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BY THE VICE CHAIR KELLY AND COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE MAYOR PROTE ALTAR HAS JOINED ME HERE ON THE DIAS COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN WILL NOT BE IN ATTENDANCE TODAY.
BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I JUST WANTED TO GIVE PEOPLE A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF, UM, WE'RE GOING TO APPROVE THE MINUTES.
WE'RE GOING TO TAKE UP THE SCHEDULE FOR NEXT YEAR'S MOBILITY COMMITTEE MEETING DATES, UH, GET AN UPDATE FROM THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION CHAIR, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA GO TO ITEM FIVE AND UPDATE ON VISION ZERO.
JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS WHICH ORDER WE'RE TAKING THINGS UP IN, UM, MAYOR PRO ALTER IS GONNA BE LEAVING A LITTLE BIT EARLY BEFORE THE END OF THE MEETING, SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE COVERED THAT ONE IN AN APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF TIME.
WE HAVE NO SPEAKERS SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION TODAY.
[1. Approve the minutes of the Mobility Committee meeting of October 6th 2022.]
ONE IS TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF THE MOBILITY COMMITTEE MEETING FOR OCTOBER 6TH, 2022.MOTION MADE BY VICE CHAIR KELLY, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? MAYOR PROTE ALTAR.
ALL IN FAVOR? IT'S UNANIMOUS WITH COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN.
[2. Selection of 2023 Mobility Committee meeting dates.]
ITEM NUMBER TWO IS SELECTION OF THE 2023 MOBILITY COMMITTEE MEETING DATES.WE HAVE CIRCULATED THOSE LIST OF DATES.
I KNOW IT WAS FLAGGED BY A MAYOR PROTO ALTAR THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO ADJUST THE AUGUST 31ST MEETING.
UM, WE HAD CHANGED OUR COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE TO ACCOMMODATE SOME OTHER SCHEDULING CONFLICTS FOR LATE 2023.
AND SO WE JUST WANTED TO FLAG THAT WE WILL PROBABLY BE MOVING THAT DATE TO AUGUST 24TH.
SO WE'RE JUST GONNA FLIP WHAT MEETING DATE WAS GOING TO BE A COUNCIL MEETING WITH A MOBILITY COMMITTEE AND, AND TO CHANGE THOSE.
I DIDN'T MEAN TO BE CONFUSING ON RAISING THAT FOR YOU.
WE STILL HAVEN'T CHANGED THE COUNCIL MEETING.
UM, CUZ THEY, WHEN WE DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS THE WEEK AFTER BUDGET, THEY WANTED TO WAIT UNTIL THE NEW COUNCIL WAS SEATED TO MAKE ANY OTHER CHANGES AT ONCE, BUT IT WOULD LIKELY BE THE 31ST WHEN WE HAVE THE SCHEDULED THE NEW MEETING.
SO THAT, THAT WILL LIKELY SHIFT.
BUT WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY CHANGED THE COUNCIL MEETING YET.
SO, SO FOR TODAY, LET'S SET IT AT AUGUST 24TH, BUT SAY T B D JUST IN CASE ANYTHING HAPPENS WITH THOSE COUPLE OF MEETING DATES OUTSIDE OF THAT.
THAT'LL BE CURRENTLY THE SAME AS THE COUNCIL MEETING, WHICH IS FINE.
WE'LL CHANGE IT LATER IF WE NEED TO.
AND THEN THERE IS A MEETING ON NOVEMBER 16TH, BUT THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES IS MEETING THAT WEEK.
AND SO, UH, MAYOR PROTE ALTER WON'T BE PRESENT FOR THAT MEETING.
UM, BUT JUST WANTED TO FLAG THERE, THERE MIGHT BE SOME CONFLICTS THERE.
SO ANOTHER MEETING DATE IF WE DECIDED TO MOVE IT THAT BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THAT MID-NOVEMBER MEETING OF THE MOBILITY COMMITTEE.
[3. Update from the chair of the Urban Transportation Commission (UTC) regarding recent UTC actions.]
MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER THREE, AN UPDATE FROM THE CHAIR OF THE UTC.I SEE MR. CHAMPION IS HERE WITH US.
UH, SO UTC MET, UM, AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS MONTH.
IT WAS NOT A VERY DENSE AGENDA, SO WE CAN GO THROUGH IT ACTUALLY PRETTY QUICKLY.
WE HAD A BRIEFING THAT WE HAD TWO BRIEFINGS, ONE OF WHICH YOU WERE GOING TO HAVE IN A LITTLE WHILE ON VISION ZERO.
WE HAD A FAIR AMOUNT OF DISCUSSION ON THAT AROUND, UH, WHERE THE, THE BULK OF SEVERE ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES OCCURRED.
LEARNED SOME INTERESTING STATS THAT IT IS OVERNIGHTS AND, UM, IT IS MOSTLY ALONG STATE OWNED, UH, HIGHWAYS OR STATE OWNED ROADWAYS.
SO THERE WAS A VERY INTERESTING BIT OF DATA.
UM, WE TALKED A BIT ABOUT THINGS LIKE SLIP LANES AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THEY ARE NOT AS DANGEROUS AS, OR THERE AREN'T AS MANY SEVERE CRASHES IN, I THINK ALMOST NO FATALITIES IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
SO THERE WAS, THERE WAS A, UH, AN EXCELLENT AMOUNT OF DATA WITH ENOUGH STORY IN THERE AS WELL TO UNDERSTAND HOW THOSE PIECES FIT TOGETHER.
SO THAT WAS A, THAT WAS A VERY GOOD DISCUSSION.
I THINK Y'ALL PROBABLY HAVE A VERY SIMILAR DISCUSSION.
WE ALSO HAD A PRESENTATION ON PLACE MAKING, WHICH IS PART OF THE ATDS GENERAL, UM, UH, INITIATIVES TO, TO MAKE THE CITY A, UM, MORE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN HANG OUT OUTSIDE IN THE PUBLIC SPACE.
WE ALSO HAD A QUITE A FAIR AMOUNT OF DISCUSSION IN THE, UM, SECTION THAT'S CALLED CREATIVE CROSSWALKS, WHICH, UH, THE PRIDE CROSSWALK IS THE MOST FAMOUS ONE, BUT THERE ARE OTHER CROSSWALKS.
AND IT TURNS OUT THAT YOU CAN, UM, SPONSOR A CROSSWALK, WHICH IS BASICALLY TO TAKE ON THE MAINTENANCE OPERATION COSTS FOR IT.
AND THERE WAS A FAIR AMOUNT OF DISCUSSION OVER WHAT ORGANIZATIONS COULD DO THAT IF THERE WERE GRANTS OR NOT TO HELP ORGANIZATIONS WHO MIGHT, UM, WANT TO MAKE THINGS SAFER.
WE DISCUSSED HOW THOSE MIGHT OVERLAP WITH VISION ZERO, UM, GOALS IN TERMS OF MAKING CROSSWALKS IN A SAFER PLACE BY MAKING THEM MORE CREATIVE, MORE COLORFUL, YOU, MORE, UH, ATTRACTIVE SO THAT PEOPLE ENGAGE WITH THEM MORE QUICKLY.
AND, UM, THERE WERE SOME ADDITIONAL ONES LIKE ART BOXES AND VARIOUS OTHER PLACEMAKING SPACES.
SO I THINK THE CREATIVE CROSSWALKS WERE THE ONE THAT GATHERED THE MOST ATTENTION.
UM, AND THOSE WERE THE TWO AGENDA ITEMS
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THAT WE HAD.AND, UM, I THINK THAT, IS IT SORT OF SHORT AND SWEET? ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU FOR THAT UPDATE.
DO WE HAVE QUESTIONS FOR MR. CHAMPION? IT DOES NOT APPEAR, SO THANKS FOR BEING WITH US.
IT, AND JUST AS A MATTER OF BOOKKEEPING, I REALIZED WE DID NOT MAKE A MOTION ON THE COMMITTEE MEETING CALENDAR.
WOULD WE LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THAT MADE BY MAYOR PROTO ALTAR, SECONDED BY VICE CHAIR KELLY.
ALL FOUR OF US ARE VOTING TO APPROVE THAT.
[5. Update on Vision Zero safety measures and projects.]
AND NEXT ITEM UP IS GOING TO BE THE VISION ZERO SAFETY MEASURES AND PROJECTS UPDATE.THANK YOU CHAIR AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
I AM THE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY OFFICER WITH THE AWESOME TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME BACK AND GIVE YOU AN UPTAKE.
CAN YOU GIMME A MOMENT, PLEASE? CHAIR ELLIS, CAN YOU SEE ME? YES, MA'AM.
SO I AM, I I I WAS HAVING A COMPUTER ISSUE AND DIDN'T GET TO RAISE MY HAND WHILE THE PREVIOUS, WHILE MR. CHAMPION, CHAMPION WAS STILL HERE.
I ACTUALLY DO HAVE A QUESTION.
CAN WE GO BACK TO THAT BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD PLEASE? YES.
IS MR. CHAMPION STILL ON THE WEBEX? I THINK HE MAY HAVE ALREADY LEFT THE WEBEX.
UH, LOUIS LEFT TRANSPORTATION SAFETY OFFICER, PLEASURE TO BE HERE.
WANTED TO JUST TRY TO GET THROUGH THIS SOMEWHAT QUICKLY TODAY.
I KNOW YOU'VE GOT A PACKED SCHEDULE AND WE'LL GO THROUGH THE SLIDES.
YOU'VE GOT A COPY OF THE DECK AND GLAD TO LEAVE A LOT OF TIME FOR DISCUSSION ON ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
BEFORE WE GET STARTED WITH ALL THE DATA AND INFORMATION AS WE USUALLY DO, JUST A REMINDER OF WHY WE DO THE WORK THAT WE DO IN MOBILITY, AND PARTICULARLY AROUND VISION ZERO WORK.
WE LOSE WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY TO THESE MOSTLY PREVENTABLE CAR CRASHES ON A REGULAR BASIS.
THESE ARE PEOPLE FROM ALL RACES, ALL BACKGROUNDS, ALL INCOME LEVELS, ALL AGES AS YOU CAN SEE.
UH, THE REALITY IS THIS IS A PHYSICS PROBLEM.
WHEN WE HAVE, UH, A LARGE VEHICLE, UH, AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED, IT'S GONNA CAUSE, UH, SEVERE OUTCOMES IN THOSE COLLISIONS WHEN THEY DO HAPPEN.
WE DO USE A PUBLIC HEALTH METRIC CALLED YEARS OF LIFE LOST.
THERE'S 3,200 YEARS OF LIFE THAT THESE FOLKS WILL NOT GET TO EXPERIENCE RELATIVE TO AN AVERAGE LIFE SPAN.
SO AS WE THINK ABOUT UPCOMING HOLIDAYS AND AS WE THINK ABOUT UPCOMING TRAVEL PLANS AND ALL THE EXCITEMENT WE HAVE, UH, THESE ARE FOLKS THAT ARE GONNA HAVE FAMILIES AND FRIENDS THAT WON'T BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THAT WITH THEM.
SO VISION ZERO PROGRAM HERE IS A SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH.
UH, THAT MEANS WE'RE LOOKING AT NOT ONLY JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, ONE PARTICULAR ASPECT LIKE ROADS OR PEOPLE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE WHOLE SYSTEM AND UNDERSTANDING THAT IT IS A SYSTEMIC ISSUE.
AND WE'VE GOTTA ADDRESS NOT ONLY THE CRASH ITSELF WHEN IT HAPPENS, NOT ONLY THE HISTORY OF CRASHES, BUT LOOKING AT THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE AND BEING PROACTIVE AS MUCH AS WE CAN ACROSS ALL THESE DIFFERENT TOPICAL AREAS.
IT MEANS WE SHOULD NOT ACCEPT JUST AS THE COST OF GETTING AROUND THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE OR SUFFER LIFE-CHANGING INJURIES.
WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE HUMAN BODY'S VULNERABLE CAN ONLY ACCEPT SO MUCH KINETIC ENERGY WHEN A CRASH HAPPENS.
WE ALSO KNOW THAT HUMANS MAKE MISTAKES.
WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE BEHIND THE WHEEL AND NOBODY IS PERFECT.
AND SO HOW DO WE DESIGN A SYSTEM AND OPERATE A SYSTEM TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE MISTAKES DON'T HAVE TO BE FATAL OR, UH, CREATE A LIFE CHANGING INJURY? SEPARATING USERS IN TIME AND SPACE IS A CRITICAL PIECE TO THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH.
IT'S WHY YOU SEE THE INVESTMENTS THAT WE MAKE CONSISTENTLY IN SIDEWALKS AND SHARED USE PATHS, PROTECTED BIKE FACILITIES.
THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THE SIGNAL TIMING CHANGES THAT WE DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE THOSE CONFLICT POINTS, PARTICULARLY AT INTERSECTIONS.
SO THAT'S A KEY ASPECT OF WHAT WE TRY TO ACCOMPLISH.
AND THE LAST POINT HERE, WE REALLY CAN'T PREDICT WHERE THE NEXT CRASH IS GONNA HAPPEN.
I CAN'T TELL YOU TOMORROW WHERE THE NEXT FATAL CRASH WILL BE, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE KNOW THE HISTORY OF CRASHES, WE KNOW THE CONDITIONS THAT CAN EXIST, AND THAT'S WHY WE TRY TO LOOK AT THE, THE STREET AND ROADWAY NETWORK AS A WHOLE TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THOSE
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF FOLKS ASK ME, HOW'S VISION ZERO GOING AND, AND WHAT, WHAT'S YOUR TEAM DOING? AND I TELL 'EM, YOU KNOW, MY TEAM AS A TEAM OF FIVE AND WE'RE IN A DEPARTMENT WITH A FEW HUNDRED EMPLOYEES, BUT VISION ZERO, IT SHOULD BE AND CAN AND NECESSARILY HAS TO BE A, A HOLISTIC APPROACH ACROSS ALL THESE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THAT WE HAVE AT THE CITY AND OUR PARTNERS WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES.
UNDERSTANDING THAT ALL OF THESE PIECES COME TOGETHER FOR A SAFE SYSTEM TO ACTUALLY WORK AND TO ACHIEVE THESE NEW OUTCOMES THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE.
WE'VE GOTTA HAVE CHANGES ACROSS THE BOARD TO REALLY SEE THOSE, UH, SIGNIFICANT CHANGES OVER TIME.
THIS IS A GRAPHIC FROM VISION ZERO NETWORK, TALKING ABOUT
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KIND OF MOST US CITIES AND WHERE VISION ZERO CITIES ARE IN THE US IN PARTICULAR, AND WHERE WE NEED TO HEAD.AND WHAT WE TALK A LOT ABOUT IS THE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGES THAT ARE NEEDED TO REALLY GET TO THE OUTCOMES WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE.
WE'VE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS AT THE LOCATIONS THAT WE'RE DOING WORK AT.
HOWEVER, IT'S GONNA TAKE A LOT MORE CHANGE, SCALING UP AND DOING DIFFERENT TYPES OF THINGS IN OUR ROADWAY NETWORK TO REALLY SEE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES OVER TIME AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE TO THE OUTCOMES WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE.
WE'RE GONNA DIVE INTO A LITTLE BIT TO THE DATA.
UM, TRY TO GO AGAIN SOMEWHAT QUICKLY.
SO JUST HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF THE TRENDS THAT WE'VE SEEN YEAR OVER YEAR THROUGH OCTOBER.
WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASE IN PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES.
THAT'S BEEN AN INCREASE OVER TIME HERE IN AUSTIN.
IT'S ALSO WHAT WE'RE SEEING STATEWIDE AND NATIONALLY.
WE'VE ALSO SEEN AN INCREASE IN MOTORCYCLIST FATALITIES.
WE'VE ALREADY EXCEEDED LAST YEAR'S TOTAL AND WE'RE, WE'RE STILL A COUPLE OF MONTHS OUT FOR THE END OF THIS YEAR.
SO SEEING THAT SOMEWHAT THAT SHIFT THERE IN THE MODES.
SO AT THIS POINT, UH, THIS YEAR COMPARED TO LAST YEAR, WE'VE HAD THE SAME NUMBER, NUMBER OF FATAL CRASHES, NOT THE SAME NUMBER OF FATALITIES.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN NEXT SLIDE.
AND JUST A REMINDER, LAST YEAR WAS A RECORD YEAR OF HER FATALITIES IN AUSTIN.
