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From YouTube: MAR 3, 2022 | West San José MTIP Meeting

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March 3, 2022 final community workshop on the West San José Multimodal Transportation Improvement Plan (WSJ MTIP). The WSJ MTIP identifies, prioritizes, and recommends transportation projects and programs. These projects and programs make walking, rolling, biking, and taking transit in West San José safer and more enjoyable.

Meeting announcement: https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/4781

Website: https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/transportation/projects-planning/west-san-jos-mtip

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Augustin can take it away yeah. Thank you so much natasha and thank you all for making the time.

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I'm agustin cuello and associate engineer with the planning group in dot in san jose. I'm the project.

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Manager for for this plan and very happy to be here to share with you all the work we've done.

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And natasha ac as well yeah to help me. um So um we have a brief presentation.

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um But um the goal of this meeting is is really to hear from you all um about we're, proposing.

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We want to improve uh this plan with your input and and that's key for us, so please.

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Use the chat or raise your hand if you have a question, and we will try to to answer.

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All your comments, so this is the agenda of the presentation. I'm gonna start providing some. You.

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Know: transportation vision that we have for san jose, then I will talk about what's an entity right.

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What's a multi-modal transportation improvement plan and why dot has decided that these mtips are.

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A great tool to achieve our transportation vision and and why we're working with san jose, then we.

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Want to provide a summary of what we learned in the past outreach events and then natasha will.

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Talk about how we can achieve our goals right, um what can we do to to improve transportation.

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um So, starting with with the transportation vision that we have for san jose, we have two.

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Key plans in the city, we have the general plan and we have the climate smart uh plan and in.

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Those two plans: we have um very specific goals for transportation. um We wanna we wanna go from.

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25 percent of trips being made by walk or by bike or by transit, to 80 80 percent of the trips by.

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2050, so it's a really challenging goal, but it's really important um for the city um in in summary,.

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What we want to do is provide options right. um We know that there are many trips that um currently.

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Can only be made by driving, but we think that if we provide those options, some of those trips.

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Could be made walking or biking or taking transit and is really important for for us for san jose.

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Because if we don't um change um and and the city keeps growing, we're gonna be facing some um big.

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Issues, uh climate issues, congestion issues, we have a crisis around fatalities related to traffic.

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Every week we hear news about um some people getting hurt in the city and and also.

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The traffic pollution um is is affecting our communities and the health of our communities.

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So uh with that background, um uh one of the tools that um dots is working on is.

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These multi-modal plans- and we started this plan in west san jose a couple of years ago,.

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The planning department has done some land use planning in west san jose and we thought that.

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Complementing those plans with a transportation plan um is the right the right way to to.

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Yeah to balance the growth that those land use plans are going to bring to west san jose.

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So this plan we've done three main things. We have reviewed existing conditions. We.

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Have looked into the the existing data traffic data that we have for the area.

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And we are proposing, we are proposing multi-modal transportation projects, program policies um to.

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Help the community right um in the future and then the last thing that we want to.

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Create with this plan is, is implementation chapter we want to be able to deliver those projects.

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And work with the community on defining how those products are going to be implemented.

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So, what's multimodal again, I mentioned this before, but.

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Multimodal means that we want to provide multiple travel options. We want to improve.

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Transit biking walking we're going to provide emerging, volunteer solutions, and we can also.

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Want to provide a good network for for private cars as well.

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This is the project boundary in west san jose, as you can see, hopefully, in the map, the area.

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Let's start in cupertino to the west, all the way to downtown um the dong station to the east.

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And then to the north, we have santa clara and the south campbell and the shape of this area.

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Is it's not um yeah? There are many different. um The boundary is not very clear because we want.

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To follow the land use plants that the planning department approve um a while ago- and this is the.

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This is the period timeline. Last year we we evaluated existing conditions and we.

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Did the first workshop uh during the summer we we've done several community outreach events.

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And we have defined an initial list of projects. Now we are working on this third.

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Section here during this second committee meeting and we are gonna- develop the final plan soon.

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So so um the goal is to present this plan to council by spring of this this year,.

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um What what do we know about west san jose? What are the existing conditions in question? Jose.

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So the first thing that we need to acknowledge is that most of us still drives alone in west san.

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Jose it's not easy to to commute by transit; it's not easy to um to walk. There are many.

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Different barriers in west san jose, so we need to acknowledge that the existing conditions is.

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Mostly people driving and that's the challenge that we want to try to tackle with this plan.

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um There's a lot of information here um so yeah I I'm just gonna highlight some key.

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Things, um for example, the cause of transportation is really expensive in san jose for a family.

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To um to pay for for gas to to pay for the car, um so how we can implement um projects and programs.

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To reduce that cost, another key um key information that we we obtain with this with this data.

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Is that, even though, um as you can see in this strip length graphic.

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um That the distance that um people um travel by auto is around 10 miles.

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And four bus is around five miles. If you look at travel times and the travel times are really.

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Really similar, which means that um the outside travel time is much more competitive than the bus.

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um So um so people that relies on pull transit is already spending a.

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Lot of more time to get to the destination um compare with the people that use automobiles.

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The last key assisting conditions that I said that I want to share is related to collisions.

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This is a hybrid e4 for dot. We want to reduce to zero on the the number of fatalities in the city.

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um And looking at the data, one thing that um is is clear: is that, even though um there's.

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Not many people that bike there's, not many people that walk longer distances.

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The percentage of fatalities for that population is really really high.

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Only five percent of coalitions involve a bike, but eleven percent of fatalities are people biking.

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The same for pedestrians, only five percent of people um were involved in in a coalition.

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When they were walking but of those uh 44 were fatalities that were were pedestrians and so.

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There is really a disconnect between the number of people that bike and it's low and.

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Then the number of people that get injured when they're biking is really really high.

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In this map, we can see some areas with a concentration of collisions and fatalities.

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I want to highlight three areas: uh saratoga and the interchangeable.

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Huge concentration of collisions- and we think that is because people driving are used to a high speed.

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Drive along the freeway and when they get out of the freeway.

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um They keep that speed, um high um they're, saying along winchester.

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Interchange and then we we also see some high concentration of collisions on san carlos street.

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So what kind of projects we can implement in those areas to reduce the number of collisions.

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And improve safety? That's something that we want to try to to address. With this plan.

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um After reviewing all the existing conditions,.

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We want to share with you the outreach that we've done in the past.

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During the development of the urban village plans and the planning department did.

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Some outreach focus on transportation, so we.

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We have reviewed that information and last year we did an initial workshop.

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We've done some meetings with neighborhood associations. We've done some tabling events.

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We have an online survey um and we also have some technical advisory meetings with vta.

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And with neighboring cities like santa clara, cupertino and campbell, that was the phase one.

