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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBPC 09-16-2026 Youtube and Zoom TranscriptionWEBVTT 1 00:00:00.060 --> 00:00:02.700 Quinlan Conf Room: Let's get the one, it gets the… 2 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:09.199 Quinlan Conf Room: Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Bicycle and Pedestrian Permission Meeting. 3 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:18.049 Quinlan Conf Room: Today is September 16, 2026, and I call this meeting to order at 7pm, and ask staff to proceed with a roll call, please. 4 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:21.170 Quinlan Conf Room: Chair Erichelbeck? Here. 5 00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:24.010 Quinlan Conf Room: Vice Chair Madhupatla? Yeah. 6 00:00:24.290 --> 00:00:25.690 Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Ganga? 7 00:00:27.400 --> 00:00:29.439 Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Marcy? Here. 8 00:00:30.260 --> 00:00:32.479 Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Wolf? Here. 9 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:34.000 Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Ganga? 10 00:00:34.140 --> 00:00:34.890 Quinlan Conf Room: Here. 11 00:00:36.780 --> 00:00:46.539 Quinlan Conf Room: We can go to the next step. Wonderful, thank you so much. That takes us to the first item on the agenda tonight, which is the approval of the meeting minutes from 12 00:00:46.690 --> 00:00:55.980 Quinlan Conf Room: our August 19, meeting. We have received the draft, Minutes with our packet. 13 00:00:56.310 --> 00:01:03.759 Quinlan Conf Room: And I wanted to see if we have either some comments, clarifications, or a motion to approve. 14 00:01:04.269 --> 00:01:06.190 Quinlan Conf Room: And it's from August 19th. 15 00:01:29.260 --> 00:01:31.690 Quinlan Conf Room: I'll make the motion to approve. 16 00:01:32.220 --> 00:01:42.190 Quinlan Conf Room: August… Commission meeting minutes. Wonderful, thank you. We have a… we have a motion to approve. Do we have a second tonight? A second. 17 00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:47.290 Quinlan Conf Room: In a second, let's do a… Vote on the meeting minutes. 18 00:01:49.020 --> 00:01:58.860 Quinlan Conf Room: for the motion to approve the August 19, 2026 Bicycle Pedestrian Commission minutes. How do you owe Vice Chair… Vice Chair… Chair Richel back? Yes. 19 00:01:59.160 --> 00:02:01.049 Quinlan Conf Room: And Vice Chair Mudiupatla? 20 00:02:01.310 --> 00:02:08.239 Quinlan Conf Room: Commissioner Ganga? Yes. Commissioner Marci? Commissioner Wolf? Yes. Motion passed 5-0. 21 00:02:08.509 --> 00:02:14.640 Quinlan Conf Room: Wonderful, thank you. Do we have any postponements tonight? No postponements. No postponements tonight? 22 00:02:15.150 --> 00:02:26.980 Quinlan Conf Room: This takes us now to our oral communication. Oral communication is reserved for topics and persons wishing to speak on topics that are not on the agenda tonight. 23 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:38.149 Quinlan Conf Room: So anything that's not on the agenda coming forward would be open for discussion. Do we have any oral communications, either online or in person here? 24 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.949 Quinlan Conf Room: We have one remote speaker, Nori. 25 00:02:41.780 --> 00:02:44.309 Quinlan Conf Room: Welcome, Nori. Welcome, Nori. 26 00:02:44.310 --> 00:02:48.310 Nori: Hi. Thank you very much for this opportunity. Can you hear me? 27 00:02:48.760 --> 00:02:50.610 Quinlan Conf Room: Yes, I can. Go ahead, please. 28 00:02:51.010 --> 00:03:00.630 Nori: I'm not so sure if I could speak this issue in this community meeting, or I need to talk to Public Works. 29 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:06.910 Nori: I emailed all of you the photo of the bicycle lane barrier 30 00:03:07.090 --> 00:03:11.239 Nori: Odia, I hope you could look at it. 31 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:22.719 Nori: Those are located in front of the Cupertino Union School District Operations Center on Forest Avenue and the Vista Drive near Lozo Middle School. 32 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:33.689 Nori: There are many concrete barriers on Stevens Creek now. The bicycle lane barrier is great for protecting cyclists. 33 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:44.460 Nori: However, it is hard to… for driver to right turn without hitting or scratching the real right tire. 34 00:03:45.170 --> 00:03:48.559 Nori: I often drive on Stevens Creek. 35 00:03:48.810 --> 00:03:56.200 Nori: put them, choose the waterboard, and turn right at the Blaney Avenue. 36 00:03:56.530 --> 00:04:04.770 Nori: The concrete barrier is low, and we cannot see the sharp edge of the barrier when turned. 37 00:04:05.430 --> 00:04:07.880 Nori: It even hurts at night. 38 00:04:08.230 --> 00:04:14.380 Nori: We have to drive very slowly and drive forward enough to clear the edge. 39 00:04:14.540 --> 00:04:18.890 Nori: Many people ordered a scratch, or even cut the tire. 40 00:04:19.140 --> 00:04:27.849 Nori: There are a black marking on the edge of the barrier already. There are many different barriers in each city. 41 00:04:27.930 --> 00:04:40.329 Nori: The middle big barrier in front of the Cupertino Union School District Operations Center is ideal. It is heavy duty, protect the bike crest. 42 00:04:40.530 --> 00:04:42.950 Nori: And visible for drivers. 43 00:04:43.250 --> 00:04:52.309 Nori: The meadow post should be done on Stevens Creek, like El Camino, In Mountain View. 44 00:04:52.760 --> 00:04:59.969 Nori: Rather than the low, high, low… Concrete, sharp edge barrier. 45 00:05:00.730 --> 00:05:03.260 Nori: Thank you very much for listening. 46 00:05:04.990 --> 00:05:14.360 Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you so much, Nori, for your comment. We will definitely look into this as one of our future upcoming meetings there. Thank you. 47 00:05:15.490 --> 00:05:31.460 Quinlan Conf Room: Any other, oral communication topics tonight? We have no remaining speakers, Chair. Excellent, thank you. That takes us to… I don't think we have any old business, I don't believe so, takes us into new business, which is item number two on the agenda tonight. 48 00:05:31.670 --> 00:05:42.850 Quinlan Conf Room: And the first, this item number two is, around Vision Zero Action Plan. It's the annual report update that I think we're receiving from Matt's presentation tonight. 49 00:05:43.250 --> 00:05:44.569 Quinlan Conf Room: Vision Zero. 50 00:05:44.730 --> 00:05:46.500 Quinlan Conf Room: Alright, update. 51 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:51.869 Quinlan Conf Room: Yes. And once it's set up… 52 00:05:52.300 --> 00:05:55.999 Quinlan Conf Room: Confie, do you think I can subscribe? Yeah. Okay. 53 00:06:05.320 --> 00:06:06.160 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. 54 00:06:07.650 --> 00:06:22.110 Quinlan Conf Room: All right, good evening, Commission. I'm going to be providing an update on the Vision Zero Action Plan. This is the annual report that's, required as part of the Vision Zero Action Plan, which was adopted by Council in 2024. 55 00:06:22.850 --> 00:06:30.649 Quinlan Conf Room: So… The Vision Zero Action Plan has the stated goal of achieving zero, KSIs, so… 56 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:45.570 Quinlan Conf Room: Serious or fatal injuries, killed or serious injury collisions by 2040. In terms of relevant projects or things that have started since the plan's adoption in 2024, 57 00:06:45.570 --> 00:07:01.679 Quinlan Conf Room: Stevens Creek 2A, the Lawson Middle School Bikeway, installing speed radar feedback signs as part of the city's HCIP grant, as well as, putting in high frick surface pavement to just 58 00:07:01.910 --> 00:07:07.210 Quinlan Conf Room: Kind of make it so that vehicles, don't have as many rear-end collisions. 59 00:07:07.670 --> 00:07:24.479 Quinlan Conf Room: We also began development of the Active Transportation Plan, which was a implementable action, included within the Vision Zero Action Plan. And we also, lowered speed limits on McClellan, Blaney, Mary, Bubb, and Prospect Road. 60 00:07:26.960 --> 00:07:34.369 Quinlan Conf Room: So, when the plan was being developed, in order to develop the high-injury Network, you need a 10-year data set, so… 61 00:07:35.250 --> 00:07:42.319 Quinlan Conf Room: Work on the plan began in 2023, which meant that the necessary data was going to be 2012 to 2021. 62 00:07:42.610 --> 00:07:49.970 Quinlan Conf Room: So, this, annual report looks at the years following that 10-year data set. 63 00:07:49.970 --> 00:08:04.190 Quinlan Conf Room: And then due to, kind of a one-year lapse in reporting from the state and making sure that the collision data is QC'd thoroughly, that's why this Vision Zero annual report is coming this year as opposed to last year. 64 00:08:04.430 --> 00:08:09.220 Quinlan Conf Room: So the annual report is supposed to do a couple of things. It's gonna look at, 65 00:08:10.020 --> 00:08:18.320 Quinlan Conf Room: trends, comparing it to what's in the action plan, and then evaluate the city's progress towards achieving that 2040 goal. 66 00:08:19.810 --> 00:08:30.910 Quinlan Conf Room: The main focus, of the plan, again, is those KSIs, so those killed or serious injuries, and here's a high-level overview of how 67 00:08:30.940 --> 00:08:42.710 Quinlan Conf Room: 2022 to 2025, compared to the baseline that's included in the plan. So, for the last few years, we've seen a decrease in injury collisions, a slight increase in KSIs. 68 00:08:42.770 --> 00:08:48.460 Quinlan Conf Room: Our vulnerable roadway users, so our bikes and peds, are… 69 00:08:48.910 --> 00:09:04.360 Quinlan Conf Room: a greater population of those KSIs than they were in the Vision Zero Action Plan. But the KSIs are not as concentrated around the intersections, although injury collisions generally are about the same. 70 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:11.280 Quinlan Conf Room: So, while KSIs at intersections are about 65%, injury collisions are still over 80%. 71 00:09:11.580 --> 00:09:25.760 Quinlan Conf Room: And then, as was the case in the Vision Zero Action Plan, speeding is the primary cause of all collisions, and we'll go into the different primary collision factors for the different roadway users as well. 72 00:09:27.060 --> 00:09:38.300 Quinlan Conf Room: So, just a map here showing collisions by all modes, as well as highlighting where we have those KSIs. So, severe collisions are shown with these crosses. 73 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:47.869 Quinlan Conf Room: Fatalities are shown, with these small circles, gray circles. We had 5 fatalities over the period that we're looking at. 74 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:52.290 Quinlan Conf Room: And we had… 75 00:09:52.370 --> 00:10:11.989 Quinlan Conf Room: kind of a collision pattern that really resembled what was identified as the high injury network. So, what remained true was that Stevens Creek is still the most problematic roadway, and the intersection of Homestead and De Anza, as well as Stevens Creek and De Anza, are the top two intersections. 76 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:33.080 Quinlan Conf Room: So here we are, looking at the reported, collision factor here. This is looking just at the KSIs, which is the focus of the ZRA action plan. Unsafe speed accounted for the most, collisions, then improper turning, and different right-of-way violations. 77 00:10:36.700 --> 00:10:52.600 Quinlan Conf Room: So, as I mentioned, our vulnerable roadway users account for more than 70% of these KSIs. You can see here, 2022, 7 out of 10, 6 out of 7 the following, 5 out of 8, 6 out of 9 this last year. 78 00:10:55.280 --> 00:11:10.470 Quinlan Conf Room: And I know this map is going to be a little kind of challenging, so I'll explain it here. The bicycle heat map that's below the pedestrian heat map is kind of enlarged, so those areas aren't exactly 79 00:11:11.060 --> 00:11:28.770 Quinlan Conf Room: they're shown visually greater than they actually are, just so that you can see them, with the Pedestrian heat map overlaid on top. So you can see, when looking at this, that, you know, the pedestrian collisions kind of map well to where the bike collisions are occurring. So there's 80 00:11:29.100 --> 00:11:49.009 Quinlan Conf Room: a high concentration of both bike and ped collisions here at Stevens Creek and De Anza, as well as at Homestead and De Anza. And then, again, you see just, the frequency of collisions that are occurring along Stevens Creek, from Foothill, all the way to Tantau. 81 00:11:49.190 --> 00:11:56.900 Quinlan Conf Room: The bike collisions, kind of spotty in areas, and because we have about… 82 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:09.779 Quinlan Conf Room: I wanna say 30-ish. What you're looking at here in terms of the intensity of the heat map, these dots really represent a single collision. 83 00:12:10.310 --> 00:12:18.670 Quinlan Conf Room: And then when you get more clusters, so this is about 3 collisions, and the attachment that's in 84 00:12:18.930 --> 00:12:22.990 Quinlan Conf Room: The staff report, has the individual points mapped to them. 85 00:12:23.090 --> 00:12:30.830 Quinlan Conf Room: But the takeaway here is that the locations that are problematic for the bikes tend to also be problematic for the Peds. 86 00:12:34.830 --> 00:12:54.010 Quinlan Conf Room: So, when honing in here and looking at what is actually causing these collisions for different roadway users, bicyclists are more at risk for improper turning, kind of similarly with pedestrians, and this is just now the left side of the all-injury table here, or the column. 87 00:12:54.340 --> 00:12:55.420 Quinlan Conf Room: So… 88 00:12:55.590 --> 00:13:11.180 Quinlan Conf Room: Improper turning accounts for 30% of all the bicycle injuries, and then automobile right-of-way violations, so that would be improper turning, failing to yield to cyclists, and then unsafe speed at 19. 89 00:13:11.650 --> 00:13:15.040 Quinlan Conf Room: Sorry, I don't know. There shouldn't be a decimal there, I was rounding up. 90 00:13:15.630 --> 00:13:30.969 Quinlan Conf Room: And… but interesting, so when you come over here and you look at the KSIs, actually unsaved speed accounts for nearly 70% of the bike KSIs, where it's not really represented over here in the injury collisions, which just goes to show 91 00:13:31.390 --> 00:13:38.479 Quinlan Conf Room: importance of addressing speed when it comes to reducing bicycle KSIs. But improper turning is also present. 92 00:13:38.750 --> 00:13:46.199 Quinlan Conf Room: So, these two collision factors are fairly similar. And then automobile right-way violation. 93 00:13:47.020 --> 00:13:57.070 Quinlan Conf Room: For pedestrians, it's a right-of-way thing again, both for just the injury collisions as well as, the KSIs. 94 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:03.659 Quinlan Conf Room: And then… For the motorists, it's traffic signal and signs. So, 95 00:14:03.970 --> 00:14:06.940 Quinlan Conf Room: Pretty much running red lights, 96 00:14:07.060 --> 00:14:16.569 Quinlan Conf Room: Not yielding when they should, and then unsafe speed, so traveling too fast, rear-ending vehicles is a common collision. 