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Bruce ‐ TRAC Email
TRAC, the Trails for Richmond Action Committee, recently learned of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Action Plan via Lina Velasco’s October 5 email in relation to realignment of the Bay Trail between Hensley Street and Gertrude Avenue. No one from Alta Planning had contacted us with an opportunity to provide early input, so our comments are fundamental, as well as detailed. The October draft does not contain realignment of the Bay Trail between Hensley Street and Gertrude Avenue based upon the information provided to you. We would appreciate the opportunity to review the language and exhibits to be added for this new Bay Trail realignment.
The overall structure of the draft Plan and its exhibits overlooks Richmond’s backbone of multi‐use trails for use by both pedestrians and bicyclists for transportation and recreation. Richmond has about 30 miles of Class I two‐way, multi‐use San Francisco Bay Trail and another 2‐ 1/2 miles of multi‐use Class I Richmond Greenway. Taken together the Bay Trail and Greenway represent the most popular and heavily used walking, running and cycling venues in the City of Richmond. However, they are ignored by draft Plan’s dichotomous approach of separating the plan into bicycle facilities & projects vs. pedestrian facilities & projects. The plan should be revised to explicitly recognize and address Class I multi‐use trails. For example, the report should recommend High Priority Multi‐use Trail Projects. Class I multi‐use Class I trails should be added to the maps, which currently show only bikeways and refer to bicycle “Class I Shared‐Use Path”. Bay Trail Class I trails are designed and operated for use by both peds and cyclists. They are not bicycle “paths” which, by the way, peds are allowed to use. Richmond’s multi‐ use trails include the regional San Francisco Bay Trail, Marina Bay Trail, Ferry Point Loop Trail & Shipyard 3 Trail, Wildcat Marsh & Landfill Loop Trail, etc. These typically comprise a 10‐foot paved surface with 2‐foot wide shoulders ofter preferred by those walking and jogging.
They are not “paths”, as in a little garden path.
Bruce ‐ TRAC Email
The Plan should include all of the planned multi‐use trails included in the Transportation Element of the Richmond General Plan. As examples, the draft Plan doesn’t include trails planned on the south side of San Pablo Creek between the Landfill Loop Trail and Fred Jackson Way or the trail between the South 51st Street Bay Trail spur and the existing multi‐use trail on the north side of Meeker Tidal Creek leading to Regatta Blvd. as shown by the attached markup of General Plan Map 4.1.
More detailed comments are being added via the project’s interactive website.
Bruce ‐ TRAC Email
Further to the email below, the draft report contains Bicycle Design Guidelines, but not the attached Bay Trail Design Guidelines and Toolkit for design of trails to be shared by pedestrians and cyclists. The report is skewed toward design of Class I trails for cyclists with those walking and jogging considered to be a secondary, tolerated use of “bicycle paths”.
Public Comments on Draft Bicycle and Pedestrian Action Plan (BPAP) Public Comments on BPAP
Councilmember
Bates City Council 1st Reading ‐ Notes
Receives complaints from the public regarding crime, bike lanes and barrett avenue; how do you justify implementing bike lanes if there's not many people using bikes? Justify the need for this.
Mayor Butt City Council 1st Reading ‐ Notes
Cutting Blvd gets a lot of use by biccyclists; Ferry to Bridge facilities are great and impressive; issue with sidewalks include: difficulty for people with mobility impairments, city council directed staff for plan to maintain sidewalks June of 2017 and there hasn't been action regarding this
Councilmember
McLaughlin City Council 1st Reading ‐ Notes Coordinate more clear ly with the Local Roadway Safety Plan and the upcoming Public Works Director should be involved in this Philip Rosenthal City Council 1st Reading ‐ Notes Disagrees with the extensive public outreach and not sufficient time to review; Cutting Blvd is a big issue with gridlock Jim Hanson City Council 1st Reading ‐ Notes
San Pablo Avenue is part of the high‐injury network and it is not reflected as a high priority project in the draft BPAP, this corridor affects the whole city
Mayor Butt Email
This month is National Pedestrian Safety Month. Pedestrians typically walk on sidewalks, but in Richmond, sidewalks often have hazards such as cracks, uplifts or overhanging vegetation that make them difficult to navigate or even dangerous. The City of Richmond settles claims annually for people who trip and fall due to damaged sidewalks. Despite direction by the City Council in 2017, the City has yet to prepare a sidewalk inspection and maintenance plan and policy. See “Richmond, California, Sidewalks and Street Edges.” Even more dangerous than damaged sidewalks are sidewalks that are blocked by parked cars. Apparently, many people do not understand or even care that sidewalks are for walking. A lot of people believe they are for parking cars. See “Cars on Richmond Sidewalks Present Obstacles for Residents; So Do parking Fines.”
