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From YouTube: Inkontru Virtual - Un Pleasant Street ki e Mas Kalmu i Seguru - dia 13 di abri

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Kuarta feira, dia 13 di abril, 6:30 di tardi

Dipartamentu di Transporti di Boston sta propo mudansa na Pleasant Street pa kalma velosidadi di transitu i tenta medjor pasadeiras pa kriansas, idozus i argen ku inabilidadis.

Apresentason:

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Start with, and so you'll need to unmute to speak if you're joining by phone you'll do that by pressing star six, you can also use non-verbal feedback options and which you can find under the reactions button, and that's also where you can find the button to raise your hand when we open it up for discussion and.

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Points you called.

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Hi, my name is.

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All right, so some of this will be review for those who joined us at our earlier meeting in december.

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The area of the project.

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All of non-signalized intersections.

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So at the transportation department we.

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What they mentioned, yeah.

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To hear how you were in the street,.

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All three of them.

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All right and another ingredient I mentioned was song.

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In each of those different events and.

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So after that meeting in december.

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So without further ado.

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Zoom out of where we're considering changes.

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And some of the teachers there.

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The principal and staff of the schools.

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The there's already um a fair amount of the curb line around the school is already parking.

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We are proposing to shift the location of this crosswalk a little bit further.

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As well as that, we would be building some curve extensions.

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Of these interventions will help.

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Just parked right on the sidewalk and it can be really.

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The curb extension will give.

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Really can't do anything to stop people from parking on the sidewalk there, because.

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uh If anybody else has a question, please use.

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uh Ray's hand.

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Yes, the raised hand function should be. There should be a button that says reactions.

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Raise your hand.

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So we have some raised hands.

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Hi michelle, you are unmuted, but if you are talking we cannot hear you.

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Hello, yes, my name is michelle. I live on, victoria's, show.

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I'm curious sometimes on the present.

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Across the pathway, if the car is going in and out of the gas station.

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And I just want to raise that because I think it will cause problems.

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Chat from jonathan, um what will movement.

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It's just not possible without some sort of police enforcement, but.

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So they were without a crossing guard for some period of time, but the more recent times we've been there has been a police person present.

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We also received a question about thoughts about bike lanes for pleasant streets.

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Lanes on pleasant street at this time.

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Believe that this design well and we'll get through the the other intersections as well, but um all together, these designs should slow down.

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There was a follow-up question: what are the bike symbol? What about the bikes symbols that are like share the road planes.

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uh Those those symbols are called sharos, they're little chevrons with bikes, underneath them.

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All right, I want to make sure that we do uh get through the um the rest of the different locations that we're looking at.

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Went through so that, let's move to morrill and victoria street.

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For people crossing the uh one crosswalk.

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Suggesting to us at the previous meeting and during the walk that this might be a good location for a raised. Crosswalk.

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The crosswalk and.

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All the changes there.

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That we have one raised hand.

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All right, I live at 18 detroit street right next to michelle and.

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Very close to the corner and actually.

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Everything again.

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I do see another question uh from heidi: will any of the street trees be affected with these updates.

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uh And we are going out of our way to make sure that we do not come close to street trees.

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There is a question from james: am I right in interpreting that the curve extensions here can include green space instead of just concrete.

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There's already.

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That is a question that is outside the scope of this project.

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um I'm just looking for quick clarification, but again we can't do that as part of this and I believe it's through your office of neighborhood services.

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As far as we know, it's still on hold, but we'll definitely take a ask again and and see if there's any. uh If we hear anything differently, we'll certainly be in touch.

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All right, so the next is mayfield street.

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In addition, residents raise concerns about motors.

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In fact, we heard a few times that this was sort of the spot where people started speeding up.

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Here we are hoping to build some curb extensions similar to.

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These crossings and there's a few.

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To this I think dan could probably say it all better, but um one we we would not do.

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The survey for this location.

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uh Did not seem feasible uh when we looked.

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This does add the potential for additional green space. Last.

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I don't see any cans yet but I'll pause for a moment and see if anyone has questions.

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I realize I do have.

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One more slide with the parking restrictions. We would need around these curve. Extensions.

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Organizing in the chat but not questions, so I'm going to continue on to our next intersection.

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Here we are willis and taft.

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Existing crosswalks at all.

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There are some ramps.

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But they're not ada, compliant and.

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Those two different existing crossings.

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With this proposal, we would be adding.

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Okay, so I had a question about some of the curve: extensions.