SO AS WE GO TO THE INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE IMPACTED, WE'RE SEEING THE SAME SORTS OF THINGS, SAME SORTS OF PATTERNS, AGAIN, PEDESTRIANS AND MOTORCYCLISTS HAVING, UM, A HIGHER NUMBER THAN WHERE THEY WERE LAST YEAR.
AND SEEING A SIMILAR TREND WITH, UH, SERIOUS INJURIES AS WELL FOR THOSE PARTICULAR MODES.
AS WE RECOGNIZE THAT IMPACT ON PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF VEHICLES, THERE'S SOME NATIONAL STATS THAT COME OUT, HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT INCREASE GROWING.
THE, THE 40 50% INCREASE IN PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLIST FATALITIES RELATIVE TO A 15 20% INCREASE IN OVERALL FATALITIES ON THE NETWORK.
WE CHOSE TO DO A SIMILAR ANALYSIS HERE IN AUSTIN WITH THE DATA THAT WE HAVE.
WE HAD TO CHANGE THE, THE SCALE OF THIS GRAPH A LITTLE BIT.
WE'VE SEEN A HUNDRED PERCENT INCREASE IN THE PAST 11 YEARS IN PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES.
AND SOME OF THAT'S BECAUSE THE NUMBERS ARE A LITTLE BIT SMALLER THAN A NATIONAL LEVEL, BUT THAT IS REFLECTIVE OF HOW MUCH OF AN INCREASE WE'VE SEEN IN THE PAST DECADE HERE RELATIVE TO OVERALL FATALITIES BEING ABOUT A 50% INCREASE, AS WAS MENTIONED EARLIER BY UTC C CHAIR.
WE'VE ALSO NOTED, UH, SOME SOMETHING OF A TREND THAT WE'VE SEEN AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO MONITOR OVER TIME AND THE CHANGE OF WHERE THESE CRASHES ARE HAPPENING, UH, ON SYSTEM ROADWAYS.
OUR STATE OWNED TECH DO ROADWAYS, OFF SYSTEM ROADWAYS ARE THE CITY OWNED AND MANAGED ROADWAYS.
WE DO MANAGE SOME OF THE SIGNAL TIMING AND THINGS ON SOME OF THE FRONTAGE ROADS FOR TECH DOT.
SO, UH, JUST LOOKING AT THE OWNERSHIP OF THE ROADWAY.
AND AGAIN, IT'S NOT BECAUSE THE WORDS ON A PAPER SAY THIS ORGANIZATION OWNS IT VERSUS THE OTHER.
IT'S REALLY ABOUT THE WAY THAT THOSE ROADS ARE DESIGNED.
AND WHEN YOU'RE DESIGNED FOR MOVING AS MANY VEHICLES AS FAST AS POSSIBLE THROUGH A SPACE WITH WIDE NUMBER OF LANES WIDE RIGHT OF WAY, YOU'RE GONNA SEE DIFFERENT OUTCOMES OVER TIME.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING PLAY OUT AS WE CONTINUE TO HAVE A FLAT OR DECREASING TREND LINE HERE ON OUR LOCAL STREETS, WE'RE SEEING SOMEWHAT OF AN INCREASE, PARTICULARLY UP TO THREE OUTTA FOUR, USUALLY TWO OUTTA THREE NOW THREE OUTTA FOUR HAPPENING ON SYSTEM ROADWAYS.
SO JUST SOME OF THE KEY TAKEAWAYS.
WE LOOK AT FATAL AND SERIOUS INJURY NUMBERS AS PART OF OUR VISION ZERO GOAL.
THEY'RE UP ABOUT 6% THROUGH THROUGH OCTOBER.
UH, FATAL CRASHES, SAME NUMBER AS LAST YEAR.
SERIOUS INJURY CRASHES UP ABOUT 7% EARLY AND, UH, EVENING AND EARLY MORNING HOURS.
THAT 8:00 PM TO 4:00 AM TIMEFRAME ACCOUNT FOR OVER HALF OF THOSE FATAL CRASHES.
AND THAT'S ONLY ABOUT A THIRD OF THE DAY.
SO WE KNOW THAT THOSE EVENING LATE HOUR CONDITIONS, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT LIGHTING, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IMPAIRMENT, THERE ARE SOME FACTORS OVERNIGHT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO CONTINUE TO ADDRESS THAT REALLY LEADS TO MORE FATALITIES HAPPENING IN THOSE, UH, EARLY MORNING HOURS.
AND JUST MENTIONING EVEN HIGHER NUMBER FOR PEDESTRIANS IN THAT TIME OF DAY.
WE'VE SEEN THAT INCREASING PERCENTAGE OF FATAL CRASHES ON, ON SYSTEM ROADWAYS.
WE'VE SEEN THOSE PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES STARTING TO EXCEED MOTORIST FATALITIES.
FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN THAT, UH, IN, IN THE FIVE YEARS HERE.
AND, UH, ALTERNATIVE DATA SOURCES WE'RE CONTINUING TO USE AS MUCH DATA AS POSSIBLE LOOKING OUTSIDE JUST CRASH REPORTS, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN GET A BETTER PICTURE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE GROUND.
ONE EXAMPLE OF THAT, WE'VE CONNECTED WITH THE TRAVIS COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE AND WE'VE LOOKED AT THE TOXICOLOGY RESULTS THAT COME IN FROM ALL FATAL CRASHES THAT, THAT THEY SEE IN THEIR OFFICE.
WE'RE SEEING A MUCH HIGHER NUMBER OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL BEING PRESENT IN THOSE FATAL CRASH VICTIMS THAN WHAT WE'RE SEEING ON CRASH REPORTS.
SO CONTINUING TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE FULL PICTURE AND, AND, AND EXPLORING DIFFERENT DATA SOURCES TO TRY TO GET TO THAT FULL PICTURE.
SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING HERE IN AUSTIN.
UM, WE'VE GOT SOME ENGINEERING AS OUR KEY FOCUS AND SOME, SOME HIGHLIGHTS HERE.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE COMPLETED I THINK 20 INTERSECTION SAFETY PROJECTS SINCE WE STARTED DOING THIS WORK IN 2015.
AND IN JUST THIS YEAR ALONE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE FOUR PROJECTS COMPLETED.
TWO ARE IN CONSTRUCTION NOW TWO ARE SCHEDULED TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION IN A COUPLE MONTHS.
FIVE ARE IN DETAILED DESIGN AND 20 PLUS MORE, I THINK 25 NOW IN SCOPING OR AWAITING TEXT DO APPROVAL.
SO WE'VE REALLY TRIED TO SCALE UP AND RAMP UP AS WE'VE HAD THESE ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY SUPPORTED BONDS TO REALLY RAMP UP THE WORK.
WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THAT AS WE'VE GOT CONTRACTS IN PLACE AND DESIGNS IN PLACE AND STARTING
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TO PUSH MORE OF THESE PROJECTS FORWARD OVER TIME.SO THAT'S LOOKING MAINLY AT HISTORICAL CRASH DATA.
AGAIN, MENTIONING BEING PROACTIVE WITH A SYSTEMIC APPROACH.
SYSTEMIC SAFETY IS ANOTHER AREA THAT WE'VE STARTED TO MAKE SOME REAL PROGRESS ON.
WE'VE GOT A CURVE WARNING PROJECT THAT WE'VE IMPLEMENTED OVER 40 LOCATIONS, NEW SIGNAGE, NEW LANE LINE MARKINGS, DIFFERENT TREATMENTS THAT WE CAN DO TO TRY TO BE PROACTIVE EVEN IF THERE'S NOT A HISTORY OF CRASHES THERE.
ACCESS MANAGEMENT IS ANOTHER KEY AREA WHERE WE'VE REALLY GOTTA FOCUS IN ON REDUCING THOSE CONFLICT POINTS THAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU SEE THE GRAPHIC LIKE THAT REMINDS YOU OF A LOT OF OUR ARTERIALS THROUGHOUT TOWN AND YOU SEE HOW MANY CONFLICT POINTS ARE THERE AND THAT'S JUST FOR THE DRIVERS, NOT TO MENTION WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE WALKING OR BIKING ACROSS THESE DRIVEWAYS.
SO REDUCING CONFLICT POINTS THROUGH ACCESS MANAGEMENT TREATMENTS.
ANOTHER FOCUS AREA FOR US, UH, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, REALLY WORKING ON SIGNAL TIMING AS A KEY LOW COST TREATMENT THAT WE CAN DO ACROSS THE NETWORK AND TRYING TO WORK TOWARDS MORE PROTECTED LEFT TURN MOVEMENTS.
AND JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT ANOTHER BOND SUPPORTED PROGRAM, THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING PROGRAM.
WE'VE IMPLEMENTED DOZENS OF CROSSINGS ON A NUMBER OF STREETS AND WE'VE GOT A DOZEN, DOZENS MORE COMING UP IN THE NEXT CO FEW MONTHS THAT ARE GONNA BE IMPLEMENTED.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE IN PLACE JUST TWO YEARS AGO AND WE'RE STARTING TO SEE SOME REAL RESULTS IN GETTING THOSE DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED OVER THE NETWORK.
I WANNA MENTION THAT WE'VE ALSO BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL IN WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS AT TECH DOT ON APPLYING FOR FEDERAL FUNDS HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
WE'VE IDENTIFIED FIVE LIGHTING PROJECTS AND FIVE SIGNAL PROJECTS TO TRY TO ADDRESS SOME KEY INTERSECTIONS AND KEY SEGMENTS WHERE WE'VE SEEN DARK CONDITION CRASHES, WE'VE SEEN THE INTERSECTION CONFLICTS THAT DON'T HAVE A SIGNAL THERE.
SO SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS WILL BE GETTING OUT THE DOOR OVER THE NEXT 12 MONTHS.
AND WE'RE REAL EXCITED ABOUT THE PROGRESS THERE WITH OVER I THINK FIVE AND A HALF MILLION OF, OF FEDERAL FUNDS TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY SUPPORTIVE BOND WORK.
PEOPLE ASK HOW HOW'S IT GOING WITH THOSE PROJECTS AND, AND HOW WE LOOKING? UH, WELL WE DID, WE LIKE TO FOCUS ON EVALUATION.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE WORK WE'RE DOING AND THE DOLLARS THAT WE'RE INVESTING ARE ACTUALLY HAVING AN IMPACT AS WELL.
I MENTIONED THE INTERSECTION SAFETY PROJECTS, 13 OF THEM HAVE AT LEAST A YEAR OF DATA.
THEY'VE BEEN COMPLETE FOR AT LEAST A YEAR.
SO WE STARTED TO LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF THOSE.
I KNOW THAT THIS IS QUITE WORKING.
SO, UH, FOR THOSE 13 INTERSECTIONS WE'VE SEEN SOME SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS.
UH, 30% REDUCTION IN CRASHES GOING FROM 330 ALMOST TO 230.
SO A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN OVERALL CRASHES, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THOSE SERIOUS INJURY AND FATAL CRASHES GOING FROM 12 TO EIGHT PER YEAR.
SO FOUR PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY WILL NOT SUFFER SEVERE INJURY OR FATAL CRASH AT THESE LOCATIONS BECAUSE THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE SO FAR, AND THAT'S COMPARED TO A CONTROL GROUP WHERE WE'VE SEEN SERIOUS INJURY OR FATAL CRASHES INCREASING BY 8%.
SO QUITE A DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FULL DELTA OF WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THOSE LOCATIONS WE'VE TREATED VERSUS THE ONES THAT HA HAVE NOT BEEN TREATED JUST YET.
AGAIN, EVALUATING WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE SIGNAL TIMING, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO, TO REDUCE SOME CONFLICT POINTS THAT SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS WHERE YOU'VE GOT ONE DRIVER TRYING TO MAKE A LEFT AND AN ONCOMING DRIVER.
UH, WE'VE GOT THE ABILITY TO MAKE CHANGES AND WE'VE DONE SOME SIGNIFICANT WORK IN THAT AREA THANKS TO OUR SIGNALS TEAM AT ATD AND BEING ABLE TO REDUCE OVERALL CRASHES, REDUCE THE THE MINOR INJURIES, SERIOUS INJURY AND FATAL CRASHES AS WELL.
THE POLICY AREA AND AND PROCEDURES AREA IS, IS ANOTHER INTERESTING AREA FOR US TO MAKE PROGRESS ON THIS.
COUNCIL'S BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE AT REDUCING SPEED LIMITS.
WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE PACKAGES COME THROUGH AND OVER 900 MILES OF STREETS WE'LL RECEIVE REDUCED SPEED LIMITS IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
SO THAT'S AN EXCITING AREA OF PROGRESS.
I MENTIONED ACCESS MANAGEMENT, TRYING TO HAVE A MORE STANDARDIZED APPROACH.
SAME THING WITH SIGNAL GUIDELINES.
ONE AREA THAT WE'RE GONNA JUST BE STARTING ON, UH, IN THE NEXT, JUST THIS MONTH AND MOVING FORWARD IS INTERSECTION CONTROL EVALUATION AND REALLY LOOKING AT ROUNDABOUTS TO BE A, A MORE, UH, SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE TREATMENT TOOLKIT THAT WE HAVE AT SIGNALIZE OR AT INTERSECTIONS WHERE WE SEE A LOT OF CONFLICTS.
AND THEN THERE'S BEEN SOME INTEREST UTC IN PARTICULAR TALKING ABOUT RIGHT TURNS ON RED OR LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVALS.
REALLY MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE DOING ALL THAT WE CAN WITH SIGNS, MARKINGS, OPERATIONS TO REALLY HOLISTICALLY ADDRESS THE NETWORK WHERE WE CAN.
JUST A FEW MORE SLIDES AND I'LL WRAP UP.
UH, WANNA MENTION AGAIN THANKS TO COUNCIL FOR THE SUPPORT APPLYING FOR THIS FEDERAL GRANT OPPORTUNITY.
THE US GOVERNMENT IS MOVING IN A HISTORIC PACE TOWARDS A SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH AND REALLY TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE AN IMPACT.
AND THEY'VE PROVIDED A LOT OF MONEY THROUGH THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND JOBS ACT TO MOVE ALL COMMUNITIES IN THE US TOWARDS SAFER STREETS.
WE'VE APPLIED FOR 28 MILLION OF PROJECT COST, ABOUT 20% OF THAT WILL BE LOCAL MATCH THROUGH OUR BONDS AND WITH THE GOALS BEING REALLY FOCUSED ON EQUITABLE INVESTMENT TOWARDS REDUCING SERIOUS INJURIES AND FATALITIES WITH PROVEN SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES.
WE KNOW THAT THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE SHOWS SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS AND I THINK WE'RE ONE OF THE LEADING CITIES THAT PEOPLE POINT TO IN HOW WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SCALE UP THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE.
SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE SUCCESSFUL THERE AND BE ABLE TO AGAIN, RAMP UP EVEN MORE WITH FEDERAL FUNDS HELPING TO SUPPORT SOME OF THE COST OF THOSE PROJECTS.
JUST WANNA MENTION AS WE MOVE TOWARDS TRYING TO ACHIEVE THESE POLICY GOALS THAT WE HAVE NOT ONLY VISION ZERO GOALS, BUT MOBILITY GOALS OVERALL AND AND SHIFTING THE MODE OF TRAVEL THAT PEOPLE ARE USING.
WE'VE GOT OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THIS PROJECT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO COMPLETE, UH,
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THROUGH ATD PARTNERSHIPS WITH MULTIPLE GROUPS, BEING ABLE TO CHANGE THE, THE LAYOUT OF THE ROADWAY AND THE RIGHT OF WAY THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US AND EXPAND SOME OF THOSE SHARED USE PATHS.HAVE A MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR EVERYBODY TRYING TO GET AROUND DRIVERS.
WERE EXPERIENCING A LOT OF REAR END CRASHES CUZ THERE WASN'T A LEFT TURN DAY TO GET INTO CREEK FIELDS AND WE PROVIDED THAT BY REALLOCATING SOME OF THAT SPACE.
IT ALSO MEANS WE'VE GOT PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACONS AND MULTIPLE SPOTS AND AND WIDE SHARED USE PASS SEEN MORE PEOPLE WITH, UH, FAMILIES AND STROLLERS AND, AND UH, STROLLERS ATTACHED TO THE BACK OF BIKES CROSSING THAT LONGHORN DAMN BRIDGE THAN WE EVER SAW BEFORE.
CUZ THERE WASN'T ENOUGH SPACE TO DO SO.
I MENTIONED ROUNDABOUTS, THEY ARE EFFECTIVE, THEY WORK AGAINST SEVERE CRASHES, 80% REDUCTION.
