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Subject:RE: MSC Agenda Item #2
From: Blair Miller
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MSC Members,
I am writing on behalf of the Complete Streets Coalition.
Please see the attached letter that was sent to DOT in January 2020 regarding improvements to the existing Roseways.
Most of these items remain unaddressed almost 3 years later.
As you consider the Bicycle Transportation Action Plan today, we would appreciate it if MSC would ask staff to address these improvements to the Roseways. Most of them are far less expensive than the build-out of the BTAP, and could be completed as part of the CIP.
Thank you,
Blair Miller
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2022 OCT 25 PM 4: 05
CITY CLERK
CITY OF mSADENA
January 15,2020
Donson Liu
Pasadena Department of Transportation
221 E. Walnut Street, Suite 199
Pasadena, CA 91101
DearDonson,
We understand that the Pasadena Department of Transportation is in the process of both continuing to implement and also to update the City's Bike Map, particularly with regard to the City's "Roseways".
As an organization dedicated to the safety of all road users, and also to promoting the use of active transportation in Pasadena, we appreciate your receptiveness to our input.
Here are the characteristics we recommend that Pasadena adopt in its bicycle network:
1) Signage that alerts both people riding bicycles and people driving cars to the fact that a Roseway is a place where bicycles may be riding. We believe that all streets should be safe and available to all users, but if a bicycle network is to succeed in attracting additional users, it should be especially visible to all users. 2) Easily identifiable on a map. The City's existing map (here) should be the first link that comes up in internet searches. Once the network is complete, the information should be loaded to the Googel Maps API.
3) Create a network that makes it as easy as possible to move through the City, taking into account traffic volumes, street crossings and street grades. 4) Create a network that connects to other local networks, especially Los Angeles County. 5) Create a network that reflects where people ride now. 6) Look at installing traffic calming measures that do not interfere with public safety.
With regard to signage (1), we have two recommendations:
A) Prior to the final publication of the network maps, each Roseway should be ridden in both directions to identify and fix signs that are missing or in the wrong locations.
Complete Streets Coalition members are available as volunteers for this verification, 1 B) The use of colored paint to highlight the Roseways. This could be a green background to a sharrow, it could be a stylized rose, but it needs to be consistent and also to stand out, saying to drivers and riders: "This is a place where bicyclists are welcome!" With regard to the network as proposed (2) and (3), we have the following suggestions:
a) Eliminate the Roseway on Claremont west of Marengo. Use Hammond instead. There is a stoplight at Fair Oaks and Hammond. Without a tight at Fair Oaks and Claremont, and with the traffic volume and speeds on Fair Oaks, it is an unsafe crossing. There is a north-south stop sign on Marengo, which enables a safe left turn. b) Add a north-south stop sign to Los Robles at Claremont, or a HAWK and crosswalk. c) Improve the Roseway along Howard by negotiating with PUSD for the ability for the Roseway to go through the Washington Academy, on Howard between Marengo and Raymond.
d) Install a crosswalk and a HAWK at Lake and Howard.
e) Install a crosswalk at El Molino and Howard,
f) Install a crosswalk at Hammond and Raymond.
With regard to creating a network that connects to other local networks (4), we suggest working with Los Angeles County Department of Transportation to expand the network east of the City line north of Washington Boulevard and then connecting it down to the Roseways network.
NOTE - This is an alternate suggestion that would replace the Roseway along Howard, east of Marengo, with a new alternative Rosewaythat connects through Los Angeles County.
Suggested Route: Beginning at Marengo, Elizabeth east to Alien. Install HAWKs at Los Rabies, Lake and Alien.
East of Alien, Elizabeth becomes Layton. Continue east on Layton, south on Pepper, east on Garfias, south on Roosevelt. Add a HAWK at Washington Boulevard and Roosevelt. Roosevelt becomes Martelo south of Washington, and joins the Roseways network at Brigden.
With regard to creating a network where people ride now (5), we suggest making Mountain a Roseway, by putting in other kinds of treatments (green paint behind the sharrows, more signage, speed humps.)
If we all agree that reducing speed improves safety, the installation of traffic calming measures that do not interfere with public safety should be a high priority (6). If there are alternatives for reducing speed that are being used in neighboring jurisdictions, we should review those measures and adopt those that have proven effective.
2 One traffic calming measure that we could look at adopting is an alternative speed hump. LA County installs speed humps in three pieces. The part of the hump that is level with the surface of the streets is at the correct width for fire trucks, but it forces cars to slow down.
We look forward to working with you to implement a successful Roseways program that can be a model for the region.
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Topher Mathers
On behalf of the Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition
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