Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee Meeting   10/1/2026

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And I think that contributes to making me better.

I'm Jen Fleischer, I live in Belmont, I come to Beecapac because I get to vote on all of that advocacy and it keeps me more informed and connected to what we're working on on multiple levels and because I like everybody who comes here and it makes it nice to hang out in a dark basement.

Really why you gotta answer it.

What time does that happen and where?

Last week we went to Wayside Chicken.

I come to be back because active transportation is good for our health, our city, and the planet.

I'm interested in learning how I can support a more sustainable, walkable, human-scaled environment.

Real quick, Peter, is Meredith coming that you know of?

She needs someone to take notes.

I'm taking notes.

Oh, the brain trust.

You guys were all born before.

So being here is a real treat for my job.

I live in the Martha Jefferson neighborhood and I want to make this city more bike and walk than that.

and I am here first of all to introduce myself to everybody because this is my first feedback meeting but also to learn how we can serve the city better.

I don't want to go in there.

Josh is here.

And I came to the meeting today to talk a little bit about the work my team does and learn a little bit more about what you all are looking for from not only my team, but the city, get some good engagement around the things I'm learning.

And I come because I regularly walk and cycle around town and I don't feel safe doing it with us.

I've lived here for a hundred years.

I want to see how people make decisions here in the city and maybe get some inspiration on my transportation research.

I'm also here at the class.

But fundamentally, yeah, I'm here because, yeah, the mission is good and it's exciting to see how the

I'm really into sustainability and participative planning, so I'm excited to see how that impacts the building.

Hi, my name is Patushi.

I'm a PhD student in UVA's history program, and I'm interested in urban history, infrastructure planning, so excited to be here.

I'm a master's student in UVA's urban environmental planning program.

We're really interested to see how my PhD history and infrastructure are going to be discussed.

I'm also an undergraduate Urban Planning student at UVA with Professor Manstein, which by extension means I'm very interested in transportation.

Awesome.

Amendments to the agenda and meeting minutes.

I would like to propose an amendment to spend five minutes on the project update in five minutes discussing our options to respond to Kelsey Day's urgent request for a safer intersection near her house.

Although just this morning, she met with Kyle on site.

And Peter Olms was at that meeting.

So maybe Peter could give us a quick update on that.

At a later time or right now?

All right, public comments.

We're related to Locust Avenue, bike and pedestrian and traffic calming.

Well, what's happening outside your house right now?

I wasn't sure if that was a leading question.

No.

I don't know if that was me just noticing it or if it did happen.

We can move on.

I'm just going to continue to follow up and I probably will end up pinging more of you about the follow-up of my follow-up.

Sorry, it's fine.

So if you go to connect Charlottesville or connect Seaville, Google that and it'll come up.

Seavilleebike.com.

and tell your friends.

Do we do announcements during this session?

No, that comes at the end.

If you're a counselor.

That was my public comment.

That was my public comment.

I had other announcements I wanted to throw in.

I didn't know if we were doing that now.

Any other takers for public, in case people have to leave any feedback from our student friends?

Maybe not involving pedestrians though.

Maybe involving a railroad bridge.

uh and again and I think economic in terms of like economic benefits in terms of like people's lives I don't see any argument not doing it so yeah cheers yeah thank you for your comment I can make one quick

Nothing drastic, but some improvements on the brick and bumping out some bump outs essentially to I think reduce the crosswalk.

So we're going to have to figure out how to balance those and that's going to be a fun challenge.

Can I add one quick thing too?

One quick thing.

So maybe that's one example where UVA could be a partner in the future.

Fingers crossed.

So I'm mentioning this one.

Okay.

Thanks, Peter.

But I think that that was those are my takeaways that it should be doable to put in some flex posts and stop cars from driving around school buses on the right as the school buses letting kids off into the area where the cars are driving.

So Kyle will continue working with our traffic engineer to see how that needs to be designed and then work with public service to figure out how we can get it out in the fastest way possible.

And there were some quick build improvements at that spot.

Summit and sunrise.

These up, Zahara, can you hear us okay?

Great.

You should have that capability and we welcome your contributions.

Is it okay to ask questions?

This is the time, Henry.

I haven't heard of an idea of a plan for the whole thing.

So you just heard me say to YY, we're doing a mobility plan.

Okay, so that's part of the mobility plan.

We're going to bring in some fancy consultants to help us figure that out.

What you're saying is important though because if you're saying you're crossing Monticello at Rialto and you're having problems that's where the city has already built the curb extensions that we would sort of be talking about building at the other site so that's that's part of my fear is we do this and then it still doesn't help.

It's on the other side that I have trouble because I live over there.