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Of the outreach- and we are now starting the phase two- this is the the second workshop, we're gonna.

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Have some uh online office hours um and then we are we're gonna keep meeting with neighbor.

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Associations and we really wanna partner with them um on this plan, we see them as a key. A stakeholder.

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For the plan, and also for the implementation of the plan, we want to make those associations.

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uh We will empower those those associations to to make decisions with us.

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To help us design those projects and to help us decide where to implement those projects.

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Some some high levels.

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Of the outreach we receive a lot of comments about the pedestrian improvement and the community wants.

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To see more trees, safer crossings, better sidewalks, slower streets, better traffic signals and also.

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Better personal safety, we receive several comments about people not feeling safe when they're waiting.

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For transit, for example, or even when, where when they are walking on their neighborhoods.

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So that's something that is key to make sure that that people feel safe.

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We also receive a lot of comments related to the bike infrastructure. Many comments about.

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Adding more protected bike lanes, slower speeds and safer instructions, more bike parking, better.

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Parking connectivity, um things like that, um and finally um also some input about a better public.

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Transit the community told us that we would like to see better chances stops better transit options.

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A service more faster and unreliable and better fees and less my connections.

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Bta runs transit on the main corridors, but many residents lives far away of those corridors.

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So how we can provide some connection between where people lives and then the transit stops.

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um Yeah so now we want to share with you.

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How we think uh some options that we can consider about how we can achieve our goals.

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um Not actually do we wanna.

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I'll give you a little break so, like augustine said, we took all that existing conditions, analysis.

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That we did, we combed through data, we combed through old plans, and then we did all this.

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Outreach with the public to make sure that we were you, know, hearing just on the ground. What people.

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Were needing and then we took both of those things and combined them into this set of recommendations.

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That we're proposing, as our draft kind of list of to-do items in this project next slide, please.

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So we came with these big bucket goals that really mirror.

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The topics that we heard from the public and, first and foremost, was.

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We need to create safer and more enjoyable streets for people walking in west san jose.

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And so we took a look at the corridors that are within our project area and we have you know we.

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Highlighted in blue these corridors that we know are commercial or that are in uh areas.

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Where we were seeing a lot of crashes to the west, saratoga meridian, race, street and lincoln avenue.

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As primary pedestrian corridors that we know that we need to make a lot of investments to make them.

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Nice slow, safe and enjoyable, and we also know that our major transit corridors, which are also on this.

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Map in orange need to be high quality pedestrian corridors as well, because we know that everyone.

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That takes transit is also a pedestrian, so we want to create safer crossings. People are transferring.

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From one stop to another to get to another line, and we just need to make sure that these major.

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Corridors are are safe for for those people. So what does this mean when we say you know safer.

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Pedestrian streets, um here's our toolbox, so here are all the things that we can implement along the.

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Corridors we just showed, but also around west san jose, to make it safer for people walking.

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So- and this is not an exhaustive list of all the things, but these are some of the biggest.

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Things that we can do speed bumps, I'm sure you're all familiar with those they do come in different.

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um Sizes and widths, and things like that, but speed bumps, is one then there's raised crossings.

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Which is basically kind of a speed bump, but with a crosswalk on top so that it slows cars down as.

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They're going where pedestrians would cross, then there are bulb outs. These are painted, bulb, outs.

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From a project in austin, what these bull bouts do, is they slow turning cars? They make the time that.

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Pedestrians are in the street shorter, so there's shorter distances to cross.

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And yeah they're they're, really great you've, probably seen a lot of them. They've been.

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Building them all around san jose and other bay area, cities.

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Also, we oh go ahead. I haven't seen any of those yet, oh really, these ones are a little jazzy.

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They're they're painted, but sometimes you know, they're mostly concrete, so sometimes they're.

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Hard to see, um but you know there need to be more in west san jose for sure um so.

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Yeah, I I'd like to see more in west san jose at least, and that's what we heard um and then also.

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Because we are such a small group, if people do have questions, please feel free to raise your.

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Hand or put them in the chat, we can have a more um informal conversation with the group. This size.

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We also are proposing various pedestrian signal improvements and what this means is.

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um You know it could be as easy as a countdown signal as we can see in this image, just knowing.

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How long you have to cross the street that can be a game changer? If you know you don't have.

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Enough time you might hang back, but if you're going in without knowing you might get stuck.

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And that's a a really terrible feeling: it can be an unsafe situation.

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We also know that we can have accessible pedestrian signals for people with disabilities.

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That so they can hear um you know a tone or a sound that will let them know when they need.

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To cross- and we can also do something- this is a little nerdy, but it's called a leading pedestrian.

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Interval and it will let people walking, go ahead of the cars, so it'll give the silver.

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Person icon before the cars have a green light and we see that those reduce crashes. We are also.

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Looking into high visibility crosswalks, this is in oakland's chinatown. They did this beautiful mural.

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uh Pedestrian scramble, but um you know how can we make places where people are gonna cross more.

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Visible and and if we can beautify them with murals, that would be cool too. um Installing.

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Pedestrian refuge islands. We know that a lot of streets in west san jose are very, very wide.

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And it can be hard to get across the street in one go, so we want to give people a safe place.

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To wait in the center of the street if they don't have enough time and speaking of wide, um you know.

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We have a lot of very, very long blocks in west san jose, especially on some of our major streets.

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So what would we look like if we made some mid-block crossings or some safe places for.

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People to cross that you know, might need to get to a store or a bus. Stop that might not.

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Be close to an intersection, and then lastly, we know that speed is so integral to safety.

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The faster a car goes, the more likely it is to result in a fatality if they collide with.

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Someone or something so we want to slow streets down. There's been recent state legislation that.

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Has given cities more control over setting speed limits, but we also have you know all these tools.

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In our toolbox to get cars to slow down, so we're really looking to slow, slow down streets next.

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So we have this fun tool that we've been using a lot during the pandemic called mentimeter.

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And it's a really great way to hear from you all, so we have a code here. If you go to mentee.com.

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You can do it on your cell phone on another tab if you're using a browser, it works on your tablet.

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Mentee.Com and then type it it'll ask you for a code and you type in 6709.

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Eight three one zero and it is a fabulous way for us to get. You know people to chime in and give us.

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Their feedback it takes notes for us so that we have it on paper and um yeah. We can go through.

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It with everybody, oh and there's a question from cheryl miller, are pedestrian overpasses, a tool.

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In the toolbox, yes, we are looking to improve and create more pedestrian access across freeways, as.

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Part of this toolkit, um we definitely have a lot more to say about it in the plan and we can share.

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That, if you're interested later I see amy has a question hi amy! Oh, let me ask you to unmute.

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Sorry, oh there you go hi uh and I can wait till later in the presentation, but I I was um you know.

