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There are so many mistakes, miscalculated data, and lack of analysis in this report. I cannot see how this final report could lead to any informed management decision. Frankly, we have MORE cars, MORE residents, MORE commuters, and LESS lanes on the major corridor. We also have MORE diverted traffic as a consequence of this pilot, on roads that cannot support that amount of traffic, and has made those truly neighborhood / residential roads less safe, and convincing others that Farm Hill is somehow safer because it has a bike lane and people are crossing the street, with still the same speeding traffic, is incredibly misleading. Please consider this in your analysis, and recommend that the lanes be changed back or modified in a way that would allow 4 lanes in some parts of the corridor to help relieve the enormous increase of cars on smaller streets. On Highland avenue alone, this final data says we have about 200 more cars on our road during peak times. We did not buy our home on a main street. Farm Hill residents did and knowingly so. Farm Hill cannot be considered a "neighborhood" street. It's a BOULEVARD and meant to connect the major highway to the downtown of the city. If you want to continue to grow downtown and increase commerce, and taxes from revenue as a result, you cannot hurt the families and residents that live in the city in the process based on decisions made from poor data. I would appreciate a thoughtful reply back. Thanks, Sherine Khalil Highland Avenue Resident On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Sherine Khalil > wrote: Dear Jessica, Thank you for taking the time to review my email about feedback on Farm Hill / Jefferson pilot project. Do you or anyone on your team concerning this project follow feedback on Nextdoor? That would save a lot of time. Maybe you could create a group on there. I am including a summary of my feedback below about the Farm Hill pilot project, but before I get into that, I would like to suggest one of two options regarding the upcoming meeting on October 5th: The city has only published its Interim data report on the website and has not yet provided residents with the final data report, but plans on presenting the final data at the meeting, AND wants to hear from residents and have the committee provide a recommendation to the City Council on whether or not to keep the pilot as is or revert it back to 2 lanes each way, in the same meeting. I do not think that is fair, unless the City really does not care to hear resident, homeowner, tax payer opinions or questions about the validity of the data to meet the said objectives, or even if those objectives were valid to begin with, but just says it does and will do what it wants regardless of feedback. 8.A. - Page 70