97 00:14:19.750 --> 00:14:35.689 Quinlan Conf Room: But again, as you can see here on the KSIs, we had 12 KSIs for bikes, 12 KSIs for heads, and then 10 for motorists, which just highlights that our vulnerable roadway users are over-representative… are overrepresented in the share of KSIs. 98 00:14:38.580 --> 00:14:44.140 Quinlan Conf Room: then looking at the Vision Zero Action Plan's High Injury Network, 99 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:53.579 Quinlan Conf Room: it remains relevant. This is just the KSIs, not our collisions here, so most of the KSIs occurred at Steam Creek. 100 00:14:53.600 --> 00:15:07.210 Quinlan Conf Room: They occurred on De Anza and at Homestead. Really, the Homestead and De Anza Boulevard intersection has a high concentration of these, as well as the Stevens Creek and De Anza intersection. 101 00:15:10.620 --> 00:15:17.389 Quinlan Conf Room: So, one thing I wanted to highlight here, in addition to, kind of… 102 00:15:17.740 --> 00:15:35.189 Quinlan Conf Room: Meeting the collision data from the state and the sheriff and working to refine that and improve the data collection process. One thing we are beginning to do is look to third-party data sources to kind of better understand where active transportation is actually occurring. 103 00:15:35.190 --> 00:15:41.469 Quinlan Conf Room: One resource that we are gonna be looking at and exploring and referencing is Strava Metro, so… 104 00:15:41.470 --> 00:15:59.429 Quinlan Conf Room: I'm sure all of you are familiar with Strava. Strava Metro is a product that they have available to researchers and local governments, folks that are working on active transportation work, which just makes everyone's activity data visible to those with access to Strava Metro. 105 00:15:59.500 --> 00:16:10.029 Quinlan Conf Room: So, we'll be able to see where our recreational biking trip's happening. It's also broken out, you can't really see down here, but we'll be able to tell, whoops. 106 00:16:11.760 --> 00:16:20.029 Quinlan Conf Room: What day of week being the most recreational cycling? What time during the day, whether or not those trips are logged as commute trips. 107 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:35.040 Quinlan Conf Room: And then kind of look at those maps and piece together common routes, to see, alright, where is cycling greatest in the city, at least recreational cycling, and then how does that relate to what we're seeing in the Vision Zero collision data? 108 00:16:35.040 --> 00:16:52.420 Quinlan Conf Room: So, there's a cycling map here in the lower left, just a screenshot from that platform, and then on the right, we're looking at all of the pedestrian-related activities that have been logged in the city. It's kind of funny, too, you can see over here at Apple that a lot of employees are 109 00:16:52.420 --> 00:16:57.440 Quinlan Conf Room: Logging their… their lunch blocks, so… High intensity there. 110 00:16:59.190 --> 00:17:15.360 Quinlan Conf Room: And then, one thing we're excited about, and it took a while to get there, but we finally executed the contract, and we had purchased a subscription with Streetlight Data, which is kind of the de facto, big data transportation analytics platform that 111 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:19.810 Quinlan Conf Room: Caltrans uses, FHWA, City of San Jose. 112 00:17:19.829 --> 00:17:27.629 Quinlan Conf Room: And what this does is it takes connected vehicle data, historical cell phone data, because they can no longer capture that. 113 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:34.620 Quinlan Conf Room: It also works with third-party vendors that conduct real-world counts, and it kind of allows us to look at, alright. 114 00:17:34.710 --> 00:17:46.049 Quinlan Conf Room: where is speeding occurring? Where are there high incidences of abrupt braking? Where are people beginning their trips? Where are they traveling? So we can create 115 00:17:46.140 --> 00:18:02.329 Quinlan Conf Room: really refine corridors and isolate those, and go, alright, what's speeding look like along this stretch of roadway? Not just the entire segment of roadway, but just a single block, or we can set up a series of gates and try and determine, alright, where is… 116 00:18:03.030 --> 00:18:14.300 Quinlan Conf Room: there's a lot of collisions that are occurring that are listed with the primary collision factor of speeding. What does speeding actually look like on this roadway? So maybe we can make more intelligent decisions about 117 00:18:14.710 --> 00:18:30.220 Quinlan Conf Room: infrastructure improvements along that segment. So, we are going to be relying on this a lot moving forward, and again, we got the contract last week, and are already scheduled with our customer success folks to spin this up. 118 00:18:31.860 --> 00:18:43.709 Quinlan Conf Room: So this is kind of a screenshot I took today that looks at speeding. So I was just here, I set up a very simple gate on Finch Avenue, and you can see there's a lot of metrics and a lot of, 119 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:57.129 Quinlan Conf Room: There's a lot of information here that we can gather that's going to inform how we look at our Vision Zero data in the future. So we get the 85th percentile, we also can look at 5%, 95th percent, what the average is. 120 00:18:57.130 --> 00:19:07.909 Quinlan Conf Room: where speeding is occur… or what those average speeds look like over the course of the day, and this is, something both David and I are very eager to play around with. 121 00:19:10.590 --> 00:19:15.930 Quinlan Conf Room: So the takeaway, there's four takeaways from the annual report this year, and that… 122 00:19:16.290 --> 00:19:31.129 Quinlan Conf Room: Bikes and peds remain our most vulnerable group. They're also overrepresented in our KSIs. Intersections continue to be areas of concern, so looking at those and figuring out how to make the necessary crossing improvements should be 123 00:19:31.260 --> 00:19:38.039 Quinlan Conf Room: An area of focus. Speeding remains prevalent, as well as turning conflicts and right-of-way concerns. 124 00:19:38.110 --> 00:19:54.260 Quinlan Conf Room: And the High Injury Network is kind of a good north star to look at when making decisions, especially the intersections of Stevens Creek and De Anza, and De Anza and Homestead, and Stevens Creek Boulevard, Homestead Road in general. 125 00:19:58.840 --> 00:20:00.610 Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you, Matt. Thank you much. 126 00:20:01.040 --> 00:20:06.640 Quinlan Conf Room: I think, firstly, I wanted to see if there was any clarifying questions from the Commissioners. 127 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:19.060 Quinlan Conf Room: I'm surprised to see, you know, or not to see, Foothills Boulevard, the high-density Netroad. 128 00:20:19.220 --> 00:20:22.670 Quinlan Conf Room: See if you pull up the red line. 129 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:25.620 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, thanks. 130 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:42.919 Quinlan Conf Room: Where was that map? Here we go. No. Yeah, this one. See all those red lines, right? All the major roads, but Foothill and Boulevard is not shown, even though there are a lot of bikers, and also there are two fatalities that occurred there. 131 00:20:44.910 --> 00:20:53.330 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, and the High Injury Network, as I said, was based on that 10-year data set, which was prior to those fatalities, and then so the 132 00:20:54.690 --> 00:21:07.739 Quinlan Conf Room: Had the high injury network been developed following that, Foothill would definitely, have been a high injury network roadway with the way that the network was, so this diagram also shows pre-2024? 133 00:21:07.980 --> 00:21:13.089 Quinlan Conf Room: This is all pre-2024? Yeah, it's 20… 2012 to 2021. 134 00:21:13.870 --> 00:21:21.070 Quinlan Conf Room: because the Vision Zero plan began its development in, I want to say, 2023, 2022. 135 00:21:21.790 --> 00:21:22.820 Quinlan Conf Room: resume. 136 00:21:24.190 --> 00:21:25.139 Quinlan Conf Room: I see. 137 00:21:26.560 --> 00:21:29.609 Quinlan Conf Room: I mean, just to… to slide off my head so that… 138 00:21:30.980 --> 00:21:35.879 Quinlan Conf Room: The red lines that you have shown was from the Vision Zero. 139 00:21:36.280 --> 00:21:48.479 Quinlan Conf Room: Plan. Yes. Right? So that was… that was what the previous 10 years' worth of data. Baseline, there was the baseline. That's the baseline. But then now, whatever you're added, like 2022 to 2025, 140 00:21:48.860 --> 00:21:52.129 Quinlan Conf Room: That one is overlaid on that one, which kind of shows 141 00:21:52.360 --> 00:22:01.269 Quinlan Conf Room: or reiterates the previous high engineering network, probably some additional extension might be worth looking at at some point in the future. 142 00:22:08.420 --> 00:22:13.199 Quinlan Conf Room: So, do you have, like, you know, the street flight data, does it also include 143 00:22:13.550 --> 00:22:16.639 Quinlan Conf Room: Bicycle and Pedestrian counts. 144 00:22:17.050 --> 00:22:22.969 Quinlan Conf Room: So… Estimates, at least, yeah. It does. They have two products, they just… 145 00:22:23.110 --> 00:22:30.650 Quinlan Conf Room: They had a legacy model, which we purchased, because active transportation patterns haven't really change that much. 146 00:22:31.120 --> 00:22:46.730 Quinlan Conf Room: And the quality of that data is a lot greater, because that product was based on cell phone data, and then the federal government intervened and said, hey, you know, you can't take people's location data when they download a chess app. So, they have a new model, but it's at a, 147 00:22:46.980 --> 00:22:56.570 Quinlan Conf Room: It's at a scale that's greater than what's actually useful for us, so we have more granularity with the legacy model, and it kind of breaks it down by, 148 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:15.289 Quinlan Conf Room: five zones where we can see how many trips, how many daily trips are occurring within this zone. So, when you complement that Strava Metro data that actually maps to the open street map, you can see, alright, there is intensity here. So, it's something we're going to be looking at, yeah. 149 00:23:16.590 --> 00:23:22.100 Quinlan Conf Room: the black circles on this diagram, what are they for? Are they basically just… 150 00:23:22.990 --> 00:23:36.820 Quinlan Conf Room: three giant intersections from the pre-act vision zero? Yeah, so they're the high injury network intersections of concern, the top 7 intersections of concern in the Big Zero Action Plan. 151 00:23:38.190 --> 00:23:41.120 Quinlan Conf Room: It's inside quiet, right? 152 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:46.820 Quinlan Conf Room: Marcus's areas look pretty bad. 153 00:23:47.350 --> 00:23:48.230 Quinlan Conf Room: Dang. 154 00:23:49.230 --> 00:23:51.690 Quinlan Conf Room: This area, right? 155 00:23:54.520 --> 00:23:55.400 Quinlan Conf Room: Hello. 156 00:23:55.710 --> 00:24:03.230 Quinlan Conf Room: This segment is close to where I live, on McLennan. This should be pretty bad, this segment. I'll tell you why. 157 00:24:03.660 --> 00:24:06.269 Quinlan Conf Room: Because it's common values. 158 00:24:06.490 --> 00:24:11.409 Quinlan Conf Room: The cars come out, we block out the road, the Bicycles are messed up, like it all. 159 00:24:12.070 --> 00:24:13.020 Quinlan Conf Room: I… 160 00:24:13.220 --> 00:24:22.299 Quinlan Conf Room: Of course, a lot of people when I'm biking here, because of the cars, what they do, right? The cars from this shopping complex, they come and stick out. 161 00:24:22.460 --> 00:24:38.909 Quinlan Conf Room: the bike and the car this way and both sides, they block out the bike completely. Because of this, you know, the divided lane, you're stuck, you cannot go. And if you're coming at a good speed, you are likely to hit. So… so I would avoid this area as much as possible. 162 00:24:39.030 --> 00:24:42.870 Quinlan Conf Room: But since I live here, so I have two comments. 163 00:24:43.030 --> 00:24:52.719 Quinlan Conf Room: And I avoid, you know, this, this one, because… same problem. Like, the car's entering and exiting, and you're biking. Yeah, that's safe way. 164 00:24:53.180 --> 00:24:54.409 Quinlan Conf Room: A lot of conflicts. 165 00:24:57.090 --> 00:24:59.520 Quinlan Conf Room: And then the big circles are the… 166 00:25:00.360 --> 00:25:06.260 Quinlan Conf Room: Those are the high injury network intercepts from the Vision Zero Action Plan. Previous. Yeah. 167 00:25:08.140 --> 00:25:27.870 Quinlan Conf Room: So I have three questions, next question. One is the intersection. You see the one that, between Wolf and Silver Creek is not marked as high injury anymore? I think it's great because we had, like, the improvements in terms of intersection. Have you seen in the data whether there were less 168 00:25:28.320 --> 00:25:35.529 Quinlan Conf Room: you know, KSIs and, you know, injuries at that intersection since the changes were made. 169 00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:40.349 Quinlan Conf Room: It would be great to have that kind of data. We can look into that, yeah. That would be fantastic. 170 00:25:40.390 --> 00:25:56.279 Quinlan Conf Room: That's one. The second one that I have is on your memo, you have the hiring network monitoring with the various, you know, corridors, and I'm just curious, because I see that there is, like, the Vision Zero Action Plan KSI between 2012 and 2021. 171 00:25:56.320 --> 00:26:14.660 Quinlan Conf Room: And then the next one, the next column is 2022 to 2025, so it's very, like, 3 years on the one side versus 9 years. Yeah. So… We were just… We're not comparing exactly the same period of time. No, we were comparing what the baseline is within the action plan to the years that are following it, so ideally, we'd do this 172 00:26:14.800 --> 00:26:19.020 Quinlan Conf Room: Annually, but the reporting lag, it's… 173 00:26:19.150 --> 00:26:21.400 Quinlan Conf Room: More years than it should be. 174 00:26:22.270 --> 00:26:33.049 Quinlan Conf Room: That's an annual average. Yeah. It's an annual average. Okay, that's… but, yeah, because it didn't… it wasn't mentioned anywhere that it was an annual average, so that makes much more sense now. Thank you. 175 00:26:33.150 --> 00:26:56.310 Quinlan Conf Room: And the last one is the, app that you showed, regarding the speed, etc. Yeah. Is it gonna, at some point, replace… I saw you were doing the speed measurements with these two, you know, rubber bands on… is it meant to replace that in the future, or… No, it's complimentary, and actually, we're gonna incorporate some of that ETS data, or try to work with Streetlight to incorporate that to 176 00:26:56.310 --> 00:26:59.819 Quinlan Conf Room: Refine their model so that we actually have Like, 177 00:26:59.980 --> 00:27:03.609 Quinlan Conf Room: You can think of it as, like, a live look into traffic operations. 178 00:27:04.340 --> 00:27:08.189 Quinlan Conf Room: Grounded, you know, the data that's been collected in the field. 179 00:27:10.930 --> 00:27:14.209 Quinlan Conf Room: Hannah, actually, I sent you an email asking for… 180 00:27:14.710 --> 00:27:21.700 Quinlan Conf Room: more granular data, in terms of, both, you know, now we are lumping the 181 00:27:22.130 --> 00:27:32.169 Quinlan Conf Room: collations are KSI's vulnerable users, which includes bicycle and pedestrians. I think we need to separate that out, going back to the same Vision Bureau. 