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Just wondering um if we you know live in an area that is outside of your study area like are some.

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Of these tools available, I'm I'm drooling over some of these toolbox tools, um but have been.

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And I know some places where it would be wonderful to implement them.

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And have met with the department of transportation about some sites around schools, for example,.

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Where, like any one of where we've asked for some of these specific.

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um Tools and we're just told they're not available basically so anyway,.

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I can speak to that. um Could we talk about sites outside of the project and I can wait till the end.

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Too, oh! No! That is a really great question. um The the planned boundary was based.

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On the urban villages- and we did a buffer around those urban villages, because we know that when new.

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Developments come in, we can leverage the dollars and things they're supposed to do to pay for these.

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Improvements, so it was a tactical um decision, but it's something you know this is just our second.

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M-Tip plan the first one was a portion of east san jose. We are learning that we cannot. You know.

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Have such a narrow focus, so we are taking all the feedback even when it doesn't relate to.

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These specific areas and are pursuing improvements as necessary, so any feedback we get we're either.

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Relaying it to a team that can handle it or taking it, as our you know, kind of own project to see how.

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We can push those things forward because we know that people don't just stay within a boundary.

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um So amy thank you for bringing that up and if you um I can give you my email or right now or.

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At the end of this, and we can work together on figuring out how to address your concerns that.

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Would be great, thank you because I'm I'm calling from the moorland west neighborhood and we're.

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You know next to the paseo de saratoga urban village, but we haven't had urban village.

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Planning and we probably won't, but we've got a signature project- that's um pretty.

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Far along we have a costco proposal. We've got almost a thousand units.

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um That saratoga is targeting very near our border, so we've got a lot lot of um of density proposed.

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And um you know, don't have a beautiful, m-tip um and also just like I was saying just around.

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Schools, because when I'm, you know so glad the city is, you know, focused on.

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um You know improving pedestrian and bicycle safety, um but in our community we have um some.

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Of our biggest concerns are around school crossing areas, and I mean just very obvious.

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Intersections that need some improvement.

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um If, if, if you can go to the to the move, san jose website, and I can paste the link in the chat.

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um There is one survey, and that is map based, uh so you can input locations and comments.

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In that map, um and that way we can register everything that you that you wanna.

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Yeah provide feedback, um so please go to go to the website and and fill out. The survey.

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um Yeah, um if you don't have time now to to go over all the locations, thank you.

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Thank you, amy and I'll put that link in the chat right now and we'll also.

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Send it in a follow-up email to all uh attendees um eugene. You have your hand up.

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If they did just one other concern that I had, in addition to the need for pedestrian improvements,.

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I noticed that on san carlos and basket on the sidewalks are very rather narrow. Also the fact.

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That people at the cross, sometimes eight lanes just across fast, come from gonna catch. A bus.

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And speaking of the buses, one thing that would help at least speed the buses up as a as a minimum.

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Would be some a technology called transit signal priority? It is having a bus signal agreeing to.

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Hold a little longer or start a little sooner or later, oh eugene. You are one step ahead of.

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Us we have yet to talk about our transit toolbox and that's in there and there's more things. But.

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Yeah transit signal priority is awesome. um Sorry I interrupted you there. I just wanted you to know.

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It was coming so right, good to be a step ahead of time. That's what silicon valley is all about.

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um So we will switch to our mentometer activity. um All the scene just has to change screens. I did.

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See that there was a question in the chat around um julie said today was the first I've heard of.

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This program, sorry to ask this background question, but I'm wondering why my neighborhood near and far.

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Why we're not included in west san francisco julie, I'm I'm hoping that some of the responses I gave.

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To amy um were helpful there I mean not helpful to the issues at hand, but we built the um project.

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Area around a very technical, you know buffer around the urban villages, but we know that that.

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Doesn't reflect user experience and and we're working to you know, take in other feedback. So if.

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You do have comments. I can share my email with you and we can talk at a later time or you can write.

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Them out in email, and then john has a very similar comment. Lawrence saratoga and prospect needs to.

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Be included in the study. A lot of residents are coming in. um Okay, great, that's very similar, so.

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I I can reach out to all of you separately and we can have a discussion and there are definite.

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Opportunities to talk about this further, thank you so for menta meter, again venti.com the code.

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Is at the top of the screen here um we're showing the streets we've identified as eating pedestrian.

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Improvements here on the left and again, these are not the only streets, but these are the.

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You know the biggest ones and that had a lot of crashes and that have a lot of transit on them.

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A lot of businesses, what are other streets or areas that need improving, so all the folks that.

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Responded in the chat, you can also respond that here, but we are also vlogging the chat, um but.

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I'm saying for stephens, creek and winchester uh buses need to be oh, it cannot be the end of that.

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Oh perfect, set up yeah, oh cheers and then there's another comment.

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Sorry, I don't know how to go back. Yeah.

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The second word needs to be spelled correctly. You got us again, we we all you.

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Know I don't want anyone to feel like they need to be perfect, spellers to participate.

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Especially on um phones even typing with them, so this is a safe space for for typos and in these.

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Mental meter exercises, but us city staff has have no excuse for typos on our presentation.

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uh Yeah. The second comment was about lauren expressway, um definitely yeah. We we've noticed.

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Some areas around the expressway, where um there's no there's no sidewalk, it's really narrow you. You.

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Have to walk between a wall and a fence, it's not a great environment, but we need to coordinate with.

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The county uh on that one since they're the ones that manage the expressways so yeah, we.

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Will meet with them and try to figure out how we can um implement projects on on that corridor?.

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Great and we got a lot of feedback in the chat and just two questions so augustine just.

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On the fly suggestion, maybe we don't have to use much meter anymore, since there are only.

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Two participants on that. It's been really helpful in larger scale meetings where people might feel a.

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Little nervous to raise their hand, but it doesn't seem like it's use it today. So we'll get back to.

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The presentation and we're gonna talk transit next, so eugene. I wanna hear more of your ideas.

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So our second goal is to support improved transit systems.

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Yeah and thank you cheryl, for um you, know, she's agreeing with the concern around lawrence.

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Put more things into the chat, these are logged and we put them into our feedback so.

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It's a great way to give us your feedback next slide. Please.

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So um this is kind of a repeat of our last map, but these are our transit priority corridors.

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Where we're going to be focusing the most dollars, the most attention to you know, meeting the things.

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That people need um faster transit, more frequent transit, um any infrastructure that bolsters that.

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So we can see stevens creek and we have the routes listed here. Winchester we have bascom.

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And then we have the southwest expressway. So a neatly next slide. So here is a you.

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Know our transit improvement toolbox again. This is not exhaustive, but this is where.

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We are going to be focusing the most attention, so we have transit only lanes or public service.

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Lanes as we call them here in san jose, these are lanes that um are specifically for the bus either.