WE'RE SEEING NEW STUDIES COME OUT ALL THE TIME FROM DIFFERENT PLACES THAT ARE STARTING TO IMPLEMENT IT AND EVALUATE THEM.
THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION.
IT'S A LITTLE BIT HIGHER UPFRONT COST, BUT THESE OPERATE 24 7 WITHOUT THE NEED FOR MAINTENANCE AND CAN ACTUALLY HELP WITH THROUGHPUT AS WELL.
IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OVERALL LOOKING AT MOBILITY PLUS SAFETY NEEDS.
SO THE LAST SLIDE HERE, JUST MENTIONING THE, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE ACHIEVE THIS VISION ZERO GOAL? IT'S GONNA TAKE TIME.
WE KNOW THAT, WE KNOW WE'VE GOTTA SCALE UP THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING AND ALL THE OTHER MOBILITY PARTNERS, UH, THAT HAVE BOND FUNDED PROGRAMS AND CAPITAL PROGRAMS. WE GOTTA MOVE TOWARDS REALLY TRANSFORMATIVE, SAFE ROADWAY DESIGNS.
WE'VE GOTTA MAKE SURE THAT THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK IS LIT FOR ALL PEOPLE OF ALL MODES GOING AT ALL TIMES OF DAY.
NEED TO HAVE SOME NARROWLY FOCUSED TRAFFIC SAFETY ENFORCEMENT TO REINFORCE THOSE AREAS WHERE WE DON'T HAVE CONTROL OVER THE DESIGN OF THE ROADWAY.
AND WE KNOW THAT THERE'S, UH, SEVERE CRASHES HAPPENING FREQUENTLY.
COLLABORATION, UH, SORRY, IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT CONNECT IS GONNA BE A CRITICAL PIECE.
ANY LOCATION, ANY CITY OR COUNTRY AROUND THE WORLD THAT'S MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS HAS A WELL-FUNCTIONING MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM.
SO PROJECT CONNECT IS ANOTHER KEY CRITICAL PIECE TO GETTING US TOWARDS OUR VISION ZERO GOALS, COLLABORATION WITH TECH DOT, WE'VE PARTNERED ON A NUMBER OF PROJECTS, WE'VE CONTINUED TO REACH OUT AND, AND HAVE GOOD DISCUSSIONS ON A NUMBER OF LOCATIONS THAT ARE ON SYSTEM THAT WE'VE SEEN SOME PROBLEMATIC TRENDS WE'RE SUPPORTING THROUGH, UH, COMMUNITY SUPPORTED BOND DOLLARS, SOME OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS ON THOSE TECH DOT ROADWAYS AND, AND KNOWING THAT IT'S GONNA BENEFIT ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS AUSTINITES THAT ARE ALSO TEXANS AS WELL.
SO CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE WITH THEM IN GETTING SOME PROGRESS THERE.
AND THEN JUST MENTIONING THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT STILL EXIST ON LOCAL AND STATE LEGISLATIVE CHANGES.
THERE ARE POLICY AREAS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT MORE OUTSIDE THE BOX, LIKE LAND USE AND HOW THAT IMPACTS PEOPLE'S CHOICES TO GET AROUND AND WHERE THEY CAN ACCESS THE GOODS AND SERVICES AND JOBS THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO GET TO THAT DOES HAVE AN IMPACT ON SAFETY GOALS.
UNDERSTANDING THAT, UH, ENFORCEMENT AND PROSECUTION HAS SOME LIMITATIONS BASED ON WHAT'S IN CURRENT STATE LAW AND HOW WE CAN ADVOCATE FOR SOME OF THOSE CHANGES THAT ARE NECESSARY.
SO I'LL PAUSE THERE WITH JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A GREAT PROJECT DONE BY, UH, ETD PARTNERS AND BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
THAT'S GREAT, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS WE GET CAMERAS ON? THEY ARE PROTIME ALTER.
I REALLY APPRECIATE, UM, YOUR WORK AND THE WAY THAT WE'RE REALLY LEANING IN, UM, TO THIS.
UM, IT IS FRUSTRATING NONETHELESS TO STILL SEE INCREASES IN UM, FATALITIES.
UM, I THINK I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS.
ONE, HOW, WHAT ARE THE MECHANISMS WE HAVE FOR WORKING WITH TEXT DOT ON SOME OF THEIR ROADS? SO MY DISTRICT'S BEEN EXPANDED TO COVER A GOOD CHUNK OF SIX 20 AND WE ARE HEARING TREMENDOUS NUMBERS OF WORRIES ABOUT THE SAFETY OF SIX 20.
AND EVERY TIME WE TRY AND DO SOMETHING WE'RE JUST TOLD, WELL WE CAN'T CUZ IT'S TEXT DOT OR, UM, BUT IT'S JUST A SERIES OF FATAL ACCIDENTS KIND OF WAITING TO HAPPEN, BUT THEY HAVEN'T HAPPENED YET, UM, BECAUSE THE DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE CREATING THE CONDITIONS JUST OPENED.
YEAH, I I CAN TELL YOU FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE CONSTANTLY HAVE COMMUNICATION ABOUT SPECIFIC AREAS THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED AS PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE OF THE HISTORIC CRASH PATTERNS, BUT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF AVENUES THAT WE HAVE AS A DEPARTMENT WHERE WE HAVE REGULAR CONVERSATION.
THERE'S THE AUSTIN DISTRICT, THERE'S THE DIFFERENT NORTH AND SOUTH AREA OFFICES FOR TEXTILE WHERE THEY'VE GOT AREA ENGINEERS KIND OF FOCUSED ON THOSE PARTICULAR AREAS.
SO I THINK IF Y'ALL COULD REACH OUT, WE'D BE GLAD TO TRY TO SET UP SOME MORE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT BEING MORE PROACTIVE AS WE ANTICIPATE NEW DEVELOPMENT.
UH, WE'VE GOT A NUMBER OF AVENUES AND THE NUMBER OF CONTACTS THAT WE CAN TRY TO FACILITATE SOME OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS.
YEAH, I THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY IMPORTANT TO DO THAT, UM, FOR SIX 20 BECAUSE THE DEVELOPMENT THAT'S HAPPENING OUT THERE IS TREMENDOUS AND THEY'RE ALL SORT OF PACKED ONTO THIS ONE.
LIKE, THERE'S NO WAY TO GO ANYWHERE EXCEPT THROUGH SIX 20 AND YOU KNOW, YOU'LL HAVE A ROAD AND LIKE 15 FEET TILL A STOP STOP LIGHT OR, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE JUST CROSSING THE ROAD, YOU KNOW, DOING U-TURNS AND, AND THINGS AND, UM, I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LEANING IN AND AND DOING SOME PLANNING THERE.
SO I WOULD, I WOULD WELCOME THAT.
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MY OTHER QUESTION HAS TO DO WITH HOW, HOW ARE WE COORDINATING WITH CAMPO AND THEIR SAFETY PLAN FROM THE SORT OF CITY'S PERSPECTIVE? BECAUSE WE TALK ABOUT THE NEED FOR THE CAMPO PLAN, THEY'RE WORKING ON THE CAMPO PLAN AND WE'VE TALKED AT TIMES ABOUT WELL WE'RE DOING ALL THIS WORK, HOW DO WE SHARE WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE REST OF THE REGION? UM, BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM TO GO ANYWHERE.SO CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT KIND OF, UM, COORDINATION IS HAPPENING OR WHAT OTHER LEVERS WE NEED TO BE PULLING? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
AS I MENTIONED, THE SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL GRANT IS AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY FOR FOLKS, UH, ORGANIZATIONS THAT DON'T HAVE AN ACTION PLAN LIKE WE ALREADY HAVE FOR THEM TO GO AND GET FEDERAL FUNDS TO HELP SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACTION PLAN.
SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY DID APPLY AS AN ORGANIZATION FOR A REGIONAL ACTION PLAN AROUND VISION ZERO TYPE WORK SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH.
I'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM ABOUT OUR PLANS AND HOW WE'VE APPROACHED THINGS AND HOW WE MIGHT DO SOME THINGS DIFFERENTLY AND HOW WE PRIORITIZE SOME THINGS DIFFERENTLY FROM WHAT WE'VE LEARNED SEVEN YEARS AGO.
SO WE'VE HAD THOSE CONVERSATIONS AS THEY WERE APPLYING.
UH, I'VE ALSO HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH THEIR TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP AND THEIR CHAIR AND PRESENTED ON OUR DATA AND OUR MANAGEMENT AND HOW THAT INFORMS AND, UH, GIVES US THE INSIGHTS TOWARDS WHERE WE CAN HAVE THE HIGHEST OPPORTUNITY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS TO, TO REALLY MAKE CHANGES.
SO THEY'VE BEEN INTERESTED IN, IN LEARNING MORE THERE AND WE'VE HAD SOME OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
SO I THINK REALLY AS, AS THEY HEAR BACK AND HOPEFULLY ARE AWARDED THAT MONEY, THEY'RE GONNA START UP A TASK FORCE WHERE WE'LL HAVE A PARTICULAR ROLE ON THAT TASK FORCE.
WE'LL BE ABLE TO PRESENT WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AND WHAT OTHER TEXAS CITIES THAT OUR VISION ZERO CITIES HAVE BEEN DOING, WHICH WE CO COORDINATE WITH AS WELL.
AND HOPEFULLY THAT WILL INFORM SOME OF THEIR PLAN DEVELOPMENT SO THAT THEY CAN REALLY QUICKLY RAMP UP TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN ACTIONS.
AND WE DON'T GET TOO BOGGED DOWN IN THE PLANNING AND, AND THINKING ABOUT THINGS, BUT REALLY MOVE TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION AND SCALING UP.
AND THAT REGIONAL COORDINATION IS KEY.
UH, AS WE TALKED ABOUT AND SOME OF OUR EQUITY ANALYSIS AS WELL, WE'VE SEEN THE, THE SHIFT AS THE REGION GROWS AROUND AUSTIN, AUSTIN'S BEEN GROWING FAST, BUT THE REGION AROUND AUSTIN GROWS, WE'RE SEEING MORE PEOPLE THAT HAVE TO RELY ON THOSE WIDE HIGH SPEED ROADWAYS AND WE'RE SEEING SOME OF THAT MAYBE PLAY OUT IN THE DATA THAT WE'RE SEEING AS THIS INCREASE HAPPENS ON THOSE ON SYSTEM ROADWAYS.
SO IT'S CRITICAL TO HAVE THAT CONNECTION AND, AND WE CONTINUE TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH FOLKS THAT ARE INVOLVED AT CAMPO AND THEIR PLANNERS, UH, NOT ONLY THE STAFF BUT ALSO THE, THE ENTITIES THAT ARE REPRESENTED THERE.
I'VE GOT A QUESTION ABOUT DARK SKY AREAS.
HOW, HOW DOES YOUR WORK INTERPLAY WITH AREAS WHERE THEY SPECIFICALLY TRY TO KEEP THE LIGHTING AT A MINIMUM? SO MY UNDERSTANDING, I'M NOT A DARK SKY EXPERT.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE LIGHTING FIXTURE ITSELF AND WE DON'T WANNA HAVE UP LIGHTING.
SO THE FIXTURES ARE A STANDARD THAT AUSTIN ENERGY'S PUT IN PLACE TO ACHIEVE THAT DARK SKY ORDINANCE AND AND GOAL THAT WE HAVE.
AND SO ANYTHING THAT WE DO WITH STREET LIGHTING, YOU KNOW, THE H SIP FUNDED LIGHTING AND AND THE LIGHTING THAT WE'RE GONNA DO, THEY ALL, UH, MEET THOSE STANDARDS FOR THOSE LIGHTING FIXTURES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE THAT UP LIGHTING THAT WOULD THEN CAUSE SOME OF THOSE, UH, KIND OF NON-COMPLIANT DARK SKY APPROACHES.
SO EVERYTHING WE DO IS COORDINATE THROUGH AUSTIN ENERGY, IT'S ALL FOLLOWING THE SAME STANDARDS AND APPROACHES THAT THEY USE.
I SHOULD HAVE FIGURED YOU'D HAVE A GOOD ANSWER FOR THAT.
UH, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT, I THINK THAT DOES IT FOR THAT PRESENTATION I WAS ALERTED WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC SPEAKER SIGNED UP ON THIS TOPIC, SO I'LL I'LL LET HIM TAKE THE MICROPHONE IF HE'D LIKE TO SAY, UH, ABOUT THREE MINUTES OF COMMENTS FOR US.
THANK YOU MR. L OH, I SEE COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON'S HAND UP.
DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS FOR MR. L BEFORE I DO PASS AWAY? OKAY, I DO, GO AHEAD.
I MIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON MY COMPUTER IS SLOW SO I'M, I'M TRYING TO GET BACK ON AND, AND I'M JUST MISSING IT AND IF I COULD FOLLOW UP WITH THE FIRST PRESENTER AT SOME POINT, THAT'D BE REALLY GREAT TOO CAUSE I DID HAVE ONE BIG QUESTION THAT I WANTED TO ASK ON BEHALF OF A CONSTITUENT WHO'D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW THE RESPONSE.
BUT FOR THIS PRESENTATION, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
I DO GET A LOT OF VISION ZERO QUESTIONS AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.
AND I THINK YOU AND CALEB HAVE PROBABLY BEEN IN COMMUNICATION ABOUT SOME OF OUR SPECIFIC PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE QUESTIONS ON, BUT I HAVE A FEW OTHERS.
UM, SO I'LL START WITH, UM, THE STATUS ON THE CITY'S CONTRACT WITH THE, UM, WITH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, THE TRAVIS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE TO HELP ENFORCE MOVING VIOLATIONS.
WHERE ARE WE ON THAT? THANKS FOR THE QUESTION.
SO WE HAD CONVERSATIONS, IT WAS ACTUALLY THE TRAVIS COUNTY CONSTABLES THAT WE HAD HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH FOR YEAH, ALMOST A YEAR NOW.
AND THEY WERE INTERESTED IN SCALING UP THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING ON TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.
THEY SAW SOME REALLY POSITIVE RESULTS IN KIND OF SOUTHWEST AUSTIN 2 90 71 AREA AS THEY STARTED TO HAVE A DEDICATED TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT UNIT.
SO THEY ACTUALLY SUBMITTED A BUDGET REQUEST TO THE TRAVIS COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S COURSE COURT TO HAVE ADDITIONAL STAFFING THERE.
AND SO DURING THAT BUDGET PROCESS OVER THE SUMMER, WE COMMITTED TO PROVIDE SOME CITY FUNDS TO TRY TO HELP INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF ENFORCEMENT THAT COULD HAPPEN ON FREEWAYS IN PARTICULAR FOR SPEEDING IN PARTICULAR.
UH, IF THEY WOULD, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE SOME OF THOSE RESOURCES THAT THEY WERE GONNA GET, WE'D PROVIDE SOME FUNDING TO HELP COVER THAT COST.
UH, MY UNDERSTANDING IS BASED ON THE CONVERSATIONS AT THE COMMISSIONER'S
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COURT, THEY DID NOT MOVE FORWARD THAT BUDGET REQUEST ITEM.SO COMMISSIONER'S COURT DECIDED TO NOT FUND THOSE NEW POSITIONS.
SO THEREFORE WE DO NOT HAVE ANY OUTSIDE ENFORCEMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, WE CONTINUE TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH APD TO TRY TO RAMP UP SOME OVERTIME SHIFTS AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO THERE.
AND WE WILL HAVE A FULL RESPONSE BACK TO THAT JUNE, UH, COUNCIL MEMO COMING BACK ON DECEMBER 1ST.
AND SO HOPEFULLY THERE'LL BE SOME MORE INFORMATION IN THERE THAT WE COULD CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION.
THANK YOU FOR, UH, AND THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT BETWEEN THE, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND THE CONSTABLES, I THINK, YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE SAY THE RIGHT THING AND OUR CONSTITUENTS KNOW WHO DOES WHAT.
UM, HAS THE VISIONS YOU PROGRAM, HAVE Y'ALL SPOKEN TO APD ABOUT INCREASING THE ENFORCEMENT OF UM, OH, THE DISTRACTED DRIVERS ORDINANCE? WE USUALLY TALK WITH APD ABOUT THE KEY KIND OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE SEE ON THE ROADWAY.
THEY'RE USUALLY ABOUT FOUR BEHAVIORS THAT WE SEE THAT ARE MOST LIKELY ASSOCIATED WITH THESE FATAL CRASHES.
IT'S, UH, SPEEDING IT'S IMPAIRMENT, IT'S FAIR TO YIELD AND IT'S ALSO DISTRACTED DRIVING.