182 00:27:32.370 --> 00:27:35.350 Quinlan Conf Room: model, right? For the yearly… 183 00:27:35.870 --> 00:27:45.480 Quinlan Conf Room: reports as well. And in addition to that, I was also looking… do you have it, or… I know in one place, like, you… in one of the slides with your 184 00:27:45.600 --> 00:27:47.439 Quinlan Conf Room: For the KSIs, we just… 185 00:27:47.650 --> 00:27:58.379 Quinlan Conf Room: had a text added at the end, right, to show that at the footnote of the table, you added a text saying, out of 34 KSA collisions, how many were motorists, and why? 186 00:27:58.840 --> 00:28:04.309 Quinlan Conf Room: At least for the federal coalitions, you've had it. This table? No, the one before that. 187 00:28:05.050 --> 00:28:10.449 Quinlan Conf Room: There was a table in the beginning, right? The first table, right? Yeah, this one, right. So… 188 00:28:11.510 --> 00:28:17.170 Quinlan Conf Room: I think it'll be good for you to show So, vulnerable users. 189 00:28:17.590 --> 00:28:23.930 Quinlan Conf Room: split into bicycle and pedestrians as well, because the treatments that we will apply are the 190 00:28:24.550 --> 00:28:35.949 Quinlan Conf Room: the crash mode that we would analyze will be different for the roadway users. So it's good to show that separately, even though they might be happening in the same or same corridor or same intersection. 191 00:28:36.270 --> 00:28:40.639 Quinlan Conf Room: But the analysis could be different, and the countermeasures could also be different. 192 00:28:41.520 --> 00:28:42.410 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah. 193 00:28:51.110 --> 00:29:05.389 Quinlan Conf Room: I couldn't figure it out, but I was trying to kind of count that from your chart. Yeah, so I can review this to be in there, so… Maybe after the clarification, I can tell you what at least I counted. It may not be accurate, but it's more, like. 194 00:29:05.580 --> 00:29:17.230 Quinlan Conf Room: Confing the points in the map. Okay. But I think it'll be good for all of us to understand how things work. Second thing is, also, for each of the pollutions. 195 00:29:17.660 --> 00:29:20.009 Quinlan Conf Room: You need to have more data. 196 00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:36.250 Quinlan Conf Room: in saying, like, the time of the day, you know, the demographics, and, you know, is there any correlation or repeatability, repeated patterns like that? We did look at that. There wasn't any kind of clear trend that time of day or, 197 00:29:36.350 --> 00:29:41.110 Quinlan Conf Room: you know, visibility or lighting or things like that contributed. These were… 198 00:29:42.350 --> 00:29:56.780 Quinlan Conf Room: things that kind of occurred at all hours and all days in all conditions, including looking at weather. One thing, I saw a correlation, maybe it's correct or not, in Stevensweek and Bianza, that intersection, in 2023, 199 00:29:56.870 --> 00:30:03.020 Quinlan Conf Room: a fatal incident happened. That happened somewhere around 9, 9.45 or something in the night. 200 00:30:03.470 --> 00:30:06.310 Quinlan Conf Room: It involved a bicyclist and a motorist. 201 00:30:06.610 --> 00:30:11.890 Quinlan Conf Room: And then, in 2024, on the same intersection, there was another fatal collision that happened. 202 00:30:12.100 --> 00:30:16.810 Quinlan Conf Room: It happened about 11-something PM tonight. 203 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:26.759 Quinlan Conf Room: You know, and then it involved a motorist and the pedestrian as well. So I couldn't really… I mean, I don't have full data to really say both are related, but at least 204 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:33.020 Quinlan Conf Room: At a high level, it looks like, why is it, like, on the same intersection in the nighttime? 205 00:30:33.290 --> 00:30:47.529 Quinlan Conf Room: two collisions happen. I should have been more clear, sorry about that. There is nothing in this data set that's dramatically different than the patterns that were described at the Vision Zero Action Plan. So those different collision profiles, 206 00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:52.690 Quinlan Conf Room: exist today as they did when the plant was developed. So… 207 00:30:53.230 --> 00:30:55.889 Quinlan Conf Room: That's one of those things that was identified. 208 00:30:56.570 --> 00:30:57.530 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. 209 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:02.570 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, this gives a good turn. Maybe we'll talk to you once we come back for the discussion. Thanks. 210 00:31:03.080 --> 00:31:12.590 Quinlan Conf Room: Any more clarifying questions? Otherwise, I will open up for comments from the public, if you have any external speakers on this topic. 211 00:31:12.950 --> 00:31:20.100 Quinlan Conf Room: We have no speakers, Sharon. No speakers, all right, and let's bring it back to the Commission for a discussion on the topic. 212 00:31:20.690 --> 00:31:23.899 Quinlan Conf Room: I don't think we have any votes or any… 213 00:31:24.610 --> 00:31:29.120 Quinlan Conf Room: outcomes, in a sense, to do here. No motion. So, 214 00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:32.230 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, so this really is mostly a discussion. 215 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:49.030 Quinlan Conf Room: I'm actually quite encouraged to be starting getting access to some of the data, because I think it really will help us to make better decisions in the future, so I'm actually really encouraged about that. This is a… 216 00:31:49.320 --> 00:32:05.609 Quinlan Conf Room: we could… maybe in a future meeting, we could also do a session with the tool, I mean, if you can work with us on showing us the tool, and kind of would be super helpful as well. Yeah, we can definitely do that. And it's our intent to also begin producing, 217 00:32:05.990 --> 00:32:11.410 Quinlan Conf Room: kind of… Traffic-related memos, semi-periodically, just to… 218 00:32:11.630 --> 00:32:21.559 Quinlan Conf Room: Show, hey, here's the utility of the tool, here's the questions that people have been asking, here are the answers according to the data here. 219 00:32:22.820 --> 00:32:24.849 Quinlan Conf Room: Do you have a nice evening, right? 220 00:32:26.180 --> 00:32:28.359 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, so we do have speeding. 221 00:32:28.900 --> 00:32:30.440 Quinlan Conf Room: Which one twice. 222 00:32:32.630 --> 00:32:35.419 Quinlan Conf Room: Pardon? I mean, we should line this. 223 00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:39.220 Quinlan Conf Room: Oh, I believe… 224 00:32:39.840 --> 00:32:56.019 Quinlan Conf Room: public comment is… are we taking… We have, open… there is a public commentary period, but I think maybe you can cover this one, yes, maybe on a later topic, or you can cover specifics on your… on your screen there, yes. 225 00:32:57.560 --> 00:33:13.120 Quinlan Conf Room: So if we wanted more information on, like, the fatalities, I mean, could we go to the statewide integrated traffic record system individually, if we want? We, and the California Crash Reporting System, it's easy to navigate, or is it, yeah. 226 00:33:13.280 --> 00:33:17.350 Quinlan Conf Room: But you're moving away from that now, it sounds like. We are, so… 227 00:33:17.500 --> 00:33:26.890 Quinlan Conf Room: Collision reporting, historically, has been kind of a nightmare, because it relies on the sheriff and then different third parties to, like, organize the information, so… 228 00:33:26.890 --> 00:33:41.380 Quinlan Conf Room: The Vision Zero Act plan, is based off of this platform called Crossroads. So, the 10-year data that's included in the action plan is all from Crossroads, which is essentially a citation tool that different, 229 00:33:43.560 --> 00:33:53.869 Quinlan Conf Room: what's the word I'm looking for? No, like, police departments use, law enforcement agencies use, just to make sure that everything's captured. 230 00:33:54.040 --> 00:33:58.760 Quinlan Conf Room: So that's Vision Zero. And then when we moved out of that, 231 00:33:58.890 --> 00:34:06.260 Quinlan Conf Room: that 10-year period, and started building out the, collision database that's on our website, we were using sweaters. 232 00:34:06.260 --> 00:34:19.640 Quinlan Conf Room: Because at that point, it was the most authoritative source. And then there was kind of a period in there where Switters was slowly becoming the least authoritative source, so we moved over to CCRS. So if you go in and pull the data from one, it may not 233 00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:28.280 Quinlan Conf Room: Show you everything that's in our database, because it's kind of a combination of the two, which is why, beginning next year, we're solely gonna just 234 00:34:28.699 --> 00:34:42.109 Quinlan Conf Room: take the data directly from the Sheriff's Department, even though the data that they provide is going to take a lot of time to reformat and make it actually usable. But there's greater accuracy in it. 235 00:34:43.310 --> 00:34:48.119 Quinlan Conf Room: So would that data be… so the sheriff's data, would that be available to the public, too, then? I mean… 236 00:34:48.440 --> 00:35:01.799 Quinlan Conf Room: It should be, I don't… I don't know. Maybe not the fatality, there's… You can request information from the sheriffs about accidents, but it's going to be highly redacted. 237 00:35:02.120 --> 00:35:11.600 Quinlan Conf Room: And it may take time to get it. I mean, ultimately, we're gonna have that information in our own data set. 238 00:35:12.030 --> 00:35:17.859 Quinlan Conf Room: We can… Yeah. And a lot of it's going to be in our… Collision data, bro. Our Collision Data Dashboard. 239 00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:20.749 Quinlan Conf Room: So you can access it through us. 240 00:35:21.140 --> 00:35:29.379 Quinlan Conf Room: As it becomes available. And I will say, the only difference really is in, like, the motorist collisions. The agencies are very, 241 00:35:30.670 --> 00:35:39.140 Quinlan Conf Room: particular about making sure that those VRU collisions and then the KSIs are captured and accurate, so that data will be consistent. 242 00:35:42.860 --> 00:35:59.300 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, what I was trying to clarify is, like, we just… for the initiation of the Vision Zero plan in our city, we worked with a high school student calling his intern, who helped us to collect data, like, similarly collect, like, ATS 243 00:35:59.470 --> 00:36:17.299 Quinlan Conf Room: like the consultant did, like, what the data, and that was from the SWITRS database, plus also the county sheriff's department also was able to give us some data, and that has a lot of information. That's why I was just trying to… I sent you a note about that, is 244 00:36:17.300 --> 00:36:33.280 Quinlan Conf Room: you know, when is this game a good trend? But if we have to make a concrete action out of this trend, like, every year we wait for this, and then, okay, next year we're going to get more data, but then what did we do so that next year the same trend doesn't happen, right? 245 00:36:33.290 --> 00:36:42.969 Quinlan Conf Room: we need… a city should act on it to… to make things happen, right? So for that, you need to… for each of the crash, you need to have a crash profile. 246 00:36:43.090 --> 00:36:48.519 Quinlan Conf Room: and kind of build that to find out what can we get from it, right? For example. 247 00:36:48.720 --> 00:37:06.440 Quinlan Conf Room: you know, time of the day, lighting, age, vehicle movement, you know, whether it is pedestrian or bicyclist movement, right? What is the collision type, you know, collision factor. Some of it, you had, like, you know, right turn, or right-of-way violation, and so on, right? But speed. 248 00:37:06.580 --> 00:37:11.129 Quinlan Conf Room: If it is any signal, issue and things like that, right? 249 00:37:11.340 --> 00:37:12.520 Quinlan Conf Room: So… 250 00:37:12.690 --> 00:37:21.839 Quinlan Conf Room: That is something that is inbuilt in that database. That's what we did. Collected that information, then extracted some relevant things, and then kind of 251 00:37:22.660 --> 00:37:32.549 Quinlan Conf Room: add some charts out of it, so we can make something out of it, right? I think that one of the things that I would suggest is 252 00:37:32.670 --> 00:37:43.889 Quinlan Conf Room: for the immediate needs, pick 3 or 5 conjunct high injury intersections, because it's high correlation that's from the Vision Zero data, as well as the next four years. 253 00:37:44.240 --> 00:37:46.620 Quinlan Conf Room: It's pretty much happening on the same side, 254 00:37:47.290 --> 00:37:56.420 Quinlan Conf Room: Most of the crashes, KSIs are happening in the intersections, are closer to the intersections, right? That has not changed. So that pattern is continuing. 255 00:37:56.560 --> 00:38:00.960 Quinlan Conf Room: And then, now, more fatal, like, you know, it's too much. One is too many. 256 00:38:01.220 --> 00:38:06.690 Quinlan Conf Room: And then you're seeing exactly the same fatality on the same intersection over and over. 257 00:38:07.060 --> 00:38:12.529 Quinlan Conf Room: Let's say, which means that it's something for us to really take a look at it, so that next year it doesn't happen. 258 00:38:12.890 --> 00:38:17.340 Quinlan Conf Room: And that's… first thing is to understand and analyze the 259 00:38:18.510 --> 00:38:22.849 Quinlan Conf Room: trash data on at least some of these high injuries, like Homestead and 260 00:38:23.240 --> 00:38:27.409 Quinlan Conf Room: And, and the answer. And Steven Street and the answer, right? 261 00:38:28.070 --> 00:38:40.769 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah. And then try to… try to come up with some… maybe you can pick another one or two, but then come up with this analysis, and then see whether… what can we do to mitigate this, or what countermeasures that we could have done 262 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:43.589 Quinlan Conf Room: That will stop it. I did not wait for… 263 00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:46.510 Quinlan Conf Room: Active Transportation Planner and other things, too. 264 00:38:46.630 --> 00:38:50.120 Quinlan Conf Room: Happened for this to occur, because we can really pick 265 00:38:50.260 --> 00:38:52.900 Quinlan Conf Room: 3 to 5 intersections, and have 266 00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:56.460 Quinlan Conf Room: Countermeasure, quick build treatments. 267 00:38:56.620 --> 00:39:02.710 Quinlan Conf Room: It could be simple, like, signaling, or it could be some kind of an extension to giving more… 268 00:39:03.100 --> 00:39:07.459 Quinlan Conf Room: space for the pedestrians to cross across, right? 269 00:39:07.640 --> 00:39:20.250 Quinlan Conf Room: you know, this is not new. You go back and look at the Vision Zero toolbox, these are all in it, right? So we need to pick the right toolbox for the right problem, right? So that's the whole idea of the data-driven 270 00:39:20.860 --> 00:39:22.160 Quinlan Conf Room: Comprehouses. 271 00:39:22.590 --> 00:39:29.609 Quinlan Conf Room: And then, how can we use quick build so that, yeah, permanent projects might happen much later, but then can you do something 272 00:39:30.410 --> 00:39:38.530 Quinlan Conf Room: Which will bring this down, right? For the next year. Yeah, and we can come back with a supplemental memo that kind of 273 00:39:38.690 --> 00:39:40.700 Quinlan Conf Room: Describes that in detail. 