Vehicles blocking sidewalks violate state law and local ordinances, yet enforcement is almost non‐existent due to staffing shortages and low priority . Vehicles blocking sidewalks are particularly dangerous for young children who are walking to school, parents pushing baby strollers, disabled people in wheelchairs or walkers, and the elderly, all of whom are routinely forced into the street to navigate their neighborhoods.
Take a look at this this video I made of a dad pushing a stroller having to detour into a busy street to avoid two cars totally blocking the sidewalk.
I have been taking photos and sending them to RPD for years, but the problem doesn’t seem to be improving. Below are some typical examples:
James Marceda website Form
Hi there,
I'm reviewing the plan and I don't see any mention of San Pablo Ave. Are there any plans to add bike lanes there? I think that would be a huge quality of life improvement for everyone who lives near this very busy street.
Thanks!
Ms. Annette Segal website Form
We need SAFE pedestrian crossing lanes on San Pablo and McBryde, Barrett and Solana. This is a CHEAP FIX! Why can't it happen without a lot of red tape?
Public Comments on BPAP
Amrita Ghai website Form
Hello,
I own and operate Curious Explorers Academy, a preschool located at 200 Broadway.
I was introduced to Travel Safe Richmond through a parent who came to tour our preschool.
We are on the surface streets that connect the Richmond Greenway Trail to itself. The suggested route to connect the trail from Pullman Portal to Dirt World is to go up Broadway to Bissell then back down 23rd. We should have a safe way to get from the greenway back to the greenway.
We are very interested in getting involved to improve the safety on Broadway, more specifically the intersection of Bissell Ave and Broadway. Many of our students and teachers bike or walk to school. While there is a 2‐way stop sign on Bissell Ave, there are no stop signs on Broadway which leads to a lot of speeding traffic. Very often cars go by at 50+mph.
Additionally, the turn from Bissell Ave onto Broadway is also a "blind" turn, it is very difficult for cars to safely make a left turn onto Broadway and there are regularly near collisions with both cars and bikes. Personally I have witnessed 2 vehicle collisions at that intersection in the past 6 months. It would be wonderful to have a 4‐way stop sign or roundabout to help the flow of traffic.
Please let me know if there is another way we can get involved to improve the safety of this corridor for our community.
Susan Wehrle website Form
I saw a map of plans to improve biking in Richmond on McBryde to Wildcat Park. We are a biking family in the neighborhood and DO HOPE this can come to fruition. I want to be safe on my bike, I want everyone to have this opportunity. Also, our family has ADA needs, and so many curbs in our ‘hood are not compliant. Let’s make Richmond safer for all, including children, families out for a walk, bike riders, wheelchair users, people with dogs, and others. Car drivers would be safer if they slowed down as well. Traffic calming for better health for all!
Michael Peritz website Form
Just became aware of the project (11/8/22); forgive ignorance; will go deeper but have questions/concerns:
What can be done to improve safety for bikes and pedestrians along the trails we already have? There are many problems that exist under BART between Macdonald and EC Plaza that do not exist from there southward. How do we encourage people and make them feel more comfortable using the Baxter Creek east/west trail to the Bay? How do we convince Marinites who depend on Eastbay labor to build safe bicycle infrastructure starting at their end of the San Rafael Bridge? How do we convince them to envision the future and keep the bike lane on the bridge? What San Pablo Avenue improvements/accommodations for bike riders and pedestrians will be included for the growing popularity of electric bikes, trikes, carts, etc.?
Where are there models/best practices/ designs worldwide where bikes, scooters, skateboards, pedestrians, etc. outnumber cars and trucks?