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All the time or at peak hours, emergency vehicles and paratransit vehicles can also use these lanes.

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And they actually speed up speeds for emergency vehicles if they need to get through traffic.

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And these are something that right now in san jose, only exists on alum rock avenue, they're being.

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Considered for monterey, but these are something that you know we are definitely looking into for.

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West san jose, we also have safe routes to transit. Again, we know that people walking to transit are.

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Are walking often and often in perilous situations, so we really want to make sure that the pedestrian.

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Amenities and safety improvements are done near transit corridors. We also have.

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Bus rapid transit- this is um also on alum rock. This is um you know, various systems that just you.

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Know, center transit and speed it up along major corridors with you know nicer stations and stops.

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Than the usual corner bus stop, we also are looking into micro transit services, so these are shuttles.

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That can be used on demand, um maybe they're. You know a full bus like this or a minivan.

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There are companies that are doing this. There are different cities in the bay area that utilize.

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These services and they're really great to connect people to um transit hubs. So let's say um you know.

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You lived in winchester cadillac and you really needed to get to the bus. That's on stevens, creek.

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Instead of having to wait, you know, walk, wait and make that transfer. We can maybe connect you to.

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There or the light rail on south west expressway, just as an example, but we are looking into where.

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We can have these in what san jose we also are considering bus bulbs. So this is a combination.

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Of a bulb out and a bus stop, these are really great because they allow the bus to stop.

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In lane it doesn't have to spend time pulling out to the bus, stop or pulling into the bus stop and.

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Back out into traffic- and this doesn't seem like a big deal, but we lose a lot of transit efficiency.

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Making that movement um traffic doesn't want to let the bus back in so these help with that and.

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They also have all the safety benefits of the bulb out that I explained before.

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There's also a tool called transit. Cue jumps. I won't get too technical, because this one is.

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Very technical, but it's like a baby uh bus only lane, so the bus can um you know when it gets.

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To the intersection have a lane where it can swoop, go around traffic and get in front of it.

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There's also eugene he's spoiled it a little bit but transit priority signaling.

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This is technology that is on board the bus and it communicates with the lights.

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Kind of similar to what fire trucks have and it can turn the lights green, so it doesn't have to.

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Get stuck in um section, and we also just want to have better bus stops. This is kind of the most.

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Basic and some people think boring, but it's one of the most important things we can do.

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For people that ride the bus just give them a dignified, comfortable, safe place to wait.

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Where they can have shade a place to sit- and you know even better, if it has, um you know.

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A countdown for when the bus is coming and other information about the area, um I'll stop there and.

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Take some questions. I see the chat lighting up and amy. You have your hand up, go ahead.

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um Those are a lot of neat ideas I was. I was wondering if there's like a measurement um that.

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You've done like like at what frequency would buses need to stop for people to.

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um You know feel like they could really use them for commuting.

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um One of my neighbors here and again I'm in that area near um prospect and saratoga.

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One of my neighbors works at santana row and she tells me that you know she takes lyft. She.

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Ubers that sort of thing we've heard um often from neighbors in saratoga and neighbors here.

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Too that they have tried to take the bus, but it just doesn't come frequently enough. So is.

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There, like a you, know every 15 minutes. I mean that seems that is that going to be a possibility. Yeah.

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There is a lot of studies done around this because there's there's like the actual.

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Time and then there's perceived time and then there's actually, I should say, they're scheduled.

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There is actual what happens when traffic gets involved and then there's how long people feel.

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Like they're waiting and um you know, federal and state different regulations, say 15 minutes.

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What we call headways- or you know, a bus that comes every 15 minutes- is considered high quality.

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Transit and more likely to get people to ride it, but that's it in fact: comes every 15 minutes.

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Anything more than that can deter people. What we in my experience, it's been 10 minutes or less.

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To really get people to count on it, and I also saw someone with a question about how often the.

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Bus has to come to the bus, rapid transit that is 10 minutes or less and bus rapid transit often has.

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Many lines running on that, so you will get many buses within that ten minutes. So it's almost a bus.

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Every two minutes, um if you're thinking market street in san francisco or something like that,.

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um Amy here can I answer your question? Sorry, no, it did, and I I mean I guess I'm just trying to.

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Get an idea for how um you know: I'm expecting that we'll probably have you know more frequency.

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Come to stevens creek first and just trying to get an idea like realistically of you, know, down.

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Saratoga avenue like what kind of frequency we might expect and when that would be.

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um But I also had another comment about um the bus bulbs that was interesting to see that and.

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I understand um you know why that proposal proposal is there um and I've. Actually, it's.

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Interesting because I've actually heard from neighbors, um you know proposing the opposite.

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uh And this is why we don't have um running a long prospect. We have. We have a lot of car traffic.

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During commuter times during um you know, school drop-off, pickup we've got a high school um right.

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Here and um it's just this competing thing, we're um it's like with with growth, we're.

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Expecting more and more cars to come through, but we also want to have you know more transit and.

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Right now, our buses, if they don't have a cut out um it ends up that it adds to the car traffic.

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Right and so I think, a lot of residents think that that's a problem they'd like to see more attract.

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More transit, but they think that the best way to do that would be to have you know some cutouts, the.

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Bus can get off the road and not hold everybody up and cause worse traffic. But I hear what you're.

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Saying about people not letting the buses in? So that's a problem too yeah. There's an image.

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That I always wish I had on hand. You know how some people have a picture of like their wife in their.

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Wallet like I wish I had this picture that just shows like the amount of people on a bus and if.

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All those people were in cars, so that's what we always like to think is. There could be. You know.

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Up to 80 people on that bus and if we can't get them where they need to go if they all start.

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Driving that could be even more congestion, so we really want. You know in this kind of mode shift.

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Idea to the beginning of our presentation, the more people that we can get on buses, the less traffic.

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And I know that that can be a slow curve, but it's something that we are really trying to prioritize.

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Because we just cannot widen the streets anymore, you know, um and it also really helps people with.

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Disabilities, if we need to load a wheelchair onto the bus, um it is really hard to do so in.

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The cutouts sometimes because we won't have a wide enough sidewalk. So that is something that.

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We are also considering, but I totally hear that he means it's always a a trade-off situation and have.

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Yeah, how can we make it as com as easy, uh a switch as possible? I don't know. Thank you.

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um Was there anything anyone else that had any comments about these there's? Also a ton of.

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You know a lot more things you can do for transit. um We have a couple of questions.

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On the channel natasha, one of them is, if you are with the city of san jose.

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Yeah yeah yeah. Sorry, I didn't give a full introduction. I am an associate transportation.

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Planner with the city of san jose, I lead our area-wide transportation planning work. uh This.

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Is one of them, but augustine is the project manager on this um so yeah? I didn't work here.