274 00:39:41.450 --> 00:39:43.269 Quinlan Conf Room: That's something you'd like to see. 275 00:39:43.640 --> 00:39:50.220 Quinlan Conf Room: We can certainly… Yes, yes, and then not only that, like, supplemental memo with this additional data, and then also that 276 00:39:50.340 --> 00:39:59.039 Quinlan Conf Room: Kind of your recommendation on what should be the countermeasures that we can… near-term countermeasures that we can take on those intersections. 277 00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:03.479 Quinlan Conf Room: that will address this problem. And, for example, you're already doing work on 278 00:40:03.820 --> 00:40:06.599 Quinlan Conf Room: Steven Street Boulevard, right, as part of the 279 00:40:06.870 --> 00:40:14.689 Quinlan Conf Room: That Phase 2 effort, and then what improvement that we are doing in the signaling intersection, which would have been addressed. 280 00:40:15.310 --> 00:40:21.569 Quinlan Conf Room: And I think, Commissioner Harvey also asked about, like, you know, we did some improvements on Wolf and 281 00:40:22.540 --> 00:40:26.519 Quinlan Conf Room: I don't… Yeah, alright. You know, students speak a little more. 282 00:40:26.710 --> 00:40:33.700 Quinlan Conf Room: to upgrade any page that. So if not, then we are not doing the right solution. So we need to really figure out what's the right solution. 283 00:40:33.890 --> 00:40:36.780 Quinlan Conf Room: Right? I think that will be helpful, so when you come back with a 284 00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:43.060 Quinlan Conf Room: you know, supplemental memo with Councilmasha's proposals. Okay. 285 00:40:44.550 --> 00:40:45.470 Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you. 286 00:40:49.590 --> 00:40:59.700 Quinlan Conf Room: I just have one question on the Foothill Boulevard. So, there's a fatality that… is that a car fatal, automobile-related fatality? A motorist hit a pedestrian. 287 00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:05.480 Quinlan Conf Room: And then there's another one that doesn't show up. So, two fatalities. 288 00:41:06.240 --> 00:41:07.850 Quinlan Conf Room: on the, 289 00:41:07.980 --> 00:41:17.500 Quinlan Conf Room: Vision Zero annual report from 2022 to 2025, but then I start… I look at the, Pedestrian plot. 290 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:21.839 Quinlan Conf Room: I show one fatality, and then I don't see anything on the bicycle. 291 00:41:23.300 --> 00:41:27.040 Quinlan Conf Room: I guess what I asked is there… there's a… there's one fatality that's… 292 00:41:27.460 --> 00:41:30.790 Quinlan Conf Room: At the, that's showing up on, 293 00:41:31.630 --> 00:41:36.220 Quinlan Conf Room: Your summary page, you show where you show all the fatalities and the, 294 00:41:36.520 --> 00:41:46.039 Quinlan Conf Room: the, all the severe injuries, but… Yeah, so we have one fatality on Tantale, two at the intersection of Stevens Creek and De Anza. 295 00:41:46.040 --> 00:41:58.019 Quinlan Conf Room: One motorist fatality, almost at Stevens Canyon Road, and then a Pedestrian fatality on Foothill, and there's two that are right on top of each other at the intersection of Stevens Creek and De Anza. 296 00:41:58.020 --> 00:41:58.940 Quinlan Conf Room: So… 297 00:41:59.150 --> 00:42:12.489 Quinlan Conf Room: If you're looking at the map, so that is a motorist fatality, then, at Foothill, that, yes. Okay. The bottom one, the one closest to the Stevens Creek intersection? I was thinking it was a bicycle or a pedestrian fatality. No, that was a motorist. 298 00:42:20.980 --> 00:42:24.410 Quinlan Conf Room: Then, another thing is, like, how many of them are because of… 299 00:42:24.550 --> 00:42:29.679 Quinlan Conf Room: BUI, or, you know, or something related to, you know. 300 00:42:31.630 --> 00:42:38.239 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, that's… okay, that's clear. We… we can break that out, yeah. The intent of the annual report was kind of just to… 301 00:42:38.580 --> 00:42:41.210 Quinlan Conf Room: be more high level. 302 00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:46.340 Quinlan Conf Room: In terms of discussion, so it's… 303 00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:52.970 Quinlan Conf Room: The previous one was, you know, kids. And welcome back to home. 304 00:42:53.150 --> 00:42:56.359 Quinlan Conf Room: That's a BUI, right? Yeah. 305 00:42:58.590 --> 00:43:16.369 Quinlan Conf Room: So, overall, first of all, thank you for putting that together, because that's exactly, I think, all of us wanted to have this type of data to better understand how the city actually works in terms of KSIs, and that was part of the plan, so thank you for doing that. Thank you for following up. I think, collectively. 306 00:43:16.370 --> 00:43:19.430 Quinlan Conf Room: I think it's good to, you know. 307 00:43:20.260 --> 00:43:25.740 Quinlan Conf Room: have a hard look at ourselves, and I think when you look at the KSL here, we're failing. 308 00:43:25.830 --> 00:43:42.949 Quinlan Conf Room: collectively, the residents of Cupertino, because we're not landing. If the trend goes on, like, if you see, like, KSI is, like, 10, 7, 8, and 9, that's not a trend that's much down, but it's gonna go down in 2040. So, we're essentially failing everyone here. 309 00:43:43.020 --> 00:43:51.949 Quinlan Conf Room: So, I think we need to take a hard look at what are the things that we must do quickly in order to make that happen. If you look at the collision data. 310 00:43:53.620 --> 00:43:54.650 Quinlan Conf Room: I think… 311 00:43:54.880 --> 00:44:01.849 Quinlan Conf Room: It's fair to say that very few of the accidents were, like, Pedestrian experience, or bikes against bikes. 312 00:44:02.090 --> 00:44:09.679 Quinlan Conf Room: it's always a car that is involved. That is my strong assumption. I think it's an educated assumption, but I think it's, it's pretty reasonable. 313 00:44:09.930 --> 00:44:25.809 Quinlan Conf Room: And when you look at, okay, what's the factor between a car accident and a pedestrian, then you would say it's a right-of-way violation. If it's a bike, it's an automobile right-of-way violation. So to me, it looks like 314 00:44:26.240 --> 00:44:35.380 Quinlan Conf Room: You know, there's a strong case to be made, again, to separate the traffic flow of cars and pedestrians and bikes to make sure that these things cannot happen. 315 00:44:35.610 --> 00:44:38.890 Quinlan Conf Room: If you look at the car on the car, 316 00:44:39.250 --> 00:44:42.569 Quinlan Conf Room: In, incidents or, or accidents. 317 00:44:44.040 --> 00:44:55.820 Quinlan Conf Room: you see it, it's the traffic signals and the signs. So what are the things that we must do in order to make that better? Because just, you know, looking at it and be like, hey, traffic signals are here, and… 318 00:44:56.180 --> 00:45:09.109 Quinlan Conf Room: what is it that we can change? And I think I go back to Commissioner Ganga's point about, you know, the Vision Zero toolbox, is, okay, what is it that we can do in order to make that change? Because right now, as I said, we're not… 319 00:45:09.250 --> 00:45:12.859 Quinlan Conf Room: We're not making progress towards the goal, and 2040 is… 320 00:45:13.930 --> 00:45:21.139 Quinlan Conf Room: It's gonna come soon, I think, and that's not where we're… we're not going to zero right now, so we need to do better. 321 00:45:24.690 --> 00:45:27.010 Quinlan Conf Room: So, I see there's… there's a… 322 00:45:27.190 --> 00:45:33.630 Quinlan Conf Room: big drop in KSIs on McClellan. I mean, when you look at the data, is that attributed to that protected bike lane? 323 00:45:34.930 --> 00:45:37.810 Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you. We learned, comparison, you know. 324 00:45:38.260 --> 00:45:56.620 Quinlan Conf Room: I mean, that's… that section, I know before that was put in, there was a lot of… I mean, a lot of kids were getting hit, and and this goes maybe back to Commissioner Marcy's, where we can look at, pre- and post-project collision data, and 325 00:45:56.810 --> 00:45:59.490 Quinlan Conf Room: Commission can make a judgment on that. 326 00:46:03.700 --> 00:46:04.630 Quinlan Conf Room: Yes. 327 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:10.050 Quinlan Conf Room: Any more discussion? Any additional points anybody wants to bring up, or… 328 00:46:10.510 --> 00:46:24.490 Quinlan Conf Room: Just wanted to add one good point, like, in 2025, there was no fatality, because I read the analysis, it was happy that no one died on Cupertino streets. Great to see. What about 26 so far is also… 26 is… 329 00:46:24.520 --> 00:46:31.009 Quinlan Conf Room: I don't know. And there's a report flag. Oh, we wouldn't even know if there would have… 330 00:46:31.690 --> 00:46:33.700 Quinlan Conf Room: He's not aware of it, no. 331 00:46:34.250 --> 00:46:40.569 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I'd just like to add some more points, like, this is regarding… I was just looking at the data. 332 00:46:40.790 --> 00:46:49.480 Quinlan Conf Room: to see if I can make sense. So, this is, like, 2022 to 25 BH, right? So, you have a total of 42 pedestrian 333 00:46:50.870 --> 00:47:00.180 Quinlan Conf Room: crashes, right? Out of which 9 were severe or KSI, right? And then 3 out of the 3 were, you know, fatal. 334 00:47:00.510 --> 00:47:11.779 Quinlan Conf Room: Right? So, that is… and similarly, if you bike, if you take 87, then ZRA was 3 and fatal was 1, right? Total of the 4. So, if you look at it, like. 335 00:47:12.460 --> 00:47:16.739 Quinlan Conf Room: 29% of the pedestrian-involved collisions were KSIs. 336 00:47:17.100 --> 00:47:22.610 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay? 5% of life-involved pollutions for KSIs. So if you look at the… 337 00:47:23.080 --> 00:47:28.900 Quinlan Conf Room: Because more, more pedestrians are, of course, walking, like, on the streets, so… Sorry, repeat that again. 338 00:47:28.910 --> 00:47:43.720 Quinlan Conf Room: So, 29% of pedestrian-involved pollutions are KSRs. Roughly 30% is KSRs. 5% of bike-involved pollions are KSRs. Interesting. So, you can see that the problem is actually magnified 339 00:47:44.090 --> 00:47:51.020 Quinlan Conf Room: in the Pedestrian's case, It's obvious, because more pedestrians are exposing themselves from the 340 00:47:51.370 --> 00:47:53.859 Quinlan Conf Room: Traffic and intersections and so on. 341 00:47:54.190 --> 00:47:56.189 Quinlan Conf Room: But… what, what? 342 00:47:56.330 --> 00:48:11.669 Quinlan Conf Room: Stripe? Yeah, go ahead. We say that we should solve for the better streams, because… I'm not saying solve for one or the other, like, the majority of the… Exactly, right. So, like, for example, like, you know, separating the lanes is not going to solve them. 343 00:48:11.900 --> 00:48:20.919 Quinlan Conf Room: Pedestrian fatalities that are happening. So, that's why I said, like, pilot data separate instead of lumping them, it's vulnerable roadway users. 344 00:48:21.100 --> 00:48:28.699 Quinlan Conf Room: Because outer measures and toolbox from the cloud that you will be using… Will be different. …will be different. Analysis also will be different. 345 00:48:28.940 --> 00:48:35.190 Quinlan Conf Room: So that's… that's basically what I was trying to get to, and so hopefully, when you come back with a supplemental report. 346 00:48:35.560 --> 00:48:41.500 Quinlan Conf Room: You will be able to get more insight, you will have more data, so you will be able to make 347 00:48:41.710 --> 00:48:43.470 Quinlan Conf Room: Informed, data-driven. 348 00:48:43.850 --> 00:49:03.850 Quinlan Conf Room: We'll be able to incorporate some of that streetlight information as well. Exactly. So if it is happening always in the night, then the solution could be, like, you know, improving the lighting, or the solution could be, maybe, do I want to have a leading pedestrian interval? Will that help something? I don't know from this, but you will be able to get that, you know, data. 349 00:49:04.230 --> 00:49:10.559 Quinlan Conf Room: And then come to us, that we will make an inter… and then we don't have to wait. Like, for example, if you look at it last 10 years. 350 00:49:11.120 --> 00:49:19.480 Quinlan Conf Room: to next 10 years, you saw that the injury collisions actually went down, right? It's 116 versus total, right? 95. 351 00:49:19.770 --> 00:49:27.889 Quinlan Conf Room: But then, if you look at AISI is 8 or 9, actually, in fact, increase a little bit, or pretty much the same. So, unless we make changes. 352 00:49:28.610 --> 00:49:32.349 Quinlan Conf Room: it's not going to change. It's going to… you're going to see the same data again and again. 353 00:49:32.520 --> 00:49:33.480 Quinlan Conf Room: So… 354 00:49:33.750 --> 00:49:38.990 Quinlan Conf Room: What point treatments that we are going to make, or point cultural measures that we are going to make. 355 00:49:39.750 --> 00:49:43.210 Quinlan Conf Room: That's political. We don't have to wait for, you know, I'm going to… 356 00:49:43.350 --> 00:49:52.499 Quinlan Conf Room: completely redo the Stevens Lake Boulevard. That's not going to help in other places, or it will not… the intersection, they're not fixing the real problem. 357 00:49:53.490 --> 00:50:10.660 Quinlan Conf Room: Right? So, I think that's what I want to do. I mean, it's a very good point. I think, you know, Gaga has a… Ilambra has a very good point, so we need to look at the data later. Because Pedestrian bike, the meshes are what you do is different. 358 00:50:11.030 --> 00:50:11.860 Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you. 359 00:50:12.450 --> 00:50:19.740 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, so, and I'm sure now, the next topic that we have for discussion is going to be Pedestrian related, not a bike related. 360 00:50:20.420 --> 00:50:38.359 Quinlan Conf Room: And we'll keep that in mind when we produce the annual report next year, with that level of detail that's required, because the action plan called for our progress towards KSIs more broadly, whereas now we'll move forward breaking that out and providing some clear 361 00:50:38.410 --> 00:50:43.040 Quinlan Conf Room: Direction on… on progress related to… improvements, too. 362 00:50:43.170 --> 00:50:54.290 Quinlan Conf Room: Is that annual report going to be published somewhere, or is that really just primarily for city internal kind of… No, it will be published and made available online, and it's also going to be, I believe, presented to 363 00:50:54.400 --> 00:51:12.550 Quinlan Conf Room: Maybe another commission. We will be, communicating it to the City Council through an informational demo, and it will be available online. I think it would be substantially important to include some of the findings that Ilango was just raising here. I think it would be really important to include those, 364 00:51:13.050 --> 00:51:24.590 Quinlan Conf Room: kind of… I think because it… for the reasons already mentioned, so I wanted to repeat that, but it'd be good to see the differences between… Yeah, there's definitely some nuance in that VRE, so we'll… we'll make that clear. 365 00:51:25.720 --> 00:51:30.529 Quinlan Conf Room: Ideally, the Vision Zero Action Plan calls for a task force. 366 00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:33.920 Quinlan Conf Room: And then the task force is supposed to meet at least every quarter. 