Public Comments on BPAP
Butler W Baylis
The sidewalk along the Garrard side of the Plunge that is now a bicycle path + a sidewalk I feel needs some signage on the sidewalk itself to alert pedestrians that cycles will be legally on the sidewalk .
RNCC Email from staff
Comments were around the RNCC’s request that BPAP have outreach tailored to the business community. We’d like to discuss adding that component with any remaining funding.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
This is one of the most, if not the most trafficked intersections in Richmond. It's a commercial block with transit stops. The pedestrian striping is non‐existent.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
San Pablo Ave. is a High Injury street but there are no corresponding high priority pedestrian safety improvements in the pedestrian safety prioritization listing (Table 10)
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments Table 10 seems like it shoul d be labeled as as "Pedestrian Projects" instead of bicycle projects.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
There are bike "spot" projects show in purple dots on the map that don't have numbers associated with them, and some that are above the ending #105 project in this table. I'd like to know what these proposed projects are. Thank you.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
Redo, There are spot projects in East Richmond that aren't numbered on the map that therefore are likely not in this table, and also projects that are numbered higher than the ending #105 in this table, thus don't yet show up either.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
McBryde from San Pablo Ave. to Alvarado Park is a High Priority bicycle (and pedestrian) improvements. Richmond residents from across the city use this street to get to this popular park that the Local Road Safety Plan shows is currently also a high injury area. Please include McBryde as a high priority bicycle safety improvement area.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
Solano is both a fast and busy street with a very steep section and with cars parked along the curb. This can be a difficult street for bicycling, even with a proposed IIB bike lane. Neighbors and bicyclists would need to be consulted on using this street as a major bike route.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
Clinton has steep sections, and a blind corner at the twist in the road halfway up at Yuba. This may be a decent option to get to Arlington, but the blind twist in the road is a problem going up hill if there is a vehicle coming up from behind.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
McBryde should be a High Priority street for bicycle (pedestrian) improvements. People from across the city access Alvarado Park on McBryde from San Pablo Ave. to the Park, but there have been injuries here.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments McBryde should be a High Pri ority bicycle proejct.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments McBryde should be a High Pri ority bicycle project.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments McBryde should be a High Pri ority bicycle project.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments McBryde should be a High Pri ority Bicycle project.
Public Comments on BPAP
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments McBryde should be a High Pri ority bicycle project.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
Because people from all Richmond neighborhoods travel to commercial corridors also, high injury areas and accompanying priority pedestrian safety projects need to go beyond the neighborhood level to where people shop, too. Residents from all neighborhoods have occasion to walk and ride commercial services on San Pablo Avenue. Despite its recognition as a High Injury area, this report currently lacks any high priority pedestrian safety projects along San Pablo Avenue. Please add a table the ranks all projects on their strictly on their safety value to all residents traveling across the city. Please include needed high priority safety projects on San Pablo Avenue.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
Because people from all Richmond neighborhoods travel to commercial corridors also, high injury areas and accompanying priority pedestrian safety projects need to go beyond the neighborhood level to where people shop, too. Residents from all neighborhoods have occasion to walk and ride commercial services on San Pablo Avenue. Despite its recognition as a High Injury area, this report currently lacks any high priority pedestrian safety projects along San Pablo Avenue. Please add a table the ranks all projects on their strictly on their safety value to all residents traveling across the city. Please include needed high priority safety projects on San Pablo Avenue.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
Less expensive measures, such as striping that is estimated to cost $4k can and should be considered first at numerous dangerous intersections. More expensive $400k “islands” etc. that take a lot of time to design, bid, and construct. Please ADD a second table that is ranked by least expensive high priority pedestrian projects to most expensive high priority ones.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments #27 is a dot at McBryde on t he map above.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments A quick scan of Table 10 bel ow has no information on project #120 Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
Pedestrian safety improvement needed at the at San Pablo and McBryde Intersection. This is a retail corridor and a recognized High Injury street with residents from across Richmond parking and crossing busy San Pablo. The pedestrian crossing lines are badly eroded. A higher level pedestrian safety crossing measure is needed here.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
Pedestrian safety improvement needed at the at San Pablo and Solano intersection. This is a commercial corridor and a recognized High Injury street with residents from across Richmond parking and crossing busy San Pablo Ave. The pedestrian crossing lines are badly eroded.
