Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordination Committee Meeting   4/21/2022

I don't know if you want to go around and provide some introduction.

I work for the Rideshare Program.

Thanks, Sara.

I think, I'm not sure we have a new Amanda Ponce yet, so I'm kind of just keeping an eye on stuff from that level and portrayals.

Looks like James is on the call.

And as Jack noted, we are, we have a new position in the most recently adopted budget for a transportation planner position, which will also absorb the responsibilities of the bike ped coordinator position.

If you can't tell, I'm also a little under the weather today, so I'm gonna keep my camera off.

So good morning.

Nice to meet you, Thomas.

Okay.

Nice to meet you.

And I guess there's Miss Lucinda Shannon and also Michael Barnes from VDOT.

So I'm listening to Shannon with the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission.

Oh, come on, man.

Can everyone see my GIS screen?

I can see the map, right?

I don't know if anyone has any questions about the map or the MPO or PDC projects.

Did we hear anything more on the river bridge?

But yeah, Chris, if there's anything specific about that, I'll try to see if I can answer.

For resolutions needed, I guess, the powers that be would want you to know that soon to get it on an agenda.

Can you guys hear me?

Yes, Michael.

We sort of had a brief conversation about that with Jeanette last week.

As long as y'all provide it, we can wedge it into that resolution that we were looking for for 5th Street.

OK.

Jessica, anything from the county regarding SMART SCALE?

No, I think we've gone over the details of our SMART SCALE projects before, so I won't do that again, but I'm happy to take any questions if people have questions.

And Jessica, what were your four projects submitted?

That's going to be a roundabout, and it's going to include a pedestrian crossing across 250 to ensure that people from the Old Trail development can access Western Albemarle High School.

I was kind of curious to see if those were, in fact, those projects.

No problem.

If you all want to take

The Three Notch'd Trail group was such an instrumental part of pulling together that application, so I want to publicly say thank you and also just give you the opportunity if there's anything you wanted to add.

and you know he really wants to dive in and learn more about the Three Notch history as well as this project specifically so we're excited and hopefully we get it and we don't have to worry about doing it again but yeah so it was it was a good process and like Jessica said all that material that we compiled can be used for other endeavors in the future as well

It's a different line of funding, but it'd be cool if it all came together at the same time.

So if you know the history of that whole area, that was kind of cool to hear about.

So yeah.

All right, well, thank you for that update.

Ryan, you mind if I share my screen for a second?

This is coming up.

I can.

Yes.

So that's what the FLAP grant that Dwayne's working on right now, FYI.

You all envisioned with that connector from Skyline Drive to the AT, but I know the ATC would have a lot of questions, I guess, about that, what that would look like.

But I'll let Wayne deal with that.

Thanks, Michael.

And the city, I don't know if you all are in a position right now to discuss your OP initiative.

That one may go to construction.

That's not where I would imagine.

I don't know what Jack and James might have.

I don't have anything to add right now.

Yeah, from a trail standpoint, nothing to report.

Are there any efforts to do follow-up bike ped counts on your trails?

And when a new person comes online in terms of the bike lanes and stuff, but I'll check all the trail stuff maybe in the next couple of weeks and submit the data back around.

Jack, Chris, any thoughts on where I could get the info for the city portion?

I'm just not sure what's the missing link right now.

So maybe I'll try to reach out to him, as well as Mr. Becker in the county.

But so the better armed I am or equipped with information of what the goal is here, the better I can probably motivate that completion.

So there may be some value in just having at least those files sent over for your IT folks to look at.

And so is there a higher level outline of what this is supposed to look like or how comprehensive it's supposed to be?

Peter, from your institutional knowledge, can you enlighten me and...

But I also think Mark might, like a simple phone call to Mark, might yield a simple answer back from Mark.

If you don't mind, let me take a quick stab at that.

Go ahead.

Does that make sense?

But yeah, I think that's doable.

A request that's not well-defined is probably going to maybe not yield the best returns from them.

I don't want to skip over that.

It's just, it would be easier if there was a formal conceptualization of what we're trying to achieve, then we could push this through the system and get needed necessary staff to vet this data.

That level of like conceptual has sidewalk, is planning to have sidewalk, I think is a big step forward for us already.

I'm assuming that's associated with what just popped up here in the chat.

OK.

But I don't know if you had anything that you wanted to share or Lucinda, if there were anything that you'd like to share with the group.

She's been spearheading a lot of that.

And that's, that's all.

We're looking to get those printed probably starting next week, but we can certainly run additional printing of them if we need more, so.

Anyone have any questions for Sara or Lucinda?

Is that gonna start in May?

We're gonna shift kind of our standard radio ad to promote clean commute.

I'll help you get the word out about that.

So thank you.

I'll put it in the chat.

Any members of the public, either the producer, Thomas, do you have anything you want to share with the group?

still designated for recreation besides just putting a bikes on road sign.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, I didn't know if you had anything you wanted to share.

Looking forward to it.

I will be there as well, Thomas.

It sounds exciting, but I hope I get to it.

It was all done on short notice, but now if we have a year to plan out what my day Charlottesville Bike Festival looked like, maybe it could be quite interesting.

That was awesome.

Peter, did you say that the organizers were going to be at that meeting on Monday?

Yeah, they're part of the Mobility Alliance.

And I think there's some crossover there.

Faces have started the same thing.

Thanks, guys.

Cheers.