367 00:51:34.110 --> 00:51:44.490 Quinlan Conf Room: And then look at the data and keep making improvements, iterations, right? And of course, like, 5 years down the road, we might even update the PregenZero, you know, plan. 368 00:51:44.830 --> 00:51:59.090 Quinlan Conf Room: itself with additional data that we collected over the time. That's what the other cities are doing, right? But then, since we did not really constitute such a task force who's actively monitoring this, then it means that it comes back to the Commission 369 00:51:59.740 --> 00:52:01.050 Quinlan Conf Room: Along with the staff. 370 00:52:01.540 --> 00:52:06.959 Quinlan Conf Room: To really do that periodically, to make sure that this improvement is happening. 371 00:52:07.110 --> 00:52:12.030 Quinlan Conf Room: Would it be helpful for the city to have the quality kind of staff? 372 00:52:12.300 --> 00:52:23.029 Quinlan Conf Room: quarterly… what is it, task force? The task force is supposed to have a quarter. I don't know if it's useful or valuable for… We looked at the feasibility of a task force, because it is outlined in the… 373 00:52:23.150 --> 00:52:26.130 Quinlan Conf Room: In the plan, and it introduces… 374 00:52:26.590 --> 00:52:34.169 Quinlan Conf Room: obligations. And, we felt, at least for the time being, this was the best approach to be able to 375 00:52:34.580 --> 00:52:35.880 Quinlan Conf Room: field evaluator. 376 00:52:37.780 --> 00:52:51.700 Quinlan Conf Room: I think this is super helpful and super valuable. I really appreciate this together. Maybe, in lieu of a task force, maybe we do it shorter, twice a year? I don't know, in this form here. 377 00:52:52.160 --> 00:53:13.680 Quinlan Conf Room: That would make sense, like, for us to do it in this… yeah, exactly. It doesn't need to be that long, like, this is our first baseline, I guess, but moving forward, it may be just a 15 minutes agenda item every 6 months. Yeah, we can do that. The data is only going to be available once a year, so we can have the formal annual report, but there could be… 378 00:53:13.680 --> 00:53:23.579 Quinlan Conf Room: an additional check-in to kind of go over the items that we discussed. Like, some of the things we talked about today, we could take a look in 6 months from now. Exactly. And see, hey, how did those… 379 00:53:23.650 --> 00:53:28.580 Quinlan Conf Room: the directions that were presented today, how did they find out? Yeah, what are they presenting? 380 00:53:29.230 --> 00:53:38.560 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. My request would be even earlier than that for this specific… Supplemental report, but… 381 00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:58.589 Quinlan Conf Room: more analysis with countermeasures. For the initial, for the first time. For the first time, and then pick, maybe, you know, if they can't do all of it, like, 3 to 5 final injury intersections, focus on that data for that, and then come back with countermeasures, and then we can take it back to the council if it needs budget or anything to address that. Yeah, fair enough. 382 00:53:58.780 --> 00:54:05.979 Quinlan Conf Room: So let's make sure this is one of the items that we capture today as the… as one of the follow-ups, and then see when we can schedule it this. 383 00:54:06.130 --> 00:54:07.640 Quinlan Conf Room: Pretty early as feasible. 384 00:54:07.980 --> 00:54:12.360 Quinlan Conf Room: Do we need a motion, or is it okay for the staff to come back in the next… 385 00:54:13.270 --> 00:54:20.429 Quinlan Conf Room: I think as long as we capture it, kind of, parking lot area where we have all the agenda items there. 386 00:54:20.790 --> 00:54:21.480 Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you. 387 00:54:24.420 --> 00:54:31.340 Quinlan Conf Room: But I definitely think some of the suggestions we should put it there captured in the notes, 388 00:54:31.660 --> 00:54:34.420 Quinlan Conf Room: made to the year. I think those are good, good suggestions. 389 00:54:34.660 --> 00:54:36.130 Quinlan Conf Room: Bird and citrus, Francis. 390 00:54:37.470 --> 00:54:41.539 Quinlan Conf Room: Excellent. Thank you. Anything else on this topic? 391 00:54:41.770 --> 00:54:49.109 Quinlan Conf Room: If not, we're closing on this item here, moving on to our next item, which is items number 3 on the agenda tonight. 392 00:54:49.580 --> 00:54:54.999 Quinlan Conf Room: And it's, received presentation on the history of the prospect vote Confirms. 393 00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:59.380 Quinlan Conf Room: Completed improvements, as well as suggested next steps. 394 00:54:59.620 --> 00:55:04.679 Quinlan Conf Room: And I think we have a presentation, on the topic as well. Sure. 395 00:55:06.430 --> 00:55:08.279 Quinlan Conf Room: Prashanth a second, too, Mark. 396 00:55:08.550 --> 00:55:13.059 Quinlan Conf Room: Yep. Pull up the presentation. Excellent. Matt changed all my settings. 397 00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:29.799 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, thanks. Okay. Thank you, Chair. Commissioners, 398 00:55:30.160 --> 00:55:42.300 Quinlan Conf Room: So tonight, I'll be discussing, as the chair mentioned, Prospect Road between De Anza and Stelling Road. This is a segment that's been on our radar for 399 00:55:42.420 --> 00:55:45.950 Quinlan Conf Room: several years, and, I wanna… 400 00:55:46.160 --> 00:55:48.999 Quinlan Conf Room: Just highlight some things that we have… 401 00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:56.749 Quinlan Conf Room: Studied what we've accomplished, some of the concerns that we've heard, and get feedback on next steps. 402 00:55:58.270 --> 00:56:00.530 Quinlan Conf Room: So, just to familiarize… 403 00:56:00.720 --> 00:56:11.969 Quinlan Conf Room: yourself, although you all are fairly familiar with the street. There's one vehicle lane in each direction between Stelling and Danza Boulevard. There's a striped median. 404 00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:29.519 Quinlan Conf Room: With striped, left turn lanes, on-street parking on both sides of the street, as well as currently, there weren't always, but currently buffered bike lanes on both sides of the street. It's also a very wide street, as you all… 405 00:56:30.700 --> 00:56:34.250 Quinlan Conf Room: Historically, it's had pretty wide lanes as a result. 406 00:56:34.650 --> 00:56:49.930 Quinlan Conf Room: Prospect has a traffic signal at the intersection at De Anza Boulevard with a protected pedestrian crossing, and there's a stop sign, on the other end at Stelling Road, with pedestrians can cross, 407 00:56:50.430 --> 00:57:01.310 Quinlan Conf Room: Prospect at that location, because cars are stopped at the stop sign. Cupertino shares the jurisdiction of Saratoga… of Prospect Road with Saratoga, generally Saratoga. 408 00:57:01.510 --> 00:57:03.969 Quinlan Conf Room: South Half and Cupertino alone. 409 00:57:06.980 --> 00:57:16.759 Quinlan Conf Room: Some stats, average daily traffic is about a little over 8,000 cars per day. The length of the segment is .42 miles. 410 00:57:17.050 --> 00:57:22.669 Quinlan Conf Room: The 85th percentile speed on the segment, and this is the… 411 00:57:22.980 --> 00:57:28.619 Quinlan Conf Room: Be at which 85% of the cars are traveling at or below. 412 00:57:28.990 --> 00:57:32.079 Quinlan Conf Room: It's 39 miles an hour. 413 00:57:32.470 --> 00:57:39.860 Quinlan Conf Room: And this was determined using radar guns by unmarked vehicles as part of 414 00:57:40.080 --> 00:57:46.659 Quinlan Conf Room: The determination of the speed limit that was done back a couple… 2024. 415 00:57:47.450 --> 00:57:56.870 Quinlan Conf Room: The accident rate along the segment, for the previous 3 years is .51 accidents per million vehicle miles. 416 00:57:57.030 --> 00:58:06.010 Quinlan Conf Room: And you can… as a comparison, the statewide average for streets of similar function 417 00:58:06.330 --> 00:58:15.470 Quinlan Conf Room: Is 1.18 accidents per million vehicle miles. So, the accident rate is roughly half the state average for that type of roadway. 418 00:58:15.930 --> 00:58:20.579 Quinlan Conf Room: And specifically, there have been two accidents along the segment. 419 00:58:20.830 --> 00:58:27.679 Quinlan Conf Room: In the previous 5 years, neither one speed-related. One was a vehicle hitting a fixed object. 420 00:58:27.870 --> 00:58:37.260 Quinlan Conf Room: East of Jamestown Drive, and the other one was a vehicle… vehicle broadside accident that was about 180 feet west of Dentonville. 421 00:58:40.450 --> 00:58:47.679 Quinlan Conf Room: So, this just kind of shows you in detail the layout that I described on the left. 422 00:58:48.180 --> 00:58:54.479 Quinlan Conf Room: So the north is up, the top photo shows the… 423 00:58:54.870 --> 00:59:03.379 Quinlan Conf Room: western half of the segment, and then that would connect to the left side of the bottom photo, which is the 424 00:59:03.720 --> 00:59:15.680 Quinlan Conf Room: eastern half of the segment, so that's Prospect Road on the left there, sorry, Stelling on the left, where the railroad tracks are, and then De Anza Boulevard on the bottom photo, on the right side. 425 00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:25.769 Quinlan Conf Room: So, you can see the striped center median, the vehicle lanes in each direction, and, the buffered bike lanes along the whole water. 426 00:59:26.870 --> 00:59:34.680 Quinlan Conf Room: And there is no crossing… Pedestrian crossing between, anywhere between Stelling and cancel it. 427 00:59:37.970 --> 00:59:50.329 Quinlan Conf Room: So, some history of the street. So, the residents, a couple of residents on Prospect first approached the city in 2019 to express concerns about vehicle… 428 00:59:50.970 --> 00:59:59.819 Quinlan Conf Room: Pedestrian safety. So, over the course of the next several years, the city had a lot of communication with the residents and with the City of Saratoga 429 01:00:00.130 --> 01:00:19.600 Quinlan Conf Room: And, made a series of improvements to try to address the concerns about speeding and safety on the street. So the first measure that was completed was back in 2021, where we installed radar… permanent radar speed, feedback signs on Prospect. 430 01:00:20.090 --> 01:00:23.490 Quinlan Conf Room: An attempt to bring speeds down on the street. 431 01:00:23.730 --> 01:00:38.590 Quinlan Conf Room: Then in 2022, we developed striping plans for the purpose of adding a buffer, a stripe buffer between the bike lane and the vehicle lane, and to also narrow the travel lanes. So. 432 01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:42.989 Quinlan Conf Room: At that time, the lanes… the vehicle lanes were very wide. 433 01:00:43.320 --> 01:00:48.590 Quinlan Conf Room: Probably 13, 14 feet for the vehicle lanes, and… 434 01:00:49.130 --> 01:01:08.820 Quinlan Conf Room: 18, 19 feet for the center median. So we developed a striping plan to narrow all of the lanes, and using the buffer that we added, next to the bike lane to kind of… to help with that. And the purpose being generally narrower lanes result in lower speeds. Drivers feel more… 435 01:01:08.910 --> 01:01:14.119 Quinlan Conf Room: Constrained, and so they tend to drive slower where there are narrower… narrower lanes. 436 01:01:14.520 --> 01:01:31.020 Quinlan Conf Room: So the city coordinated that work, spoke to Saratoga. Saratoga was supportive of the, project. We also talked about the idea of installing a crosswalk at Villaroncal. 437 01:01:31.470 --> 01:01:47.439 Quinlan Conf Room: The City of Saratoga was supportive of that idea if a full protected treatment could be applied, which means a center refuge island, pedestrian-actuated flashing beacons, warning signs. 438 01:01:47.670 --> 01:01:51.440 Quinlan Conf Room: High disability strike being… The whole night yards. 439 01:01:51.950 --> 01:02:07.980 Quinlan Conf Room: In 2023, we did pavement maintenance work on Prospect, which allowed us to incorporate the new striping plan that we had developed with the narrower lanes of our bike lanes, so that was done in 2023. 440 01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:22.100 Quinlan Conf Room: Also, in 2023, we conducted an engineering traffic survey on Prospect, along with a handful of other streets on the city, in order to see if we could lower the speed limit. Time was 35 miles an hour. 441 01:02:22.500 --> 01:02:29.340 Quinlan Conf Room: And, performing that engineering and traffic survey allowed us to lower the speed limit to 30 miles an hour. 442 01:02:31.740 --> 01:02:43.179 Quinlan Conf Room: After 2023, there had been no more physical improvements done. We started developing the active transportation plan, and we did put a 443 01:02:43.620 --> 01:03:00.480 Quinlan Conf Room: a spot improvement for a pedestrian-related improvement at the intersection of VR on Call and Saratoga Avenue as one of the improvements in the active transportation plan. The buffered bike lane treatment was identified in the bike plan. 444 01:03:00.810 --> 01:03:09.000 Quinlan Conf Room: Which we completed, and there are no other improvements identified in any of the city's current adopted plans. 445 01:03:09.590 --> 01:03:10.830 Quinlan Conf Room: a prospector. 446 01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:18.479 Quinlan Conf Room: So, just, this is… 447 01:03:18.760 --> 01:03:31.669 Quinlan Conf Room: Why did I put this slide here? Yeah, this is… this is what it looks like now. It's just a close-up of what I described with the buffered bike lanes and the narrower vehicle lanes, and that's the intersection at Fear on Call and at Prospect. 448 01:03:31.910 --> 01:03:34.689 Quinlan Conf Room: Excellent. So the buffered bike lands are all the way, the whole… 449 01:03:35.120 --> 01:03:38.909 Quinlan Conf Room: The whole, the whole segment, all the way from Stelling to… Yes. 450 01:03:40.100 --> 01:03:44.939 Quinlan Conf Room: So, in terms of any next steps, any… 451 01:03:45.350 --> 01:03:56.549 Quinlan Conf Room: any further improvements along the corridor would require, both City Council funding and support from the City of Saratoga. 452 01:03:56.970 --> 01:04:01.859 Quinlan Conf Room: The project cost that I have in there, that would be… we were to install a… 453 01:04:01.900 --> 01:04:18.049 Quinlan Conf Room: Pedestrian crossing, which has been requested at VR on call, would be in the neighborhood of $30,000 to $50,000 to complete the crossing, and that's to install, there'd be a concrete median in the middle, there'd be high-visibility striping, flashing signs, that adds up 454 01:04:21.420 --> 01:04:29.279 Quinlan Conf Room: probably that could be shared with the City of Saratoga, but that's… that's an agreement that would have to… that's a discussion that would have to be had. 455 01:04:29.510 --> 01:04:39.080 Quinlan Conf Room: As I said, that improvement is not currently identified in any adopted city plan. 456 01:04:39.270 --> 01:04:54.080 Quinlan Conf Room: It is shown in the ATP, so if the ATP, once that gets adopted, obviously that would facilitate the city being able to submit a request to the City Council to fund it through our catalog. 457 01:04:55.610 --> 01:05:02.990 Quinlan Conf Room: And move forward, but that's… that's what would need to happen. Along with the discussion with ZRA. 458 01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:09.960 Quinlan Conf Room: I think that includes my presentation, so… 459 01:05:10.170 --> 01:05:14.620 Quinlan Conf Room: Happy to answer any questions, and… be a ticket. 460 01:05:15.910 --> 01:05:23.569 Quinlan Conf Room: Thank you, David, that was super helpful. Really appreciate the detailed summary. Do we have any clarifying questions from the Commission first? 