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uh And then the second one is it's about um the bus bulk um that do, you think, could obstruct the.

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Bike lanes um in some situation yeah, so this is also another trade-off point.

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We are, you know, on transit, priority corridors, we are prioritizing prioritizing transit above.

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Bike and auto trips and again this is trade-offs depending on what street it is, but on a major.

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Routes with with transit um we are, we would make that trade off, but there are also creative.

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Solutions such as transit islands, um so we can kind of float the bus stop in the street. Let the.

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Bike lane go behind it and there are also things like mountable bus bulbs, where we make them wide.

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Enough so a bike lane can kind of go up behind the transit island and back down.

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There's a lot of cool things when we start getting creative. This is kind of the step one, but.

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They don't always have to compete, but if indeed they did on the transit corridors that we listed.

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We would prioritize the bus improvement over bike improvement, but that doesn't mean that.

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We're not super excited about bicycles and making them safe, because we that's our next toolbox.

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So uh not last and definitely not least, investing in a comprehensive and accessible.

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Bike network and infrastructure next so these are in green, are proposed bike, priority corridors, many.

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Of these are in the bike plan um that we can link in the chat, but but some of these we also.

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Added through outreach, so I will try to read them all. There are a lot there's um more park, cypress.

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Williams um monroe heading forest through dale, which you might have seen some improvements.

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Already happening right now, shasta park, avenue, race and lee and I think I'm missing whatever.

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This one is under stephen's creek running parallel to it. Augustine do you know the name of that which.

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One the one right under stephen's creek um at the left of the screen forest, oh down to the left.

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West, oh sorry, west the westest one easement, no further west. Sorry. This is not more.

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My central mass expressway one more um here, yes yeah, this is more park um and then yeah. This is.

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Oh yeah good question: let me look into the map um we'll put that in the chat yeah this.

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One must have been not a late edition but didn't get labeled and I have too many streets in my head.

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To remember what this one is but yeah, this is our proposed bike network and.

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The next slide is the toolbox of improvements that we're thinking for these corridors, so we have.

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um You know first and foremost, kind of one of the most impactful things we can do.

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Is creating protected bike lanes where possible? This is an image of a two-way cycle track.

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Protected by parking, but we have lots of ways of creating protected bike lanes, whether that's with.

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Parking, whether that's with kind of built cement, mounds planters, there's lots of things we can do.

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There's also protected intersections, so protective bike lanes are great mid-block, but when you get.

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To the intersection, and you just kind of spit out the traffic again, it can be really stressful. It's.

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Also one of the most likely places you're you're, going to be hit by a car. If, god forbid, you are.

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So protected intersections create these kind of pockets where the bikes can go.

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um You know protected and the cars can turn around them and then for oh, it's a little covered.

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um Sorry about that, um but it says bike boulevard, and these are corridors where we can't necessarily.

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Accommodate a protected bike lane or or bigger, or you know, bigger improvements such as that.

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But we can do traffic calming such as speed bumps chicanes diverters, like existing nigley park,.

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To really slow streets down to a comfortable speed, ideally 15 to 20 miles an hour so that bikes can.

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Feel comfortable taking the lane there's also trail improvements. We have a wonderful trail.

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Network here in san jose, and especially in west san jose, how can we improve these.

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Trails themselves and access to the trails so that people can enjoy them and use them for their trips.

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We also know that you know if you don't have a safe place to put your bike at the end of.

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Your ride, you're- probably not going to bike there, so we want to create more secure bike.

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Parking opportunities, especially near transit and other shopping corridors, um a lot of our shopping.

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Centers in san jose lack any bike parking at all, so we're working with them to see where we can.

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Put these bike lockers or at least a bike rack in a visible populated place, there's also sidewalk.

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Level bike lanes: these are kind of a step up from regular protective bike lanes. These are sidewalk.

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Level what we call cycle tracks, where you can be completely separated from traffic and separated.

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From the sidewalk and you just kind of go parallel traffic that way, there's also traffic diverters.

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These are um various parts around san jose they're used a lot in portland, washington and other.

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Bike-Friendly cities they kind of either divert through traffic or or some movement of traffic, but.

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Allow bikes and people walking through and this just prohibits, cut through traffic and really.

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Makes it a really great biking? Experience there's also bike connectivity across freeways, someone.

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Earlier bought brought up, are we looking at pet bridges? Yes, we are we're really wanting to make.

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Sure, because of the different freeways that bisect west san jose that we're providing safe, enjoyable.

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Crossings for people walking and biking and not just that they're safe. You know infrastructure.

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Wise, but that they feel safe for personal safety reasons, because I know that a lot of women I've.

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Talked to or just people in general kind of feel vulnerable when they're using these. um So this is.

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The bike tool box, I see some questions in the chat, but amy you have your hand up again feel free to.

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Come on, um thank you. I was just wondering if the city also kind of prioritizes bike, you know access.

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Around high schools, schools, schools in general, but high schools, particularly like in our situation.

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Our high school is is with an easy biking distance, but um you know students would have to go through.

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A major commercial area so there's a lot of concern about you, know safety and just making.

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It safely through these major intersections, um as is um so just wondering what the city.

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Kind of prioritizes that around high schools, particularly yeah amy, thank you for constantly.

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Bringing up schools that's some place that we look at with our m-tips whenever possible, but we.

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Also have a safe routes to school group within dot that focus on bike, walking and car safety transit.

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Ridership around our schools. They don't involve high schools as much. They stop at middle school.

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Which I think you know could definitely be expanded, but I can reach out um to someone on that.

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Team and ask if you know they have any plans to do so and what that gap could be filled. If maybe our.

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M tips could be: oh we'll, you know dive a little deeper into the high school if, if they're not.

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Meeting the needs of that population. That would be great. Thank you because, like our neighborhood.

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Schools are really kind of located in the neighborhood, but the high schools are, I mean it's.

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It's a much more perilous uh trip and I think a lot of times. You know the younger kids too,.

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Are more likely to have parents drop off? But you know the older kids have more freedom and parents.

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Would like to see them exercise more independence, and but it is, um you know, it's kind of perilous.

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For an adult to get through some commercial areas, where there's a lot of traffic moving through so.

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Particularly concerning you think twice about having your kids cycle back and forth. There.

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Yeah definitely, and how much easier would it be for parents to buy their kid? A nice bike.

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Than a nice car, when they turned 16, um if we made it, you know safe and enjoyable to do so.

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uh Justin, I see you have your hand up yeah and I apologize if this was covered before.

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I joined a little late. I know you mentioned that the boundaries of this plan are based.

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On urban villages, but is there a reason the saratoga urban village isn't totally included.

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um Augustine should you know the answer to that yeah. um We um when we use this plan, we we just.

