Hey Everyone, 1) The 40-40-20 breakdown of funds from fines is already in place. What we want is meaningful enforcement of the laws. Right now DPT only tickets vehicles parked on sidewalks when they are called in. We want on site enforcement. We also want vehicles towed that completely block pedestrian access. I'm sorry Bruce Oka was not present for the ped part. He would have testified to the difficulty of moving wheelchairs around cars that are parked across sidewalks; 2) It is against state law for motorized vehicles to operate on sidewalks so we do not want to say that vehicles traveling over ten miles per hour on sidewalks should be ticketed (remember about two years ago the supes banned Segways from the sidewalks despite a state law giving them an exemption unless local governments decided otherwise). We need to demand meaningful enforcement of moving violations on sidewalks and we need clarification of what vehicles are permitted to travel on sidewalks under the ADA (for example, wheelchairs, obviously, but the maximum speed is 8 mph); 3) I think we want to say something about LOS -- level of service. Right now LOS favors the movement of motor vehicles, but in terms of pedestrians is determined by the number of people who can stand comfortably at an intersection waiting to cross. We want to add pedestrians in movement -- those who are walking down sidewalks or crossing at intersections, and we want to shift LOS priorities from motor vehicles to pedestrians. 4) In this section we probably also want to address traffic calming measures that improve safety for pedestrians. Such measures would involve narrowing streets, planting trees and enforcement of sidewalk parking (cars parked curbside narrow traffic lanes and force people to drive more slowly). 5) I'm not now looking at the ped section so I don't know if Christine included bulbouts. Bulbouts are good traffic calming measures for pedestrians. They can be constructed in such a way that bike lanes go through them OR in such a way that bikes waiting to go through intersections serve as a buffer between pedestrians in the crosswalks and cars (which wait behind the bikes). Sue On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 06:50:54 +0000 "christine mcclintock" <chrismcclintock@hotmail.com> writes:
Hi, Everyone.
Here's the Pedestrian portion that I wrote.
Take care, Christine