was one of my questions.

[38:01] so I guess I'm just down to 2. That's pretty good. On the mode of travel involved in severe crashes. You had stand up scooters, and then also scooter versus scooter. Slash motorcycle versus vehicle is that if are those 2 different kinds of scooters? Are we talking like moped kind of things. Mopedy. Kind of things. Okay. Correct, correct. Okay, it's it's like, kind of a moving landscape about what we call these things. And then I I one thing I thought would be helpful with those charts and comparisons. In particular. The I loved the chart about the age range of people deem that fault in the in the crash. But what left? What I was left wondering was, how do those percentages compare to their representation? Demographically, either in the city city residents or drivers. If we have that I don't know, because they're clearly they're not all city residents that are that are crashing. So I didn't know if that was data we could capture. But it would actually help contextualize.

[39:05] I think, where? Where we you know, this is an area of concern. You know, of course, we should be concerned that an outsize number of our senior citizens are being injured and crashes but it would be, make a better case for paying attention to that. If we can say well, they're actually being struck and injured at double the rate that they're, you know, out there on the streets, and that would that would be a really helpful way to kind of view some of that data. Finally, I said, I had 2, and then I have 3. Do we have a goal for increasing auto enforcement? So you said your staff is evaluating new expansion for speed and red light running cameras. Is there a goal in mind? Have we? Have you heard any instructions from city council or otherwise about increasing those. One way. We're approaching it this year. Tila is

[40:02] Pd. Got within their budget for this year. additional funding to hire one additional photo Enforcement officer. as well as purchase one additional photo enforcement van. And then there was money as well to put out concrete pads in 6 locations and the concrete pads are to serve the purpose of getting the photo radar van off of the roadway on an arterial that per on which parking is not allowed. So I think the goal for us is to try to look across the city, owned corridors and work to get in those 6 pads this year to to support the expanded enforcement. Okay. Great. I know that. Public opinion being what it is you're probably barrage with, you know, suggestions about where to be doing enforcement?

[41:01] you know, various types. And I had. I didn't know if if we have developed or or you know, have a way to sort of filter that or prioritize that or answer these members of the public. You know about what we're doing and how. how, how we're viewing that that process cause. There's definitely a lot of interest in expanding automated Enforcement Citywide. So I gather it's just still kind of under under development and thinking. But. It. It is under development, but it is it is a data driven process. And we are looking at the speeds along those roadways, those automated enforcement corridors that have been designated. And we're looking at that in a few different ways. different time periods throughout the day. And the percentage of speeders during different time periods of the day. And then we're also looking at any speeding related crashes. Really, the the new bill relies very heavily on that data driven justification for conducting enforcement. So we wanna make sure that we're in line. With that requirement of the new bill.

[42:11] Okay, thank you. Those. Those are all the questions that I have. Now we'll go back to Traini first. And and Taylor, if I may. I'll just direct your attention again to the the prior. Safe streets. Boulder, report the the fourth edition report that we finished in 2,022. We did that type of comparison about which you spoke. We did it for those drivers that were 65 and older. Right. I remember that. And and that in that particular case we show that Boulder has about 12% of the population is 65 and older. But 16% of them were involved in these severe crashes. So it was, it was over represented for that age range. Yeah, but it wasn't clear to me involved with whether cause the the new information to me on the slide tonight was at fault found at fault like that's something.

[43:04] I don't. We've looked at before. You know, so involved is one thing, but you know being at fault is is another. So that was kind of the purpose of that question. Go ahead, Trainy. Yeah, so thanks. Tila, so, Devin, do we know how many of these crashes were speed related? Like. do we have that data available. I might. So what I think we highlighted Tony, in that earlier slide was we looked at not just 2023, but we expanded to the 3 year period 2021, through 2023. And when we looked at that period we had seen that speeding related crashes had gone down. the percent of severe crashes related to speeding had gone down 14%

[44:01] compared to the prior 3 year period. That's amazing. That's really good. And I guess my last bit of input, I and I know that this is data driven. But I would like to highly suggest to please put automated enforcement on Broadway, around the green Briar, and like between table mesa and green briar anywhere around there and baseline, so that that that would be incredibly helpful. And I'm sure it's gonna come up in your numbers. I would be shocked if it wasn't there already. But. Yeah, I mean that that is a location that we'll look at. That is one that will require us to coordinate with ceda. Oh! Since it is a. There will. Great highway on that. Even if it's on table, mesa. Not not on table mesa, but Broad Broadway, basically south of baseline, is is a State highway.

[45:04] So the intersection itself belongs to both of you guys, or just did c dot. Mesa. So I sorry I might not have heard you correctly, Tony. What what was the specific segment you were suggesting? We we looked at. Yeah, so anywhere between. So I guess the my question now is so I understand that Broadway belongs to C. Dot, and the crossroads belong to the city of Folder, right? So that light belongs to who like where they intersect. The Broadway and Table Mesa signal. It is maintained by us. The city. There so that could be one. and Green briar. Okay. Bro, sorry. Broadway and green briar. Okay, yeah. Yeah. Yes. So.

[46:00] Yeah, I think the challenge is, they are still within a State highway corridor. So even though we maintain the signal, we would still need C dot approval. Hmm! Is that a challenging process, or like a lengthy process. It's it's to be determined. see.is expected to hopefully release their guidelines for local agencies. Shortly. and it seems like it's very much in line with the process we're following for our own city corridors, so I don't expect it will be much more of a challenge for us to submit the State highway corridors. Awesome. Well, thank you. Thanks trainee, other. Any other comments from feedback from Devin for Devin. So we're off the clarifying questions now. Yes, yes, indeed! Okay?

[47:01] yeah. I think folder is a fine example compared to other cities in North America, and we still have a long way to go, and I'm very pleased with some recent developments like the protected by claims on on baseline near my house. And now this State is going to allow speed enforcement from red light cameras. So I hope that moves forward. But I just wanted to say that I think enforcement. It's only gonna get us so far towards 0. And we need to change basically the physics as as has been done in places like baseline, so that you have sharper turns. that really slow cars down and to the point where they're going to be encountering pedestrians and

[48:03] creating more more raised crossings which forced cars to slow down, and in some cases there could be speed bumps before a crosswalk where they're at higher speed, and narrowing lanes, so that drivers don't feel so secure going so fast. I just hope we continue to move away from prioritizing, moving vehicles quickly and think more about from the pedestrian point of view, and the and this people outside of vehicles and their safety. So moving from not necessarily enforcement, based solutions, but designing our our roads to make it much less likely that someone will be be killed by a vehicle.

[49:04] Thanks, Mike Darcy. I see your hand up. Yes, thanks. I second everything that Mike just said. It's really important. Devin, I just wanted to ask. There's I saw in the project list for potential projects for this plan that there's a traffic signal planned for the intersection of Table Mesa and Stanford. Which is interesting to me, because, you know, that's so close to Broadway and so close to the signal to the library. And I'm curious about that process of sort of figuring out that a signal belongs there as opposed to an Rfb. Or something else, because a lot of people I know a lot of people do cross there. But I'm curious about Putting a third signalized INFOSEC intersection there when in the close proximity of 2 others. Can you talk about that a little bit.

[50:02] Yeah, that's a great question. I think it's something that will be evaluated closely, honestly, as we get into the project process, because that is a challenging intersection. And as you mentioned, it is close to some other adjacent signals that are certain pedestrian crossings. But there's the you know. Ditch in the middle of the road there, I guess. So so that that makes it more complicated to operate the signal. But but there is some history there, I I believe. Even before my time at the city, I think we've had eyes on that particular intersection. Yeah. And I do think a signal was was identified as the the recommended traffic control device for that location. To some degree, because it is a very problematic intersection. It's really difficult to navigate, and perhaps it. I hope that it wouldn't entail taking out the pedestrian signal to the library, because that's also very heavily used. But I understand that that's a really problematic place. So I'll be curious to see the process behind that maybe we can help get some community engagement to talk about what could really make that a better intersection? Because I know it's really challenging.