So you're not going to walk across and then across.

and then Avon we feel separated from just downtown even though it's not doesn't seem that big it's like monumental just across Avon and so I mean I just think from a from just the idea of a of knitting the city back together you need to reevaluate these roads these strodes really yeah absolutely sorry

Do we have an answer on what happened there?

And well, at Roosevelt Brown, I think it was Josh that sent me the picture.

Was it my Seville or was it to you?

I don't know why they painted it that way, but we're going to find out.

Can we, like, will these projects ever happen?

When I'm saying the East High, which one?

and the Fifth Street Bikeway.

So the last time we talked about Fifth Street Bikeway, we did talk about that that would be a project that would be implemented next year as part of it.

In the spring, but in the staff update, it's been like punted again.

Yeah, that was the comments from Caleb.

Majeeb was giving me the streetscape update.

Maybe it's the same update that it's always been.

Okay.

Any other questions for staff?

Brennen is the city engineer for people who are... No, he's not.

Oh, sorry, he is the city engineer for two more weeks, and yes, correct.

Josh Carr has his hand up on Zoom.

Okay, go ahead Josh.

So which one is it?

And that's something we're going to have to check with Public Works on because I haven't reviewed them updated.

Thanks.

Anyone else for public comments?

Kyle said he could do it.

If it is an issue around a school, you should talk to the school and Kyle?

I will talk to the school principal about a parking issue.

That's usually the first place to start with an issue on the school.

Zoe is not here, but Ben, the transportation planning manager, is here.

Thanks so much.

Thank you.

Do you want your five minutes?

What stuff do we have coming up this quarter?

Bike valets are a great way to promote people to not drive to special events, but instead potentially bike.

So we're trying to promote it and say, hey, this is an easy thing for you to do to bike to this event.

Do you want to speak on that?

We're not going to go over the bridge, but we'll see it.

Yeah, we'll see it.

Would random bicyclists still be able to go through?

It's a great corridor.

It's also a discussion with CAT to see can we still put buses through that and for the short term the answer is yes but when we talk about the Dairy Road bridge being replaced starting next year the answer is going to be no it doesn't really make sense to route through there anymore so it's a consideration for the short term to make sure we can get that traffic through there but in the long term it's it's not going to be routed through there.

Bike rides on Saturday morning.

But we encourage you to come out tomorrow afternoon and have a good time with us and use our bike valet.

So, yes.

When was the last time we had a director come here?

So with that, Mike, I don't know if you want to just like give us a 30,000 foot view or if there are burning questions in the room, we can start there too.

Feel free to ask me any questions you want, but understand that I've been in the position for two weeks, so you're going to hear a lot of, I don't know, I'll look into it kind of answers, or I'll look at these guys and they'll actually give you the answer.

Any questions for the head of NDS?

Very interesting, yeah.

Paper Streets.

Paper Streets and alleys.

And it's a complicated problem, but it's a good question to ask and it's something that I'm going to be putting a little more effort into sort of figuring out more about.

Go ahead, Josh.

I know everyone's busy but we in the most important document in the city planning process said we would measure the stuff so I kind of want to see it.

to wrangle that process of keeping our metrics up to date and trying to meet them and having accountability for meeting them or not meeting them.

And it's so fortunate that she is right here next to me.

So I will just say that.

So just real quick, we should be able to do an easy job with the bike stuff because we spent all last year mapping our bike facilities and infrastructure.

I'll talk a little bit more about that one day.

Thanks.

So I look forward to blue skies and I will ask for a little more patience.

Yeah, just a quick comment on that theme.

That makes sense.

That's a very good point and it's well noted.

I think that would also help with the clarity.

things may get a little more murky and that's where Jen will be helpful because I think a part of her mission I think a part of her mission is to is to sort of make sure that there's one voice for the city right it's not NDS telling you what's happening with the project it's not public works telling you what's happening with the project it's the city of Charlottesville telling you what's happening with the project and that I think is a huge distinction that

I want to make sure we get to Paul.

I'll try.

Realistic about crossing into each other's silos in order to promote efficiency effectiveness and getting shit done.

But again, I think I think there are very optimistic trends right now, believe it or not.

Our efforts as advocates as not just concrete and, you know, striping and flashing lights and all those good things that we all want and that these guys are going to help us get, but like the kind of behind the scenes, more invisible staffing that's actually required to put those things online.

Someone has to make the sausage.

So I'm happy to be here.

So we're connected at least, you know, in getting more support from because we have a bunch of data scientists and smart students down the street.

But thank you Mikey, thank you for your time.

You guys know what I'm talking about.

Oh, no, I just whispered to her, you did do that.

So how would they complete this major initiative in the spirit of collaboration and communication with other kids?