AND SO THOSE ARE THE FOUR KEY BEHAVIORS THAT WE REALLY TRY TO FOCUS ON.
WE'VE REALLY MOVED TOWARDS MORE OF A FOCUS ON THE SPEEDING ASPECT.
CUZ IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT JUST, UM, KIND OF THEORETICALLY IF EVERYBODY WAS DISTRACTED, BUT THEY'RE ALL DRIVING 15, 20 MILES AN HOUR, WE'RE NOT GONNA SEE THE SAME NUMBER OF FATALITIES THAT WE SEE.
SPEEDING IS REALLY THE KEY FACTOR AND SO WE, WE REALLY TRY TO FOCUS ON THAT SPEEDING.
UH, BUT DISTRACTION'S ALWAYS PART OF THAT CONVERSATION AS FAR AS SOME OF THE KEY BEHAVIORS THAT WE SEE IN THE CRASH REPORTS.
SO WHENEVER WE HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS WITH APD ABOUT TRYING TO GET MORE RESOURCES TO DO SOME PROACTIVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT, USUALLY WE MENTION THOSE KEY BEHAVIORS AND WE TALK TO THE AREAS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS THAT WE SEE MOST FREQUENT SEVERE CRASHES HAPPENING.
THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION TOO.
UM, I THINK THE, UH, ONE OF THE LAST QUESTIONS I HAVE IS ABOUT STRATEGIES.
UM, DOES THE PROGRAM HAVE ANY SPECIFIC STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS OR TO ADDRESS SOMETHING THAT I WITNESSED JUST CONSIDERABLY MORE OF? YOU KNOW, I'M FROM AUSTIN, I LEARNED HOW TO DRIVE IN AUSTIN AND I JUST DON'T EVER REMEMBER DRIVING IN AUSTIN FEELING SO MUCH LIKE, UM, OH, I ALMOST SAID A NAME OF A CITY.
LISTEN, I ALMOST MADE SOME ENEMIES.
SORRY Y'ALL, I ALMOST SAY THE NAME OF THE CITIES IN TEXAS, BUT THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO OF THEM WHERE I'VE BEEN RUN OFF THE ROAD BEFORE.
JUST CUZ IN A CITY THAT STARTS WITH AN AGE, PEOPLE WON'T LET YOU MERGE ONTO THE FREEWAY AND IN A CITY THAT STARTS WITH A D THEY WON'T LET YOU GET OVER, UM, IN EITHER DIRECTION.
I'M JUST FEELING LIKE EVEN TURNING MY TURN SIGNAL ON IS AN INVITATION TO GUN IT AND, YOU KNOW, HIT ME IN THE, IN THE BACK END OF MY CAR.
AND SO I'M REALLY JUST, UM, PERSONALLY ANECDOTALLY AND, YOU KNOW, TALKING TO FRIENDS, FINDING SO MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE DRIVING AND I WONDER WHAT WE'RE DOING TO REALLY ADDRESS AND THINK THROUGH, YOU KNOW, SOME SOLUTIONS, YOU KNOW, FIRST OF ALL.
BUT THEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, HOW CAN WE KIND OF GET IN FRONT OF, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE AGGRESSIVE DRIVING.
I FIND THAT MY KIDS WATCH HOW I DRIVE AND IF, YOU KNOW, YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE GONNA BE DRIVING HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS ARE WATCHING PEOPLE AGGRESSIVELY, UM, DRIVE AROUND TOWN, I WANNA KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING A PREEMPT YOUNG DRIVERS AND THEIR, UM, UNDERSTANDING OF SAFE AND FRIENDLY, COURTEOUS DRIVING.
YEAH, AGAIN, APPRECIATE THE THE QUESTION COUNCIL MEMBER.
IT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT WE'VE SEEN REALLY SINCE THE START OF THE PANDEMIC.
YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN THE ROADS OPENED UP, WE HAVE FEWER PEOPLE ON THE ROADWAYS.
WE SAW A NUMBER OF DRIVERS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THAT AND DRIVING A LOT FASTER THAN THEY MIGHT NORMALLY.
UH, IT'S THE SAME THING WE SEE IN THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD ON A REGULAR BASIS WHEN, WHEN WE BUILD A ROAD AND THE CAPACITY FOR MOVING, YOU KNOW, PEAK HOUR VOLUMES OF, OF VEHICLES WHEN THAT CAPACITY'S NOT THERE AND THOSE VEHICLES AREN'T THERE, THE CAPACITY'S STILL THERE AND THAT ROADWAY'S WIDE AND IT, IT FEELS LIKE YOU CAN GO VERY FAST.
AND SO WE'VE SEEN A LOT MORE RECKLESS DRIVING, WE'VE SEEN A LOT MORE SPEEDING AND I THINK THAT'S SHOWING UP IN OUR FATALITY NUMBERS TO BE FRANK, IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, RELATIVE TO THE YEARS PRIOR, THERE'S REALLY ONLY A FEW STRATEGIES THAT THAT MAKE SENSE TO TRY TO ADDRESS THAT INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR.
ONE IS THAT ENFORCEMENT, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THAT, HAVING A HIGH VISIBILITY PRESENCE OF PEACE OFFICERS ON THOSE ROADWAYS SO THAT THOSE DRIVERS KNOW THAT THAT BEHAVIOR IS NOT GONNA BE TOLERATED AND THERE'S A PENALTY FOR THAT.
THAT'S WHERE WE TALK ABOUT REALLY FOCUSING ON RECKLESS DRIVING, SPEEDING IMPAIRED, DRIVING ON THOSE FREEWAYS WHERE THE, THE OUTCOME'S GONNA BE THE WORST.
THE SECOND PIECE IS REALLY MOVING FORWARD WITH REDESIGN OF THE ROADWAY.
UH, WHEN, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HUMANS MAKE MISTAKES, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE OF THOSE MISTAKES THAT, THAT HUMANS MAKE.
YOU KNOW, SOME DRIVERS ARE GONNA FEEL LIKE THEY NEED TO GO AS FAST AS THEY CAN TO GET WHERE THEY'RE GOING.
EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE ROADWAY MIGHT FEEL THE SAME, BUT YOU KNOW, EVERYONE'S TRYING TO PRIORITIZE THEMSELVES.
SO WHEN WE CAN REDESIGN THOSE ROADWAYS TO NOT BE BUILT FOR THAT PEAK HOUR CAPACITY, BUT BE BUILT FOR SAFE OPERATIONS AND SAFE MOBILITY FOR EVERYONE TO GET WHERE THEY'RE GOING, THAT'S WHERE WE'LL HAVE THE BIGGEST IMPACT OVER TIME.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE CONTINUE TO STRIVE TO DO, NOT ONLY ON THE CITY STREETS, BUT WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TEXT OUT AS WELL.
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WAS REALLY THOROUGH.I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU ANSWERING MY QUE I HAD ONE MORE QUESTION, BUT YOU ALREADY TOOK CARE OF THAT, SO THANK YOU.
I APPRECIATE, UM, THE PRESENTATION AND ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS.
AND I KNOW WE HAD, WE WERE ABLE TO COLLABORATE WITH TEXT.IN MY DISTRICT DOWN ON SH 45 AND ASCAR AND PEOPLE HAD ALERTED US TO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE RUNNING RED LIGHTS AND AT THE CORNERS NEEDED TO BE READJUSTED.
UM, IT NOW HAS A LOT MORE POPULATION.
I THINK THERE'S FOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS VERY CLOSE TO, YOU KNOW, NEAR THAT INTERSECTION IN THE, IN THE CORRESPONDING NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS AROUND THERE.
AND SO JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE RIGHT SIZING THAT INTERSECTION AND THEY FIXED, WE FIXED LIGHTING, WE FIXED HOW THE INTERSECTION FUNCTIONED, JUST LIKE VERY, UM, YOU KNOW, VERY SIMPLE QUICK DEPLOY TYPE OF STRATEGIES AND UM, I'VE HEARD IT'S REALLY GOING WELL.
SO I, I KNOW PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ASKING HOW ARE WE COLLABORATING WITH ALL THESE DIFFERENT ENTITIES AND IT'S HAPPENING, YOU KNOW, THESE CONVERSATIONS ARE HAPPENING AMONG STAFF TO MAKE SURE WE'RE IN TOUCH WITH TECH DOT AND WE'RE TALKING TO THE COUNTY AND COORDINATING WITH CAMPO AND TRYING TO SHARE WHAT WE'VE LEARNED AS A BIG CITY THAT'S GROWING FAST TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR NEIGHBORS ALSO UNDERSTAND HOW TO BEST PLAN THEIR CITIES FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY TOO.
[Public Communication: General]
I GOT WORD MR. JOHNSON THAT YOU HAD TRIED TO SIGN UP AND WEREN'T ABLE TO, SO THANKS FOR JOINING US.GOOD AFTERNOON COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I'M A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE VISION ZERO TASK FORCE, WHICH IS NOW THE VISION ZERO ALLIANCE, WHICH IS THE GROUP THAT LEWIS LEFT STAFFS AND HE'S DOING A VERY GOOD JOB.
I'M ALSO THE LEAD CITIZEN ON THE CITIZEN LED EFFORT THAT CULMINATED AUGUST OF 20 20 14, WHICH IS OUR DISTRACTED DRIVING ORDINANCE.
IT IS TRUE THAT SPEED, AS WE'VE LEARNED IN ALL THE VISION ZERO MEETINGS IS THE CULPRIT THAT WE NEED TO TRY TO IDENTIFY WHILE WORKING ON THE OTHER ONES AS WELL.
HOWEVER, THERE ARE SITUATIONS WHERE PEOPLE ARE USING MOBILE PHONES IN PARKING LOTS AND IN OTHER AREAS WHERE THEY'RE NOT ON A ROAD OR THEY'RE EVEN BLOCKING A A BIKE LANE OR, UH, OVERLAPPING A SIDEWALK.
SO THE DISTRACTED DRIVING PIECE IS ESSENTIAL.
AND I'M NOT HERE TO BASH OR OVERLY CRITICIZE APD.
I'M AWARE OF THE FUNDING AND, AND HOW THAT CHANGED.
AND WE'RE BUILDING BACK, I'M ACTUALLY THE COORDINATOR FOR NEIGHBOR WATCH FOR MY NEIGHBORHOOD, SO I'M DEEP INTO THAT WORLD AS WELL.
WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT FROM 2015 THROUGH ABOUT 2017, MANY OF THE MONTHS WE WERE ENFORCING IT TO A HIGH LEVEL.
WE WERE GETTING APPROXIMATELY A THOUSAND CITATIONS PER MONTH FOR DISTRACTED DRIVING.
SO IT W IT WAS WORKING HOPEFULLY HIS WORKING LONG TERM IN TERMS OF HABIT CHANGES, BUT THAT'S UNCERTAIN NOW THE CITATION FIGURES THAT YOU SEE THERE FROM OCTOBER ONE OF LAST YEAR THROUGH OCTOBER 31ST OF THIS YEAR, WHICH IS A 13 MONTH PERIOD, THERE WERE 173 VIOLATIONS WRITTEN FOR BEING IN A VEHICLE LANE AND MOVING.
SO THAT'S ABOUT 13 PER MONTH VERSUS HUNDREDS PER MONTH, WHICH WE HOPEFULLY CAN GET BACK TO.
ALSO, THERE'S CITATIONS IN A SCHOOL ZONE ONLY WENT TO SEVEN AND THERE HAVE BEEN MORE IN THE PAST.
I DON'T HAVE THE HISTORICAL NUMBERS.
THOSE RELATED TO BICYCLES HAS BEEN ZERO.
AND SO I WOULD LOVE FOR THE COUNCIL TO DISCUSS THIS FURTHER ALONG WITH STAFF AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO.
I DO KNOW ABOUT THE PROGRAM USING CONSTABLES CUZ WE HEAR ABOUT THAT.
WHAT I DO KNOW, COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MEDICINE, IS THAT THE TRAVIS COUNTY HAS HIRED PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE GRANTS TO EXPAND THAT CAPACITY AND MAYBE IT'S WORTHWHILE TO REVISIT THAT BECAUSE THERE ARE GRANTS OUT THERE RELATED TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
DOES NOT APPEAR THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU FOR COMING AND SHARING THAT INFORMATION.
[4. Updates on the 2020 Active Transportation and Safety Bond.]
GO BACK IN NUMERIC ORDER.THE NEXT ITEM WILL BE THE 2020 ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND SAFETY BOND UPDATE.
IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE TRYING TO GET OUR PRESENTATION TEED UP FOR, FOR US.
UH, MY NAME IS ANNA MARTIN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WITH THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT AND I'M JOINED TODAY BY, UM, ERIC BAILEY, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
AND WE'LL SHARE DUTIES DURING THIS, UH, UPDATE ON THE 2020, UH, TRANSPORTATION BOND.
SO WE'VE SHARED THIS GRAPHIC IN PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO MAYOR AND COUNSEL AS WELL AS IN PRESENTATIONS, BUT I THINK IT REALLY SHOWS WELL, UH, WHERE I WANTED TO START TODAY.
AND THAT'S WITH OUR OVERLAPPING BOND DELIVERY.
WE'RE VERY, VERY LUCKY TO HAVE FUNDS FROM 2016, UH, 2018 AND 2020, ALL GOING TOWARDS MOBILITY IMPROVEMENTS.
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AND THE LIGHT BLUE, UM, REPRESENT, UM, THE WORKLOADS OF OUR TEAMS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON THE 2016 AND 2018 BOND.AND THEN THE GREEN IN BOTH THE LIGHT GREEN AND THE DARK GREEN REPRESENT, UM, WHAT WE ADDED ON WITH 2020.
UM, SO WE'VE DIVIDED OUR 2020 BOND DELIVERY INTO TWO CATEGORIES.
UM, THE FIRST IS RAMPING UP OUR LOCAL MOBILITY PROGRAMS, UM, TO DELIVER AT A HIGHER RATE THROUGH 2027.
AND THE SECOND IS, UM, UH, DELIVERING LARGER PROJECTS IN THE BOND LIKE SUBSTANDARD STREETS AND THE LARGE C I P PROJECTS, UH, THROUGH MORE TRADITIONAL DELIVERY METHODS.
AND AS A REMINDER, PER OUR CONTRACT WITH THE VOTERS, WE HAVE A SIX YEAR DELIVERY GOAL, UH, TO EXPEND THE 2020 FUNDS.
AND THAT STARTED EARLIER THIS YEAR.
THIS BREAKDOWN IS ALREADY VERY, VERY FAMILIAR TO YOU.
UM, BUT WE HAVE EIGHT BUCKETS THAT MAKE UP OUR LOCAL MOBILITY PROGRAMS, ALONG WITH FIVE, UM, LARGER NAMED PROJECTS, UM, THAT MAKE UP THE 2020 PORTFOLIO.
I WANNA TAKE, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE OUR FIRST, UM, PROJECT THAT WAS DELIVERED EARLIER THIS YEAR.
UM, PEDESTRIAN CROSSING ISLANDS WE'RE CONSTRUCTED ON WICKER SHAM LANE AT THREE LOCATIONS TO PROVIDE SAFER ACCESS TO TRANSIT STOPS AS WELL AS LOCAL COMMUNITY AMENITIES.
UH, WE COMMITTED TO STARTING, UM, THE 2020 BOND DELIVERY THIS YEAR IN 2022 AFTER A YEAR OF PLANNING AND SCALING UP WORK AND WE WERE ABLE TO MEET THIS COMMITMENT WITH THIS PROJECT AND MANY MORE THAT WE'LL TOUCH UPON TODAY.
UM, I'LL, I'LL CRUISE THROUGH THE VISION ZERO, UM, PRETTY QUICKLY.
LEWIS GAVE A REALLY THOROUGH RECAP OF ALL THE WORK WE'RE DOING.
UM, WE HAD ADDITIONAL 65 MILLION IN 2020 FOR VISION ZERO.
WE'VE STARTED WORK, UM, ON SIGNALS AND NEW PHBS.
UM, WE'RE WORKING ON HOWARD AT SKILLFIELD BRIDGE PARKWAY AS WELL AS DESSA AND BRADBURY LANE.
CURRENTLY, UH, WE'VE ALSO INSTALLED BATTERY BACKUP SYSTEMS AT 76 INTERSECTIONS.
AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT IF THERE'S A POWER OUTAGE INSTEAD OF THE SIGNAL GOING BLACK, IT'LL KEEP OPERATING, UM, AS IT NORMALLY WOULD, WHICH IS OF COURSE IS A MUCH SAFER CONDITION FOR EVERYONE.