[51:23] Yeah, thank you. I think those will all be things that we consider in the the actual project process. Yeah. Great. Well, then, just one other comment about the high risk network versus the core artillery arterial network. I appreciate that. You know the that there's a differentiation there. And hoping to see some distinctly different kind of engineering approaches on the High risk network. You know, where those really problematic places and and sort of road segments are identified. I'm not sure if you've yet sort of decided how different

[52:00] interventions might be on the high risk network versus just the regular core arterial network. Or if you want to say anything about that. Yeah, I think that's a great question. I think if you refer back to the vision 0 action plan. we went through that process of really trying to pair, you know, identify the most common crash types. And we had identified 7 of the most common crash types. And and those were crashes that were occurring with a higher frequency along the high risk network. And then the visions your action plan walks through, and the actions are tied to implementing those specific counter measures that address the most problematic crash types. So I hope that the the action plan gives a sense of what types of elements would be implemented on.

[53:00] not just the high risk network, but also the the core arterial network corridors. Yeah, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. I think that's looks like all of the comments I just would like to say at the end. Here, thank you, Devin. For this work. I really am gratified to see the attention pay to the trouble spots, you know. This is why we do this. A streets report and figure out. Oh, it's happening on the arterials, and to have very honest, you know, reckoning that this this is a kind of you know, place and situation, and then to turn that into plans, actions, and get funding to, to do our best to try to approach those those problems head on. I really want to commend you and and the rest of staff for for your efforts on that front. So thank you very much work is continuing. And I am curious. With the vision 0 action plan. We, you know, implemented it. It was really quick process to to draw it up.

[54:00] And I'm hopeful that with the next I guess we would probably revisit it at the next tmp update. But I I didn't know. Curious if Natalie has any any idea I'm not gonna put you on the spot about when we're doing a Tmp Update. But is that the right timing, do you think? To to have a fresh look at the vision? 0 action plan, and maybe be a little bit more systematic than we were the last time around about about really prioritizing those those high impact kind of good bang for our buck sort of projects. So well, we did. The vision 0 Action Plan update through 2022. And then that, like, you know, updated version was published in early 2023. And that was really, I mean, if if you go and look at the action plan, you can actually see, how can this kind of been incorporated into it. Yep. Yep. And I think what our intention was with that last action plan update was for it to really be something we could accomplish. Right? So certainly. There's still a lot in there that we don't have the like fiscal resources to do it immediately. But it's I would say, probably a more realistic version of an action plan than we've had in a while.

[55:17] Yeah. Appreciate that. So that will continue. Really, that document will kind of live through 2027 as our hope. I think it's a 2327 timeframe and I think you know it. It may. It's possible we'll do a transportation plan update before that. You know, our transportation master Plan was adopted in 2019. It's it's getting to the point where I think we probably will need to update it here pretty soon. We really were waiting for the city wide strategic plan to be completed, which it now is, and obviously council use that for their retreat last week. And I think as we kind of settle into that city wide strategic plan and get just our bearings as an organization around what these department plans are going to look like this year. Then that will tee us up to hopefully do a transportation master or transportation plan update. We're trying not to use the word master anymore. Plan update in the next year or 2 would be my.

[56:20] Okay, great. Thank you. Appreciate that. One last question is with these. Ss, for a grant, is there a window by which we need to accomplish all of the stuff that was in our application. And what is that sunset? What is that window. Do you want me? You got it, Devin? Yeah, I believe. it's it's a 5 year timeframe. I believe the clock starts when your Iga is executed. Your intergovernmental agreement, which I think we're expecting that to be complete sometime. Mid to late this year. Okay.

[57:01] good to know. Thank you. Thanks for your work on this. Appreciate it. I think we can move on perfect. Seeing no objection, we will move on now. Item, 8 on the agenda is the core arterial network update. And Melanie Sloane is here to present this item. Telling everybody. Aye. Good to see you. I'm going to share my screen. And then, Steven, I think you will lead me into conversation tonight. Yeah. So as Melanie shares your screen, just wanted to say a few words. For folks haven't met me names, team Riho. I'm the transportation planning manager and you know, being newer to the city, even spending a lot of time getting up to speed on all the planning divisions work. And you know, while I've been impressed by really everything the team is working on and you'll hear more about their efforts later tonight.

[58:03] I do really wanna highlight the can as one of those initiatives that could be, you know, truly transformative. For our city. It's strategic. It's thoughtful, really, a great way to ensure. We're making progress towards Division 0 and other multimodal goals by really rethinking how we work on our arterials. And so you know, as Devin said. That's where a lot of the crashes are happening. So really, just wanted to applaud the team for their creativity and rethinking how we deliver our work to build out on the can in the next couple of years. So with that, I'll kick it over to our can program manager, Melanie, slow. Thank you, Steven. So good evening. Tab chair. My name is Melanie Sloane. For the record principal project manager for the city's Transportation and Mobility department, as Steven said. And you see, on your agenda I'm providing the update on the core arterial network or can initiative. And then I've got a bit of a request for you at the end. So

[59:00] before I begin, I just wanna provide an overview of what you'll hear tonight. I will do a little bit of a background on the can. Link it to the vision. 0 Action Plan and high risk network, as you've heard a a bit about to now provide updates on our funding and engagement strategy, and then a bit more detail on the Work plan progress, including priority corridors and a look at a couple of current and future projects, and then we'll wrap up with some next steps. So a lot of these maps look familiar to you. The can is directly linked to the vision. 0 Action plan, like conversation, was just highlighting and diving into. And we heard that that plan. Is a 5 Year action plan to respond to the finding of the city's vision. 0 safe streets report. That's that 67% of those crashes resulting in serious injury or fatality occurring on our arterials, and those are our busiest streets, and we heard from Devon that data in 2023 shows again, severe crashes continue to be concentrated on these and those consistent findings is what led City council in partnership with this board to elevate the work on the can as one of its top 10 priorities.

[60:12] And like the vision 0 action plan. The can is a long term commitment. And you heard Steven alluding to it. You heard Devin speaking to it, and I'm just here to affirm the team is committed to the work. You'll see here and here in a bit more detail. So this map shows the can corridors. There's 13 of them. Those are all shown in blue. The 3 can corridors identified as priority corridors are highlighted in yellow in this map. and those priority corridors were chosen for their value to enhance the North, South as well as eastwest multimodal connections in each of their part of the city to couple improvements with plan paving where possible, and to advance the vision 0 action plan. And so again, it's a very connected system, the priority corridors in order our Baseline road from Thirtieth Street to Foothills Parkway.

[61:07] Iris Avenue, from Twenty-eighth Street to Broadway and Folsom Street from Pine Street to Colorado Avenue. and we also just discussed the interplay of the vision 0 action plans, high risk network with the cam. as you can see on this map where that overlap occurs is shown in blue. And so we heard from Devin that high risk network is where is that network of streets that have the most contextual factors associated with fatal and serious injury crashes. And I wanna pause here because I know some of the conversation was around the difference and how the Vision 0 Action Plan high risk network will be treated and the can will be treated. And we see there's an overlap. But the thing I also wanna highlight that I think, is important is that it captures both where crashes are occurring, but also where they're likely to occur. And so that's that proactive approach that the new vision that our latest vision, 0 Action plan, is leaning into. And I think that proactive and human centered approach is really important. As you heard from Devin, measured by crashes per vehicle. Milestone

[62:16] traveled our high risk network has 5 times more risk. Right? And so again, we focus on these, we a small percentage of streets, we can have that big impact on reducing fatal and serious injury crashes in our community. So just wanted to make that connection. Since is the start of the can back in 2022, you've heard a bit about our funding. We received 15.6 million dollars in funding a lot of that's come through through external grant pursuits, including the Denver Regional Council of Governments, Transportation Improvement program, the Colorado Department of Transportation Transportation Alternatives program. And then that really wonderful safe streets and roads for all. Grant that we also received in 2023,

[63:01] and as you heard, these funds will implement specific actions from the city's vision. 0 action plan, and many do fall along the can corridor. and I'll I'll highlight a few of those a bit later. just to be clear, though additional funds will be needed to implement all cancorder recommendations, and staff is committed to implementing the can through our funding strategy also, and that will happen through future departmental budget cycle requests, as well as seeking additional external grant funding opportunities to continue to advance this important initiative. engagement for the can is guided by the city's engagement strategic framework that provides guidance on inclusive engagement that gives the community a meaningful voice. The framework, though, doesn't dictate engagement. Take a long time and can quarter or engagement doesn't, can projects have, and will be appropriately scaled.

