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Venues
^ Community-wide surveys from 2007-2010
^ 4 public open houses in March & April
^ Stakeholder meetings
^ Official City bodies (13)
^ Neighborhood and special interest groups (7)
^ Technical meetings
• Designers' Roundtable
^ Planning
^ Public Works: Traffic Eng. & Transportation Eng.
`Online surveys (370+ so far)
Comments
^ Over 1,500 comments
^ Diverse vantage points - not just cyclists
^ Diverse cyclists
^ Sorted by the 5 E's:
^ Engineering
^ Education
^ Enforcement
^ Encouragement
^ Evaluation
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1. The City is not bike-friendly. °~"`~ ~~~£~~
^ People want or need to get around by bike or on foot, but
it's hard to do - sometimes very hard.
^"A resort city ought to do better for its guests."
^ Improve cycling AT and TO the oceanfront but don't
forget the rest of the City.
^ Include bike-ped planning in roads and land
development.
^ We need a complete network:
^ more bikeways on-road (54%) and off-road (46%)
^ more sidewalks and crosswalks
~^ more related items like bike parkinq, s~~tra~d,t~tap~
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^ Existing bike-pedestrian facilities are discontinuous and
disjointed. Connect them.
^ The City is like a bunch of neighborhood islands.
^ Connect neighborhoods to each other.
^ Connect neighborhoods to destinations.
s Connect destinations to each other.
^ Major barriers include I-264, high-traffic roadways, and
waterways.
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3. Sharing ~e road
^ Cyclists fear cars and their drivers, especially heavy
traffic and distracted drivers.
^ Motorists don't respect cyclists or their rights to use the
roads.
^ Cyclists and motorists alike don't know or abide by the
rules of the road or how to share the road.
^ Both groups need more education and more
enforcement.
^ Cyclists on narrow roads create hazardous situations for
themselves and for motorists.
Make crosswalks safer, including enforcement on
~torists not yielding. _~..;.
4. Other
^ Fear of crime on paths
^ The City doesn't have enough facilities for riding horses,
even though they don't need much.
^ Over 200 comments have been suggestions about
places to build bikeways and trails.
^ Costs: how will we pay to build it all?
^ Need better maintenance
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Planning & Public Works Issues
^ Zoning/subdivision regs that influence bikeways & trails
^ Bikeway & trail integration into SGAs
^ Bicycle Level Of Service (BLOS) data and maps
^ Opportunities in 6-year CIP
^ Opportunities in repaving schedule
^ Bikeway & trail standards & specs
^ Gap analysis
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Policies
^ Lighting policy
^ Maintenance and repair funding
^ Sign guidelines
^ Bike routes, "share the road", paths, etc.
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^ Online survey continues
^ Online suggestion box at www.CommunitvWalk.com
^ Bike parking count !I
^ Boardwalk: 66/305 (racked/not) '
^ Atlantic: 101 /101 (racked/not)
^ Bike counts
^ Nat'I. Bicycle/Pedestrian Documentation Project
^ Open surveys - will be ongoing
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Write the Plan: September!
^ From Public Issues to Action Items
^ Bikeways and Trails Advisory Committee
^ Results of technical studies
^ Other professional observations
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^ Engineering
^ Develop overlapping networks of lanes and paths
^ Education
^ Work with bike rentals
^ Encouragement
^ Create high-profile special events
^ Enforcement
• Increase enforcement of traffic laws
^ Evaluation
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Public Review: October
^ Return to each of the previous stakeholder groups
^ Open houses
^ Official City bodies
^ Stakeholder meetings
^ Technical meetings
^ Online feedback: www.vbqov.com/bikewalk
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