UH, LEWIS TALKED A LOT ABOUT OUR SYSTEMIC SAFETY APPROACH.
UM, WE HAVE INSTALLED CURVE WARNING IMPROVEMENTS AT 40 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS.
UM, WE ALSO USE THESE FUNDS TO, UM, INSTALL INTERIM IMPROVEMENT AT HOTSPOTS OR, UM, LOCATIONS FOR SEVERE CRASHES ARE OCCURRING.
SO THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT IS A LOCATION ON EAST SLAUGHTER LANE WHERE WE HAD A, UM, A CLUSTER OF COLLISIONS AND WE WERE ABLE TO INSTALL SOME DELINEATORS TO MINIMIZE CONFLICTS AND THOSE WILL BE IN PLACE UNTIL A CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT.
UM, A TRAFFIC SIGNAL IS INSTALLED AS PART OF THIS SLAUGHTER LANE PROJECT.
SO GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE INTERIM IMPROVEMENT TO, UM, IMPROVE SAFETY.
IN THE MEANTIME, UH, THE VISION ZERO INTERSECTION PROGRAM HAS BEEN REALLY SUCCESSFUL.
LEWIS NOTED THAT 30% REDUCTION IN SEVERE AND FATAL CRASHES WERE SEEN, UM, WITH 20 $20.
WE HAVE THREE NEW LOCATIONS CURRENTLY IN DESIGN.
THERE ARE 12 OTHERS THAT ARE, UH, WE HAVE CONCEPTS DEVELOPED AND WE'RE REVIEWING AND GETTING APPROVAL FROM TECH.TO BE ABLE TO MOVE THOSE FORWARD AND ANOTHER NINE THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PHASE.
SO, UM, WE'RE REALLY PLEASED WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS WE'VE SEEN WITH THIS PROGRAM AND, UM, REALLY THRILLED TO HAVE THE, HAVE THE RESOURCES TO CONTINUE ON.
AND TWO OTHER REALLY POPULAR ASPECTS, UM, THAT FALL UNDER VISION ZERO.
UM, THE FIRST IS SPEED MANAGEMENT, AND THIS IS TRAFFIC CALMING FOCUSED ON NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS, SO REALLY GETTING AT THAT QUALITY OF LIFE, FEELING LIKE YOUR KIDS CAN PLAY OUTSIDE, BIKE TO SCHOOL, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UH, WE COMPLETED A NEW METHODOLOGY TO PRIORITIZE FUNDS FOR LEVEL ONE AND LEVEL TWO STREETS.
THOSE ARE THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS.
UM, WE HAVE 11 PROJECTS THAT WE'VE ALREADY SELECTED AND COMMUNICATED TO NEIGHBORHOODS AND WE'LL SEE CONSTRUCTION BEGIN HERE PROBABLY EARLY 2023.
AND THEN AGAIN, LEWIS SPOKE OF THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING PROGRAM.
WE'VE ALREADY COMPLETED 18, UM, JUST THIS YEAR, ANOTHER 13 ARE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
AND, UM, WE ARE WORKING ON A HOLISTIC INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN FOR P CROSSINGS AS PART OF THE ATX WALK BIKE ROLL UPDATE THAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
UM, ANOTHER LOCAL MOBILITY BUCKET, THIS IS NEW TO 2020 IS TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT AND THESE FUNDS ARE FOCUSED ON IMPROVING, UH, RELIABILITY AND SPEED OF OUR LOCAL BUS NETWORK.
UM, BUILDING ON A EXISTING PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CAP METRO AND UH, ATD.
WE'VE COMPLETED BUS STOP CONSTRUCTION AT FOUR LOCATIONS AS WELL AS PAIRING THOSE AND MORE WITH PEDESTRIAN CROSSING ISLANDS TO MAKE IT SAFER FOR FOLKS TO GET TO THOSE BUS STOPS.
UM, OUR TEAM IS ALSO WORKING ON A TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT PLAN AND THAT'LL HELP US PRIORITIZE HOW TO SPEND THE BALANCE OF
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THE 2020 FUNDS.UM, WE DID A GREAT AMOUNT OF, OF OUTREACH, UM, IN THE FALL TALKING TO BUS OPERATORS, RIDERS OF COURSE, UM, KEVIN, METRO STAFF, ET CETERA, UM, TO REALLY HELP US HONE IN AND PRIORITIZE WHAT OUR NEXT SET OF PROJECTS WILL BE.
AND BIKEWAYS, UM, WE HAVE 40 MILLION DEDICATED TO BIKEWAYS IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE'RE DELIVERING WITH THE 2016 BOND.
UM, HAPPY TO SAY WE JUST COMPLETED THE SECOND ROUND OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOR ATX WALK BIKE ROLE, UH, WHICH WILL HELP US PRIORITIZE OUR NEXT SET OF INVESTMENTS.
UM, WHILE THAT'S GOING ON THOUGH, WE CONTINUE TO DELIVER PROJECTS.
UM, SOME RECENT ONES ARE NEW PROTECTED BIKE LANES ON MCNEIL, SPICEWOOD SPRINGS METRIC, UM, AT SPRINGDALE.
AND NOW I'M GONNA SHIFT FROM OUR LOCAL MOBILITY, UH, PORTFOLIO OVER TO THE LARGE, UM, CAPITAL PROJECTS.
AND, UM, A PORTION OF THAT IS DEDICATED TO SUBSTANDARD STREETS AND THESE WERE STREETS THAT WERE STUDIED USING, UM, BOND FUNDS FROM 2016 AND ARE NOW MOVING TO DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.
SO HAPPY TO REPORT ROSS ROAD IS AT 90% DESIGN.
UH, WE THINK WE'LL BE BACK OUT TO THE PUBLIC IN JANUARY TO SHOW OUR PROGRESS, UM, AND HOPEFULLY GET TO A HUNDRED PERCENT IN IN CONSTRUCTION THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
UM, WE'RE AT THE SAME POINT WITH JOHNNY MORRIS WROTE AS WELL.
UM, MOVING TOWARDS 90% DESIGN.
WE'LL HAVE A PUBLIC MEETING PROBABLY FEBRUARY OF 23, UM, AND THEN WRAP UP THAT, THAT PROJECT, UH, DESIGN AND GO TO CONSTRUCTION.
SO LOOKING FORWARD TO BREAKING GROUND ON BOTH OF THOSE.
AND ALSO IN THE SUBSTANDARD STREET, UH, BUCKET, WE, UM, THERE WERE TWO NAME PROJECTS THAT WE'RE GONNA STUDY SO THAT WE CAN HOPEFULLY FUND THOSE AT A LATER DATE.
AND THAT'S BRADSHAW ROAD, UM, IN SOUTHEAST AUSTIN AS WELL AS NICKELS CROSSING.
UM, PUBLIC OUTREACH HAS BEEN GOING ON THIS FALL AND WE EXPECT THOSE PLANS TO BE DONE, UM, IN EARLY 2023.
OKAY, WITH THAT, I'M GONNA HAND THINGS OVER TO ERIC BAILEY.
UM, THANK YOU AND APPRECIATE THAT, UM, COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
I'M THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS OVER AT CAPITAL PROJECT DELIVERY, AND I'LL BE RUNNING THROUGH, UM, THE LARGE CAPITAL PROJECT BUDGET ASSOCIATED WITH THE, UM, 2020 BOND.
UM, THERE WERE FOUR, UH, MAIN PROJECTS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED IN HERE.
THE, THE, UM, LONGHORN DAM BRIDGE, THE CONGRESS AVENUE URBAN DESIGN INITIATIVE, BARTON SPRINGS ROAD IMPROVEMENTS, AND THE SOUTH PLEASANT VALLEY CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENTS AS WELL AS 5 MILLION WAS IDENTIFIED FOR, UM, THE EXISTING CORRIDOR PROGRAM.
SOME ENHANCEMENTS THERE, UH, FOR THE CONGRESS AVENUE, UH, URBAN DESIGN INITIATIVE.
THAT PROJECT IS AT, UH, THE 30% DESIGN EFFORT IS UNDERWAY.
THE RENDERINGS AND SCHEMATICS YOU CAN SEE HERE ON THE LEFT ARE FROM THE P R AND WE'RE HAVING ONGOING MEETINGS WITH STAFF AND DESIGNERS, INCLUDING AN INITIAL, UM, HISTORIC UH, REVIEW IN NOVEMBER WITH THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE 30% DESIGN DUE IN EARLY 2023 FOR THE, UM, SOUTH PLEASANT VALLEY, UM, PROJECT.
ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE THERE YOU CAN SEE A CONNECTION FROM THE EXISTING SOUTH PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD TO BURLESON ROAD NORTH OF, UM, 71 NEAR MABEL DAVIS PARK.
UM, THIS IS CONNECTING, THIS IS BUILDING A NEW ROAD THAT'S EXTENDING PLEASANT VALLEY ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO, UH, BURLESON.
UM, THE 60% DESIGN WAS COMPLETED IN SEPTEMBER.
YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE, UH, OUTLINES HERE IN TERMS OF THE LANE CONFIGURATION AS WELL AS THE, AN OVERHEAD VIEW OF WHAT THE NEW ROADWAY WILL LOOK LIKE.
UM, THE 90% DESIGN IS, UH, TARGETED FOR THE END OF DECEMBER TWO, ADDITIONAL LARGE C I P PROJECTS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED.
THE LONGHORN DAM BRIDGE, UM, THE A HUNDRED PERCENT DESIGN ON THAT PROJECT IS DUE JANUARY OF 23.
WE'RE SCHEDULED FOR ADVERTISEMENT IN THE SUMMER OF, UH, 2023 AS WELL.
SO LOOKING TO GET THAT ONE TO CONSTRUCTION HERE, UM, WITHIN THE NEXT, UM, YOU KNOW, YEAR OR SO.
AND THEN THE BARTON SPRINGS BRIDGE WAS THE, THE FOURTH PROJECT THAT WAS IDENTIFIED.
UM, WE HAVE A FURTHER UPDATE ON THE BARTON SPRINGS BRIDGE, UM, IN ITEM SIX ON THIS AGENDA, SO I'LL HAVE SOME MORE DETAILS THERE.
BUT THE DESIGN, THE PRELIMINARY DESIGN AND ALTERNATIVE SELECTION IS UNDERWAY.
UM, AND WE'RE SCHEDULING SOME, SOME PUBLIC MEETINGS IN EARLY 2023 FOR THAT PROJECT.
UH, MOVING ON TO THE SIDEWALK PROGRAM, UM, RIGHT NOW SIDEWALKS IS CON IS, UM, CON COMPLETING PROJECTS THAT WERE FUNDED BY THE 2016 AND 2018, UM, BONDS SORT OF WRAPPING UP THAT FUNDING CYCLE AND MOVING, UM, FIELD ENGINEERING AND I D I Q CONTRACTING UNDER THE 2020 BOND.
SO WE'RE ON TRACK TO MEET OUR SPENDING, UH, TARGETS FOR FISCAL 23.
AND THIS IS THE SIDEWALK PROGRAM IS ONE OF THOSE THAT COORDINATES, UM, THE BOND SPENDING ACROSS A BUNCH OF THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMMATIC FIELDS, INCLUDING, UM, BIKEWAYS AND, AND SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, UH, FOR URBAN TRAILS.
UM, 80 MILLION WAS UH, ASSIGNED TO URBAN TRAILS.
UH, THE VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE FOR THE BROSTROM SPUR PROJECT IS COMPLETE WITH OVER 700 RESPONSES TO THAT, UM,
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OPEN HOUSE, WHICH WERE MOSTLY IN SUPPORT OF THE PROJECT.AND THEN DESIGN WORK IS ONGOING FOR THE NORTHERN WALNUT CREEK TRAIL SYSTEM.
THERE'S SEVERAL PROJECTS IN THERE THAT, UM, ARE, WERE UNDERGOING A PHASE APPROACH BASED ON THE DIFFERENT CONSTRAINTS OF THE DIFFERENT AREAS, BUT WE HAVE DESIGNERS, UH, ON BOARD TO, TO BEGIN WORKING ON THOSE.
ADDITIONALLY, UH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM WAS FUNDED FOR A MILLION DOLLARS IN THE 2020 BOND.
UM, RIGHT NOW, AGAIN, AS SOME OF OUR OTHER PROGRAMMATIC, UM, UH, PROGRAMS ARE WRAPPING UP THE BOND FUNDING FROM PREVIOUS BONDS.
SO IS THE, UH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM.
UM, SO THEY'RE WORKING CURRENTLY ON ALLOCATING, UH, THE 2020 BOND FUNDS AS WELL AS WORKING WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS AND, YOU KNOW, NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH TO IDENTIFY PROJECTS FOR THE THE 2020 BOND.
UM, AND THEN SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL.
UM, THEY'VE USED THE 2020 BOND FUNDING TO SUPPLEMENT SOME OF THE QUARTER SCENT FUNDING TO COMPLETE PROJECTS SUCH AS THE AUSTIN WOODS SIDEWALK.
YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE HERE.
AND SAFE ROUTES IS ALSO BEGINNING PROJECT SELECTION FOR THE FISCAL 23 PROJECTS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE SUMMERTIME.
THE BULK OF THAT WORK HAPPENS, UH, WHEN SCHOOL IS NOT IN SESSION, SO THAT WAY WE'RE NOT DISTURBING, UH, CHILDREN WALKING TO SCHOOL AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UH, ANOTHER PIECE THAT WE'RE WORKING ON HERE IS THE, UH, UPDATE THE 20 20 23 UPDATE TO THE MOBILITY PLAN.
UM, THIS HAS BEEN BEFORE YOU, BEFORE IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS, AND THE PURPOSE OF THE PLAN IS TO LOOK AHEAD AT MOBILITY PROJECTS ACROSS THE CITY, UM, THAT ARE MADE POSSIBLE WITH 20 16, 20 18, AND 2020 BOND PROGRAMS RIGHT NOW.
UM, STAFF IS PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON THE PLAN WITH INTENT TO SCHEDULE MEETINGS WITH INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL OFFICES IN DECEMBER TO REVIEW THOSE PLANS.
UM, AND THEN AFTER MEETING WITH THE COUNCIL OFFICES, THE MAP WILL BE ROLLED OUT TO THE PUBLIC IN JANUARY, FEBRUARY OF 23.
UM, AND THEN FINALLY THE, THE PUBLISHING DATE FOR THE 2023 PLAN WILL BE IN, WE'RE SCHEDULED RIGHT NOW FOR MARCH OF 23.
UM, SOME OF THE PROGRAM RISKS WANTED TO TOUCH BASE WITH YOU ON THIS A LITTLE BIT.
UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS WE FACE ON A LOT OF OUR PROJECTS ACROSS THE C I P PROGRAM IS, IS CONTRACTOR AVAILABILITY.
WE'RE WORKING WITH CAPITAL CONTRACTING FINANCIAL SERVICES, SBR, AS WELL AS THE LOCAL ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS CHAPTER ON THE PLANS TO INCREASE AWARENESS ABOUT CITY PROJECTS, AS WELL AS WORK WITH, UM, THOSE GROUPS ON ISSUES THAT THEY SEE AS BARRIERS TO BIDDING ON CITY PROJECTS.
SO WE CAN CAST A WIDER NET ON CONTRACTORS THAT WE HAVE COMING IN DOING CITY WORK.
UM, COST ESCALATION INFLATION, I'M SURE EVERYONE KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT.
WE'VE SEEN, UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF INFLATION SINCE THE 2020 BOND WENT OUT.
UM, YOU KNOW, DUE TO THE PANDEMIC AND, AND THE EXISTING ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.
SO WE'RE WORKING ON, UM, WHAT WE CAN DO TO, UM, MITIGATE THE EFFECTS OF THOSE, UM, AS WELL AS PLAN AND PROGRAM THE BUDGETS, UM, BASED ON REVISED COST ESTIMATES GIVEN THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.
AND THEN FINALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT LEWIS MENTIONED IN HIS, UM, PROGRAM AS WELL ON VISION ZERO IS, IS FACING THE ISSUE THAT A LOT OF THE, WELL, SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE ARE NOT ON RIGHT AWAY, THAT'S RUN BY THE CITY.
SO WE HAVE TO COORDINATE WITH VARIOUS AGENCIES, TECH DOT, TRAVIS COUNTY, CAP METRO, UM, TO IMPLEMENT THOSE PROJECTS.
AND IN, IN ADDITION, WE'RE WORKING WITH THE OTHER, UM, CITY C I P PARTNERS, UM, TO DELIVER PROJECTS AND EXPEDITE PROCESSES.