461 01:05:25.110 --> 01:05:33.279 Quinlan Conf Room: So you mentioned 2022. Staff discussed the idea of a crosswalk at the Avonkole with Saratoga. Do you… 462 01:05:33.460 --> 01:05:39.210 Quinlan Conf Room: Can't remember having seen that on the BikePet Commission. Did you mention that to the Bike Pet Commission at some point? 463 01:05:39.480 --> 01:05:53.219 Quinlan Conf Room: I… I don't recall. Right, that's one, and also the second question is, like, why wasn't anything done like you discussed, and then what's… what happened there? To say, oh, no, we're not gonna do it, like, what was the outcome of that, so that… 464 01:05:53.370 --> 01:06:04.190 Quinlan Conf Room: Obviously, it didn't happen, but… Yeah, yeah, it was discussed, and I just wanted to be if Saratoga was even supportive of the idea, because if they weren't, then we are. 465 01:06:04.680 --> 01:06:10.280 Quinlan Conf Room: And so they, they were. But we couldn't do anything else because, again, it's not an… 466 01:06:10.450 --> 01:06:11.579 Quinlan Conf Room: Don't have anyone. 467 01:06:12.820 --> 01:06:19.350 Quinlan Conf Room: So I was… I was just gauging their support for the improvements, so, as information goes forward. 468 01:06:19.510 --> 01:06:25.810 Quinlan Conf Room: And, you know, the… Yeah. So, so now we have that. 469 01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:36.249 Quinlan Conf Room: If we were to go forward, I could say, yes, Saratoga… So, likely partner. So an approved ATP would be a catalyst for such a project. It would. 470 01:06:38.210 --> 01:06:40.259 Quinlan Conf Room: When we have a body. 471 01:06:40.450 --> 01:06:54.850 Quinlan Conf Room: street like that, right? So, is the responsibility 50- 50 shared, or no, is the city bought right in the middle of the road, or one side of the road, or the other side of the road? It's pretty close to being right in the middle of the road. It would be a 50-50. 472 01:06:57.880 --> 01:07:02.030 Quinlan Conf Room: But it sounds like, from a funding perspective, it's… It doesn't seem like… 473 01:07:02.340 --> 01:07:09.920 Quinlan Conf Room: a lot of money if EATP is approved, then it's a… it's a valid project. We probably could get for some brands, so we're not there. 474 01:07:12.690 --> 01:07:20.399 Quinlan Conf Room: Potentially, there's some grant money. Yeah, maybe TDA… could potentially be used for that. 475 01:07:21.030 --> 01:07:29.929 Quinlan Conf Room: Any more clarifying questions? So, when you did, strike bike lanes, right? Did you work with the Saratoga City at that time? So we delivered the cost. 476 01:07:30.250 --> 01:07:33.069 Quinlan Conf Room: Well, the… yes. Okay, yeah. 477 01:07:34.490 --> 01:07:40.789 Quinlan Conf Room: Has there been a speed study done since the speed limit was reduced? We are doing one now. 478 01:07:41.160 --> 01:07:50.989 Quinlan Conf Room: Along with the rest of the city, so I'll… I'll have the… But I think those segments excluded because it has been done? No, we're doing Blaney, we're doing… 479 01:07:51.290 --> 01:07:56.420 Quinlan Conf Room: Rodriguez… We can double check. We can double check. Yeah. 480 01:07:57.730 --> 01:08:04.720 Quinlan Conf Room: Was that initiated by our city or Saratoga, with the strike being and narrowing the lanes between us? 481 01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:10.949 Quinlan Conf Room: Would you plan for a grant for a project of that low cost? Yeah. 482 01:08:11.120 --> 01:08:23.990 Quinlan Conf Room: even, like, worth it? Because I think for a grant, if I recall correctly, is very tedious. I'm just curious if that's something that would make sense here. So the particular… there's one particular grant, it's the TDA… 483 01:08:23.990 --> 01:08:38.280 Quinlan Conf Room: And it's the grant that's funding our ATP, and it's a grant that funded our De Anza buffered bike lane project. That one is a little different than other grants in that it's… it's not a… 484 01:08:38.279 --> 01:08:44.719 Quinlan Conf Room: It's not a big application, it's not a competitive program, it's a… there's a dedicated pot of money that each city 485 01:08:44.720 --> 01:08:53.759 Quinlan Conf Room: guess every year to use towards bike and pred improvements, and it just has to meet some criteria. And as long as it meets that criteria, you're basically good to go. 486 01:08:54.529 --> 01:08:57.849 Quinlan Conf Room: The 30 to 50 grand lease once. 487 01:08:58.020 --> 01:09:09.960 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, yeah. And then, because there's a bit of infrastructure work. In addition to what I mentioned, you'd also have to provide at least one new ADA ramp. 488 01:09:10.859 --> 01:09:18.430 Quinlan Conf Room: on the Cupertino side, there's not a real good place to put that currently, that intersection. 489 01:09:18.569 --> 01:09:29.340 Quinlan Conf Room: We've looked at it. One location, we'll put the cross up right in front of somebody's front walkway. If we move it another location, it's going to be, like, pretty skewed. 490 01:09:29.520 --> 01:09:39.750 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, or, you know, and there's trees and driveways, so it's… it's not ideal, but there's, there's costs associated with 491 01:09:40.660 --> 01:09:48.010 Quinlan Conf Room: Getting a ramping. And maybe some parking removal. Maybe a little bit of parking. Parking removal also would be required. Yeah. 492 01:09:49.170 --> 01:09:57.139 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I wanted to spend some time there today, you know, before coming here. I sat there for, like, 15-20 minutes, you know, asking what's going on. 493 01:09:57.960 --> 01:10:17.320 Quinlan Conf Room: So, yeah, I do see, you know, there's a speed measure thing, a display showing me, hey, you're, you know, flashing, say, you know, you're going all over the bridge and all that, right? So, and and then I… I did see, you know, a few pedestrian crossing and the bikers, you know, trying to cross and all that, so… 494 01:10:17.410 --> 01:10:33.800 Quinlan Conf Room: I was expecting a lot more cars than, you know, what I saw, right? So, till, like, 6 to 6.30, the car traffic was a little lower than what I expected, but the cars that were going, you know, were going at a pretty good speed, and I saw a few people trying to cross and struggling. 495 01:10:34.550 --> 01:10:44.979 Quinlan Conf Room: And would we need more pedestrian crossings, or, I mean, you were referring to one specifically, David, but would you expect that we would put in more of them, or… 496 01:10:45.170 --> 01:10:49.659 Quinlan Conf Room: Not… I wouldn't expect we would need that. 497 01:10:53.670 --> 01:10:57.149 Quinlan Conf Room: Also, we have to observe a little bit Pedestrian activity, how much pedestrian activity. 498 01:10:58.050 --> 01:10:59.500 Quinlan Conf Room: Yep. Yep. 499 01:11:00.180 --> 01:11:08.350 Quinlan Conf Room: If you have no more clarifying questions, let's open up for public comments on this topic. Do we have any speakers on this topic? 500 01:11:08.490 --> 01:11:11.360 Quinlan Conf Room: We have one speaker, Quin Dog. 501 01:11:12.380 --> 01:11:13.430 Quinlan Conf Room: Wonderful. 502 01:11:13.660 --> 01:11:31.869 Quinlan Conf Room: Welcome. Welcome. I give you 3 minutes to… Yeah, yeah, come on. So, can I go back to the… the PowerPoint, the picture of the satellite picture of the live alpha? This one here? You can take the print off. Okay, we can look at it. Yeah, so… 503 01:11:31.970 --> 01:11:50.470 Quinlan Conf Room: One proposal I mentioned to babies, like, add a crosswalk on the Warrango. So it's, it's only, one to three weeks, no, no cross, no light this week, right? So it's very safe to add, some, refugee island here. 504 01:11:51.100 --> 01:12:00.649 Quinlan Conf Room: Here, so… and also put some, concrete island between the back lane and drive lane, and the current will for surely just slow down. 505 01:12:00.670 --> 01:12:15.160 Quinlan Conf Room: So, this is one thing, and yeah, as for the accident, my neighbor mentioned last year, and the year before last year, two bikers were locked down, and this year, I saw one accident, car accident, so… 506 01:12:15.320 --> 01:12:21.490 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, what is… Yes, I think so. 507 01:12:22.000 --> 01:12:23.399 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, that's it, press it. 508 01:12:23.660 --> 01:12:26.510 Quinlan Conf Room: Hope you guys can fix the solution. 509 01:12:26.670 --> 01:12:36.319 Quinlan Conf Room: Like, my cost estimate is based roughly on what he showed me. Thank you. I'd also like if we can put some, 510 01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:38.760 Quinlan Conf Room: Deal plate. 511 01:12:39.170 --> 01:12:50.240 Quinlan Conf Room: So, we'll see, right? When they approach here, then they will slow down. They will feel, oh, I might hit something, but they will slow down. 512 01:12:50.790 --> 01:13:07.850 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I sent this to David before. Yeah, so the city has already the materials. Yeah, okay, okay, wonderful. Thank you, wonderful. And just one more thing, like, based upon the past history with conversation with the residents, sometimes the residents, if the crosswalk is close to their driveway, they're not okay with it, so… 513 01:13:07.880 --> 01:13:21.839 Quinlan Conf Room: maybe in this case, the crosswalk would be close to the driveway on, I think, north side of the Prospect Road property, so maybe we need to talk to them also. Yes. They seem to agree, so it's one of the constraints for this project, if we go ahead. 514 01:13:22.280 --> 01:13:27.659 Quinlan Conf Room: And just… just a sort of a cautionary word, we don't… we want to… 515 01:13:28.420 --> 01:13:31.150 Quinlan Conf Room: We don't want to be in a position of… 516 01:13:32.290 --> 01:13:36.440 Quinlan Conf Room: Building a pedestrian crossing in order to slow down cars. 517 01:13:37.630 --> 01:13:42.880 Quinlan Conf Room: You want to slow down what? We don't want to… we don't want to… 518 01:13:43.010 --> 01:13:47.079 Quinlan Conf Room: We don't want the reason that we're putting in a pedestrian crossing to… 519 01:13:47.120 --> 01:13:52.259 Quinlan Conf Room: So that car slowed down. No, no, yeah. 520 01:13:52.260 --> 01:14:15.019 Quinlan Conf Room: Well, we want speeds to be low, and then we say we can let peds cross. We don't want to say we have a high-speed road, so let's put pedestrians. That's what I want. We need to be careful that we're not using a pedestrian crosswalk as a traffic calming device, is what I'm saying. Putting pedestrians potentially in a dangerous spot. So, you mentioned in your platform. 521 01:14:15.610 --> 01:14:21.210 Quinlan Conf Room: Specifically, it's 30 mile power, right? But right now, most cars are running around at more than 35. 522 01:14:21.570 --> 01:14:26.820 Quinlan Conf Room: So… And right now, radar, the VR is not working, so what else we can do? 523 01:14:27.810 --> 01:14:42.099 Quinlan Conf Room: Right? Sorry, radar is not working, or… Yeah, there's a… because we're always, you know, saying, oh, you're speeding, you're speeding, and then no drivers care about that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I would ignore it. So… so what we can do? 524 01:14:42.530 --> 01:14:57.750 Quinlan Conf Room: And then try to narrow down the driveway, no, no effect at all. So no, no, no, no, nothing we can do. But why would the Pedestrian walkway and change the speed? I'm just trying to understand here. 525 01:15:00.670 --> 01:15:09.390 Quinlan Conf Room: When you see, like, a road that's very wide, and there's nothing in the middle, you feel like it's very sick to sleep. That's the thing. 526 01:15:10.240 --> 01:15:21.150 Quinlan Conf Room: Right? Right. But if there is something… if you feel, oh, the driving lane is very… is very narrow and surrounded by some concrete island on the side, okay, I need to slow down. 527 01:15:21.730 --> 01:15:35.889 Quinlan Conf Room: Like, it's something like, when you drive, there is a car on the, on the, on the side, right? You have to go down. You, you, you feel, I might hit the car. But if there's… if my driveway is very far from your parked car, it's very safe to see. 528 01:15:36.020 --> 01:15:37.119 Quinlan Conf Room: That's it. 529 01:15:37.330 --> 01:15:45.430 Quinlan Conf Room: Have you done any, traffic enforcement, doing this? Well, we've… we've alerted the sheriffs that we had 530 01:15:45.990 --> 01:15:47.379 Quinlan Conf Room: Sony with me. 531 01:15:47.730 --> 01:15:54.160 Quinlan Conf Room: You know, they have the resources. Is putting speed bump an option dead? 532 01:15:55.130 --> 01:15:58.839 Quinlan Conf Room: Not currently, because we don't have… I mean, it's… no, just… 533 01:15:58.960 --> 01:16:00.669 Quinlan Conf Room: ask me what it's office. It's… 534 01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:03.599 Quinlan Conf Room: It's an option, but it's… it's… 535 01:16:04.390 --> 01:16:21.479 Quinlan Conf Room: there would be a… it would need to go through City Council approval and discuss the pros and cons, like emergency vehicle response and that, because we don't have a traffic calming program anymore that's funded, so it would… it would be a CIP project, probably. 536 01:16:21.580 --> 01:16:27.790 Quinlan Conf Room: Is it possible? Yes. Okay. Yes. The way I see it is, you know. 537 01:16:28.840 --> 01:16:40.170 Quinlan Conf Room: Our city is a residential community, right? It's not a place to speak. There is no reason for anyone to be going around beyond 25, obviously. 538 01:16:40.420 --> 01:16:44.060 Quinlan Conf Room: Right? So, Steel Street and Lianza, maybe. 539 01:16:44.230 --> 01:17:00.360 Quinlan Conf Room: 30-40, right? But on all the other streets, there's no reason for anybody to go beyond 45, right? So… so then we need to do everything to disallow anybody to go, you know, beyond 45. Which means, you know, the… 540 01:17:01.270 --> 01:17:07.850 Quinlan Conf Room: traffic calming meshes and all that, like, the speed bombs and all that, we should be looking at. Because, you know, people speed. 541 01:17:08.060 --> 01:17:26.020 Quinlan Conf Room: Right? So, people just speed, so… and… and unexpected things happen, right? So, because people… people are not expecting speed in those trees, so they feel like, you know, they want to cross, and then they get surprised by a speeding car, right? So… 542 01:17:26.170 --> 01:17:34.800 Quinlan Conf Room: So it sounds like we were already successful to bring it down from 35 to 30. Is it even feasible to bring it down to 5, or is it… The speed limit… 543 01:17:35.460 --> 01:17:42.139 Quinlan Conf Room: It was, it was a stretch. It's assume that, no, 30 is the limit, right? Yeah. 544 01:17:44.370 --> 01:17:49.610 Quinlan Conf Room: I don't feel people are going at, you know, when I was sitting there and watching, I saw someone at 39. 545 01:17:49.610 --> 01:18:14.579 Quinlan Conf Room: Right? So… so we need to, kind of, you know, what can we do to keep them, you know, you're not going above 30 on the speed, right? If you go, they won't get the price. If people go 30, then we are in a much safer place. Yeah, I… I attend, sorry. I attended the South Tokyo side, they have, like, some central meeting every… every month, or every two weeks, I don't remember. And they mentioned, they measure the seating, there are lots of seating. 546 01:18:14.580 --> 01:18:19.510 Quinlan Conf Room: on that road, and they prop… something… somebody proposed to lower the 547 01:18:19.570 --> 01:18:24.450 Quinlan Conf Room: It's really needed for that. I don't know how much lower, maybe between 5? 