A higher level safety crossing measure is needed here.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback & Comments
Pedestrian safety improvement needed at the at San Pablo and Barrett Intersection. This is a busy commercial corridor and recognized High Injury street with residents from across Richmond parking and crossing busy San Pablo. The pedestrian crossing lines are badly eroded. A higher level safety crossing measure is needed here.
Trevor Rice PDF ‐ Feedback This portion of the Richmond Wellness Trail has already been completed.
Trevor Rice PDF ‐ Feedback
16th St. between Macdonald Ave and the Richmond Greenway is a designated Bike Boulevard w/ accompanying signage & lane markings, per the Richmond Wellness Trail Vision.
Trevor Rice PDF ‐ Feedback
9th St. from Nevin to the Richmond Greenway is envisioned as a Bicycle Boulevard in the Richmond Wellness Trail Vision Plan. Bike lanes may be an improvement but should be checked to ensure the other pedestrian safety and road calming measures envisioned in the plan aren't excluded due to width needed for bike lanes.
Public Comments on BPAP
Anonymous PDF ‐ Feedback to
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Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Should be Tewksbury Ave end.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback
Add Richmond Wellness Trail on Marina Way South between Cutting and Lucretia Edwards Park. This SF Bay Trail multi‐use trail, not a bicycle project.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Upgrade of Harbour Way South & Wrigh t Ave. intersection Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Add upgrade of Harbour Way South & W right Avenue intersection & BNSF RR grade crossing.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Add medium priority to close multi‐u se Bay Trail gap on south side of San Pablo Creek between Richmond Parkway and Landfill Loop Trail Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback
There is a gap in the planned multi‐use SF Bay Trail on the south side of San Pablo Creek between the Richmond Parkway and the Landfill Loop Trail.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback
Richmond Parkway to Fred Jackson Way: Show dotted line, planned but incomplete Class I Trail on south side of San Pablo Creek as in City and County General Plans and Countywide Bike & Ped Plan.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Brickyard Cove Road from Dornan Driv e to Seacliff Drive: Show existing Class I Trail.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Hensley/Gertrude Realignment on west ern side of Castro St: Show to replace existing Bay Trail route per info provided to Lydia Elias Ryan Booth PDF ‐ Feedback
Make the Bay Trail on the Richmond‐San Rafael Bridge permanent, and improve connections through Richmond. This an essential piece of infrastructure for Bay Area, and a much needed connection for providing transportation choices for all residents.
Philip Rosenthal PDF ‐ Feedback
I was appalled that this major presentation was breezed over in ten minutes at 11:15 at the end of a five hour meeting, Please provide a list of neighborhood council meetings, this i sthe first many of us have heard of this.
This website, with its complicated and illegible maps, which can't be expanded to show our neighborhoods, are not helpful in gaining feedback from communities who are aware of their own specific needs and dangers.
If using an interactive website requires a complicated tutorial and is glitchy, how can you consider this open and public feedback. It seems as though only a few people, all with a slant toward bike lanes at any cost, have figured this out.
Until mid‐October, we couldn't even find this plan posted on this website.
A project of this nature deserves an earnest outreach by mail notification by the city and posting on social media.
The taxpayers deserve to help design this plan based on their knowledge of issues in their own neighborhoods, Philip Rosenthal PDF ‐ Feedback This map can't be expanded enough for us to comment on our neighborhood needs and feedback.
Philip Rosenthal PDF ‐ Feedback Why wasn't this website aggressiv ely promoted if this was the main source of feedback Edith Alderette PDF ‐ Feedback
Wait... Whaaa? First, Tewksbury already has a separated and dedicated bike lane. Second, are you building through the railroad tracks? Because your line as plotted is going through buildings. Third, if you're suggesting a dedicated bike lane down Railroad, you're destroying what little parking is available for visitors and customers to the Point. So you know where they'll park? In front of our homes, where we already don't have enough space for people who live here. Bicycles have zero problem getting to Tewksbury via Park Place, and they go by businesses who need their custom. Please don't fix what isn't broken (or break more what is already going to be pretty jacked up by the Bicycle Coalition plans).
Public Comments on BPAP
Laurie Isenberg PDF ‐ Feedback Thank you for proposing better/saf er routes for walking/biking to BART.