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uh Considered the the urban abilities that were adopted at the time yeah and that's why um it's.

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Yeah, it's not right because it's a designated growth area, but it doesn't mean yeah yeah. That's.

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Right, but that doesn't mean that we're not gonna do anything on saratoga we have a saratoga as.

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A as a pedestrian critic corridor, um and even though um we only cover a section of saratoga.

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We are not all only gonna implement a project on that section. Right. We're gonna provide a design.

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For the entire corridor, um yeah great, thank you that makes sense. Thank you justin, for that one.

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There's two um questions in the chat um cheryl. Thank you for that data. Point about high schoolers.

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Crossing at prospect and lawrence, this is a really useful data for us. This is, you know we can't be.

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Everywhere, all the time, so we'll definitely look into that intersection. Further with this plan and.

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Then um julie brought up. The website says that we have a final draft plan ready winter 2021.

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This is um the kind of we have the draft sort of ready, but we really wanted to make sure we.

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Were able to talk with the community about these proposed toolboxes before we went any further.

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And unfortunately, due to the um you know, omnicron variant, we had to postpone a lot of the.

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Outreach events we had scheduled for winter, so this is kind of.

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A delayed you know spring time draft, but we will be sharing with everyone that has come to any.

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Event with all you here today when that draft is up and ready to be reviewed, we will share it.

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um Okay next slide: if there are other questions.

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So the next couple slides we wanted to share with you kind of the list of streets that we're.

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Considering for prioritization as part of this plan, they're very similar to street sweep you.

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Know lists we've already given today and we won't go over them in detail detail, but these corridors.

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Right here on this slide are all the corridors are considering for complete streets projects, so.

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These are um complete streets, meaning that we're looking at ped infrastructure, bike infrastructure.

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Where possible, transit infrastructure as well as you know, making sure we have a good balance.

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Of parking and curb access and things like that, it's a pretty exhaustive list. Some of these are.

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Already underway, a few different processes like bascom, but we are involved with vta on.

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That project anything else, you want to add about this slide. Obviously,.

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No no um yeah and then the next one or the bike. Oh wait! Amy. You had a question um so, for example,.

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Saratoga avenue, if that were a complete street to complete streets, do they sometimes look at.

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I'm just thinking like a major intersection, I you know, would they ever consider like you know a few.

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Blocks left or right, if there's like a, if there's like a little cluster of intersections, you know I.

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Mean they're not right on one street, but there's a clear cluster of intersections in one area. Could.

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That be considered a complete street area, so these are obviously do you want to answer that.

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um No go ahead. I have some thoughts, but please go ahead yeah. So um whenever we look at a street.

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To do work on in general, we always look at what are the spillover effects or where we can make.

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Spot treatments around there um there's a project that we're doing in east san jose that are called.

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Our click strike bike boulevards, where we're looking at seven different, intercepting corridors.

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uh So this is something we do look at um and we know that a lot of people do complain that when we.

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You know do a complete street project or a project on one we can sometimes create. Maybe.

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Spillover traffic, we we are looking at those things and looking how we can improve in batches.

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Also, with our paving program, we someone asked about funding in the chat how this will be funded.

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A large part of our work, sorry to give a little side, because that's what we're working on right.

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Now is where we can find all the money to do these things. These things are very.

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Very expensive, we are looking at various grants, we're looking how to leverage our city budget.

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Which is which is not very big for these types of things, but also we have um a great paving plan.

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And obviously you can put that link in the chat that they've said within the next. um I believe.

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Five years, they'll be able to pave um hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles of city road, and we.

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Are following the paving plan, um whatever streets that they are working on? We are following them and.

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Asking them hey, can you implement these safety um improvements as you go, because if they're already.

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You know striping um picking a pavement putting in curb ramps, there's ways we can leverage that.

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Internally and there's a lot of streets up in west san jose on the paving plan.

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So that's when you'll see it done in batches too. Well, that was a really long answer. I hope I got.

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You a good answer. Thank you yeah. I I went out that um please go to to the website. um Fill the survey.

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That is a map base, um because if we have all those locations um in in in the plan, whenever we we go.

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And design one of these corridors, we can go back to that information and we can see if there is.

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An opportunity to improve not just a corridor, but maybe some perineal streets or some areas.

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Next to that corridor, but we need to know- and we need to include that in the plan.

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um Because when we go for funding, one key thing that um we're going to be asked is: do you have.

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Have you done community outreach? Is the community asking for this improvement and we have to prove.

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That we have done it and- and we have to prove that the community is supporting those those.

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Improvements, um so it's important for us, but it's also very important for for all you that.

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You make those comments and you, you are sure that um those are included in in the plan.

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Okay, thanks augustine and I put that big survey in the.

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Chat, but also all the comments made here will also you know, be put into the document um so.

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Bike boulevards here is our list of initial bike boulevard corridors that we're going to be looking.

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Into you know how we can implement different traffic calming things like bulb outs, chicanes.

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Speed bumps things like that to get speeds down, so people can feel comfortable biking on them. Next.

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And here are our list of quick build projects, so these are where we're going to try to leverage.

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Fast and and and more inexpensive improvements on so that we can have some safety improvements.

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Going quickly a lot of our capital projects, when we, when we see you, know a complete street, that's.

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Fully built out can take years and years and years, but we know that we need safety improvements now.

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So again, with our paving plan with paint and plastic, we can have really impactful.

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Changes in the ground within a year and there's a lot of funding recently, both federal and state, to.

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Fund these types of projects, um so we need to have these opportunities ready, so the plants outline.

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The corridors here listed, you know we're looking at how we can make really key improvements quickly.

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um This is an example of some downtown and one thing that these quick build projects also give us.

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Is data if we put in uh what we think will will fix an issue that we're seeing and we realize.

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That there are problems with how we put that in. We can easily change it where we can't easily.

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Change concrete, so these give us a lot of information about how well a project will work or.

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How it won't work so next slide. Does anyone have any questions about quick, fill or bike boulevards.

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Moving on to my favorite um toolboxes of the night, another goal of our m-tip is to foster.

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Beautiful and active communities through place, making place-making is a fancy word for just.

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How can we create enjoyable places um next slide, so here's our place, making improvement toolbox and.

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This is some something that was kind of as a first for the city as far as being included in an m-tip.

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We are going to try to leverage our relationships with the park and recreation department. Our.

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Economic development, department and planning department, etc to see how we can get these.

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Things in west san jose so, first and foremost, we have pedestrian scale lighting. This is something.

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Brought up over and over and over again in our outreach um people think it's very dark. They.

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Feel unsafe and that they don't want to walk. So this is something we're looking into uh green.

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Infrastructure, so san jose does not have a lot of trees and greening, and we know that it's good for.

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The planet and good for just our emotional health to have more green around so where can we put.