UM, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR, UM, CAPITAL CONTRACTING COUNTERPARTS AS WELL AS FOLKS IN, YOU KNOW, WATERSHED PROTECTION AND UM, UH, AT, UH, AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION AS WELL.
AND YOU'VE SEEN THAT RECENTLY THROUGH CODE AMENDMENTS AND UPDATES THAT HAVE BEEN COME IN BEFORE COUNCIL TO HELP EXPEDITE THE PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THE RIGHT OF WAY AND CLEAR UP SOME OF THE, UH, THE PERMITTING ISSUES.
SO WITH THAT, I WILL CLOSE IT OUT AND SEE IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
SO APPRECIATE YOUR TIME TODAY.
THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
DO WE HAVE QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS? COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON, WHY DON'T YOU KICK IT OFF.
I ACTUALLY ONLY HAVE TWO QUESTIONS.
UM, I'M WONDERING WHAT THAT, UM,
IS THAT THE ONE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? YEAH, WELL, SO THE QUESTION THAT I HAD WAS ABOUT THE JOHNNY MOORES PROJECT.
IT'S JUST, I'M CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT THE PROCESS LOOKS LIKE FOR PUBLIC, UM, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOR THE
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JOHNNY MOORES PROJECT.SO WE ENGAGED WITH THE COMMUNITY DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE, THE PLAN FOR JOHNNY MORRIS ROAD.
SO, UM, I CAN REMEMBER BEING OUT IN THE CORRIDOR, GOING TO WITH TACOS TO THE MOBILE HOME PARK AND ENGAGING THE RESIDENTS THERE AS WELL AS AT THE SOCCER FIELDS, UH, TO DEVELOP THE PLAN.
UM, RIGHT NOW WE'RE AT 60% DESIGN.
SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS IN JANUARY FEBRUARY TIMEFRAME, WE'LL TAKE THE DESIGN PLANS AS THEY ARE TO DATE, UM, ENGAGE WITH THE SAME COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND, AND GET THEIR FEEDBACK, SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE'RE MISSING OVERLOOKING, AND REALLY JUST KIND OF LET THEM KNOW NEXT STEPS AS WE GO FORWARD TOWARDS PERMITTING AND DESIGN.
I MEAN, I, I GUESS THEN, UH, THE QUESTION WOULD BE, UH, CUZ IT SOUNDS LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SEEKING THEM OUT.
I'M CURIOUS TO KNOW HOW DO PEOPLE ENGAGE WITH STAFF TO ADVOCATE FOR THINGS THAT THEY WANT, LIKE SAFE ROUTES IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS OR, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE OTHER POTENTIAL AMENITIES THAT COULD WITH SOME INNOVATION AND DEDICATED RESOURCES BE BUILT OUT.
HOW DO THEY SEEK YOU OUT AND ADVOCATE FOR STUFF THAT THEY'D LIKE TO SEE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES? YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION.
UM, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO COORDINATE WITH YOUR OFFICE AND GET OUR, UM, OUR PROJECT MANAGER ENGAGED.
WE ARE, YOU KNOW, ACTIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA PROJECT, WEBSITE, UM, THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE'LL BE MUCH, WE'LL BE MUCH MORE VISIBLE AS WE GET READY FOR THAT PUBLIC MEETING.
UM, WE'VE TALKED WITH FOLKS ALREADY ABOUT, UM, THE ROUTES THEY USED TO GET TO SCHOOL, IF WE COULD CONNECT TO THE URBAN TRAIL THAT'S JUST TO THE WEST.
SO A LOT OF THOSE THINGS HAVE BEEN UNCOVERED.
UM, BUT WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO ENGAGE FURTHER.
I'D REALLY LIKE THAT VERY MUCH.
IN FACT, IT'S KIND OF, YOU KNOW, TOP OF THE LIST PRIORITY FOR ME TO REALLY, UM, OPERATIONALIZE AND, YOU KNOW, HAVE A MORE UNIVERSAL APPROACH TO EX OUR EXPECTATIONS AROUND HOW COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WORKS.
I THINK THERE'S JUST TOO LITTLE CONSISTENCY.
UM, AND SO FREQUENTLY IT DOESN'T GO WELL THAT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE COULD, YOU KNOW, JUST PULL FROM BEST PRACTICES AND FIGURE OUT THE BEST WAY TO ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITIES WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE REALLY TRANSFORMATIONAL GENERATIONAL CHANGES TO COMMUNITIES.
UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER QUESTION I WOULD HAVE IS ABOUT DISRUPTIONS, YOU KNOW, HOW WILL THE DISRUPTIONS, CONSTRUCTION DISRUPTIONS AFFECT THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WHO, YOU KNOW, LIVE AND WORK AND PLAY ALONG JOHNNY MORRIS.
AND THEN, UH, I GUESS IT'S ANOTHER PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT CONVERSATION.
HOW WILL YOU KNOW THOSE ABOVE SAID DISRUPTIONS BE COMMUNICATED TO PEOPLE? AND WHAT ASSISTANCE ARE WE OFFERING FOR REROUTING AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT THAT MIGHT, WHAT CHALLENGES THAT MIGHT PROVIDE? JUST CURIOUS ABOUT HOW THAT ALL LOOKS AS WELL.
YEAH, THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE REALLY GOOD QUESTIONS AND BY THE TIME WE COME BACK TO THE COMMUNITY IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY, WE'LL HAVE A GOOD IDEA OF THE DURATION OF CONSTRUCTION, WHAT THE IMPACTS MIGHT LOOK LIKE, WHAT ANY CLOSURES MIGHT LOOK LIKE.
UM, SO WE'LL BE PREPARED TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS AND COMMUNICATE THAT WITH THE, UH, WITH THE PUBLIC WHEN WE COME BACK IN THE SPRING.
IS, AND I'M ASSUMING THERE'S STILL AN OPPORTUNITY AT THAT POINT FOR FOLKS TO POINT OUT BY WAY OF THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCE, WHAT THE GAPS MAY REMA.
IT'S NOT YOU, YOU'RE NOT BRINGING A FINISHED PROJECT, YOU'RE SAYING THIS IS WHAT WE PROPOSE, BUT THERE'S STILL ROOM FOR THIS TO BE FLEXIBLE WHEN YOU COME BACK IN THE SPRING.
ESPECIALLY IF, UM, THE THINGS THAT THEY MIGHT NOTICE ARE CONNECTIONS, UM, FROM THE ROAD TO A TRAIL OR TO A SCHOOL.
UM, IF IT CAN'T BE ADDED TO THE EXISTING CONTRACT, WE HAVE LOCA MOBILITY PROGRAMS THAT CAN COME IN AND FILL THOSE GAPS AS WELL.
THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF WORK GOING ON IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS IN THIS PART OF TOWN.
WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS TO, UM, FM 9 69, UM, SOME WORK IN THE COLONY PARK AREA.
SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE WORKING, WE'RE GONNA HAVE AN IMPACT IN THIS COMMUNITY AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS AWARE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE AND WE GIVE THEM ALTERNATIVE ROUTES FOR SURE.
YEAH, AND I THINK YOU MIGHT BE, UM, BEING VERY CONSERVATIVE WHEN YOU SAY THE NEXT FEW YEARS, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE FOR FOUR YEARS THAT MOST OF THE DEVELOPMENT IN OUR BEAUTIFUL FAIR CITY IS GONNA BE HAPPENING EAST OF 180 3 FOR THE NEXT THREE DECADES AT THE VERY LEAST.
AND IF WE'RE GONNA DO IT, WE GOTTA GET IT RIGHT ON THE FRONT END.
CUZ THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'VE SORT OF ESTABLISHED WHAT THE PROTOCOL IS FOR HOW YOU DO DEVELOPMENT IN THIS AREA.
AND I THINK STARTING ON THE FRONT END OF THAT, WITH ALL OUR TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE AND IMPROVING MOBILITY CONNECTION, UM, IS IT, IT WILL REALLY OFFER US THE OPPORTUNITY TO ONCE AGAIN BE THE GROUNDBREAKERS, BE THE, YOU KNOW, THE MUNICIPALITY WHO REALLY CREATED THE TEMPLATE FOR HOW YOU DO CONSIDERATE, THOUGHTFUL, CONDENSED COMPACT, UM, DENSE LIVING, UH, COMMUNITY.
UH, COMMUNITY AMENITIES, RICH, UH, DEVELOPMENT LIKE WE IN IN THAT AREA TOWN.
TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF DEVELOPMENT THAT'S COME THERE, WE REALLY IN A LOT OF WAYS HAVE A BLANK SLATE TO REALLY GET IT RIGHT.
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PROBABLY BE MEETING A LOT IN THIS NEXT FOUR YEARS.UH, THANK GOD, UH, TO TALK ABOUT HOW TO THINK ABOUT THIS REGIONALLY FOR THE AREA, UH, AND GET MORE GRANULAR AND JUST REALLY MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE TAKING ALL THE STUFF INTO CONSIDERATION AND REALLY GET IT RIGHT.
I DEFINITELY LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU AND YOUR STAFF, UM, AS WE GO FORWARD.
DO WE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS FROM COMMITTEE MEMBERS? I'VE GOT JUST A COUPLE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER.
UM, ARE Y'ALL KEEPING TRACK OF A SUBSTANDARD STREETS LIST? I KNOW WE TRACK THEM IN MY OFFICE WHEN WE, WHEN WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE THERE, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE THIS CITYWIDE AND IF ALL THE OFFICES ARE GIVING YOU THIS INFORMATION.
YEAH, THAT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
WE HAVE THE, THE LIST OF THOSE THAT WERE IDENTIFIED IN THE 2016 PLAN, UM, 2016 BOND, WHICH WE HAVE PLANS FOR, UM, AS WELL AS THOSE THAT WERE IDENTIFIED IN 2020.
UM, THE A S M P ALSO, EACH STREET HAS A, A CLASSIFICATION AND WE HAVE THE SUBSTANDARD STREETS IDENTIFIED THERE.
UM, AND WE ALSO HAVE THEM AS PART OF THE STREET IMPACT FEE AS WELL.
SO WE HAVE VARIOUS LISTS, UM, THAT WE'LL BE SLOWLY KIND OF CRANKING THROUGH AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
AND IS THAT SOMETHING THAT IF A COUNCIL OFFICE KNOWS ONE OR BECOMES AWARE OF ONE, IS THERE SOMEONE IN YOUR OFFICE THAT THEY CAN FEED THE INFORMATION TO OR CHECK TO MAKE SURE IT'S ON YOUR RADAR? WOULD THEY JUST CONTACT YOU? YEAH, YOU CAN CERTAINLY CONTACT ME OR THE, OR THE AREA ENGINEER THAT WORKS WITH YOUR OFFICE.
AND I LOVE THE MOBILITY ANNUAL PLAN WEBSITE.
I THINK IT'S A REALLY HELPFUL WAY FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT PROJECTS ARE PLANNED FOR THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD OR NEAR THEIR KIDS' SCHOOLS.
UM, ARE THERE NON BOND FUNDED PROJECTS ON THAT AS WELL? I KNOW A LOT OF IT IS THE BOND FUNDED PROJECTS.
ARE THERE OTHER JUST DEPARTMENTAL FUNDING THINGS THAT COULD BE ADDED? THAT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
WE HAVE SOME INTERNAL THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT AS WE'RE PLANNING PROJECTS.
SO WE HAVE THE PROJECT CONNECT SYSTEM MAP, WE HAVE, UM, THE STREET RESURFACING MAP, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, UN SURE THOUGH IF THOSE ARE PUBLIC FOR OTHERS TO VIEW, UM, WE'VE TRIED TO KEEP THAT TOOL PRETTY CLEAR AND CONCISE.
IT'S ALREADY VERY, VERY CROWDED WITH SO MUCH WORK GOING ON.
UM, BUT THAT'S A GOOD THOUGHT AND I'LL, I'LL CERTAINLY ASK OUR STAFF TO LOOK INTO IT.
YEAH, I'VE ACTUALLY FOUND THE INTERACTIVE VERSION IS A LITTLE EASIER TO UNDERSTAND THAN WHEN WE WOULD GET PRINTED VERSIONS.
I WOULD JUST HAVE TO SIT THERE AND FLIP THROUGH IT AND KIND OF UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING THAT WAS GOING IN, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS WELL DEVELOPED AND HAD LISTS BY, BY, UH, COUNCIL DISTRICT.
I JUST FOUND IT TO BE A LITTLE HARD TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING THAT WAS IN IT.
UM, AS FAR AS THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM, AND THIS IS MY LAST QUESTION.
ARE THERE SET DEADLINES FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS OR TRYING TO GET INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM FOR THESE LOCAL PROJECTS? OR IS IT A REVOLVING DOOR ALL YEAR ROUND? IT'S, UM, THERE ARE SOME DEADLINES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE TRY AND FOCUS THOSE PROGRAMS, BUT IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, A HARD AND FAST, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO APPLY BY JANUARY 1ST OR YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET ANY MONEY ASSOCIATED WITH THE 2020 BOND.
UM, IF YOU HAVE PROJECTS, WE HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAMMING OR NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM COORDINATOR WHO, UM, CAN BE IN TOUCH.
I CAN GIVE YOU, UH, HIS CONTACT INFORMATION AS WELL WHO BASICALLY COORDINATES THAT PROGRAM FOR US AND WORKS WITH THE COMMUNITY ON PROSPECTIVE PROJECTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
I'D LIKE TO INCLUDE THAT INFORMATION IN ONE OF OUR UPCOMING NEWSLETTERS.
I KNOW I HAD A NEIGHBORHOOD IN MY DISTRICT, UH, CREATE THEIR OWN, IT WAS, IT WAS REALLY A WALKABLE TRAIL.
THEY HAD A, A STREET THAT KIND OF DEAD ENDED, BUT THE SCHOOLS, THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEAR THE NEIGHBORHOOD, IF YOU CUT THROUGH THE WOODS, IT WAS SAFER THAN GOING, YOU KNOW, ON THE STREETS.
CUZ WE HAVE SOME BIG WIDE STREETS IN, IN DISTRICT EIGHT.
AND THEY LOVED IT AND THEY JUST ROLLED UP THEIR SLEEVES, WORKED TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, BUILT THAT TRAIL AND CREATED A NICE SAFE PATHWAY FOR FAMILIES TO BE ABLE TO WALK THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL.
SO IT WAS, IT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS AND I CAN'T RECOMMEND IT HIGHLY ENOUGH.
WE HAVE ANY LAST QUESTIONS? NO.
WE WILL MOVE TO THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH
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IS GOING TO BE AN UPDATE ON THE BARTON SPRINGS ROAD BRIDGE PROJECT, WHICH YOU ALLUDED TO EARLIER,UH, AGAIN, ERIC BAILEY, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS OVER CAPITAL PROJECT DELIVERY HERE TO GIVE A, A QUICK UPDATE ON THE PROGRESS ON THE BARTON SPRINGS ROAD BRIDGE PROJECT AS FUNDED BY THE 2020 BOND.
UM, WANTED TO TALK ABOUT OUR PICTURE OF SUCCESS FOR TODAY, IS THAT THIS COMMITTEE LEAVES WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CURRENT STATE, WHERE WE'RE AT AND WHERE WE'RE GOING, WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE FOR THE, UH, BARTON SPRINGS ROAD BRIDGE.
GONNA GIVE A QUICK, UM, BRIEFING ON THE CURRENT CONDITION, WHAT, WHAT IT'S LIKE OUT THERE NOW.
UM, OUTLINE SOME OF THE ALTERNATIVES THAT WERE STUDIED SO FAR BY THE ENGINEER AND THEN THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION ON A PATH FORWARD.
I WANNA MAKE SURE I MAKE IT VERY CLEAR
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FROM THE START.THIS IS BY NO MEANS THE ABSOLUTE BE ALL END ALL OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.
WE'VE REVIEWED WHAT THE ENGINEERED REPORT SAYS AND COME FORWARD TO Y'ALL WITH A RECOMMENDATION, FOLLOWED UP WITH SOME FUTURE COMMUNITY OUTREACH AS WELL AS MORE, UM, COMMUNICATION WITH COUNCIL.
SO A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY HERE.
YOU CAN SEE FROM THE, UH, LOWER RIGHT HAND PICTURE, THE ORIGINAL, UH, BARTON SPRINGS ROAD BRIDGE ALIGNMENT.
THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT THE BRIDGE THAT'S SHOWN IN HERE.
WE WERE DIGGING THROUGH THE ARCHIVES AND FOUND ACTUALLY A REALLY COOL PICTURE OF A BRIDGE OVER BARTON SPRINGS.