Eli Moore PDF ‐ Feedback
Riding bikes on busy streets like Macdonald or Barret always feel less safe than when there is a bike path on a wide residential street like Clinton. I don't agree with making the bike paths on Macdonald a priority over other ones.
Bruce Beyaert, TRAC
Chair PDF ‐ Feedback
The overall structure of the draft Plan and its exhibits overlooks Richmond’s backbone of multi‐use trails for use by both pedestrians and bicyclists for transportation and recreation. Richmond has about 30 miles of Class I two‐way, multi‐use San Francisco Bay Trail and another 2‐ 1/2 miles of multi‐use Class I Richmond Greenway. Taken together the Bay Trail and Greenway represent the most popular and heavily used walking, running and cycling venues in the City of Richmond. However, they are ignored by draft Plan’s dichotomous approach of separating the plan into bicycle facilities & projects vs. pedestrian facilities & projects. The plan should be revised to explicitly recognize and address Class I multi‐use trails.
Anonymous PDF ‐ Feedback
The report should recommend Priority Multi‐use Trail Projects. Class I multi‐use Class I trails should be added to the maps, which currently show only bikeways and refer to bicycle “Class I Shared‐Use Path”. Bay Trail Class I trails are designed, built and operated for use by both peds and cyclists. They are not bicycle “paths” which, by the way, peds are allowed to use.
Bruce Beyaert, TRAC
Chair PDF ‐ Feedback
Class I multi‐use trails should be identified on the map, It shows only bikeways and refers to bicycle “Class I Shared‐Use Path”. Bay Trail Class I trails are designed, built and operated for use by both peds and cyclists. They are not bicycle “paths” which, by the way, peds are allowed to use.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback
Add the existing Class I multi‐use trail on the NORTH side of Meeker Tidal Creek behind BioRad & Richmond Wholesale Meats leading to Regatta Blvd.. Also add planned Class I multi‐use trail connecting this trail to planned S. 46th St. spur trail and S. 51st St. Bay Trail spur as shown on General Plan Map 4.1
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback
Class I multi‐use trails should be identified on the map, It shows only bikeways and refers to bicycle “Class I Shared‐Use Path”. Bay Trail Class I trails are designed, built and operated for use by both peds and cyclists. They are not bicycle “paths” which, by the way, peds are allowed to use.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback
Add the existing Class I multi‐use trail on the NORTH side of Meeker Tidal Creek behind BioRad & Richmond Wholesale Meats leading to Regatta Blvd.. Also add planned Class I multi‐use trail connecting this trail to planned S. 46th St. spur trail and S. 51st St. Bay Trail spur as shown on General Plan Map 4.1
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Shouldn't this be E. Richmond to Can al Blvd.? Best to be Class I multi‐use for peds as well as cyclists.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback
This Class I multi‐use section of Bay Trail is to built next year 2.5 miles from RSR Bridge to Stenmark Drive at Northern end of the City's Point Molate property
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Class II bike lanes need to be resto red on Wright Ave. between Marina Way and Harbour Way South.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Class II bike lanes need to be resto red on Wright Ave. between Marina Way and Harbour Way South.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Class II bike lanes need to be resto red on Wright Ave. between Marina Way and Harbour Way South.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Don't understand what is meant by th ese two Bay Trail extensions.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Not needed. There already is a Class I multi‐use section of Bay Trail along Brickyard Cove Road.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Not clear what is meant by this.
Anonymous PDF ‐ Feedback Fantastic connection!
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Should be Point San Pablo
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Excellent idea.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Class II bike lanes need to be rest ored on Wright Ave. between Marina Way and Harbour Way South.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Sidewalks needed on Wright Ave. betw een Marina Way and Harbour Way South.
Public Comments on BPAP
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Sidewalks needed on Wright Ave. betw een Marina Way and Harbour Way South.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Sidewalks needed on Wright Ave. betw een Marina Way and Harbour Way South.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback
Make red high priorioty, the 2.5 miles of Class I Bay Trail to be built by EBRPD and the City in 2023 between the RSR Bridge Trail and the northern border of the City's Point Molate property at Stenmark Drive.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Add Medium Priority the planned Clas s I Bay Trail section between Marina Bay Parkway and Landfill Loop Trail.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Male High Priority Wellness Trail ph ase 2 between Cutting Blvd. and Lucretia Edwards Park.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Male High Priority Wellness Trail ph ase 2 between Cutting Blvd. and Lucretia Edwards Park.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Add Medium Priority the Bay Trail se ction on SOUTH side of San Pablo Creek between Richmond Parkway and Landfill Loop Trail.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback Add High Priority Richmond Wellness Trail phase 2 between Cutting and Edwards Park.
Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Feedback High Priority for Richmond Wellness Trail phase 2 between Cutting and Edwards Park.
Anonymous PDF ‐ Feedback Bravo! Much needed connection between th e heart of Richmond and Wildcat! Anonymous PDF ‐ Feedback considered
Sidonia PDF ‐ Feedback
I would feel safer biking on 24th St. rather than 23rd St. and also some type of vehicle volume reduction on 24th St. would make biking more comfortable.
Earlene Gordon PDF ‐ Feedback
The pedestrian walkway crossing San Pablo Ave at San Pablo Ave & Barrett, Richmond is a very busy one. It needs to be updated because it is in poor condition. Many users are either very young or seniors or the the seemingly inattentive unhoused. These citizens are more subject to stumbling and/or falling. The present state of the walkway presents a hazard.
Cristina Gámez PDF ‐ Feedback
Quería comentar una calle muy transitada y no tiene zona peatonal ni marcada de líneas blancas o amarillas no hay una luz de cruzar el peatón y es una escuela cerca que necesitamos que pongan señalización necesaria y urgente para la protección de nuestros estudiantes , e spa calle 28 y Macdonald ave. A la par de la iglesia San Cornelius , porfavor es urgente e indispensable por la seguridad de los niños ! Gracias .
[I wanted to comment on a very busy street and it does not have a pedestrian area or marked with white or yellow lines, there is no pedestrian crossing light and it is a school nearby that we need to put up necessary and urgent signage for the protection of our students, e spa calle 28 and Macdonald ave. Next to the San Cornelius church, please, it is urgent and essential for the safety of the children! Thanks .] Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
San Pablo Ave. is a High Injury street but there are no corresponding high priority pedestrian safety improvements in the pedestrian safety prioritization listing (Table 10)
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback Table 10 seems like it should be labele d as as "Pedestrian Projects" instead of bicycle projects.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
There are bike "spot" projects show in purple dots on the map that don't have numbers associated with them, and some that are above the ending #105 project in this table. I'd like to know what these proposed projects are. Thank you.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
Redo, There are spot projects in East Richmond that aren't numbered on the map that therefore are likely not in this table, and also projects that are numbered higher than the ending #105 in this table, thus don't yet show up either.
Public Comments on BPAP
Nick Despota PDF ‐ Feedback A pedestrian crossing button and ligh t are necessary at San Pablo Ave at Solano Ave. This is a heavily used pedestrian crossing location.
Nick Despota PDF ‐ Feedback
The intersection of San Pablo Ave and Solano Ave is frequently used by pedestrians and cyclists. We would like to have a working button on the lamp posts on either side of the street to activate the stop light.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
McBryde from San Pablo Ave. to Alvarado Park is a High Priority bicycle (and pedestrian) improvements. Richmond residents from across the city use this street to get to this popular park that the Local Road Safety Plan shows is currently also a high injury area. Please include McBryde as a high priority bicycle safety improvement area.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
Solano is both a fast and busy street with a very steep section and with cars parked along the curb. This can be a difficult street for bicycling, even with a proposed IIB bike lane. Neighbors and bicyclists would need to be consulted on using this street as a major bike route.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
Clinton has steep sections, and a blind corner at the twist in the road halfway up at Yuba. This may be a decent option to get to Arlington, but the blind twist in the road is a problem going up hill if there is a vehicle coming up from behind.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
McBryde should be a High Priority street for bicycle (pedestrian) improvements. People from across the city access Alvarado Park on McBryde from San Pablo Ave. to the Park, but there have been injuries here.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
Because people from all Richmond neighborhoods travel to commercial corridors also, high injury areas and accompanying priority pedestrian safety projects need to go beyond the neighborhood level to where people shop, too. Residents from all neighborhoods have occasion to walk and ride commercial services on San Pablo Avenue. Despite its recognition as a High Injury area, this report currently lacks any high priority pedestrian safety projects along San Pablo Avenue. Please add a table the ranks all projects on their strictly on their safety value to all residents traveling across the city. Please include needed high priority safety projects on San Pablo Avenue.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
Because people from all Richmond neighborhoods travel to commercial corridors also, high injury areas and accompanying priority pedestrian safety projects need to go beyond the neighborhood level to where people shop, too. Residents from all neighborhoods have occasion to walk and ride commercial services on San Pablo Avenue. Despite its recognition as a High Injury area, this report currently lacks any high priority pedestrian safety projects along San Pablo Avenue. Please add a table the ranks all projects on their strictly on their safety value to all residents traveling across the city. Please include needed high priority safety projects on San Pablo Avenue.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