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Green infrastructure in our streets and sidewalks, we also have um wayfinding opportunities.

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Where can we put information signs with maps or other information to get people to know? What's.

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Around them um a lot of the time people maybe are taking transit here or visiting, or maybe you're.

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Just going on a walk in a different neighborhood like I have a lot of the pandemic, and I don't know.

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There's a coffee shop over here or I don't know that it's actually only a five-minute.

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Walk to a trail, so how can we have these in key locations, then public art? How can you know how.

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Can we partner with local artists to make more enjoyable public spaces, um so this is kind of on.

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The sidewalk and then we have street murals, which are something that we're seeing more and more.

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Around the globe and in the united states, oakland has an amazing program called paint the streets.

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Paint the town so yeah these are murals actually in the roadway, and there is data to prove that.

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They slow down traffic um public plazas. Where can we have seeding or create a public plaza in.

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West san jose and where can we put parklets, we've seen parklets kind of explode during the pandemic.

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So how can we make them either more longer lasting, more um beautiful and or we're gonna put them.

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Where they're not already, and then also street activations block parties, um farmers markets, how.

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Can we get more of those into west san jose? So maybe you can walk to one in your neighborhood.

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A farmer's market or a you know, a block party and you know, save a trip from going across town.

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To a park on a weekend or something like that, so we're looking into those um any comments on these.

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Because we did have a mental meter exercise and we're not using that tool anymore. So we.

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Wanted to know if, where you would want these types of things, what would you be interested.

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In having in your neighborhood, is there a place that you visited or that you saw something really.

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Cool that you would like to see in west san jose, um oh amy, you raise your hand, go ahead.

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Oh just that um up in san francisco other areas, they've got some really cool stuff and also more.

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More closely in los altos, they do um you know, there's a public arts group. That's just done.

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A lot of really fantastic things I mean to even I've taken trips up there just to see like some.

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Of their newest, you know installations, um but I think it's really important um to get people out.

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To walk, um I mean I live right next to this major commercial area and a lot of my neighbors. We don't.

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Walk um to the shopping, centers or you know, walk places that we could and I think.

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um You know having a safe feeling safe as a pedestrian is major. um There are improvements.

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It could be down there like the traffic islands for sure, but I think also having.

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Something pleasant um because we still very much feel here in the paseo de saratoga urban village,.

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Like it's still very very car centric and um you know, with growth, it's like these competing things.

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We need to get more more cars are coming, you know, more people are coming they're going to have cars.

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um And just more people are going to be dr: we need to get more cars through.

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um With the costco we would a lot more cars, um but at the same time we want to, you know, give people.

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A reason to get out of their cars and to walk- and I think you know so many of these things are just.

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Are really really important, so 100 love the placemaking toolbox, thanks amy for sharing that.

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And then cheryl in the chat said I'd love to see this over acres of shopping parking lots. I agree.

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That that is something that, in west san jose, we have to think a lot about and something the city.

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Has limited control over but from the sidewalk and bus stop to the front door of the trader joe's.

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Can be a really really long and unenjoyable walk and sometimes confusing, even just lacking.

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Sidewalks or any sort of direction so yeah, we can definitely think a bit more about that.

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um But yeah we're really excited, and one thing I wanted to mention too. All of these are kind.

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Of the beginnings so anytime we're going to be exploring these improvements. If we're going to.

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Be thinking about green infrastructure or come up with a weight finding plan or thinking about.

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Murals somewhere we're going to come back to the community, come back to the neighborhood, where.

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We're thinking of doing them and and plan them out more so this is not the last time you're going to.

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Be hearing about any of these improvements, obviously, did you want to add anything.

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No yeah, I I agree with. I think that in only everybody in the planning team is really excited.

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About um this type of improvements, um because yeah, we are also san jose residents, we enjoy.

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Walking and and sometimes it's really sad to walk around some neighborhoods- um it's not pleasant.

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You, don't you don't feel safe because of the environment, and so this type of actions are.

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Really really important: um I'm really glad that um you'll share that vision with us.

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And I think this is our last toolbox. Don't hold me to that support infrastructure with.

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Programs and policies that encourage sustainable transportation choices.

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um So in our multimedia transportation plans we know it's not all just about infrastructure.

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That's why we try to cover it with placemaking and some some activations, but we know that this.

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Change that we're looking this long-term goal of getting 88 percent of trip sustained um done.

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Sustainably is going to take a lot more than just changing the built environment. So what can we do.

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With policies and different programs to to help that to help get us to that goal, next slide.

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So here are some things we're thinking of for.

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West san jose and two of these things, the first two I'm going to talk about, are really more. You.

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Know more likely than ever to happen, there's funding opportunities, kind of knocking at.

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Our door, which is really rare for these things, the first one, is mobility hubs, and these are.

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Areas of a neighborhood or a city where we try to package as many mobility options as possible.

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So that when you get off the bus or when you get to this area, you can take a bus, you can rent a.

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Car you can charge your electric car, you can get on a scooter, you can buy a bus pass. You can.

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Get car share, you can rent a you know a cargo bike. The possibilities are kind of endless different.

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Cities have taken this to different levels. They can be really big outside of bart station. Perhaps.

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Or they can be small and sort of a neighborhood. Oakland is doing amazing work with their e-bike.

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Lending libraries at libraries, so this is just how can we get as many transportation options.

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Into communities as possible- and there are funding opportunities through the mtc which.

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Is our regional transportation kind of governing body to do these in san jose.

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And in west san jose, so this is really exciting for us. We also have overcalling our slow zones or.

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You know with new state legislation. Cities can have a lot more control in setting speed limits.

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But also, how can we look at amy? This is to your point that you brought up not just corridors but.

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Areas where we can invest a lot in traffic calming maybe around one complete street or around a.

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High school or library, and really make a slow zone, not just a slow street.

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There's some funding possibilities for those there's. Also things we're looking into like.

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Seasonal streets programs, so people love, viva, kaye people, love sunday streets in san francisco and.

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A lot of different street closure programs around the bay area, but.

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How can we maybe have some of those in west san jose to get people out and meeting their neighbors.

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And just enjoying the space: oh no, this one's um covered a little bit, but urban forest programs.

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We have a city arborist, but we also have various non-profits that we could team up with to do.

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More plantings and get people trees if they want them. So how can we bring that into west san jose.

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Reduced fares on transit, we have a lot of large-scale planning programs around the city.

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And we're you know working with vta to see how we can get reduced transit fares. We know that transit.

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Can be really expensive for folks that rely on it and it might be a you know, a turn off if you're.

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Trying to take it, oh, I don't want to pay five dollars with that. I still have some gas in my tank.

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um Micro, mobility, expansion, a lot of people want to use bike, share or scooter share, but.