IT WAS PROBABLY BEFORE THE TIME OF THE BRIDGE, BUT ANYWAY, BUILT IN 1925, ORIGINALLY EXPANDED IN 1946 TO BASICALLY IT'S CURRENT CONFIGURATION WHERE IT'S AT NOW.
UM, THE EXISTING BRIDGE IS IN FAIR CONDITIONS, STRUCTURALLY, THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE OF STALLING AND SOME EXPOSED REBAR, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, AND SO WE'RE SEEING SOME, SOME ISSUES IN THERE.
NOTHING THAT THAT IS STRUCTURALLY DEFICIENT OR RAISES TO ANY LEVEL THAT NEEDS, YOU KNOW, IMMEDIATE ATTENTION TOMORROW.
BUT SOMETHING TO THAT WE NEED TO PLAN FOR IN THE FUTURE.
UM, AND IT NEEDS TO BE REAL REHABILITATED OR REPLACED TO ENSURE THE SAFETY AND LONGEVITY AS WELL AS IMPROVED CIRCULATION IN THIS AREA FOR, UM, VEHICLES, PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLES, ALL THE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION.
UM, I'M SURE Y'ALL HAVE BEEN DOWN THERE ON ACL WEEKEND AND OR WHEN THERE'S OTHER FESTIVALS OR THINGS GOING ON, AND IT'S A REAL KIND OF, UH, A NARROW POINT WHERE IT'S DIFFICULT FOR PEDESTRIANS AND CARS TO INTERACT GOING THROUGH THERE.
SO, UM, AND AGAIN, LIKE I STATED PREVIOUSLY IN NOVEMBER OF 2020, THE AUSTIN VOTERS APPROVED, UH, FUNDING TO CONTINUING TO EVALUATE AND ADDRESS THE, UH, THE BARTON SPRINGS ROAD.
SO THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE'RE AT NOW IS IN THAT EVALUATION PERIOD.
WE'VE HIRED AN ENGINEER WHO'S BEEN ON BOARD PREPARED AN IN AN INITIAL REPORT OUTLINING SOME OF THE, UM, DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS THAT ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS BRIDGE.
SO IN HERE YOU CAN SEE FIVE OPTIONS.
UM, OPTION ONE IS A, A LIGHT TOUCH OPTION, WHICH WOULD BE JUST BASICALLY REHABILITATING AND PRESERVING THE EXISTING STRUCTURE.
OPTION TWO IS A MAJOR REHABILITATION WHERE THE EXISTING STRUCTURE REMAINS IN PLACE.
THE DECK GETS WIDENED, UM, AND SOME ADDITIONAL FEATURES ARE ADDED.
OPTION THREE IS REPLACEMENT, UM, WITH A SINGLE ARCH TYPE OF DESIGN.
OPTION FOUR IS REPLACEMENT WITH A SINGLE Y TYPE OF A PIER.
AND THEN OPTION FIVE IS REPLACEMENT, UH, WITH A DOUBLE Y TYPE OF PIER.
UM, RIGHT OFF THE BAT, THE LIGHT TOUCH OPTION WAS DISCARDED BASED ON, UM, AN AN INITIAL INSPECTION REPORT AS WELL AS WHAT WE'VE SEEN OUT THERE.
AND ULTIMATELY THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF CIRCULATION THROUGH THIS AREA.
THAT LIGHT TOUCH WOULD BASICALLY LEAVE THE CONFIGURATION ROUGHLY THE SAME WITH SOME PRETTY SMALL SIDEWALKS AND, AND LANES AND THINGS, WHICH I KNOW IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY WANT TO, UH, THAT'S REALLY A REALISTIC OPTION.
SO, UM, THE RESULT IS THAT WE'VE FOCUSED ON OPTIONS TWO THROUGH FIVE AND ALL OF THEM RESULT IN A WIDENED BRIDGE DECK, UM, THAT KEEPS THE FOUR CURRENT VEHICULAR TRAFFIC LANES, BUT ADDS TWO NEW 10 FOOT BICYCLE LANES AND PEDESTRIAN PATHS ON BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH SIDE.
YOU CAN SEE HERE THIS IS AN OVERALL SCHEMATIC SHOWING WHAT THE NEW UPPER BRIDGE DECK WOULD LOOK LIKE GIVEN EITHER THE REHABILITATION OR REPLACEMENT OPTIONS.
UM, AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THE ADDITIONAL BIKE PATHS AS WELL AS THE PEDESTRIAN ZONES AND THE CONNECTIONS INTO EXISTING, UM, TRAILS AND, AND PATHS IN THE AREA.
THE, UM, SORT OF DARK GREEN SHOWS, THE, UH, BIKE PATHS, THE SORT OF TEAL COLORS, THE, UM, PEDESTRIAN PATH.
AND THEN THE RED IS THE CONNECTION INTO THE EXISTING, UM, THE EXISTING, UH, PATHS AND THINGS THAT ARE IN THAT AREA.
UM, SO REPLACEMENT AS THE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE.
UM, THE, THIS WHAT WE ARE CALLING THE DOUBLE Y OPTION.
YOU CAN SEE IN THE RENDERING HERE THERE'S TWO ROWS OF, UM, Y SHAPE PI.
UM, AND THERE'S A COUPLE BENEFITS HERE FROM THAT CONFIGURATION.
UM, IT MAXIMIZES THE USE THROUGH THE BRIDGE AND MAINTAINS AN OPEN CENTER CHANNEL IN BARTON CREEK.
IT BETTER ACCOMMODATES THEILER EAGLE TRAIN, YOU CAN SEE ON THE FAR LEFT HAND SIDE AND ENHANCED TRAILS UNDERNEATH THE BRIDGE, UM, TO KEEP THAT CONNECTIVITY, UH, THROUGHOUT THE PARK.
IN ADDITION, THE REPLACEMENT OPTION, UM, IS 40% LESS COST, 40% LESS THAN THE REHABILITATION OPTION IN.
ADDITIONALLY, THERE'S LESS RISK IN A REPLACEMENT, UM, THAN A REHABILITATION.
CUZ ONCE YOU GET INTO THAT REHABILITATION, YOU DON'T A HUNDRED PERCENT KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET INTO, UM, WHEN YOU START, UM, DEMOLISHING THE BRIDGE DECK AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO NEXT STEPS WE HAVE HERE, UM, COUNCIL BRIEFING NUMBER ONE AND THE MOBILITY COMMITTEE IS TODAY WE'RE GONNA HAVE A, UM, MEMO THAT'S GONNA GO OUT TO COUNCIL, UM, EITHER TODAY OR TOMORROW WITH SOME OF THE DETAILS OF THIS, UM, EXPLAINING WHERE, WHERE, WHERE WE'RE GOING, WHAT WE'RE DOING.
OUR FIRST PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IS GONNA BE IN THE WINTER OF 2023.
WE'RE CURRENTLY TARGETING, TARGETING THE JANUARY TIMEFRAME FOR THAT.
THEN WE'LL BE GOING TO THE TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION IN THE SPRING OF 23, UM, AS WE REFINE THE OPTIONS AND GOING TO A SECOND COUNCIL BRIEFING IN THE SUMMER OF 23 WITH
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ALL AS WELL A PUBLIC, A SECOND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING TO COMPLETE THE PRELIMINARY PHASE IN THE FALL OF 23.
SO THE PROJECT IS CURRENTLY FUNDED THROUGH THE COMPLETION OF THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING, UH, PHASE AS PART OF THE 2020 BOND.
FUTURE FUNDING WILL NEED TO BE IDENTIFIED, UM, TO MOVE THE PROJECT FORWARD INTO THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE.
UM, RIGHT NOW OUR CURRENT COST ESTIMATES ARE IN THE 30 TO 35 MILLION RANGE IN TERMS OF WHAT THE, THE NEW BRIDGE, UH, WILL COST.
AND AGAIN, THAT MAY CHANGE AS THE DESIGN IS DEVELOPED AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH CONSTRUCTION AS WELL AS WITH INFLATIONARY CONCERNS AND OTHER THINGS, UH, IN A PART OF A LARGER ECONOMY THAT THAT WOULD BE HAPPENING.
SO, UM, WITH THAT I WILL LEAVE IT OPEN FOR QUESTIONS AND OR COMMENTS COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
DOES ANYONE WANNA KICK US OFF? I CAN RUN WITH IT.
I KNOW THIS PROJECT, UM, HAS BEEN IN CONVERSATION FOR A LONG TIME.
I REMEMBER THERE WAS A PRE MEETING IN 2015 TO LOOK AT THIS BRIDGE AND THE RED BUTT AISLE BRIDGE BECAUSE THEY BOTH HAD HISTORIC NATURES TO THEM MM-HMM.
SO I, I KNOW THIS IS A LONG TIME COMING.
UM, YOU KNOW, IN MY ANECDOTAL EXPERIENCE, A LOT OF WHAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE SOLVED IS THE FACT THAT THE BIKE LANE HEADING WEST JUST SHOVES YOU INTO TRAFFIC AND THE LANE JOGS AT THE SAME TIME.
SO IT BASICALLY THROWS YOU INTO THE CURB, UM, AND, AND DOESN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF ROOM FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THEIR CHOICES AND TRY TO, TO HAVE A SAFE MANEUVER THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION.
SO, UM, I ALSO WANNA BE VERY RESPECTFUL THAT I KNOW IN YEARS PAST, PROBABLY PREDATING ANY OF OUR SERVICE, UM, THERE WERE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TRYING TO EXPAND THIS AND EXPANDING BARTON SPRINGS ROAD INTO MORE LANES, AND I THINK THE COMMUNITY HAS TOLD PEOPLE LOUD ENOUGH THAT THEY DON'T WANT IT EXPANDED.
I'VE EVEN HEARD PEOPLE CALL FOR, YOU KNOW, MINIMIZING THE NUMBER OF LANES THROUGH THAT AREA.
SO I THINK THIS IS MORE ABOUT VI AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN USE THE BUS ROUTE THAT RUNS THROUGH THERE IN A SAFE WAY AND NOT TRYING TO INCREASE SPEEDS AND NOT TRYING TO, TO ADD LANES INTO THIS PROJECT.
SO I WANNA BE MINDFUL OF THAT HISTORIC CONTEXT TO THIS PARTICULAR, UM, CONVERSATION.
CAN YOU TELL ME A BIT ABOUT THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT? HOW, HOW DO YOU PLAN TO GO ABOUT DOING THAT? WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND OUT HOW TO PROVIDE THEIR THOUGHTS? YEAH, SO, UM, WE HAVE, UH, A PROJECT WEBSITE THAT'S OBVIOUSLY UP AND RUNNING.
UM, WE WILL NOTIFY FOLKS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, AS WELL IN THE AREA.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS A, A LARGER CONNECTION THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAN JUST THAT AFFECTS MORE THAN JUST THE PEOPLE IN THAT, IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO WE'RE CURRENTLY, YOU KNOW, WORKING ON WHAT EXACTLY THAT PLAN IS GONNA LOOK LIKE.
BUT THERE WILL BE A LOT OF NOTICE THROUGH ALL OF THE VARIOUS, UM, METHODS THAT WE DO TO MAKE FOLKS AWARE OF THE PUBLIC MEETINGS THAT ARE COMING UP, UM, WHERE THEY CAN REVIEW AND COMMENT ON THE PLANS AND, YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT EXACTLY THE THINGS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE NUMBER OF LANES AND THE PEDESTRIAN ACCESS AND BICYCLE ACCESS AND ALL OF THE, THOSE THINGS, UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE, WITH THE DESIGN.
SO, UM, I DON'T HAVE, WE HAVEN'T DEVELOPED EXACTLY WHAT THE SPECIFICS ARE OF THAT YET.
WE'RE WORKING ON, ON THAT PLAN AS WE SPEAK AND GETTING, GET IT OUT AND ADVERTISED HERE PRETTY SOON.
I APPRECIATE THAT AND I THINK THE TIMING IS PERFECT BECAUSE THE LOOK OR VISION PLAN IS HAPPENING AND VERY SHORTLY THEY'RE GONNA BE RELEASING, UM, SOME INFORMATION THAT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING THIS STUDY OVER THESE YEARS, YOU KNOW, WILL BE PROVIDING THEIR REPORT AND GETTING PUBLIC FEEDBACK ON WHAT THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE GONNA BE FOR THE VISION PLAN.
AND I KNOW THAT THE CONVERSATION AROUND ACCESSIBILITY, BOTH IN THE PERCEPTION OF IS ZUCKER PARK TRULY FOR EVERYONE OR IS IT ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN AFFORD TO LIVE OR WORK NEARBY? UM, BUT ALSO THERE, I BELIEVE IS CONSENSUS AROUND MAKING SURE THAT THE BIKE, PED BUS ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS TO BE IMPROVED, NEEDS TO BE SAFER.
UM, THERE'S GONNA BE OTHER MULTIMODAL IMPROVEMENTS OVER NEAR THEILER BOTANICAL GARDEN THAT ARE GONNA BE KICKING OFF, UM, FOR THE EXACT SAME TYPES OF, YOU KNOW, A BUS PLATFORM AND THE, THE PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE SAFETY THAT NEEDS TO BE IN THERE.
SO I THINK THIS IS GREAT TIMING WHERE IT'S AT THE FOREFRONT OF EVERYONE'S MIND.
THERE'S ALREADY A LOT OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND AWARENESS ABOUT THIS CONVERSATION, SO I'M HOPING YOU'LL GET A GOOD BALANCE OF VIEWPOINTS FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO, TO ACCESS THE PARK AND, AND TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THE BRIDGE.
UM, LET ME SEE IF I'VE GOT OTHER QUESTIONS.
I THINK I, I THINK THAT MIGHT DO IT FOR ME.
LET'S SEE IF WE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS.
DO I SEE COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON.
YEAH, I JUST HAVE THE ONE QUESTION.
UM, YOU KNOW, IN 2018 PUBLIC WORKS, THEY IDENTIFIED THE, UM, THAT THIS BRIDGE WAS ONE OF THE TOP FIVE IN AUSTIN THAT NEEDED MAJOR REPLACEMENTS OR REPAIRS.
I'M WONDERING IF YOU CAN TELL ME THE STATUS OF THOSE OTHER FOUR BRIDGES THAT WERE IN THAT STUDY.
I DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION, BUT I'M GONNA CALL UP PER MOEN WHO IS THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, UH, OVER OUR STREET AND BRIDGE DIVISION, AND I'M SURE
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HE KNOWS THAT OFF THE TOP OF HIS HEAD.PER MOEN, UH, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR PUBLIC WORKS OVER OPERATIONS.
UH, WE MAINTAIN THE STREETS AND THE BRIDGE NETWORK IN THE CITY.
THE OTHER FIVE, THE MAJOR ONE RED BOT TRAIL.
UH, WE ARE, UH, WE HAVE BEEN IN THE DESIGN AND, UH, THAT, UH, FUNDING CAME INTO PLACE IN 2018.
WE ARE MOVING ON THAT WITH THE CONSULTANT AND ALL OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
THE OTHER BRIDGES WERE DEL WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR FUNDING FOR THAT BRIDGE.
UH, THE OTHER WAS, UH, WILLIAM CANNON, UH, THE BRIDGE APPROACH.
WE HAD A FAILURE ON THE ROAD ON THE APPROACH, UH, A MONTH AND A HALF AGO, WHICH WE RESPONDED TO.
WE ARE HAVING AN EMERGENCY REPAIR ON THAT APPROACH THAT WOULD RESPOND TO HALF THE KNEE.
SO BASICALLY THE WEST APPROACH TO THE BRIDGE WOULD BE TAKING CARE OF UNDER THIS, UH, EMERGENCY CONTRACT.
AND THEN THE EAST APPROACH IS BEING DESIGNED AND WOULD NEED FUNDING SLAUGHTER LANE.
THE TWO APPROACHES EAST AND WEST ARE THE OTHER ONE THAT IS JUST LIKE WILLIAM CANNON IS OUR OLD MECHANICALLY STABILIZED EARTH WALL IN THE CITY.
THE FIRST TWO THAT WERE THE SECOND AND THE THIRD TYPE OF DISCO CONSTRUCTION THAT WERE BUILT IN THE CITY, THE FIRST ONE BEING CONGRESS AVENUE.
SO THESE TWO BOATS, SLAUGHTER AND WILLIAM CANNON NEED FUNDING.
SO WE CAN GO AHEAD WITH THE REPAIRS.
YOU KNOW, I, I HADN'T HEARD ABOUT THE FAILURE UNTIL YOU JUST MENTIONED IT.