548 01:18:24.800 --> 01:18:41.690 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, so… but I doubt that will work, because no people care about the speeding. It sounds like even people who were in the 30s around… probably… Yeah, the speed limit, no. So long example, they can go, they go. Yeah. God take meshes on the road in order to prevent them from going. They go… 549 01:18:41.900 --> 01:18:46.940 Quinlan Conf Room: you know, if there's big bombs, right, then, you know, they're like, no, I'm not gonna damage my car, so… 550 01:18:47.320 --> 01:18:59.639 Quinlan Conf Room: Yes, yes. So, I definitely agree with Commissioner Butler that, you know, speeding, you can put a sign with 5 miles per hour, and nobody will care, because they see that the road is broad, and they would just go. 551 01:18:59.670 --> 01:19:16.240 Quinlan Conf Room: I was just curious about whether it's feasible to look at… because we have two different problems here. We have the pedestrians who want to cross and have no option to cross, that's one, and the second one is that cars are coming too fast. So that's two different problems, but they are related, because at the end of the day, we want this, you know, safety for the pedestrian. 552 01:19:16.270 --> 01:19:22.650 Quinlan Conf Room: would it be possible to do, like, you did at Rodriguez, removing this central lane? 553 01:19:22.850 --> 01:19:24.960 Quinlan Conf Room: So that there's… 554 01:19:25.360 --> 01:19:38.730 Quinlan Conf Room: street looks narrower, and that automatically will make people drive slower, because, as you can see, Rodriguez was very broad, people were like, oh, I have 3 lanes, I can do whatever I want, and then all of a sudden, it was just 2 and 2. 555 01:19:38.730 --> 01:19:49.670 Quinlan Conf Room: And people noticeably, maybe you will receive it with actual data, but from where I live, that's exactly what happened there. People saw the world was narrower, so they stopped, like. 556 01:19:49.670 --> 01:20:05.790 Quinlan Conf Room: driving super, super fast, and so I'm just wondering if we can put, like, an island, like, all the way… it's a big project, but as an example, you put, like, a big island with, like, I don't know, trees, some options, of course, to do U-turns, because some people, some residents will want to, you know, park. 557 01:20:05.790 --> 01:20:22.309 Quinlan Conf Room: But I think that would, on one way, make the road look narrower, and then adding this, you know, crosswalk and decons and all that stuff, I think that would fix the possibility for the pedestrian to cross over. I would love to do a… 558 01:20:22.500 --> 01:20:25.869 Quinlan Conf Room: along Meeting with trees, honestly. 559 01:20:25.970 --> 01:20:38.370 Quinlan Conf Room: And I think that would help. I can tell you from experience, though, that I don't think the residents would approve it. That's what would happen, because they would lose their ability to turn left in and out of their driveways. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. 560 01:20:38.470 --> 01:20:41.409 Quinlan Conf Room: When Apple. Apple developed. 561 01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:46.200 Quinlan Conf Room: Homestead, along the Apple frontage Apple Park. Median. 562 01:20:46.580 --> 01:20:59.579 Quinlan Conf Room: Apple's gonna pay for it, do it with trees. And they said, no, we don't want it. So, you could do it in spots, perhaps, where you don't restrict access to driveways. That's something, you know, again, it takes money. 563 01:20:59.690 --> 01:21:08.509 Quinlan Conf Room: to do that, but it's something that could be looked at. Yeah. Maybe I think the immediate thing is, like, you know, having a crosswalk. 564 01:21:08.690 --> 01:21:13.610 Quinlan Conf Room: Or a Pedestrian, crosswalk, right? That really helped, right? 565 01:21:13.980 --> 01:21:16.660 Quinlan Conf Room: And hopefully it'll also serve as… 566 01:21:19.260 --> 01:21:33.570 Quinlan Conf Room: as a… I mean, you're not supposed to say that, but lots of hours a speed limit, right? So… But we have it on this side, though, right? After Dianza, where it's all Saratoga and San Jose, there is a median with freeze, isn't it? 567 01:21:34.690 --> 01:21:44.290 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, on the other side of the ends? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so, so it'll be, like, it'll look like a continuation of that, right? Yeah. If you do… 568 01:21:44.290 --> 01:21:55.099 Quinlan Conf Room: If you did it, it would look like a combination of that. Yeah. I have a lower cost for the proposal, like, we can remove the middle lane, and then two drive lanes, like, they go neighbor, or go, 569 01:21:55.100 --> 01:22:01.580 Quinlan Conf Room: the… there's just a… there's no middle lane, right? When you drive, like, you feel, oh, you know, there's a car on the other side, and you feel that. 570 01:22:01.900 --> 01:22:04.400 Quinlan Conf Room: So there is a… it's a lower cost about that one. 571 01:22:05.550 --> 01:22:07.180 Quinlan Conf Room: Just remove the middle lane. 572 01:22:07.630 --> 01:22:08.310 Quinlan Conf Room: ichth. 573 01:22:10.530 --> 01:22:14.339 Quinlan Conf Room: If it's not a problem when people need to make left turn, right turn, they'll… 574 01:22:14.630 --> 01:22:24.800 Quinlan Conf Room: Because now the buffer rate, so they come to the buffer and, you know, wait to make a jump, right? Yeah, you might introduce other safety problems. 575 01:22:25.460 --> 01:22:26.400 Quinlan Conf Room: So… 576 01:22:26.520 --> 01:22:31.800 Quinlan Conf Room: I think, you know, if you can pull up that slide that, where we are showing both events… 577 01:22:34.430 --> 01:22:42.439 Quinlan Conf Room: Sure, maybe close the public comment? Yes, you should probably post it, yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much for your presentation. Thank you. 578 01:22:59.520 --> 01:23:00.350 Quinlan Conf Room: Richmond? 579 01:23:01.870 --> 01:23:04.330 Quinlan Conf Room: The one you had… yeah, this one, yeah, yeah. 580 01:23:05.320 --> 01:23:18.100 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah. So, I'm just speaking from, you know, the experience, right? Because I live on Metro, and we installed, you know, quite a few crosswalks, and also, you know, the flashing cross… crossing thing. 581 01:23:18.380 --> 01:23:20.260 Quinlan Conf Room: I can guarantee you that no. 582 01:23:20.480 --> 01:23:37.529 Quinlan Conf Room: vast majority of mine leavers, they are highly thankful for what has been done there, because now they are able to cross Bicycle Road whenever they want, wherever they want. Previously, you know, they would just, you know, look at a jawwalk and, you know, kind of cross and, you know, very distance, right? 583 01:23:37.880 --> 01:23:40.250 Quinlan Conf Room: So, the remover, they're back. 584 01:23:40.360 --> 01:23:54.279 Quinlan Conf Room: it was only 11th that we had a flashing, and the next one was, you know, I think it came, right? And then next was telling us, right? So, now we have a lot more, and, you know, we have the flashing, you know, lights, right? 585 01:23:54.300 --> 01:24:01.330 Quinlan Conf Room: I think, you know, we should look at something like that in our office, right? Because we are a resident living in any one of these places, right? So… 586 01:24:01.550 --> 01:24:04.100 Quinlan Conf Room: This is a long stretch, like, from here. 587 01:24:04.610 --> 01:24:14.370 Quinlan Conf Room: You know, where Sterling becomes prospect, and to Bonsai, there is not a single cross. Actually, there are people, you know, wanting to cross, they're exposed. 588 01:24:15.010 --> 01:24:22.250 Quinlan Conf Room: And that's a problem, right? So, we should really seriously think about, you know, talk to Saratoga about, you know, from a… 589 01:24:22.250 --> 01:24:39.210 Quinlan Conf Room: this part to this part, we should at least consider, you know, two, three crosswalks where, you know, people don't have to go all in, because they have to cross, they have to go to this place, cross, right? Nobody from here that wants to go here is not going to go walk and, you know, make a cross and then come back here. 590 01:24:39.620 --> 01:24:42.890 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay? But they're not gonna go from here. 591 01:24:43.110 --> 01:24:54.360 Quinlan Conf Room: all the way to here to cross, and then to come back, right? So, they want to cross wherever, you know, they want, because the people living here, community of people, and they're Saratoga people living there, right? They just want to go and visit neighbors and whatnot, right? So. 592 01:24:54.680 --> 01:25:02.860 Quinlan Conf Room: We should facilitate that, right? So, whatever it takes, you know, how many ever, you know, crosswalks, we should look at that. Because at the end of the day, you know. 593 01:25:03.020 --> 01:25:04.119 Quinlan Conf Room: These are… 594 01:25:04.470 --> 01:25:20.220 Quinlan Conf Room: amenities for the community and for the residents, including the streets, right? And you don't serve the street, right? Not for, you know, some thoroughfare traffic, you know, going from, you know, one city to other streets, right? This is not a free highway. These streets are meant for, you know, people that are living here. 595 01:25:21.770 --> 01:25:32.900 Quinlan Conf Room: I mean, what makes this tree probably particularly vulnerable is because it's so wide, it's so, like, open. Even installing, I mean, I know this is not the intention of a crosswalk, but installing two 596 01:25:33.050 --> 01:25:40.450 Quinlan Conf Room: Probably will slow down calls. And I don't think, you know, it's going to hinder traffic that much, because, you know. 597 01:25:40.860 --> 01:25:45.640 Quinlan Conf Room: people are not going to be like, you know, the ports of people will be crossing, right? Whenever they want to cross. 598 01:25:45.690 --> 01:25:52.949 Quinlan Conf Room: they should be in the cross, right? So if you have flashing beacon thing, you know, let's say, you know, here, so then. 599 01:25:52.950 --> 01:26:09.690 Quinlan Conf Room: you know, the moment they press it, and, you know, and it flashes, and the cars slow down and stop, and, you know, if you have speed bumps, you know, that makes it even easier for them to slow down and stop, right? Or… or race, you know, Pedestrian crossing, right? So… and… so then they safely cross, and then the rest of the time, you know, the cars are flowing smooth. 600 01:26:09.850 --> 01:26:15.129 Quinlan Conf Room: 3. Right? It's only when a participant needs to cross, they're able to safely cross. 601 01:26:17.140 --> 01:26:17.930 Quinlan Conf Room: Yep. 602 01:26:19.210 --> 01:26:22.880 Quinlan Conf Room: I mean, it sounds like there is already a provision in the ATP. 603 01:26:22.990 --> 01:26:25.909 Quinlan Conf Room: Sounds like chips, one of these are probably… 604 01:26:26.080 --> 01:26:32.840 Quinlan Conf Room: One of the projects that we should be lobbying once the book, we should be starting pushing for… 605 01:26:33.220 --> 01:26:35.409 Quinlan Conf Room: Or is this one of the problems? 606 01:26:35.660 --> 01:26:37.190 Quinlan Conf Room: To be implemented. 607 01:26:38.870 --> 01:26:39.660 Quinlan Conf Room: Right? 608 01:26:44.480 --> 01:26:48.810 Quinlan Conf Room: Any other comments from the Commission? Any other… Thoughts? 609 01:26:49.910 --> 01:26:56.899 Quinlan Conf Room: I want to re… say that that's the, you know, the Via Rakuten… is it via Rakuten? Rakuten? 610 01:26:57.170 --> 01:27:03.610 Quinlan Conf Room: That's the… that's the entry to the, for all the cyclists, they go… they call it the Saratoga Maze. 611 01:27:03.990 --> 01:27:20.020 Quinlan Conf Room: you know, so you draw… you enter, and you go through Saratoga, it's a windy path, you end up in, you know, hundreds, thousands of cyclists probably do it every week, and it's recreational-type cycling, but I wonder if young kids are crossing that road, because 612 01:27:20.270 --> 01:27:28.840 Quinlan Conf Room: entering it, of course, no problem if you're coming from Prospect, and then you make that right-hand turn. But then, if you're going the opposite direction, you're coming out. 613 01:27:28.870 --> 01:27:44.499 Quinlan Conf Room: And I've done this for 40 years, it's like, the cars, like, are… they're… they're going fast right now, and that's what I was… that's why I asked what the speed, what the, you know, has… have the cars slowed down? In my experience, no, and as an experienced cyclist. 614 01:27:44.500 --> 01:27:59.109 Quinlan Conf Room: getting across that, because it is so wide, it's… it's not easy. You gotta really be, you know, have your, be on the ball, and I can't imagine anybody trying to walk across that road. It's just… especially if you're older. I mean, I just… there's just… 615 01:27:59.190 --> 01:28:12.009 Quinlan Conf Room: You're taking your life in your hands, and I've never been hit, I've never seen anybody get hit, but I'm really careful, and… but the cars are really going fast. They're going fast, and that's why I don't think they're going 30. 616 01:28:12.120 --> 01:28:24.700 Quinlan Conf Room: Even now. It's, and I think it's because it's such a wide road, even with the bike lanes and everything, the perception is it's not narrow, any narrower. You know, I like the buffered bike lanes, but 617 01:28:25.050 --> 01:28:37.910 Quinlan Conf Room: It's just so wide that people… they really lay on the… you know, you're trying to… you got traffic coming at high speeds in both directions, and you're trying to navigate across that intersection as a cyclist. It's not easy. 618 01:28:37.910 --> 01:28:47.309 Quinlan Conf Room: And and I've been doing this for 40 years, and I've always thought, this is really a bad intersection. You know, there's no crosswalk, what do people do? You know, it's like… 619 01:28:47.310 --> 01:28:50.509 Quinlan Conf Room: It's like, this should have been done years ago. I mean, it's… 620 01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:55.649 Quinlan Conf Room: And, I just… and I just… I'm just telling you my experience as a cyclist, you know. 621 01:28:55.740 --> 01:29:04.549 Quinlan Conf Room: the… it's called the Saratoga Maze, and it's, there's hundreds of… you've probably seen many cyclists come out of there. It's, it's… so it's… 622 01:29:04.550 --> 01:29:19.240 Quinlan Conf Room: I would just reiterate that something should be done, you know, soon, you know. I would agree with that. If you look at the number of lanes right now, you have, like, the buffer bike lane, you have one lane, and the middle lane, you have the right lane, and then you have the buffer bike lane again. 623 01:29:19.260 --> 01:29:28.480 Quinlan Conf Room: It's like, it's all paint, right? So, drivers are like, I just see nothing but paint, and that's my road, and at the end of the day, I think that makes it probably 624 01:29:28.520 --> 01:29:32.970 Quinlan Conf Room: as wide as the Enza Boulevard. 625 01:29:32.970 --> 01:29:51.180 Quinlan Conf Room: It was probably envisioned to see a four-lane yard. Yes, exactly. Back in the day. Yeah, so that's why, exactly, it's way… it's too wide, like, if you don't have, like, any physical protection… No way, no, no. 626 01:29:56.130 --> 01:30:06.920 Quinlan Conf Room: All right. Unless there is any more discussion to be had, I think let's, close this one. I think the action is we have to get ETP approved. 627 01:30:07.090 --> 01:30:15.880 Quinlan Conf Room: We have to get that, and then as far as PEP wants, it's gonna be one of the first projects that we're ranking, 628 01:30:16.080 --> 01:30:18.269 Quinlan Conf Room: What is the AP people in Wisconsin? 