Less expensive measures, such as striping that is estimated to cost $4k can and should be considered first at numerous dangerous intersections. More expensive $400k “islands” etc. that take a lot of time to design, bid, and construct. Please ADD a second table that is ranked by least expensive high priority pedestrian projects to most expensive high priority ones.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback #27 is a dot at McBryde on the map abov e.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback A quick scan of Table 10 below has no i nformation on project #120 Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
Pedestrian safety improvement needed at the at San Pablo and McBryde Intersection. This is a retail corridor and a recognized High Injury street with residents from across Richmond parking and crossing busy San Pablo. The pedestrian crossing lines are badly eroded. A higher level pedestrian safety crossing measure is needed here.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
Pedestrian safety improvement needed at the at San Pablo and Solano intersection. This is a commercial corridor and a recognized High Injury street with residents from across Richmond parking and crossing busy San Pablo Ave. The pedestrian crossing lines are badly eroded.
A higher level safety crossing measure is needed here.
Public Comments on BPAP
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Feedback
Pedestrian safety improvement needed at the at San Pablo and Barrett Intersection. This is a busy commercial corridor and recognized High Injury street with residents from across Richmond parking and crossing busy San Pablo. The pedestrian crossing lines are badly eroded. A higher level safety crossing measure is needed here.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
San Pablo Avenue should be included in the HIGH PRIORITY list. It is THE MOST dangerous street for cyclists and pedestrians to travel along or cross.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
I recommend changing AT LEAST 3 major intersections across San Pablo to HIGH PRIORITY. Walking in this area is really dangerous. My priorities include MacDonald, Barrett, Roosevelt, Garvin, McBride.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
PLEASE change intersections along San Pablo Avenue from med priority to HIGH PRIORITY and ADD Barrett and MacDonald. (NOTE: I posted this same comment but was zoomed in while posting so it appears in the wrong area.) Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback The San Pablo corridor is among t he busiest and most dangerous in Richmond yet the plan does not appear to focus improvements here.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
Recommend adding spot improvements at Barrett/San Pablo, as well as MacDonald/San Pablo. Since San Pablo was JUST resurfaced, I have not yet seen what pedestrian safety features are planned. At the VERY LEAST, freshly painted high visibility crosswalks should be included.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
A number of new businesses have opened on San Pablo Ave. between Clinton and Solano and that area is likely to see increased cycling and pedestrian traffic. I recommend making San Pablo a HIGH PRIORITY improvement area.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback San Pablo Avenue should be includ ed in the HIGH PRIORITY improvement list.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
San Pablo Avenue should be included on the HIGH PRIORITY project list. (NOTE: duplicate comment to one posted in the wrong place on map.)
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
A mere glance at this priority map shows a lack of consideration for San Pablo Avenue, one of the busiest streets in Richmond. I am perplexed by this oversight.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
Not really sure where this comments belongs but on the topic of pedestrian improvements and public art, the beautiful mural under i80 overpass at San Pablo and Roosevelt is BADLY in need of a refresh. I believe the artist (John Wehrle) submitted a proposal to update the mural and THAT would go a long way toward improving the pedestrian experience.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
I recommend continuing the Class IV Separated Bikeway ALL along Marina Way (from the Ferry terminal all the way to the Bart station) instead of becoming a Class II Bicycle lane 4 blocks before Bart? Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
Thank you for including and considering our comments. Some GREAT information in this report regarding cycling and pedestrian traffic diagrams/terminology/rules. I will keep for future reference.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback
Thank you for including and considering our comments. Some GREAT information in this report regarding cycling and pedestrian traffic diagrams/terminology/rules. I will keep for future reference.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Feedback Was this plan reviewed by members of and/or representatives for the disabled community? Public Comments on BPAP
Ken McCroskey PDF ‐ Feedback
A separate bike facility on Pierce St. is excellent and matches well with needs identified just over the border in Albany where there's a concentrated population in condo towers. Not addressed are barriers to getting from Pierces Street and the Pacific East Mall area to BART, San Pablo, and points East and SE of Albany Hill. Adams is a regional bike route, linking north to Carlson and south via Jackson through UC Village and on to the 9th Street Bekerkley Bikeway.