[64:00] tailored to the context of each, can corridor, it will build off of previous community conversations. extend our connections through our partners, both internal and external, to the city offer a mix of opportunities for effective and welcoming input as well. And data collection happens concurrent to engagement and combined, they define or the existing conditions, those issues and solutions that we need. And it does so in an accelerated way. So as we look at this work plan, progress map, I want you to take away that a lot is happening on the can, and that work keeps us on track for this initiative. We have 18 projects on 9 of the 13 can corridors which are shown in pink on this map. They have funding. They're active in planning design or construction. It advances that vision, 0 Action Plan, and specifically, the approach of implant implementing and improving engineering solutions to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes and specifically action. 3 of the plan which is to implement these projects along the high risk network and can corridors.

[65:10] The work ranges from preliminary design to construction of proven safety countermeasures, things that will reduce and will prevent these severe injury. Crashes and fatalities. Those include things like multi-use paths, sidewalk, level bike lanes, and protected intersections. Among other improvements. and from here I'd like to spend a bit of time focusing on our 3 priority corridors. Baseline, fulsome. Excuse me, Baseline, Iris, and Folsom in order. The first priority corridor is baseline road from Thirtieth straight to Foothills Parkway. It's being implemented in 2 phases phase. One used local dollars and leveraged planned paving to gain the safety benefits of strategic improvements, while the city awaited distribution of Grant funds which we received at the beginning of this year.

[66:00] changes made with paving, were informed by what we had heard from the community and targeted themes that could provide the greatest safety benefit, such as reducing vehicle speeds. We narrowed lanes. As an example I heard mentioned a bit earlier that happened on Baseline, making intersections safer and more comfortable to travel through and providing more separation between people biking and driving. and after 12 months of design and community engagement we implemented those changes in winter of 2023. That work included the first use of concrete tall curbs in the United States? And that's something we're really proud of. And and I think that's something that we'd like to see more of. So the phase one approach. It's a model for future priority. Quarter projects it accelerate because it accelerates project design to implementation while also staying true to our engagement strategy. And so phase 2 engagement will begin the middle of this month with walking and biking tours, and it will build off of those themes we heard from the public and phase one and focus on more comprehensive implementation of phase. One improvements, such as completing the bike, lane, and intersection protection provided with paving in phase, one

[67:17] also additional pedestrian and protected intersection enhancements and transit efficiency improvements. And we heard in public comment some experience on baseline today. And I think, as we move into phase 2 building that and completing implement completing these improvements will be really helpful to our traveling public phasing. This project also allows us to learn and make tweaks as we start to develop our face to what we did in phase. One really tells us a lot. So, as I mentioned, we received Grant funds. Engagement will begin this month. Conceptual design by summer, including an open house to bring that to the public, and then winter we'll see. Final design and construction will start next year.

[68:04] The second priority corridor is Iris Avenue. That's from Broadway to 20 Eighth Street, and this is an important East West Corridor that also provides connections regionally to travel within boulder and communities along the diagonal highway. For example, the Boulder County Colorado Department of Transportation and Rtd collaborative project on the diagonal highway, the Co. 1, 19 safety Mobility and bikeway project that's going to bring regional multimodal transportation improvements, including bus rapid transit, and off street multi-use paths to the eastern edge of the Iris Avenue priority corridor that project is going to begin in 24 and 2024, and will be completed in spring of 2027. So last year we focused on data collection and community engagement. We hosted 27 activities, reached over 1,600 people, received 2,100 comments, and we also collected data and completed analysis. Concurrent with that. So we could expedite that phase of work.

[69:11] the engagement themes, data collection analysis helped us understand existing conditions on ours and also helped identify issues and opportunities for improvement. and that all informed design which began this year. the community will be asked to provide their feedback on conceptual designs and key trade-offs that may be needed to achieve can and project goals, beginning later this month through in-person and online open houses and additional engagement events being planned through early summer following engagement staff will develop a design recommendation, and that recommendation will be brought to this board, as well as the planning board and city Council through a community and environmental assessment process or seep the Sep is a formal review of the project conceptual designs. It helps select a recommendation for construction that balances those community goals and our adopted plans, like our Boulder Valley Comprehensive plan, and our transportation master Plan.

[70:09] So you and Planning Board will be asked to make a recommendation on the seat to city council for them to take action on the recommended design. and these public hearings are slated for later this summer. The third priority corridor is Folsom Street, from Pine Street to Colorado Avenue. Folsom Street is an important corridor in the city. On this map north is oriented to your right and south to the left. The project is between previously implemented protected bicycle lanes on Folsom Street, from Belmont Road to Pine Street, and planned improvements on Colorado Avenue, from Regent to Folsom Street on an average day, though over 17,000 people are driving, 4,000 people are walking. 1,600 people are biking, and over 1,100 people are using transit on this stretch of Folsom.

[71:02] We also know many who live along the corridor are historically underserved. 23% are individuals of color. 40% live in low income households. 15% are in households with no access to a motor vehicle. so the project can provide a safer, more comfortable and more connected, walkable, bikable and transit connection for people to access to opportunity as well as for short trips. So conceptual conceptual design and community engagement begins in early 2025, when we receive grant funds and depending on project sequencing paving. May also be scheduled. Let's see, I wanna I wanna highlight for you. The updated work plan schedule and detailed list of ongoing and active implementation work and timelines on camcorders. Those are both found in your memo. But I wanna highlight a few projects here that are in planning and design. This year.

[72:08] The first is Thirtieth Street, Complete Street Preliminary design project that's focused between Arapaho Avenue and the diagonal highway. This is an important corridor in our city. It's also on the high risk network and also on the regional high injury network. So it's really important to focus on this project the conceptual design and community engagement will begin this month with the community partner led Youth walk. and the project will also use the seat process with public hearings. With this board planning board and city council anticipated to take place in 2025. This is one of those projects that the safe streets and roads for all Grant will fund. It will fund final design and implementation of improvements recommended through the project and the Vision 0 Action Plan, and that those improvements will be focused from Pearl Street to the diagonal highway.

[73:06] The second project I'd like to highlight in planning and design. This year is the Thirtieth Street and Arapaho Avenue intersection preliminary design. This one's important. It's at the nexus of 2 Can corridors, Thirtieth Street in Arapaho Avenue, but it's also a top 10 crash location in the city. So it really is warranting immediate attention. We will begin preliminary design later this year, and it will continue into 2025, and that safe streets and roads for all. Grant provides funding for both final design and implementation, which is anticipated to begin in winter of 2026. The last project I want to highlight in planning and design. This year is the East Arapahoe Avenue Preliminary design Project, that's from 20 Eighth Street to 60 Fourth Street. This is also a top crash, corridor and preliminary design actually began back in 2022, and we'll be completing in the next

[74:03] few months. But then it'll be going right into final design and following that work section from 20 Eighth Street to 30 Third Street, will be implemented from funding for that safe streets and road for all project. As I mentioned, there are many other projects. I do refer you to the memo for all that detail but wanted to highlight those, because I think they show progress on the can, and they show progress on the can continues from engagement to design to implementation when funding is secured. And I think another project that's doing. That is the Iris Avenue Priority quarter project which had public engagement last year and is now coming forward with conceptual design in at an in person and online open house, starting on April 20, seventh. and I will say, there is also an opportunity for this Board

[75:00] to help us with our engagement, and that's to spread the word on can engagement through your networks to help us boost participation and can projects. It's also important for your presence to come and support our engagement. And then there's also so much going on, we really encourage you to sign up for 2 newsletters. We have our transportation and mobility newsletter the link can be found at the bottom of the transportation mobility web page. It comes out monthly, provides important updates on all of our departments work. And so I also encourage you to sign up for the Irs Avenue project newsletter. That's found at the Irs Avenue priority corridor project web page. That also comes out monthly, but provides up to date information specific to this priority corridor, such as engagement engagement events that we will be hosting over the next few months. and the last thing I ask, of course, is for your feedback, and any questions on this can update.