629 01:30:18.410 --> 01:30:24.779 Quinlan Conf Room: I don't have a date, early next year, hopefully January. 630 01:30:24.900 --> 01:30:38.139 Quinlan Conf Room: Why is it taking so long? It's already, you know, ready for… Done. It's pretty much done. It's just a sign off. It's, it's… yeah, it's… it's the final draft is… it's all completed, it just needs council adoption. 631 01:30:38.380 --> 01:30:40.819 Quinlan Conf Room: It takes 15 minutes. 632 01:30:44.560 --> 01:30:58.149 Quinlan Conf Room: So yeah, I'm curious, like, you know, we were rushing, rushing, rushing, and, you know, we've got to do it, we've got to do it, we've got to go to council, and all that, and now, you know, next year. And then there's projects waiting, even, I mean, this sounds like… Don't tell me. 633 01:30:58.310 --> 01:31:07.719 Quinlan Conf Room: Why is the reason that getting on the agenda is harder, or is it something else? It's just, we were asked to… we were asked to put it on the agenda in January. 634 01:31:07.900 --> 01:31:11.979 Quinlan Conf Room: Oh, because there are other agenda items between now and then? I can't speak to both of them. 635 01:31:12.490 --> 01:31:30.699 Quinlan Conf Room: See, it's all done. Very surprising, very surprising overall. It's all done. You shouldn't wait till you have to be doing it now. Three times by the Bike Commission, two times by Planning, two times by Council, signed off by everybody. What's holding us back. Appreciate it, you're preaching to the court. 636 01:31:30.700 --> 01:31:32.580 Quinlan Conf Room: So who is asking for January? 637 01:31:33.660 --> 01:31:39.549 Quinlan Conf Room: This came down from upstairs. Upstairs, of course, upstairs? The manager's office. 638 01:31:40.880 --> 01:31:51.410 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, I think there's something wrong here. I think we should… we should, get it on the agenda as soon as possible. It's already approved, and we have been waiting for, you know, what, a couple of months now? 639 01:31:52.050 --> 01:31:53.140 Quinlan Conf Room: Are you on more? 640 01:31:53.810 --> 01:32:00.270 Quinlan Conf Room: I think we should make a motion today. Yeah, I think we should. It's not on the agenda. I know it's not on the agenda, I don't know. 641 01:32:00.940 --> 01:32:02.950 Quinlan Conf Room: You can put it in the agenda next month. 642 01:32:03.970 --> 01:32:11.329 Quinlan Conf Room: But no, I mean, in all seriousness, I mean, this is just… we put so much energy into this project, and then we just… 643 01:32:11.690 --> 01:32:17.180 Quinlan Conf Room: come to a screeching halt for no good reason. I think we should put it on the agenda for next month. 644 01:32:17.520 --> 01:32:32.480 Quinlan Conf Room: And then make a motion. What would you want to put on the agenda? To really move forward into the council. The only move that can do that is Council. I think that's the last… No, I don't know, but I think if we kind of re… somehow I get the other fall asleep somewhere. 645 01:32:32.750 --> 01:32:35.039 Quinlan Conf Room: Somebody was falling asleep on the wheel. 646 01:32:35.290 --> 01:32:52.569 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, I thought that it's coming soon. I don't know why it's still… yeah, our recommendation was to take it in September. Yeah, and through whatever discussions the city manager's office, the mayor's office, I don't know if the agenda's too full, or… I don't know the motive. 647 01:32:52.570 --> 01:32:55.799 Quinlan Conf Room: I just know we were asked to put off till January. 648 01:32:56.000 --> 01:33:05.410 Quinlan Conf Room: Chair, is it possible for you to write to the mayor, or the council member? Yes, yes. About this one? But I think it probably would behoove all of us to… 649 01:33:05.410 --> 01:33:17.689 Quinlan Conf Room: Yes. I can join as a resident. As residents as well, yeah. I mean, there's… there's real projects waiting… waiting to be kind of executed. I see a… I don't see a good reason why it should be pushed out. 650 01:33:21.540 --> 01:33:40.739 Quinlan Conf Room: It was all planned, like… Yeah, it… Anyway, we're not talking about it, but I think it… everybody individually should be, kind of, reaching out to whoever they feel this is being. Yeah, I mean, I mean… This was… Nobody… 651 01:33:40.870 --> 01:33:56.730 Quinlan Conf Room: spoke out in support of the ATP, so the people that make the decisions on when to agendize things haven't heard from anybody that this is important. So the people that make the decisions, are they working for citizens, or what are they working for… I'm… 652 01:33:59.140 --> 01:34:02.700 Quinlan Conf Room: I'm just… serious. I can't answer that. 653 01:34:05.810 --> 01:34:06.640 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. 654 01:34:07.060 --> 01:34:17.609 Quinlan Conf Room: All I know is that's what we were asked to do. Yeah, I mean, it worked a surprise to me. We worked 2 years on it, and worked really hard on it, I think, and a lot of… 655 01:34:17.800 --> 01:34:26.420 Quinlan Conf Room: Community input, feedback, planning commissions, bike commission, bikepack commissions, City Council. 656 01:34:26.820 --> 01:34:44.719 Quinlan Conf Room: And someone is telling me. Because this item isn't age, we can't speak about it, it's a violation of the Brown Act. I understand. Thank you very much. Well, it came in as a thought-up, because we want to push this project as part of TGP, and that's what this came up with. They got it, we'll take it off. Thank you. I appreciate it. 657 01:34:44.930 --> 01:34:54.440 Quinlan Conf Room: Let's close this item drop-back row now, and let's move forward into item number 4 on the agenda. 658 01:34:55.880 --> 01:35:01.200 Quinlan Conf Room: Which is, staff update and commission update the report. 659 01:35:04.410 --> 01:35:10.750 Quinlan Conf Room: My only update, as you all know, the Bike Fest is coming up in a week and a half, so… 660 01:35:11.110 --> 01:35:16.339 Quinlan Conf Room: Excited about it? Yep. Hopefully seeing most of you there. 661 01:35:17.520 --> 01:35:25.709 Quinlan Conf Room: The, Stevens Creek Class 4 bike lane project is… the contractor's all done, he's out of there, so… doing some training. 662 01:35:26.170 --> 01:35:32.290 Quinlan Conf Room: Work with our signal staff to get some of the traffic signal, stuff operational. 663 01:35:32.460 --> 01:35:49.499 Quinlan Conf Room: One item of which I think will probably go towards, you know, you were getting at earlier, Alonville, in terms of, enhancing safety at the ends and Stevens Creek, and we'll be turning on the flashing yellow arrow, flashing yellow right turn arrows that come up for the pedestrian. 664 01:35:49.730 --> 01:35:54.330 Quinlan Conf Room: Phase is active, so that'll… hopefully in the next couple weeks, those will be turned on. 665 01:35:55.410 --> 01:36:02.119 Quinlan Conf Room: we're wrapping up our collection of data for the engineering traffic surveys, which will 666 01:36:02.290 --> 01:36:04.709 Quinlan Conf Room: Establish the speed limits around the city. 667 01:36:05.860 --> 01:36:17.900 Quinlan Conf Room: We'll be doing crossing guard calls. The crossing guard… The crossing guard warrants, are in progress. We'll be doing counts at all the intersections where we've had requests for crossing guards. 668 01:36:18.700 --> 01:36:23.750 Quinlan Conf Room: And, that's… my update. 669 01:36:24.610 --> 01:36:27.469 Quinlan Conf Room: So, any other updates from Commissioners? 670 01:36:31.380 --> 01:36:36.110 Quinlan Conf Room: Just have, one comment about the, Bike Fest. Has any… I don't… 671 01:36:36.410 --> 01:36:40.510 Quinlan Conf Room: I don't think we've been contacted. Has anybody been contacted by, 672 01:36:40.660 --> 01:36:54.219 Quinlan Conf Room: Who's ever organizing the short ride? I haven't either, and so I don't know if we're just showing… I have no information on it. That's my understanding as well, yeah, we'll be there, we'll get a briefing on the day when… 673 01:36:54.380 --> 01:37:08.389 Quinlan Conf Room: That's my understanding. We just… we don't have any… do we have times, or… I don't know… I don't think we have any details on… There was some time. Yeah, the Meeting for the chaperone would think. Okay, this is 9 o'clock. 674 01:37:08.740 --> 01:37:21.229 Quinlan Conf Room: So it's in the morning, but yeah, I think it wasn't any slides. That was presented by Burchett, maybe. Yes, the last meeting. I just wanted to confirm, because I haven't heard anything, I haven't seen any email, and 675 01:37:21.740 --> 01:37:23.309 Quinlan Conf Room: And… Yep. 676 01:37:24.610 --> 01:37:29.900 Quinlan Conf Room: I don't think there was any additional information other than what was presented in our last month, 677 01:37:30.130 --> 01:37:36.560 Quinlan Conf Room: Because I heard that, you know, we… the… the Tim Weeds… 678 01:37:36.890 --> 01:37:50.009 Quinlan Conf Room: Tim Wee, who's organizing it, who's looking for 18 volunteers, you know, to… to monitor the intersection, so that's quite a few. And, I just… hopefully we're in the count, I mean, we're, you know. 679 01:37:50.160 --> 01:37:53.299 Quinlan Conf Room: There's four of the commissioners going to show up? 680 01:37:53.540 --> 01:37:55.499 Quinlan Conf Room: Is that related to what is it? 681 01:37:56.150 --> 01:38:04.950 Quinlan Conf Room: Let me see. September 26th. Next, not this coming Saturday, but the Saturday. I'll be there as well. 682 01:38:06.710 --> 01:38:10.339 Quinlan Conf Room: All right, I think we got… 26, correct, John. 26, yeah. 683 01:38:10.910 --> 01:38:18.930 Quinlan Conf Room: is a Saturday. Any other… Staff report, commission report, sounds like we are closing this item, 684 01:38:19.770 --> 01:38:25.729 Quinlan Conf Room: Moving to the future agenda setting, which is item number 5 on the agenda tonight. 685 01:38:26.210 --> 01:38:33.879 Quinlan Conf Room: I think we should make sure that this Vision Zero refresh update will be Included here. 686 01:38:35.170 --> 01:38:45.110 Quinlan Conf Room: And so this is part of this two-step process. You'll remember this is the broader kind of list, and then we have a specific list for the next two meetings that you need to look at as well. 687 01:38:45.740 --> 01:38:48.329 Quinlan Conf Room: Which is the October and the November meeting. 688 01:38:49.910 --> 01:38:58.740 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, so Vision Zero… I don't know that we'll be… Ready in November. 689 01:39:06.090 --> 01:39:09.020 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, let's just… let's just leave that crossed out for now. 690 01:39:09.200 --> 01:39:14.400 Quinlan Conf Room: E-bike and e-mo, as we talked about earlier, Gerhardt, that'll be… that'll be November. 691 01:39:14.890 --> 01:39:16.750 Quinlan Conf Room: Chris, yup. 692 01:39:18.930 --> 01:39:31.740 Quinlan Conf Room: I mean, it would be ideal if we could do the Vision Zero, I don't know if this is… I'll try. Yeah. Maybe at least we'll put a placeholder as November, and then if it can't, then we can try to push it to December. Okay. Yeah. 693 01:39:37.180 --> 01:39:49.679 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, we don't want another incident to happen to start acting out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What else do we have for October? I think we had October now. October's the bike racks, also. Yes, the bike racks, yeah. 694 01:39:50.280 --> 01:39:59.019 Quinlan Conf Room: And then post possibly an update or a debrief from the Bike Fest, maybe, as well. Yeah, if Beer gets available, we'll do that. 695 01:39:59.220 --> 01:40:05.939 Quinlan Conf Room: So, so, bike racks, you know, that we came up with some recommendations. So, what's happening on those? 696 01:40:06.310 --> 01:40:14.949 Quinlan Conf Room: We're, we're… we're researching, kind of, exact locations. So, Prashantha's going out to all the sites, he's gonna bring, 697 01:40:15.000 --> 01:40:28.759 Quinlan Conf Room: like, photos of the locations and show exactly what we're thinking in terms of location and configuration of the racks, just to get a final… There will be the October meeting for me to do specific to see it before, it goes… 698 01:40:29.010 --> 01:40:34.509 Quinlan Conf Room: Like, this is the final location. That would be the October meeting. That would be the October meeting. Yep, yep, yep. 699 01:40:37.530 --> 01:40:43.840 Quinlan Conf Room: for the October meeting, then for the November meetings, we would have eModo, update, and… and… 700 01:40:43.990 --> 01:40:52.140 Quinlan Conf Room: Possibly the, possibly the vision, yeah. I think that gives us two good… I think that's good. For both meetings, yeah. 701 01:40:52.380 --> 01:40:53.900 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay, wonderful. 702 01:40:54.040 --> 01:40:59.049 Quinlan Conf Room: Any other new items that you should be considering, or are we good on that? 703 01:41:02.430 --> 01:41:03.540 Quinlan Conf Room: Not a big deal. 704 01:41:06.860 --> 01:41:12.580 Quinlan Conf Room: And the AIC that we basically will start to delete, too. 705 01:41:13.760 --> 01:41:19.089 Quinlan Conf Room: I mean, I don't know if it can even… 706 01:41:20.480 --> 01:41:28.570 Quinlan Conf Room: I don't know what you… I think it's probably equally impactful if all of us individually write to the Commission about it. 707 01:41:28.760 --> 01:41:29.670 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. 708 01:41:31.180 --> 01:41:43.470 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah, because you already made a motion to recommend… Yeah, from our perspective, it's an approved item, it's an approved item, so I think we should probably be visually write that out to the, to the Commission, sorry, to the Council. 709 01:41:50.910 --> 01:41:53.790 Quinlan Conf Room: Okay. And we should do this as clearly as possible. 710 01:41:54.810 --> 01:42:00.589 Quinlan Conf Room: Alright, anything else on the… future items. There's… 711 01:42:06.070 --> 01:42:12.960 Quinlan Conf Room: I have a… the Wolf Road Interchange, we've… we've never… have we ever received a presentation on that? 712 01:42:13.230 --> 01:42:16.820 Quinlan Conf Room: It's, you know, the one that's undergoing construction right now. 713 01:42:17.340 --> 01:42:18.240 Quinlan Conf Room: Go ahead. 714 01:42:18.410 --> 01:42:21.140 Quinlan Conf Room: the bike lanes, and… I think so. 715 01:42:21.400 --> 01:42:23.469 Quinlan Conf Room: It's a while back, yeah. 716 01:42:24.020 --> 01:42:30.009 Quinlan Conf Room: Yeah. The most… the final version, the final version. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 717 01:42:30.410 --> 01:42:32.139 Quinlan Conf Room: Getting yourself. 718 01:42:34.060 --> 01:42:40.729 Quinlan Conf Room: Anyway, I think that gives us good for October, November now, and then I think next Monday we can have simple planning. 719 01:42:40.880 --> 01:42:45.289 Quinlan Conf Room: All right, I think this is an item where we have also public comment. 720 01:42:45.530 --> 01:42:51.049 Quinlan Conf Room: Do you have any public comments on this topic? We have no speakers. No speaker, wonderful, thank you. 721 01:42:51.440 --> 01:43:02.700 Quinlan Conf Room: Excellent. That means that was our final and last item for tonight. Just want to remind all of us, the next meeting, our next meeting is on October 21. 722 01:43:03.150 --> 01:43:07.560 Quinlan Conf Room: in this… in this location here, and I'm adjourning this meeting here at… 723 01:43:07.680 --> 01:43:11.140 Quinlan Conf Room: 43. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.