A bike/ped bridge to Adams Street in Albany across Cerrito Creek and an improved trail along Cerrito Creek could help a lot. Crossing Cerrito Creek at Santa Clara or Yosemite and connecting to Adams could provide a calmer, all‐ages and abilities connection, especially if connected to Carlson via an improved intersection at Lassen. This would provide an alternative for bikes and peds away from the congested San Pablo/Carlson intersection and hard Carlson turn. + encourage bikes off the sidewalk at the SP/C intersection.
Anonymous PDF ‐ Feedback Fantastic recommendations here! Anonymous PDF ‐ Feedback Wish the connection with Alvarado Park w as via protected bike lanes Bruce Beyaert PDF ‐ Comment This comment should be moved to corre ct location.
Edith Alderette PDF ‐ Comment Agreed. This map is inadequate and the map is not detailed enough to see what they're suggesting.
Yvette Schopp PDF ‐ Comment
There is a school on 28th & MacDonald that has a crosswalk that is very dangerous to cross. Both kids and adults that attend Voices Academies cross it during the weekday and Church goes from St. Ignatius Church on the weekend. I am suggesting we add to the priority list this intersection to make that crosswalk safer for community members to cross.
Jim Hanson PDF ‐ Comment
This is one of the most, if not the most trafficked intersections in Richmond. It's a commercial block with transit stops. The pedestrian striping is non‐existent.
Citizen PDF ‐ Comment San Pablo at Barret is a mess. I don't feel safe on any corner waiting to cross.
Nick Despota PDF ‐ Comment Pedestrians and cyclists often cross S an Pablo at Solano Ave. Can we have a button to activate the stop light here? Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Comment Agree with Jim that the San Pablo corridor needs to be included in all high priority cycling and pedestrian improvement recommendations.
Mary Lou Herlihy PDF ‐ Comment
I completely agree with Jim's comment. This plan seems not to recognize the significance of San Pablo Avenue as a major cycling and pedestrian corridor. I frequently walk from my home on Key Blvd. to businesses on or across San Pablo Avenue. SAFER, well planned, well lit and marked intersections, are desperately needed all along San Pablo Avenue.
Shelley Trask PDF ‐ Comment
Agree. It is very dangerous to cross San Pablo Ave on foot, particularly at the intersection of San Pablo & Nevin, to get to the Transbay bus station. Cars do not stop for pedestrians at all there.
Shelley Trask PDF ‐ Comment
In addition to San Pablo, Key Blvd is a major bicycle and car thoroughfare. The addition of stop signs at Barrett and MacDonald were very helpful, but we are experiencing an increase in donuts and sideshows at the corner of Key & Barrett, as well as people blowing through the stops. Neighbors are asking for a traffic circle to deter this behavior. It would be amazing to get speed bumps installed. I am often unable to cross the street due to heavy traffic during commute hours.
Public Comments on BPAP
Sarah Hannah PDF ‐ Comment
I agree and would like to note that there are no speed limit signs along Solano Ave from Amador through 38th. Frequent speeding along Solano Ave makes this stretch particularly dangerous and unfriendly to cyclists and pedestrians.
Maurice Tierney PDF ‐ Comment Calming of McBryde would do wonders for the neighborhood and the park.
Business Community
meeting (RCOC/COI) During meeting
Key Takeaway: Continue the public engagement process during implementation of capital improvement projects with the business community and the community who are impacted by the construction (I.e. those within 300 feet of the location). Connect with other jurisdictions and regionally for proposed areas of work that are near city jurisdiction lines.