[76:00] Thank you. Melanie. You're welcome. That's a lot of work going on. And it is. Okay. Any members of Tab have any feedback questions, comments Mike. Go ahead. I have a few clarifying questions on Thirtieth Street. Because in the the Pdf use as part of our packet. it included something that looks really good, that I don't think you mentioned that there will be in construction in April this month of protected bike lanes on thirtieth between Arapaho and Colorado. Can you tell us about that? Absolutely, Mike, I'm happy to There is a lot of work going on on can corridors. And so one of the projects that's going into construction is extending the sidewalk level bike lanes that were implemented at the thirtieth and Colorado intersection, and we're completed last year. That will continue north up to the Arapaho Avenue intersection. Just shy of it will also be widening sidewalks and making some other improvements. So that's a project going into the construction that I didn't highlight

[77:13] and it's a really great example of how Thirtieth Street is both an important can corridor and being built out and demonstrating that progress of planning design implementation. When funding secured. I mentioned the thirtieth and Colorado protected intersection and bike lanes and underpasses. That was all completed last year, and we are building up to Arapaho Avenue as we just discussed. We'll be starting, planning, and design to continue that south towards Baseline. We have funding to do, planning and design all the way to baseline and implementation to Aurora. And then you heard the thirtieth and Arapaho intersection will start preliminary design later this year, and we already have those safe streets and roads for all grant funds to final design and get that into implementation. And we'll be doing that corridor, a city that all the way up to the northern terminus at Thirtieth Street. So

[78:05] I feel really proud of the work. As Stephen was saying. There's a lot happening, and there's a lot of focus and coordinated effort. And Thirtieth Street is a great example of how we will have a very different experience and a much safer and connected corridor. Once all of these efforts move forward. And and related. I think you were talking about thirtieth when you mentioned between something between Pearl Street and Foothills. Did you mean Belmont. That's the end of Thirtieth Street. Say foothills. I apologize. If I did, I confused everyone. I I meant to say, Belmont, and well, the Thirtieth Street study the excuse me, the Thirtieth Street Preliminary design project goes from Arapaho to diagonal highway. And so that's where we'll be kicking off engagement and preliminary design.

[79:01] Okay. Great. Thank you. Anyone else. Is just to congratulate Melanie and thank her for all this work. I mean, I've been part of a little bit of the community engagement piece. You'll. Really fun to see everybody just be excited about having these changes come to their neighborhood. Yeah, I think that we've seen some really good work on baseline that's put some wind in our sales. And I appreciate the braised Trinny. But honestly, it's I wish it was as easy as one person, but it really does take a team, and there are many people on the call here that I wanna point to. You know, we have Daniel Cheater and Eric, Commodore and John Mcfarlane, Lindsey Burrs, and others who have been rolling up their sleeves and really leaning into the work it takes to make this change, make it thoughtfully and and in an expedited way.

[80:00] I don't want to take away from anybody. I'm just saying you're the one presenting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you for that. But no, absolutely. And and I'm honored to be working with all of you guys, you guys really are an an amazing team. Thank you. Trini. Thank you, Mike. You have your hand up again. Yeah, I just had clarifying question, because. Kept him in. There was some people I noted. Written, my friend. That the city councils dashboard where their updates on can and other projects up until march on Iris. It had said that the implementation was to begin on April first, 2024, and it had other implementation dates for baseline in Folsom and recently, that was changed so that those implementation dates don't appear.

[81:02] And the same time the the progress on the can has increase from 55% to 64% which I guess I can understand. Given everything you're telling us about all these other projects that I I'm not necessarily aware of. But Do you have anything. I I know you guys have been doing a lot of community feedback on Iris. and there's been concerns about what you might do. From some neighbors. But I I do hope that we'll be moving forward with protected bike lanes as back in, you know, 2 years ago, when Can was first put forward at City Council by Rachel, Friend and Matt Benjamin. They, they specifically mentioned. protected bike lanes on Iris, and so

[82:01] I don't know if you have anything to say about like the the timeline for Iris slipping. I know you guys are doing a lot of other work as well. But do you have anything to say about that? Yeah, also. She! Yeah, Natalie, appreciate it. Happy as you. And I can fill in anything else. Sure. So just kind of respect to in respect to the dashboard question, I think. we did make some updates to that recently, I think, acknowledging that there you know, implementation is kind of a a bit of a vague term, right? So we are really in the middle of Project Development. And obviously the seap is coming on, Iris and that will be coming to, as Melanie said, of becoming the tavern. So later in the summer and from there it would be a matter of identified funding to go to construction. And so I think the

[83:00] the need to kind of adjust. How we talking about the project in the dashboard? That's kind of why we did that and then, as far as the other question around what design options will be bringing forward, and kind of councils or part of Council's understanding with this win can initiative that brought forward through the retreat, too. we have been, you know, listening to community and and looking at various design options. And so we can confidently say we're bringing a protected bike lane option for options that include protected Bike's board and that's based on what we've heard from community and our analysis today. the the what that exactly looks like the exact layout of the protected bike lanes. And what the full quote like is going to continue to be under development really based on what we hear from community and what we hear from Tap council, the coming months, and through the seap process, through the analysis.

[84:13] So there will definitely be the option, you know, in in spirit of what was requested by council back in 2022. Great glad to hear that. Then we do mean by that that by the end of the month we're gonna see design options. But there won't be a preferred staff proposal. That's correct. There will be design options brought forward at the open house later this month. Okay. Thank you. any other. Virgin. I was just gonna make sure. Valerie, Melanie, did I miss anything. thumbs up. I'm bound. That was great, Natalie, thank you. Any other feedback comments. Questions. Okay? I just wanted to second the commendations about

[85:05] how? Hard I saw Staff working on the outreach and the public engagement. I remember I I went to a couple of the the, you know, on the street kind of meetings. and one day I was like, there's no one's gonna be here because we had just had like 2 feet of snow. And sure enough, Erica's out there with 20 members of the public. It was a sunny day at least, but but the it's hard to overstate how thorough at least Staff has tried to be, how, how we're constantly berated. Not really me. But you guys. you know, by by neighbors who just heard about this thing, and I didn't get a postcard. And you know I didn't see the website. It's it is really hard to imagine any more flexible, more sort of robust engagement efforts than what I saw in particular on Iris. And I just wanted to comment on that. That being said, we will talk briefly about what you know what's coming up at the Tab Retreat? But one thing I'm going to advance is, I think, Tab can and should play a better role in helping to get the word out and helping really to explain the why behind these kinds of projects, and

[86:22] you know, to sort of be a better buffer and explainer of what's going on. I think, actually, with this board that you have assembled with you right now, this is the biggest concentration of advocates I have ever seen on Tab. You might actually have hit a sweet spot this year. Because we are. We are lacking. You know this sort of general and purpose when we get a meddling in government kind of thing. But you, we've got 5 advocates here and we might be able to actually amplify your voice in the right way this year. That's what I'm hoping for. But thank you for all of you have done. Really appreciate that, and I see Darcy's hand up.

[87:00] Yeah, to speak to that specifically, I wanted to ask that the Iris Avenue project website. It gets updated with the events happening this month. You said that the middle of this month these things are happening, and I haven't heard anything about walks coming up or anything, and I see that it's still the December and before walks on the Iris, website. So if you can get all the April and beyond projects up there will absolutely get the word out. I just wanna recommend that generally that we have a good month notice before engagement opportunities happen. So we can really get the word out. I've heard from a lot of people that yeah, this kind of you know, last minute. Oh, I just heard about this kind of thing I mean. It's I. I understand that these things take time, of course, and that you have to, you know, find venues and have the materials ready. But it is really important to have lots of lots of notice. And that was one thing I really enjoyed with the Iris business outreach project that was in one of the pictures that you showed there was plenty of time to organize that and to get people there. And that's really really important

[88:05] for for all of us out there working in communities to make sure that people really feel like they can be included, and that requires a a good, a good amount of notice. So yeah, just wanted to add that. Thank you. Thanks, Darcy. Okay, I think we can wrap up this item. Then. Thank you all. Thanks very much, Melanie. Everybody else on the call who's been here? I saw Erica on here earlier. She's dropped off. It looks like, but yeah, nice nice work. We look forward to seeing more and helping helping row this boat. Thank you. Okay. It. Now we are at matters. Item 9 on the agenda matters from staff. We'll start with an update on the shared micro mobility program. And Alison is here with us to present this. Let me share my screen. Really quick!

[89:14] Alright! Can folks see my screen. Yes. Okay, wonderful. Good evening, Tab members. I'm Alison Moore Farrell, senior transportation planner with transportation and mobility. Today I'll be sharing with you an update on the city's shared micro mobility program. A key action in our transfusion master plan is to expand access to shared electric micro mobility. We work with B cycle to provide shared E bikes and line to provide shared E scooters. Micro mobility refers to ways of getting around for smaller scale travel like scooters, skateboards and bikes. shared services and connected technology provide more travel. Choices for more people shared micro mobility offers yet another multimodal transmission choice to advance our goals around reduced vehicle. Miles traveled and greenhouse gas emissions, and often serves as first and last mile solutions to connect, to transit.