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In a direction where people like, I guess, on option a the one, that's most north, you know people are essentially right on curb extension there just to give people more visibility to the pedestrians.

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A bump out on one side, we need to have the gentle curve that we do on the far.

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Yes, it gives you better safety benefits.

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For similar reasons, I guess in option b would be more aligned with what probably public works would um like to see from us. Is.

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Because again, you have to match curb.

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Watching a lot of votes he's getting a lot of love, but uh has he also see a hand raised from aaron if you're done mute.

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Hi, this is actually jackie, aaron's wife. um This is actually in front of my house, and so I can see both of these options um play out in real time, and I love particularly the intersection um it being there in general. I will say this would take away.

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And- um and I would probably.

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On the other side of willis on the north side,.

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There wasn't a question there correct that was more of a statement is that is that correct.

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I said in my song.

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Ignore you no there's no question just to sit down.

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So let's see a question from ray any chance of changing the direction of how straight.

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uh Not as part of this project.

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I'm not seeing any further questions on this one, um so I'm going to move on but again happy to return later on.

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Here we are at the feminists of our project, uh east.

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Probably the most about this location, I would say at our walk: um it has a skewed geometric configuration.

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um This isn't this is new, um but it is definitely we've noted a problem for a lot of people.

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Again, currently, there are crosswalks at three legs.

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Are not compliant.

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The driver is coming down.

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The geometry of the intersection and how much there.

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December at the virtual meeting, the need for.

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A quicker intervention.

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And we felt like to be able to provide the safety um with uh constructed materials was going to be outside the.

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Budget of this project.

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About what all of this additional space, how it would.

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Someone in the city would be able to maintain that that space we thought.

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So what we are proposing to do here is starting.

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Point over here.

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Taper it into just one laner.

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In the space is.

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Restricting parking and putting damage to the crosswalk, which is also, in effect, shortening the crossing.

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You'll see kind of young.

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Again, uh some um kind of tightening up of that of that crosswalk to shorten the distances there and another.

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S really quickly and then of course up here you see um so one of the things we should say is that in we've.

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We've taken the space that was not needed.

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Will prevent people from from using that area.

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Now what people choose to use that area.

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And the neighbors to kind of have conversations about what happens in that space later later on.

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I see a question about oh well: okay, we'll go with cody.

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Hey there, hello.

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Because of the.

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Parked cars on either.

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Side, I'm just wondering if there's been any talk about daylighting that intersection.

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Either on pleasant street, but people parked there anyways pretty.

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It wasn't in my, but have you guys talked about potentially daylighting.

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We were not looking to do that originally.

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East cottage street- um I I actually just have it.

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um You know as someone who walks up and down pleasant street like twice a day with a dog, I would actually say the house pleasant street intersection is probably one of the most dangerous.

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Sorry, the stop sign on houzz, but people do it anyway, and obviously people coming back.

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Away there for.

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A minute, okay, um thank you. I was very excited to see uh this intersection at east cottage and pond street after seeing.

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All the previous.

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Done then much much much sooner than the rest of the street.

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And damaged and the city, we would have to rely on the city to maintain them, which.

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Either looking nice.

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Out of the gate that exists across the street to get to.

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Their side of the neighborhood.

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Sure so, uh there's a lot to unpack there. Sorry I apologize I. I know people have feelings about this one. This is a big intersection. This is what people want to see. Most.

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Incentive for someone doing grand the next.

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We don't want to do it.

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We do check them quarterly.

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um I think that answered most of your questions.

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We have reached out.

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Real conversation with them um about what this would look like.

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But you know that's something: we're trying to advance that conversation. We just don't.

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I missed one thing, which was the crosswalk on the north side. Is we can look into that? But again it will come at the.

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Cost, unless that.

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um We don't know exactly it will.

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Because we have a bunch more questions.

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Hi this is diana yeah, I'm sorry. I joined this call a little bit late, so I was just wondering if you're putting these four raised cross blocks.

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Recorded, can we get the recording by any chance uh to our emails.

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um Yeah, I just want to voice my official support for the the east cottage, the intersection there.

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um That intersection is quite crazy. I live on edison green by the.

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In the future, obviously.

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Not in this project.

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I know a lot of people are against the flex pose, but budget.

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All we're gonna get, you guys have worked really hard.

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About the parking um we run into this issue, every time we proposed.

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uh I believe next we had cody.

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um Just one like question: slash proposal for what to do with that big tan area. um Have you guys thought about reaching out to blue bikes to see if we could get a year-round station there, because.