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It doesn't go everywhere in west san jose, so how can we expand it to different parts.

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Car chair, that is, a car that is available for renting and having to get those into.

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Neighborhoods and then, like we mentioned before on-demand neighborhood bus service.

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To get people from transit hubs to their neighborhoods for that first last mile connection.

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I love cheryl bringing up golf carts. I grew up in palm springs. I feel like golf carts are my.

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Culture, I I think that there would be a great solution, but I don't know how other people.

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Feel about golf carts that haven't used them or seen them very much.

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Sorry cheryl, I was like a personal anecdote, not that was me as natasha, not a d.o.t employee.

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um Any questions about these things.

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um I also wanted to mention that there is a larger plan right now called the move.

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San jose plan that is looking at city-wide policies, such as electric vehicle incentives.

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How we can have rampant um kind of installation of car chargers around and other things like that to.

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To help curb our carbon footprint, and especially with city council's recent adoption of trying to.

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Go carbon neutral by going carbon neutral by 2030. These are very high priorities for dod.

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um I guess we can go to the next slide.

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We are not using mint meter anymore and on the fly. uh So if and no one has any questions we can.

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Just go on to kind of our project next steps and how to stay involved. We are having a couple other.

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Neighborhood engagement up or next engagement opportunities. We want to come to your neighborhood.

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Association meetings, if you have one and you have time for us, we can give a short presentation.

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Update share materials we're also going to try to host some online office hours.

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um Where people can drop in and ask us questions and learn about the plan at various times during.

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The day we know not, everyone can make these um these evening times so we'll try to have one.

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On the weekend, and maybe one in the morning, one in the evening during the week, we also have what.

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We're calling our technical advisory meetings. This is when we meet with neighboring cities.

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And other departments within the city to make sure that we're aligning as much as possible.

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And we also have the online survey that augustine and I have shared many times and we'll also share.

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Again uh in a follow-up email with you all, um you know, due to code, we are a little limited and.

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In the outreach we can do, but if you guys can think of an in-person event that might.

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Be happening soon, we'd love to come out and join you, but kind of in that sweet spot period.

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uh Post-Vaccine we were able to go to some farmers markets and different community events and that.

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Was really fun but they have with um kind of dwindled a bit with the latest variant. But if you.

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Know of anything, please let us know and also just stay involved with the project happenings well now,.

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For signing up with this, you have been put on our stakeholder list, so you will be getting some.

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Emails with updates from us, but also always be checking the city website for updates.

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And also the city, twitter and other social media websites, and then we have a website.

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Called move san jose where you can sign up for project specific updates if you're interested.

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And finally, there are both of our emails, augustines and mine, and we will send this.

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Again in that follow-up, email, amy, I'd love for you to reach out and all the other folks that had.

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Questions about areas that weren't necessarily in our mtip area. We are here for you, so please.

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Reach out and we can get the ball rolling on finding new solutions.

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And that concludes our presentation. um We'd love to answer questions. Anyone else has, but also I.

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Know people are probably pretty hungry uh if you haven't eaten already amy. I see you have a.

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Question, um thank you so much for the presentation tonight. I love good planning and a lot of exciting.

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Stuff here um and we'll we'll definitely reach out. um If, if we wanted to, I was wondering about the.

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Complete street program- again, I saw like saratoga avenue was one. Is it? Is it um so? It's included.

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It's just what's the status of, is it included? It's just. It's not being actively worked on. What is the.

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Status of that amy, that is a really good question and something that so for the next month.

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And a half, depending on how much more outreach we can we can jam in, um we will be writing our.

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Implementation chapter or kind of our roadmap to how we can start um getting these things funded so.

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We have some things funded right now, just through different grants, but grants run on year-long.

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Cycles, so everything that you saw on the list today is on our list for writing into a grant. So.

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This is kind of the vector to get funding. The caltrans mtc bta will have money and say.

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Who has a plan, and now, when we have this end tip, we can say we have a plan. We heard from people.

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We have the data and it'll kick off a separate planning process, usually so for saratoga. We would.

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um And maybe this is getting too technical, but we would write a grant or people say we have some.

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Money for these types of projects does anyone have any corridors. We would say we have saratoga. Here's.

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All the amazing and important reasons why saratoga should get funded. We could use our data, we could.

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Use the outreach all these things weigh the grant. It gives us more points to get these grants and.

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Then we would get a grant to do a complete streets plan or something like that or it could be quick.

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Build where we don't have to go through a full planning process, we can just analyze data and do.

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Some outreach um so yeah all these things, kind of are just like getting teed up for funding.

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Thank you, um eugene.

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Oh yeah, I'm just reading that question thingy! So we'll hear back from you when your next public.

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Meeting is going to be because I know my group would certainly be interested in a lot of the.

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Planning that's going on for west san jose with this multi with m-tip plan, particularly.

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The sidewalk improvements which are needed by the disabled community because I see some areas like.

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Stephens creek boulevard, where you can just barely fit one wheelchair, as well as the transit signal.

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Priority and other transit improvements yeah, we can definitely loop back and augustine and.

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I are are thinking about what a final meeting would look like when we have the final plan.

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If it can, you know we will update everyone on on this list about what that the next engagement will.

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Be right and thank you for this presentation. I learned a lot and I hope everybody here learned a.

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Lot from this as well, and thank you all for coming and spending an hour and a half of your time.

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But this is something augustine and I nerd out about, and you know made our careers about it.

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It really means a lot when, when the public takes their time to to hear and engage with us, because.

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Our projects don't mean much if they don't actually get help. You know from don't help. People.

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The best way to help people is hear them. So else, um oh justin did you have a question.

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No, I just wanted to say thank you for putting on this presentation. This has been really informative.

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um And I saw I don't know who asked it in the chat, but will this presentation be available.

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um Yes, we will be sharing the slides and we'll be posting a video, it's being recorded right now,.

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Onto the website, we're also going to put up a spanish version of the.

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Presentation, so if you have anyone in your community that or organization in your community, that knows might need that um and again we can.

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Get that to you all via email, uh follow up email, but we'll also just be posting it on the website.

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Thanks everybody enjoy your evenings. I hope everyone has a restful rest of their week.

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um Have a nice evening, everybody, oh, wait: ronnie yeah.

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Hi, I was about to add it to the chat. I just wanted to say. Thank you. Both this was a fantastic.

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Presentation really exciting to see what potential mobility proofs will be coming to district one.

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um And as far as neighborhood associations, it may be good to even take us to the d1.

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Leadership group meeting um in the near future, so yeah, that would be great. We did.

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A presentation with them a while back and gave them an update a few months ago, but it would.

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Definitely be good to maybe give them the full presentation yeah. Thank you. You're great thanks.

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Good night, everybody thank you. Thank you.

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I dropped some people into the waiting room.

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