[90:18] They help reduce single occupancy trips by filling gaps in our transmission network, such as the distance between bus stops and homes, office and schools. So let's start a little bit with the history in Boulder back in 2,011 the city worked with bcycle to bring shared bikes to boulder back. Then it was subsidized by the city as the performance of the system proved strong. We transition to a privatized model in 2021, where B cycle is allowed to operate in the city under user agreement and pays per trip fees to the city, that we in turn invest back into infrastructure and programming things like wayfinding signage and design changes. Lime charity scooters first operated under a pilot program starting in 2021, in which they were allowed to operate east of 20 Eighth Street.

[91:07] After a successful one-year pilot. The city expanded the operational area for Lyme citywide in Fall 2023. The Lyme system for E scooters is a dockless model with geofencing technology regulating use and parking in high activity areas. As I mentioned, B. Cycle began operating in Boulder in 2,011 they partnered with the city for many years to meet transmission goals in 2021. Bcycle finished their transition to a fully electric fleet as of 2024. Bcycle has over 300 bicycles in operation. In boulder and over 50 docking stations ridership significantly increased in 2021 for B cycle, and in every year since. in fact, every month since 2,019 has broken records year to year. This is primarily due to B cycle electrification efforts as well as every sieve student receiving A B cycle membership through their student fees, which also began in 2021.

[92:09] Though the student membership accounts for a significant increase, there is still an increase in ridership outside of student memberships year over year. So in a city of just over 100,000 residents, we had over 700,000 shared ebite trips last year, which is pretty impressive. and moving on shared micro mobility with Lyme E. Scooters. As mentioned earlier, the city conducted a one year pilot shared E. Scooter program, using Lyme as the E. Scooter provider. after conducting an evaluation and report boards and commissions as well as City Council, supported citywide expansion of the shared E. Scooter program. The geographic area of E. Scooter access increased threefold, and the number of E. Scooters reflected that expansion expanding from a cap of 300 E scooters to a cap of 900 over the period of a month.

[93:03] Data for our shared micro mobility programs is shared through a third party provider. Dr. Cog, the Denver Regional Council of Governments, contracts this third party provider for all local cities who have micro mobility providers. This helps us understand the metrics we are tracking, how they can align with our city goals and how we can use them to iterate on this program in the future seen above is utilization data from both the East Scooter pilot program and the citywide expansion. Again wanna highlight. These ridership numbers over the past 7 months. Over 300,000 trips were taking on E scooters. So let's walk more in depth about what occurred with this E. Scooter City wide expansion outside of just the flight, fleet size increase. With the program. Expansion came expanded equity zones and increased use of technology to manage operations and parking boulders. Equity zones for E scooters require 15% of the fleet to remain in identified equity zones to allow for better access for residents, often in areas that have low car ownership neighborhoods.

[94:08] Some of the technical tools in this toolkit are virtual in app guides and restrictions. These include no go zones which are locations where scooters cannot be used. You cannot ride in that zone, your vehicle will safely stop, and locking will be disabled. You have to walk the scooter out of that zone to resume writing. For example, Pearl Street, Mall, on the bricks, cemeteries, ball fields, and parts of Cu campus are no go zones. Then we have slow zones which are locations where scooters have a Max speed of 10 miles per hour. Examples of these are Thirteenth Street on University Hill, and the streets downtown that intersect Pearl Street, Mall. We also have no parking zones, which is where users are not allowed to park their E scooter. You you would be fined if you were to park. Here we have mandatory parking zones, which are locations where users are required to park each scooters in designated areas. That are mandatory parking crawls or lime groves. Which is you have to park in that area. Or, again, you will be fined. So we use technology to provide these restrictions virtually and manage this program.

[95:23] This map shows the mandatory parking zone and mandatory parking crawls or lime groves in the University Hill Commercial district and residential neighborhood. Recently, in response to ridership and end trip parking data as well as community input, city staff made changes to the University hill mandatory parking zone. In March 2024, the zone expanded from the commercial district to include a portion of the residential neighborhood where large amounts of ridership and parking was occurring. The primary in here was to manage parking and lime groves, so that riders were not parking scooters on lawns, sidewalks, or public right way. Given that these line scooters, these line groves, are below the curb, near intersections. They also act as a safety feature. Daylighting intersections without removing vehicle parking.

[96:09] Iterations like this are beneficial and also take a great deal of staff effort, including identifying appropriate locations that don't interfere with regular city functions like maintenance and snow removal emergency operations in a physically constrained neighborhood. Like University Hill. we continue to aim to make data. Driven decisions that are informed by community input city staff and Lyme staff are closely monitoring these iterations. Thus far we seen good compliance with this new expanded zone. The lime groves in downtown boulder were implemented last fall. All are above the curb. In strategically placed locations. City staff and line staff considered likely origin and destinations of Eastooter trips, including activity centers and the downtown transit station. We've seen good compliance in these locations, and we have regular conversations with the downtown boulder partnership regarding any issues that their members see

[97:03] also in downtown boulder. The team focused on creating virtual low speed zones where E scooters reducing speed to 10 miles per hour typically in higher pedestrian usage areas. The technology and insight that I highlighted, helped staff manage the expansion. In Fall 2023. Citywide expansion in August of last year unlocked many destinations that were not reachable in the pilot that had limited operations to areas east of 20 Eighth Street Cu Boulder also expanded access to campus after seeing the benefit of scooters, producing private vehicle and uber and lift trips as well as parking demand as shown in this animation. Citywide expansion made a significant impact on overall ridership. During the 2 time points one year apart. In the pilot phase, ridership was growing modestly. Then, after citywide expansion, expansion, we saw an exponential increase. Here we see that significant increase that I mentioned shared E. Scooter trips. Citywide shows the number of trips taken since the beginning of the program. In August 2021, over 525,000 shared E. Scooter trips have been taken since August 2021. The usage rates are considerably lower during the colder winter months, and higher usage is commiserate with nicer weather, and see you. Boulder school schedule

[98:24] usage was highest since September and October 2023, and has since lowered the highest ridership, month by far, was in October 2023, with almost 90,000 rides. Well, this amount of usage is beneficial to see from a first mile connectivity, perspective and expanding multimodal options in our community. Some community members have voiced concerns about the presence of scooters disrupting aesthetic preferences, misspark e scooters, blocking sidewalks and curb ramps for rider behavior and overcrowded parking crowds and manage parking zones. Staff recognized there would be a need to iterate and adjust the program after expansion, and upon hearing from the community and reviewing the usage data

[99:08] as citywide expansion has progressed. Staff have been monitoring charity scooter operations and working closely with Lyme to adjust, as issues have arisen. some of the adjustments to date include reducing the maximum E scooter speed in the downtown area from 12 miles per hour to 10 miles per hour. The downtown slow zone is bound by Walnut Street, Eleventh Street, Spoof, Spruce Street and Fifteenth Street. We've expanded the downtown Mandatory parking zone to include the civic center area. We've adjusted geofencing in the downtown area to address E. Scooter usage around and approaching the Pearl Street Mall non-operational zone. And, like I mentioned earlier, we've expanded the University Hill, mandatory parking zone and mandatory E scooter parking crawls due to high usage and dense parking of E scooters in the area. So here's some of the in app messaging that folks using the app will see in some of these areas that I mentioned, like the slow zone on our left here. Identifies that your scooter is slowing down, and you must go 10 miles per hour. Here.

[100:12] There's the mandatory parking zone, identifying that you need to park in these parking crawls when you're in this zone and on the right we have a warning message. And then a fine, if people do not park in a mandatory parking zone. I'm sorry, in a mandatory parking crawl when they're in a mandatory parking zone. So again, really utilizing this in that messaging to help guide the program. I know I've shared some impressive numbers, and the efforts completed by line, staff and city staff. However, I also want to highlight that this is a relatively new program that is in need and will continue to be in need of monitoring and iterations. I want to share community feedback, both positive and negative as well as le. Some lessons we've learned thus far. So some community feedback things, things we've had shared with us is that most folks agree with shared micro mobility as a policy and a way to meet city goals.

[101:08] We've heard that parking on sidewalks has been a challenge that, following some rules of the road and some neighborhoods has been a challenge. Some recent lessons learned is that communication is really key. Both focus communication on scooter users, but also communications for the whole community writers and non writers. So folks are seeing the same information, the same rule of the road, really understanding how this program is is meant to function. And we're also learning that data. Driven solutions allow us to understand more clearly what issues folks share with us. This back end dashboard that I mentioned earlier from Dr. Cog allows us to be both proactive and reactive with program iterations. And lastly, we need to allocate and accommodate the need for new infrastructure for a new mode. This is, you know, the past years is the first time that Boulder has had a shared E scooter program. So it's really important to understand what is needed to accommodate and make a program like this successful.