We recognized that a lot of the community feedback we were getting either folks didn't have enough information when they were giving the community feedback so it wasn't helpful or folks didn't know how to find the right person or were being surprised by a project in their neighborhood and so getting community outreach is super important so people know what's up, where they know where to find information and then also internally so that there's open channels of communication and collaboration.

And I do think like, Mike, moving from Public Works and like having that experience and being able to continue to strengthen the bond between two really critical departments that need to work together is really critical.

Is it a good?

Well, I can call them.

And KPIs, so now departments have KPIs and we're going to start to measure and track them and move around them as well.

Can you say what KPI is?

And so we need to do better there with not only CIP projects, but really all of our plans and our projects that have measures and outcomes and things like that.

And CIP is Capital Improvement Project Program?

And that's actually what Mike was doing a lot of.

Yeah, a lot of transportation projects and also building projects.

Like a great example was

and more.

It's Hendrick J. Charles-Foldeca.

That's a huge thing.

So, yeah.

Okay.

Is there ever going to be a situation where that gets reported on My Seaville and we have a traffic

He is out there constantly.

You might be number two.

it is related to and sometimes it will be like there is a vehicle in the way and that will go to him but if it's um construction it actually goes to public works if it's this thing it goes to whatever and so and i think other goes to me so i'll try to respond in a timely manner but to help route it in the right place but but i'm seeing all of them but then tommy gets them tommy's notified of all of them because he's the bike coordinator so he needs to know about that

And he doesn't have to respond.

And so, BPAC's number one, Tommy.

You're BPAC's number one?

It's like, we have a specific thing for it, but it's, and people are responsive, but like, they're not the right people to get those specific concerns, so how can we route that differently?

Okay.

Or is it like you just can only report things during work hours?

Well, I'll be honest, you can report it anytime you want, but nobody's going to look at it.

Well, no.

Tommy looks at it.

There are categories on there that go to utilities dispatch or no?

And that will detail out things like, you may not notice this, you might be looking for this, this isn't handled in this system here,

The cars park in the evenings.

Nobody works in the evenings.

So Jeremy's working, I mean, he may not be working Saturday, Sunday, but somebody might be able to receive that report.

Yes, they will receive the report, but not everybody works on the weekends.

I've stopped.

Yeah, you can report illegal parking if you want to do that all the time.

and it's awesome.

We're not that advanced here.

It's kind of awesome.

It's 6 21.

Any further questions for Jen or Mike?

Would you like to come on the Saturday morning bike ride?

I would potentially, not this Saturday, because I'm going on vacation tomorrow.

My kids have soccer games, so it's a little bit hard, but if the schedule is right.

I am biking three times on vacation.

is a transportation projects dashboard.

tying that to goals and strategies and plans and all that stuff but it's in the works.

Right.

The county that has a nice dashboard for transportation.

They're quarterly reports by an ISOL student.

I just don't think we've come to a conclusion on that yet.

like facing data but kind of poor analysis.

So that kind of data.

Yeah, so from kind of research point of view, it may be quite useful to have data about like reporting of traffic climbing requests.

We have all of that.

and cursing that with the actual crash data.

Are we, when we do this many traffic calming projects, is it resulting in fewer accidents at this intersection?

I just want to not just regularly publish the data, then there can be many, many people.

Yeah, absolutely.

The close call reports?

The close call reports, we haven't, but we should talk about it.

Yeah, because right now those are coming in through with an email and they're really just like data points for potential project ideas.

BikesEval.com has more info about just rides in general.

And Connects Charlottesville is not just where you can find more information about the E-Bikes LT program, but about what the city's doing all over the place.

Well, maybe you should talk about that.

Thank you.

can serve as officers, James and I are currently co-chairs, so if that's something that appeals to you or you would consider, please give it a think and be ready to toss your hat in the ring for the January meeting.

What other officer positions do you have for the bylaws?

There's chair and vice chair or co-chairs, James and I co-chair, and there's a secretary.

So there will be at least one breakout session.

And Wyla.

I just have a new mailing list.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And yeah, I don't know what to do for now, but it's just more organizing.

So restriping plans are being worked on now by December and then implementation would be in the spring or summer when the roadways are repaved.

There's going to be a lot of stuff in there.

It's pretty complicated.

I just wondered if more details would be emailed about, I think, I'm not remembering his first name, but Apple Yard coming and also just want to throw out that I'm a PVCC student and I think I would be interested.

No, not recording.

They said recording earlier.

We all heard recording in progress.

It's showing recording on my end.

All right.

We're going over it by a couple minutes.

And if you find that it's impossible, that proves an important point about the world we've built.

Yes.

Sure.

Thank you for sharing why you're here.

Ben blew the news about the C3 Award, but I would really love other people.