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It's you know, 70.

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Out today and they're still not up, um and so I was wondering.

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In that tan area.

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Because I parked my fault, but still it'd be nice to have some more of that.

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That sucks, um but uh luckily I work just a few cubes down from kim and jen- can see her from her cube and she runs all of our blue bikes. um So we.

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Putting a station in that area.

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Hi good evening, thanks guys um first, I really want to say thank you because um one thing.

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Stressed a lot of the time well through a lot of our earlier discussions, were um we'd really like raised crosswalks and not a lot of the plastic things.

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85 of this project.

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um I just wanted to say that I agree about. um I almost feel like the intersection of houzz is kind of more critical than the mayfield one personality.

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um Yeah, I think it's unfortunate that.

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With like those metal stanchions with like the other metal chains, that could be really attractive, just kind of create, like a courtyard.

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Area that can be really attractive.

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I don't know it's just an idea.

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uh Yes, thank you for your uh ideal.

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Michael yeah.

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Yes, um sorry, I'm I'm ivan on my wife's computer, so I love the ideas of where, where, where things.

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Is we have a ton of units? I mean you see, what's going on down.

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Crescent, then you go down the street all the way you know present all the way toward and that's gonna be a massive influx of people coming in to.

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The neighborhood.

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And I come from new york city where I live.

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In new york city, because I just could not get home and not figure out how to get you know.

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While making our neighborhood more our neighborhood safer to walk through concurrently.

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The parking concerns all the way into the rest of the neighborhood, and I just want to call it.

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Let's try to solve a problem before it becomes southie like no one here. I think we all live where we live, because we don't. We don't want to be what we.

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I'm sorry I muted myself uh dehana. uh You are next.

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Hi, this is actually steve, I'm diana's husband. I just wanted to say thank you for your efforts. I know this is not an easy project or tap and pay attention to this.

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I have no idea where people learned how to drive like this.

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You know sort of increased, I think yeah.

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We're here to make the street a safer place for you, so we'll do the best that we can.

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Did you unmute someone john.

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Oh you're estimated.

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I've seen over the past several years is that developers will approach the city.

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A couple moves in and they've got to go to town to see, clients they want to go to the store and they can't get there by uber lyft. They want to go.

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There sorry, I thought I already unmuted.

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Now you are all set.

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Great I'm uh sandra libby, I'm the playground planner with the dcr and um you're responsible for um the maintenance, um not the daily maintenance of the equipment on the um and working. um I just think that you guys have done a very good job.

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And I don't see any other hands hands-raised um there are. Oh, oh, I see a physical hand raised ray. Would you like to admit.

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I think um sorry, you looked like you unmuted and then it muted again.

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I apologize all right here. We go sorry about that. um Yes, I I wanna underline everything that.

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I do appreciate you doing something too.

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Thanks so much for the presentation, I saw that discussion.

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Around like bike specific lanes was talked.

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Seem like there's a lot of linkage.

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Like markers on the road that indicate it is a shared space, because.

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There are many.

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um I hear you um because again.

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And you're looking for a little reinforcement um generally, we don't do shadows in something like this. um I can I can ask around and look into that. I cannot promise it because.

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And see if there are any questions that came in there that we didn't address, um uh I see one from james about, and I believe this is in reference to east cottage and pond street, about the possibility of raising the crosswalk.

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Street location um again that falls into us we're not ready to do full construction.

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As it gets on the other side, so we.

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Daylighting uh you can see on the the bottom jen. Can you point at one uh go to the go to the right? One, that's by itself a little more right, yeah there you go that one um daylighting! You can see right there. It is a little area uh striped uh as wide as a car about 20 feet long. We put a couple flex posts in it and it is just to help reinforce areas that you are not allowed to park in we're not changing.

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You look at this intersection when you go out there. It's just a big expanse of pavement when you have.

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Could they, um which I think, means that the flux posts uh be at least permanent posts like concrete or large planters.

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I um that I imagine that also refers to the flex posts, but uh dina, please feel free to unmute. If you have uh a if that, if I misinterpreted your question.

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Flexible, do not uh block line of sight they're about three feet: tall and they're about.

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Scrolling through sorry, we got a little going on in the chat.

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I I did write in the chat chat that we might not be able to get to all the questions in there, um because I know we do have to wrap up, but that we will be reading them.

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I do have a couple more slides just about the next steps in schedule now.

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Crossing spots presence.

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Seeing you again.

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