[102:08] So over. Over the years of the micro mobility program, we've had safety messaging and education. As a key part of this we have information on which wheels go where on our web page, and, like I mentioned, Lyme also conducts in that messaging, demonstrating how to use the scooter where to park the scooter. If you're in certain zones, and how to act in those zones. In addition to messaging through typical city channels, Staff conducted an education and courtesy campaign in Fall 2023 in concert with the citywide expansion. The city implemented this safety campaign that focused on shared E. Scooter usage and parking. This campaign included social and print media like lawn signs that encourage shared users of paths, rules of the road for micro mobility, where to park and how to ride. This campaign will continue and expand, location and content wise in spring 2024. As the weather warms and ridership increases, this will include a broader reach, including more focus on the downtown area and include both shared E scooters and shared ebikes.

[103:18] I'd like to touch briefly on the equity piece of our shared micro mobility program from the onset. Equitable approaches to shared micro mobility have been a priority for the city of Boulder Lyman, B cycle. Both offer multiple equity focus programs that center on income qualified users. B cycle, also partners with the Boulder Library to offer the book a bike program which allows folks to check out B cycle bikes for 7 days at a time with their library card at the main library, and all boulder housing partner residents receive free boulder, B cycle access lime is also required to have a certain percentage of their fleet available within equity focused areas shown in blue

[104:03] while the citywide E. Scooter expansion is still relatively new. We continue to monitor program performance. So we can iterate and make data driven decisions that are informed by community insights and input the shared micro mobility. We're fortunate to have a fantastic amount of data provided by the psych online that helps inform improvements and adjustments. This technology is flexible and allows us to be nimble. We continue to collect community feedback. So we can have a balanced program that aims to meet our community's goals and benefiting the community. An upcoming step is expanding our equity program offering. So this new mode can be a benefit to more folks. We continue to partner with B cycle and lyme to build upon these programs so they can benefit Boulder. And with that I've wrapped up our update on the shared micro mobility program. And I'd love to hear if you all have any questions and any other information that we can provide on the program. Thank you, Allison. Is there a project page for this on the on City Boulder's website?

[105:04] There is. I am happy to send that out, or I can. So I can find it. I just didn't wanna. Yes, there is. I was following along while you were doing this. I thought that was an excellent presentation. And so like suggestion that comes to mind is, if you could like I it's like it's too bad we don't. Maybe we do now. record video as well and save it. But just even having your audio and flipping through these slides as a presentation available on that city web page, I think, would be really great cause you covered, several questions that I have fielded in the last couple of months about this, that I was like, sure. It was. It was really informative and really quick, really made sense. I think right. There was a really great chunk of explaining where we're at how we got here. I thought it was fantastic, and if there was a way to just make it available to the public, so that you know those who are not here right now can hear it, I would. I would recommend that.

[106:02] Okay, yeah, no, that's that's terrific feedback. Thank you. It's we're always trying to figure out on the web page how to make it concise and informative. So so we'll work on that and and work on fleshing through our fa ques on the web page, too, to see if there's. Yeah. Other helpful information. There. Yeah, really, really great. one of the questions that I fielded recently was someone in Uni Hill? And he was like, why, why did this Lime group just show up in front of my house? And we talked about where it was, and like well, probably helping with daylighting. And he, you know, doubted that there was enough ridership, and I'm like, I'm sure, that there's data back there. And so that was a really great explainer. And it leads me to a question. We have also received. some emails from other people. I'm thinking, in particular, of of someone in Gos Grove, who we were, you know, in fairly re frequent contact with, and he was asking for a line growth. But he's asking us, is that the right way to do it. Does that get passed on to lime, is there, you know, a process by which sort of

[107:00] public interest and requests for a line grover, restricted parking area gets considered or implemented. Yeah. Data, driven, based on what the city and Lyme decide is is appropriate. Yeah, it's a great question, Tila. And it is primarily data driven. And the the platform that I mentioned from Dr. Cog is actually a public dashboard. So you you can. You know. Go ahead and look at as well, and I'll make sure it's linked on our web page. So it's really informative. And it it allows the public to see as well where a lot of usage is happening. And that's really where we we start to look at where the usages where folks are parking and really understanding kind of those high impact areas. And that's really what we're we're highlighting first, and then we also hear from community members. So I think it's a good point, and we can figure out a way to put on the web page of if you have, you know, if if you'd like a lime grover, anything like this, you can reach out to city staff. It doesn't mean we're we can put a lime grove on every corner

[108:03] because a piece of that is when you have a mandatory parking crawl. It needs to be on a mandatory parking zone. So it's a managed zone and it. This system wouldn't function as a dockless system if the entire city was a mandatory parking zone, right and and part of having a dockless system that's in concert with the B cycle. Doc system is that it can reach more folks, so the intention is not to have the entire city be a mandatory parking zone. And so we we certainly are are listening to folks when they say, you know, we'd like to figure out, manage parking here other options that Lyme has introduced in some areas. And we're actually looking at for Gos Grove. Is some some parking zones that are recommended, so they're not mandatory, but they're recommended. So when you're trying to park your scooter, and you see on your app. It's also a parking symbol that says, this is a recommended parking area. So it's encouraging folks. And we're also looking at ways to incentivize folks.

[109:04] I'm like, what if you could earn a buck if you. I. And that's and that's that's been a thought process. So you you know where I'm heading with that. So we're looking. If there's any you know, financial incentives or any incentives we can do through the app to park in these preferred parking areas without creating too large of a mandatory parking zone that the program has has kind of issues functioning that way. So so in in short, you know, we want folks to reach out to us. If they have questions, suggestions, anything like that, and I'll I'll make sure on our web page that we can kind of create a space for that. Thank you. I would appreciate that for that. Okay. Anyone else on tab have any feedback questions for on this item I see. No, I see no sounds good. You were so informative. That's all a question we have. Terrific. Well, you have my contact information. If there's any, follow up questions. And thanks so much for your time.

[110:03] Thank you. Okay. Next, an update on the pmp, the pavement management program on more head. And mobility of enhancements there is that gonna be. Daniel, Daniel, if you're with us. Yeah, thanks, Daniel. Now. Good evening, Tab members. My name is Daniel Sheeter, principal transportation planner in the planning division. I'm here tonight just with a quick update on the Morehead Project as a refresher for everyone and and also for the new Tab members. The Morehead mobility enhancements project is being coordinated with repaving as a cost effective and efficient way to make the street safer for all that use the corridor. And I wanna share just a just couple of bullet points here on the final project elements, and what the final design was based on, as well as an update on implementation and kind of next steps and timeline for for the build out of the project.

[111:04] So the final project elements include 3 Splitter Islands, 3 speed cushions and a buffered southbound bike lane, as well as no parking zone at intersections to improve visibility, and a new mid block crossing at the south end, near Table Mesa. We've also incorporated improve bike connections to the Skunk Creek underpass at the north end, near 20 Seventh Way. The final design was based on data collected along the Corridor City, wide design and construction standards. and what we heard from the community. the final layout, limited traffic calming to 6 locations to prioritize reducing speeds at key pedestrian crossings, and will implement a blended approach of both Splitter Islands and speed cushions, since there was not a clear community preference for one over the other construction of the Splitter Islands and the remaining concrete elements. Is actually complete as of last week. And so if you've been on Morehead recently, you'll have noticed those as well as temporary striping around the Splitter Islands to maintain a continuous northbound bike lane while we wait for repaving to begin.