CAN YOU GIMME ANY INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT CONSTITUTES A FAILURE AND SURE.
WHAT EXACTLY TRANSPIRED? DID ANYBODY GET HURT? WHAT WAS REQUIRED TO MAKE THE REPAIR? ABSOLUTELY, YES.
SO WHAT HAPPENS, THE MECHANICALLY ESTABLISHED WALL CONTAINS A FILL IN BETWEEN AND BECAUSE OF THE CONSTRUCTION AND THE, THE METHOD THAT WAS USED BY THE BACK THEN 42 YEARS AGO, UH, THERE HAS BEEN, UH, LEAKAGE OF THAT MATERIAL IN BETWEEN THE WALL PANELS.
SO AS THE MATERIAL LEAKS OUT OR THE WATER GETS INTO THAT CAVITY AND WASHES AWAY THE FINES, THE FIELD BELOW THE ASPHALT, BELOW THE STREET SETTLES AND THEN THE, WE WOULD SEE DEFLECTION AND SETTLEMENT ON THE SURFACE.
SO AS SOON AS WE SAW IT, WE CLOSED THE ROAD.
WE WENT IN THE NEXT MORNING, OPENED IT UP AND STARTED, UH, RESPONDING TO THE NEED.
THIS WAS AGAIN, JUST LIKE THE PREVIOUS FAILURES THAT WE HAD SEEN.
IT'S HASN'T BEEN FORTUNATELY TO THE, IT HASN'T BEEN CATASTROPHIC FAILURE.
IT IS THE ROAD SETTLES AND PROVIDES VERY GOOD INDICATION THAT IT REQUIRES ATTENTION.
IN THIS CASE WE HAD, BECAUSE WE HAD THE CONSULTANT, ALSO THE GEOTECH ENGINEER WITH US, WE LOOKED AT THE FAILURE TOGETHER AND WE PUT A SYSTEM IN PLACE THAT WOULD PREVENT THAT FAILURE THERE.
AS WELL AS LOOKING AT THE NEED, REALIZING THAT WE ARE GETTING MORE OF THESE FAILURES BECAUSE OF THE MOVEMENT AT THE DEFLECTION OF THE WALL ITSELF.
WE DECIDED TO USE SOME OF OUR FUNDING, EMERGENCY FUNDING AND PUT A CONTRACT IN PLACE TO RESPOND TO THAT WEST SIDE.
THE WEST SIDE BEING THE WORST SIDE ON THE WILLIAM CANNON BRIDGE.
THE SOIL ON THE EITHER SIDE OF THE WALL, ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE, I'M SORRY, IS DIFFERENT.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THE EMERGENCY CONTRACT.
WE ARE, UH, TALKING TO THE CONTRACTOR, WE HAVE CLEARED THE VEGETATION.
WE ARE GETTING READY TO START WORKING.
DO YOU MIND IF I ASK REAL QUICK, HOW DID YOU DISCOVER THE FAILURE? YOU SAID YOU WENT, YOU WERE LOOKING AT IT.
DID SOMEBODY REPORT IT OR WERE Y'ALL JUST CHECKING THE CONDITION OF THE BRIDGE? THE STREET STARTED SETTLING, I'M SORRY, THE STREET I'M, THE STREET ITSELF STARTED SETTLING.
OH, P D A P D CLOSED IT AND CALLED US AND WE IMMEDIATELY WENT, PUT THE TRAFFIC CONTROL IN PLACE AND THEN STARTED OPENING IT UP AND RESPONDING TO THE GOT IT.
AND SO THEN ONE LAST LITTLE FOLLOW UP.
UM, SO IN LIGHT OF THE NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA, UH, INCLUDING THE, UM,
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UPCOMING PARKS FACILITIES AT THE OLD PRIVATE RACE TRACK, I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN, UM, GETTING SOMETHING DONE FOR THAT DEL WA LANE BRIDGE THAT YOU MENTIONED IN D ONE.HOW CAN MY OFFICE OR COUNCIL AS A WHOLE REALLY HELP TO FAST TRACK THE WORK, UM, GETTING DONE THERE? FUNDING, WE NEED THE FUNDING AND UH, BASICALLY THAT HAS BEEN THE MAJOR, UH, BOTTLE LAKE THERE.
THE ISSUE IS BECAUSE OF THE BARGE CREEK AT GOING RIGHT UNDER DEL, THE AMOUNT OF WATER THAT WE GET DURING MAJOR RAINFALLS.
I'VE BEEN HERE OVER THE BRIDGES THE LAST 17 YEARS AND FOUR TIMES I'VE EXPERIENCED WATER BEING THREE FEET OVER THE BRIDGE.
THE BRIDGE IS 20 FEET OVER THE CREEK.
WHEN WE GET THE MAJOR RAINFALLS, THE FLOODING GOES THREE FEET OVER THE BRIDGE.
SO WE HAVE TO, UH, EX UH, PUT IN PLACE A BREACH THAT IS PROBABLY THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF THE EXISTING BREACH.
SO COMPARATIVELY, WHERE DO YOU THINK THE GAP LIES TODAY? IT WOULD AT LEAST BE OF A NUMBER.
IT WOULD AT LEAST BE 8 MILLION THESE DAYS.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR RESPONSES.
THANK YOU FOR THOSE QUESTIONS.
I KNOW WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AT LEAST THE WILLIAM CANNON AND SLAUGHTER BRIDGES, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF THERE'S OTHER SOURCES OF FUNDING LIKE THROUGH CAMPO OR, UM, DOESN'T TEXT DOT ALSO HAVE SOME ON OFF BRIDGE FUNDING THEY DO WHERE THEY WILL DO WORK THAT'S NOT ON A TEXT DOT ROAD SIMPLY BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC IN BETWEEN IS TRAVELING TO AND FROM TEXT DOT ROADS? THEY DO.
AND, UH, PREVIOUS YEARS, ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO THEY DID, AND THEN THEY STOPPED WITH THE OFF SYSTEM BRIDGES THAT WOULD RESPOND TO THIS.
ADDITIONALLY, THEY FOLLOW THE STRUCTURALLY DEFICIENT BRIDGES.
IN THE CASE OF WILLIAM CANNON AND SLAUGHTER LANE, THE BRIDGES THEMSELVES ARE OKAY, THE UP ROAD APPROACH SITTING ON MECHANICALLY STABILIZED EARTH IS EXPERIENCING THESE ISSUES.
THOSE MECHANICALLY STABILIZED PANELS ARE MOVING AND CREATING THESE DEFLECTIONS AND SETTLEMENTS IN THE ROADWAY.
SO THE BREEZE ITSELF IS OKAY, THE APPROACH NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED AND TEXT DOT LIKELY WON'T PAY FOR THAT.
I, I APPRECIATE THAT BACKGROUND.
AND I KNOW WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, REGIONAL FINANCING OF PROJECTS, WE ALWAYS COME AROUND TO WHICH OF THESE ROADS ARE JUST FOR AUSTIN AND PEOPLE WHO ARE WITHIN AND ONLY TRAVELING WITHIN AUSTIN LIMITS AND WHICH ROADS ARE BEING USED BY PEOPLE WHO AREN'T IN THE AUSTIN TAX BASE.
UM, SO I KNOW THESE CONVERSATIONS ARE HAPPENING AND WE'RE CONSTANTLY TRYING TO GET CREATIVE WITH WHAT, WHAT POTS OF MONEY ARE AVAILABLE SO THAT WE CAN TRY TO GET THESE PROJECTS DONE.
ANY LAST QUESTIONS? I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
AND, UH, MAYOR EM ALTAR HAS STEPPED AWAY.
[7. Update from Assistant City Manager Gina Fiandaca on the City's Strategic Mobility Outcome.]
LAST ITEM, WHICH IS GOING TO BE THE MOBILITY OUTCOME REPORT THAT THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER CREATES.I'M JAMES SNOW, I'M THE PUBLIC WORKS INTERIM DIRECTOR.
I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF ACMC AND DACA TO PROVIDE AND PRESENT THE, UH, MOBILITY OUTCOME REPORT FOR NOVEMBER, 2022.
UH, INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH THE REPORT IN DETAIL, WHAT I LIKE TO DO IS HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF AREAS AND BRINGING TO YOUR ATTENTION.
THE FIRST ONE IS, AND ACTUALLY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT TODAY ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM.
UH, IT WON A THREE, UH, THREE MA AWARD OF EXCELLENCE AND SPECIFICALLY FOR THE BUFFALO PASS MURAL PROJECT, UH, THE MURAL BROUGHT TOGETHER MORE THAN 200 VOLUNTEERS AND 2,500 VOLUNTEER HOURS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN WHERE THEY DESIGNED AND PAINTED AND GLAZED, UH, GLAZED OVER LITTLE TILES AND MADE THIS, MADE THIS, UH, INCREDIBLE WALL AND PROJECT.
WHAT WAS INTERESTING WAS A COMMENT, ONE OF THE JUDGES AS THEY SAW IT, WAS THEY SAID THAT THIS WAS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT OUTREACH.
AND THEY SAID, OFTEN WE SEE, UH, PUBLIC OUTREACH ENGAGEMENT GARNER THE ATTENTION ENTHUSIASM WITH THE COMMUNITY, BUT WE RARELY SEE IT TO THIS EXTENT AS FAR AS HOW MANY VOLUNTEERS AND HOW MANY HOURS ARE PUT TOGETHER.
AND THEY HAD TO COMMENT THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW TIMES THAT THEY'VE EVER SEEN THIS IN A PROJECT.
SO IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE EFFORT.
IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT WE DO WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERING PROGRAM IS TRYING TO REACH OUT TO THE, TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND, UH, CREATE SUCH THINGS LIKE THIS TO MAKE THE, MAKE IT A MORE LIVABLE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UH, AS WE ALL KNOW, LAST MONTH WE HAD, UH, THE
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F1 COME THROUGH, UH, THE 21ST OF THE 23RD.IT WAS A GREAT EVENT, BUT WHAT CELEBRATED THAT WAS THE NEXT DAY WAS REC ON RECORD, THE BUSIEST DAY FOR, UH, OUR AUSTIN, UH, AIRPORT, 43,177 DEPARTURES IN ONE DAY AS THE LARGEST EVER RECORDED.
AND THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY SOME OF THAT 400,000 PEOPLE THAT CAME TO SEE THE EVENT DECIDED TO LEAVE THE NEXT DAY.
UH, AND IT SHOWS THE GROWTH OF THE AIRPORT AND THE NEED TO CONTINUE WITH THE 10 YEAR PLAN THAT WE'RE DOING.
THE LAST THING I WOULD LIKE TO TO HIGHLIGHT IS, UH, UNDER THE PARTNERSHIP, UH, RECAP, AND THAT'S TALKING ABOUT THE TRAFFIC CONDITIONS COMING TO THE Y INTERSECTION 2 90 71, THERE'S TWO CHANGES.
THE TRAFFIC FLOW THAT YOU'LL SEE THERE IS ONE IS IF YOU'RE HEADING WEST ON 2 90 71, WHERE IT ACTUALLY, THE SPLIT IS USUALLY CAN TAKE A RIGHT AND YOU HAVE THAT ROW THAT GRADUALLY TURNS INTO RIGHT.
AND THEN YOU CAN GO FORWARD WITH 71, THAT WILL BE SHUT.
AND THEN WHAT THEY'LL DO IS MAKING A HARDER RIGHT UP AT THE LIGHT AND TURNING INTO THAT SECTION, THE OTHER AREAS THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING, UH, STARTING CONSTRUCTION AND CHANGING TRAFFIC PATTERNS BY SEATON HALL, UH, SEATON HOSPITAL UP, UH, UH, UP ON THE ROAD THERE.
SO THOSE TWO WILL BE EFFECT HERE SHORTLY.
WE WANNA BRING THAT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE COMMITTEE SO THAT, UH, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S GONNA BE MORE INFORMATION COMING OUT FROM OUR PARTNER TECH DOT, BUT WE THOUGHT THIS WAS APPROPRIATE TIME TO, UH, ALLOW THE COMMITTEE TO KNOW ABOUT THAT AND BRING IT TO THE TOP OF MIND.
UH, IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS, THAT IS A REPORT FOR THIS MONTH.
UH, AGAIN, I'M NOT AS GRACEFUL AS, UH, MISS FIAN DACA, BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR POINTS, UH, BE WILLING TO TAKE THEM, THAT IS GREAT.
AND I WILL SAY FOR ANY FOLKS THAT TRAVEL THROUGH THE W OAK HILL, THEY DO HAVE A TWITTER HANDLE SO YOU CAN SEE EXACTLY WHICH LANE CLOSURES AND ROAD CLOSURES ARE HAPPENING ON A, ON A DAILY BASIS.
SO I KNOW WE STAY VERY MUCH IN TUNE WITH IT JUST BECAUSE IT'S THE AREA THAT I REPRESENT, BUT, UM, CERTAINLY NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF ALL THE TRAFFIC PATTERN CHANGES AS THE PROJECT CONTINUES.
UM, I WILL ALSO SAY, I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T SAY I WAS AT THE AIRPORT THIS MORNING.
THEY DID A GROUNDBREAKING FOR THEIR NEW BAGGAGE CLAIM AND I GOT THE BIGGEST WRENCH THAT I'VE EVER SEEN.
SO WE, WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE MOVEMENT THAT THE AIRPORT IS WORKING ON AND TRYING TO, I THINK IT'S 800 MORE, MORE BAGS PER HOUR OR PER, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE EXACT TIMELINE, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS MORE BAGS BEING ABLE TO BE MOVED SMOOTHLY THROUGH, THROUGH AIRPORT CHECK-INS.
SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.
DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. SNOW? DIRECTOR? SNOW? IT DOES NOT APPEAR.
SO I THINK, I THINK ON THAT NOTE, IT IS 2:33 PM OH, BEFORE I ADJOURN, I'LL JUST READ A BRIEF LIST OF, UM, IDEAS THAT WE HAVE COMING UP POTENTIALLY FOR FUTURE MEETINGS.
WE HAVE A, UH, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT SERVICE PLAN UPDATE.
WE HAVE DAYLIGHTED A NEED TO REVISIT DISCUSSIONS OF SCOOTERS AND MICRO ABILITY, UH, DEVICES AND PARKING ENFORCEMENT, THE SOUTH CONGRESS PARKING DISTRICT, A STATUS UPDATE ON THE COMPREHENSIVE TRAIL SYSTEM AND ANY GAPS THAT ARE LEFT TO FILL THE STRATEGIC DIRECTION.
23 METRIC REGARDING OVERGROWN TREES AND PLANTS, BLOCKING BIKE LANES, UPDATE ON PROGRESS, MEASURING A S M P MODE, SHIFT GOALS, UM, AUTONOMOUS RIDE SHARE SERVICES.
AND I KNOW IT WAS, IT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER TODAY ABOUT AGGRESSIVE DRIVING AND I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD CONVERSATION FOR US TO TAKE UP, BUT IT MIGHT BE MORE APPROPRIATE FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE, WHICH THE THREE OF US LEFT HERE SERVE ON.
SO I'LL GET WITH Y'ALL OFFLINE, BUT I THINK THERE IS A LINK BETWEEN AGGRESSIVE DRIVING AND OTHER AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIORS.
AND SO AS WE'RE BEING MINDFUL OF, YOU KNOW, OUR NEW OFFICE OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND OTHER, OTHER WAYS TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS SAFE, THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WE FIGURE OUT IF WE TAKE IT UP IN MOBILITY OR IF WE TAKE IT UP IN PUBLIC SAFETY.
I SEE VICE CHAIR KELLY HAS HER HAND RAISED.
DO YOU HAVE OTHER FUTURE IDEAS YOU'D LIKE TO ADD? I JUST WANTED TO PIGGYBACK ON THE MICRO MOBILITY DISCUSSION.
I KNOW MY STAFF IS DILIGENTLY WORKING ON THE FINAL TOUCHES ON A MICRO MOBILITY RESOLUTION, SO IF ANY MEMBER OF THIS COMMITTEE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN COSPONSORING WITH US, UM, PLEASE LET US KNOW SO THAT WE CAN GET YOU IN ON THAT.
IF THERE ARE NO OTHER CONCEPTS TO THROW INTO THE BUCKET, IT IS 2:34 PM AND WE WILL ADJOURN THE MOBILITY COMMITTEE MEETING.
THANKS FOR BEING HERE, EVERYONE.
NOW IF YOU CAME SNEAKING UP BEHIND, WOULD YOU KNOW ME? SMILE?
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I CAN CHANGE BLACK COLORS ON A WALL.