[112:09] so that final phase of construction will begin in late May or early June after see you spring semester ends, and that'll begin with milling off the existing asphalt, followed by repaving, restriping, and installation of 3 speed cushions as well as the remaining enhancements. Immediately following. So all of the details are posted to the project website, encourage everyone to to take a look at that. We've shared that out to the community. As well. Through the relationships we've built up there and and contacts we've made. And I'm happy to answer any questions you all may have. As we near the finish line on implementation. Yeah, Trini. I just wanted to see if you were able to to look at the delineators, called the wave as part of something that could be like a temporary measure

[113:02] in lieu of just having paint separating cyclists from traffic. Yes, yeah, thanks for that suggestion. yeah, we. It's not currently in our toolkit for kind of products we use to to vertically separate bike lanes. I need to take it back to to our, to our team and and get their feedback on it. There may be strategic locations along the corridor, where we can consider it where we have the width to install, particularly at the northern end where we may explore a little bit of vertical separation, but but we are very constrained in terms of the space available to put any kind of vertical separation through the most of the corridor. Once you kind of more head straightens out and you and you continue because. I mean what what is really interesting about these things? And maybe I can share a link to it in the chat. It. They're delineators. So they're they're like

[114:04] they're stronger than flex posts. But the the interesting thing is that they were welcomed by every community that they've been installed in because they're really pretty. And so there's this like 2 way of looking at at this, and everybody that rode there felt safer, even though it doesn't offer the protection that a concrete barrier would. It's still kind of like this idea of having a visual indicator that that, you know, separates. and they're, I think, like $200. We're they're really not. They're very inexpensive, considering the I don't remember how big they are, but I remember thinking that it wouldn't be a huge investment, and then, when you're done, you can take them somewhere else and use them as like emergency delineators and other streets.

[115:02] yeah, I'll I'll put them on the chat so other no. Yeah, they're really interested. You emailed that to me trainee. Yeah. You. Illuminator. But thank you for looking into it, Daniel. It would be really cool. Yeah, we'll do. Yeah, that's a really innovative design, and agreed, there. they, they're a little more aesthetically pleasing than a white plastic post for sure. They're really neat. And it. It showed that drivers were also willing to be more respectful. You know, it was a really interesting thing that happened there. can I? Okay, I'm going to share it in the chat. Thank you. Places. Hey? Any other feedback for Dan Mike. Can you talk about the the North End? There was some discussion of

[116:00] maybe a little bit of a 2 way cycle track to get onto the into the underpass under Twenty-seventh way Discount Creek. and how that interfaces with that sort of intersection into the well. The first intersection on on more handed on the north side. What? What is that going to look like. Yeah, that would probably be best shown Mike, in a and a visual here. and I can screen share. So these are just the materials from our open house and and online questionnaire.

[117:00] and you're seeing the proposed striping on the figure on the right there. and this, as you, as you mentioned, is a short segment of 2 way cycle track on the south side of this figure. Kind of yeah. South side of Morehead. To connect the mid block crossing to the access ramp to the underpass. And that is driven by that. We don't have any space behind the curb where you see the sidewalk. The 5 foot sidewalk there on the left hand side to kind of route those contra flow cyclists to the underpass. If you are traveling westbound. So this makes that movement kind of provides dedicated space for those northbound cyclists on Moorhead, and the kind of pink dotted line here to access the underpass or cyclists who are kind of traveling. you know. Quite a few do cut across the parking lot today, cause there isn't a public path, along Skunk Creek, connecting to the frontage road, and and

[118:01] both directions of baseline there, so that counter flow movement, would be accommodated by by that short segment of cycle track. Okay, yeah. That's me cutting across that parking lot all the time. There's quite the social trail. Actually, you can see in the aerial right there that that speaks to that Yup. And so that is still in the preferred design. Yes. Yeah. Okay, I think I submitted a suggestion that those approach angles not be set at 90 degrees, but sort of reflect the desire lines. Yeah, we do need us, you know, maintain the the perpendicular crossing there. There will. There will be kind of re refinements to the final layout to give more striping queues. On that maneuver with turn arrows and you know directional errors. People don't understand what you want. It's just they won't do what you want.

[119:01] Well, I we hope that. You're saying rules as rules, and we have to follow the book. And the book says 90 degrees. Is that what you're saying? I mean to align it with the with the pedestrian crossing that also exists there. We we kind of want to match up the the bike crossing. But I see not. This will be incredibly helpful. I mean, I'm I went there, and I actually. No, I'm not doubting that it would be helpful. I'm just saying, I think, that cyclists are not going to come like up perpendicular. Make a hard left turn, and then. And it does align with the crossing. So I mean it does make sense, if if you are like all of a sudden stopping. But but it's a natural flow, in my opinion. I mean cause I navigated this, you know. Well, I just got told no, anyway, so it's alright. It. It seems like it. It it flows well because of the cross walk. You'll see. I mean, it's. Okay. any other feedback on this great. There's Mike. Okay?

[120:00] Oh, yeah, I'd make. I just clicked on the The link trainee set out for these wave delineators and just wanted to clarify right now there's there's no plan for any anything other than paint for the for the bike lanes. Is that correct, Daniel? Yes, yeah, we're looking at a short segment of vertical separation for the cycle track at this point with the resources we have, we're we're also space constrained, Mike, as you move further south. with a typical section of you know, narrow, southbound, buffered Bike Lane, the travel lanes, the northbound Bike Lane and the parking there to have the space for vertical separation. Through this project could be explored as as a separate effort, separate project in the future. So unfortunately, it's just with our timeline and resources for this project we were. We were constrained and

[121:02] and the space available there. So. Does look like these wave delineators, or even the the some other posts. there'd be room to put them in at some point. Possibly. We can. We can look at. Yeah, look at that. you know, potentially as phasing in on some segments. But at this point they're not not part of the the implementation for May or early June. Right? Okay. Thank you. Daniel. Thank you. Okay. Next last matter I have on the agenda is the Valmont multi-use path construction. Hi, Lindsay. Hi, Hi, everyone! I'm Lindsay, Mars. I'm a principal project manager in the Capital Projects Work group. I'm going to share my screen. Maybe. Faithful. And you're gonna get to know Lindsay real well, cause she's also leading Iris Seep.

[122:01] Say she was one of the people standing. Yeah. Snow. I wanted it share. But I think it's gonna share my zoom screen. Does it just share? Does that one have. That's your presentation. Yeah. Okay? So I'm here to chat with you about Valmont Road. Multi use path. This is a multi use path that will connect the existing pedestrian bridge over South Boulder Creek to 60 First Street. It's very short. Just want to kind of give you an update of where we're at on the project. And so this is a new multi use path. It's near Valmont Road. It will provide an off street connection from 60 First street to that existing pedestrian bridge, and then a multi use path connection, and then all the other paths that are over there by South Boulder Creek. And so this will be a 10 foot wide. Concrete path. There'll be a new crosswalk on the east side of Valmont Road and Butte Mill intersection. There'll also be a crosswalk on Butte Mill Road that will connect this into Stasio drive.

[123:02] There is a ditch crossing as part of this project which we're actually just gonna use the existing structure that will make some modifications to the walls and the railings that there's actually not a railing currently. So we'll actually be installing the new railing, and then there'll be a temporary connection to to Indian Road. We won't actually cross 60 First Street at this time that that potential crossing would come as part of Boulder County's project as they continue to work on the planning for the boulder to Erie Regional trail, which is the Bert Trail. and for this project our project partners. We're Boulder County City, Open Space and mountain Parks, Rtd. And then the Butte Mill and Jones Donnelly ditches. And so let me show you a picture that describes everything I just stepped through. And so the path starts on the west end at the existing pedestrian bridge, and it comes up alongside Valmont Road, and then we we peel off and we're on Rt's property. We're actually gonna be adjacent to or on top of the existing rail line. There. We'll do

[124:09] We'll be at the we'll cross Indian Road will actually use that roadway as part of the path, cross the tracks, and then connect out to 60 first, which is that temporary connection until Boulder County comes through with the future Burt Bert project, and then we do have a crosswalk of cross Velmont Road, on the east side of that intersection that connects down to Viewville Road or near Stasio Drive. and then this is the project, timeline. So we did all of our conceptual design, 2017 to 2020, and the Rtd. Agreement, where we allowed us to use their existing railroad alignment was finalized in 2020 we completed design, and what we started design in per minute are just completing our design and permitting. And so I'm we're looking to advertise for construction this month, and that would allow us to start construction in June of 2024,

[125:02] and that's everything I have. Yeah. Lindsey. What? I've definitely heard fairly recently from a couple of families who, you know in theory, wanna have their kids bike to school or bike around there. But that section of Belmont Road, because the old news paths in the area just sort of dead end. There is a bit of a no go zone. For the parents 60 First Street remains a challenge. But I will note that this connection would serve Temple Grandin School. It looks like which is a middle and high school for predominantly autistic youth. And there's yeah, I think there is a call for it. I'm I'm thrilled to see this. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Yeah, I'm thrilled, too. I often by out there. And it's weird the way that path just ends. I hadn't even thought about there being an old

[126:00] railroad track out there, I guess that's totally defunct. We have our track. It is. It's very defunct. And it's very overgrown. You wouldn't even see it. You'd have you have to really check back to see it. Trainee. Do you have any comment? No, no, I'm really happy. Just like you unmute, sir. I just wanted to. Alright, Darcy! Go ahead! Yeah, I just wanna add a little thanks for this as well. I mean, it's it. Is that that path to nowhere that I'm I'm really glad will be linked up. And especially as the like, you said, the Bird Trail comes online and gets hopefully developed. Within the next, you know, many years. But it is. It is great to see these these connections built out. So thanks for your work on this. Yeah, you're welcome. I agree. The Bert trail is very exciting. I was on that committee. Because of this kind of end of the project. And yeah, that will be. That would be in a baby.

[127:02] Hey! Okay. Thanks very much. Yeah, thank, you. I think that wraps up matters from staff. Yes, okay, matters from the board pretty much. Just a little bit of housekeeping, I think, because last month we had typically around this time of year we discuss occasionally, tab members are asked to collaborate with other boards or send an envoy or liaison to you know, temporary outreach group, for instance, like for the airport discussions and things like that. And so we just wanted to cover. Who's sort of on deck, and who's who's waiting in the wings for when they these meetings occur they're pretty infrequent. And I think at the moment we only have 2, and I didn't write them down. So, Meredith, can you help remind me what we're looking for? 0. People. Which I can continue to volunteer for. Okay. So there was the vision 0, like, out where each.

[128:02] Community partnership, committee. Thank you. And so I think that last month we decided that Trini was the primary, and since I was the only person continuing, I would be the secondary. I have served on it for a while. It hasn't been terribly active recently, but if someone else is interested in being a backup. And of course there's nothing in preventing both 2 tab members from going to any one of these meetings. And when they happen they they tend to be kind of interesting. So someone else wants to be on the vision 0 community partnership. It's usually with neighboring cities as well as there's often a representative from state. state highway patrol community boulder community health partnership boulder county so just people putting their heads together about, you know, vision, 0 progress and actions that's of interest to anyone. I'm happy to hand off my second place seat. But I'm also happy to just carry on

[129:01] cool. I'll just carry on. Then. What was the other one? Meredith. The picc. Yes, of course. So pedestrian crossing treatment implementation guidelines. Update. I think. And I think we'll be. So there's gonna be some some public outreach happening around that hopefully, also incorporating stuff that that the former Pedestrian Action Committee did. I think, Darcy, you were involved in that right. You were presenting to that. Yeah, I was. I was involved with that. I'd be happy to be the alternate if. Well, we need. We need a primary and an alternate, I think, still so. Happy to be the primary for that cause. It's, you know, a top concern. So yeah, happy to do that. Okay. Great. Oftener. How often does that group meet. No idea. It's gonna be starting up, and it's not gonna be too long. I think, right.

[130:01] That's right. Yeah, Devin, if you're there and want to chime in on just cadence. And what we're if we have an idea of kind of what we're looking, as far as commitment to that. Yeah. Yeah, thank you. I think we're looking at similar to the speed limit setting project, which I know Gila was had some involvement in that. But we're looking at, I think, 2 or 3 meetings of that group. And the first I think we're targeting for May. Yeah, great. I'd be happy to represent us. So I realize I'm a bit remiss because we only have 4 out of 5 members here. And you know, from what I understand, this might actually be right up Jen Oaks Alley. Right. So, Mike, not to pull the rug out from under you. But I think we're gonna leave Darcy as primary for right now and then revisit if we need a second, or if we whatever you know that's I think that's where I'm cheers, cheers, prerogative. I'm gonna leave it there for now. are there any other outreachie

[131:01] liaisony things we need to consider at the moment. Those are the only 2 I'm aware of. Meredith. Oh, not to my knowledge. Okay? Well, and again, we can. Maybe, you know, next month, if we have all 5 of us, if there's something else that comes up. It would be more appropriate then, anyway. And then the last thing was the 2024 tab retreat. I know I've talked to Darcy and Mark Mike about the sort of availability on days training. I'm not sure if I've touched base with you, I think I did. No, I did not. So typically we have a retreat pretty shortly after we see the new members. It could be in person. This one will be my eighth one. And it's my least favorite thing to do. I'm gonna be frank about that. So they have been sometimes just all day in person meetings. But there's, you know, food? And then, of course, with Covid, they've been remote. They're often one time we had to kind of reconvene and do it in 2 different sessions. We have had a mediator moderator. And so it's it's yet to be unseen yet to be seen what we're how we're gonna organize it this year, I would say. Have in mind at least a 4 h chunk of your time.

[132:21] Natalie's frowning at that. But that sounds about right. Sorry I was. I was thinking. Oh, great! And making money. Yeah. And I know. So Michael. He was hoping for 8 h. Yeah, all day. Day. But I'm. I'm thinking, sometime in the middle of May, and what occasionally we have done is, as you know, as committee Member Board members. We meet on the second Monday of the month, but we hold the fourth Monday of the month sort of open for other business, and often that's when we decide to schedule the retreat. So I'm thinking about Monday, May twentieth, but really kind of anytime in that week that works with staff and so, if if you could avoid for the moment scheduling anything. Really, you know, big vacations where you're not gonna have any Wi-fi or anything.

[133:11] and we might choose to do it in person. We'll we'll kind of circle back. I will circle back informally with you guys as as thinking is happening. That is the that is the the third Monday, but that's better than the fourth. better than the fourth. The fourth is Memorial Day. Royal day. Oh, yeah, okay, thirteenth and twenty-seventh. Okay, hold on. Look at the twentieth. But yeah, the twentieth works great. Okay, well, we'll see what works with staff as well. But you know, let's let's try to think about the beginning of that week there, as a time for our. So you guys know that from the thirteenth to the fifteenth I'm in Washington, DC. We're hosting 120 families to go speak at the Capitol, so I cannot be available. But I could do some fixed or the twentieth. Okay. Okay, oh, so.

[134:00] Does that mean? You will not be at the next Tab meeting? Then, on the thirteenth. The thirteenth of no, I I I probably won't be able to. I'll I'll have to see. But I mean it's just I can't. I can't dedicate 4 HI mean, I could. Sure. Call in and check in, and so forth. Okay? And then I'm also interested in. If there are any particular topics or focus areas that you, as cab members, want us to be thinking about and talking about at our retreat. I would say, before anything before you kind of blurt anything out. I would like to assign a little bit of homework, and that is at least read a synopsis or summary of City Council's retreat and their discussion items and their areas of focus and see what sort of resonates with you. Because one thing I would love to have this year's tab be able to do is be effective at something and actually put its arms around something we can accomplish.

[135:02] Sometimes in these retreats are are the consensus ideas. The flow to the top are really terrific and laudable, but unachievable. And I would like to kind of focus us on on what's achievable and amenable to you know, progress and action. That doesn't mean we have to completely achieve what you know the world domination that we want. But to make sure that it does sort of align with and cohere with what city Council has already determined is going to be sort of the focus areas and direction for the city and for the Staff and city departments this year. So I will send out a reminder email in about 10 days. Asking for you to give me individual feedback. If you have any, if you have any focus areas or ideas or things that you want us to consider on the Tab retreat. And we will definitely be back and forth about what what that looks like and how it looks. I will be in in touch with you. About that. But

[136:06] first, you know, to sort of get your head around where where that looks like the city is going under. The current council is your homework. and I'll usually in 10 days, and we won't have done our homework. And then I'll email you again in 14 days, and we will. Very good, very good. I was just gonna say it was exciting to see transportation so prominently show up in in the Council Retreat. So yeah, great. I I would add that although the the retreat is a good place to start, it doesn't include everything. For example. I believe they didn't touch on parking, but that's because they already had agreed on that on their agenda parking reform. So. It was I. Yeah, I think we discussed it a little bit on maybe Wednesday on the first day. to to confirm that it was a work plan. Item.

[137:05] Okay. That's all I have on the retreat. At the moment any other items open comment from the board, any other burning issues, questions, recipes. hopes, wishes, dreams. I'm just liking the hour early. Super. Cool right, I know. So one like. I mean. Yeah. It is. It's. Okay. Okay. Hey? Well, with that I will entertain a motion to adjourn. I second. My. Has to move right. Great. Thank you, Darcy. You're in the meeting. Adjourn, 3 s. Yes. Been delightful to meet you. Hopefully, Jen can join this next time. But until then oh, probably see you around town. Wonderful. Thank you.

[138:01] Good night, everyone, thank you. Bye, bye. Aye.